Today in the world of Web 2.0, Social Media sites are one of the most important sources of traffic for your online business.



Using these Social Media sites the right way can bring in large amounts of traffic very quickly to your sites. NOT using them correctly can KILL your business.

First of all, let me explain to you what the 3 most important types of Social Media Sites for your online business are.

1. Communities - These are sites where people hang out and keep in touch. People set up profiles and make them personal by adding photos, writing blog entries on their own pages and making comments on their friends pages. Examples of communities are FaceBook and MySpace.

2. Libraries - Digg and Technorati. These sites contain information provided by their users.

3. Notice-boards - These are sites where people go to and make recommendations to other sites or make posts to on a regular basis. Examples of these types of notice-boards are Twitter and blogs.

So what is the proper way to use these sites?

First, read the TOS (Terms of Service) to find out what can and can't be done on the site, then spend some time on the site watching what others are doing and then do the same.

The reason why you should do all of this is because if you just sign up and start posting content linking to your site, there is a very strong chance that the site members will see you as a spammer and ban you from the site.

So sign up and take a look around and get a feel for the site. Set up your profiles like the other members are and then do the same as others are doing.

Let's say you sign up to Facebook. What are the others doing? They are adding photos, updating their status , and posting comments on their friends "Walls".

... Ah yes, friends "Walls". Before you can post on your friends "Walls", you have to first GET some friends.

FaceBook has a way when you're signing up, that you can import your email address list and find contacts that are part of the FaceBook community. You can then use this to invite people to be your friend. There is also a search function where you can search for friends by name.

Next, you invite your friends and if they accept your invitation, then you will be able to communicate with them and post messages and pictures and of course comment on those pictures.

If you are trying to use FaceBook to make business contacts, then you quickly get a few hundred friends to join and you immediately start selling and making money!

NOT! How would you like it if you received a friend invite one day, accepted and then started getting sales pitches from this person right away?

You wouldn't like it at ALL! You would probably block this person from being your friend IMMEDIATELY! If you really got annoyed you might even complain to FaceBook. And if FaceBook thinks you're spamming, they will CANCEL your account!

So the trick is to spend a good amount of time in ALL of these sites, watch and then do what the other members are doing and then submit some great quality content to these sites slowly.

Say what? You don't have any extra time? You already have a huge "to-do" list that will make it difficult to spend large amounts of time at these Social Media sites.

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You will also learn special tactics that show you the proper way to use FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter and other social bookmarking sites to get massive traffic to your site without getting banned.