Social Networking - Part 1

Stumble Upon - A New Wave In Internet Marketing

Social Networking is without doubt the next generation in internet marketing. Some of the most popular Social Networking sites are receiving 2 to 3 times more traffic than Google itself. This is a proven fact that can be verified by carrying out some simply resource on the internet.

So What Is Social Networking?

Social Networking relates to sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, StumbleUpon, Digg, HubPages, etc... All of these sites have one thing in common, they connect people and build people's social interaction. Hence the name Social Networking. The fact that so people are connected together via a network offers the internet marketer an opportunity that has not been seen since the beginning of the internet. The opportunity to market to literally thousands of people with the click of one button.

I am going to show you how to do this over the next few weeks using your existing campaigns and adding Social Networking into the pot to increase your website traffic tenfold.

First on the list of Social Networks, is StumbleUpon.

StumbleUpon is a great networking tool with over 4.5million users. I've only picked this first because I use it alot and like it's simplicity.

To use Stumble Upon you first need to download the toolbar. This is a simply process, and once complete you will be able to carry out a number of activities.

The first activity is to simply click the Stumble icon and start stumbling through websites provided by their database. I've come across some really good and useful sites just by doing this which I regularly return to for information or to use a free tool they offer. Ok so what benefit does simply stumbling through sites offer? Well if you vote for the site in your browser it will show up on the site owners Stumble dashboard. They may or may not visit your site and vote for yours too.

The second and probably the most important aspect of Stumble is the ability to vote for your own sites. When you vote for your site, it appears on the StumbleUpon homepage briefly, as it shows the recently voted for pages. In addition it also gives you a backlink from a PR8 (yes you read right) website. StumbleUpon is PR8 and loved by Google. So not only will you get a PR8 one way link, you also get some Google love!

Thirdly, you can add people in the network as friends. If they accept, they can see what you've been stumbling and might also check out the same websites as you. If you've been stumbling your own websites, this is going to generate more traffic.

A good way of getting traffic to your sales page, is to write articles, post them to reputable article sites and once they've been published, go along and rate them using Stumble.

This process can also be used with Twitter and Fleck. I use all three!!! If you use all three you are gaining valuable one way links to your web pages from 3 different, high traffic websites.

Go get yourself over to StumbleUpon, Twitter and Fleck and start rating your articles and websites today.

Steve Sharpe is the CEO and Editor in Cheif of Article Land, Information Booth & Crazy Linker.