MySpace Marketing How To Guide

What Is Myspace?

I'm sure you've heard of Myspace.com before, if not here is a quick recap. Myspace is a social networking site where you can build a network of "friends" who can share photos, post blogs and communicate with each other.

I've personally been using Myspace to market my websites for the past few months and have had some great success.

1) Myspace traffic is usually people between the ages of 15-30 years old. That age group accounts for the majority of the users, BUT they are NOT the only users. You'll still find many users above that age demographic on Myspace.

At the time of writing this, these techniques do work.

Creating Your Myspace Account

Link: http://signup.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=join

When you register with Myspace, it will request you to create a profile. For now create the basic options.

As regards to using your own real name, you can utilize your alias any time you desire.

The additional options that include interest and so forth are actually all self instructive.

The uploading of your picture is optional, however for a more positive effect it is best to upload one.

Altering Your Myspace Theme

It's most beneficial that you change your myspace design from the normal design that Myspace uses.

There are lots of myspace help web pages that one can utilize to choose a style. I've stated a number of the very best ones below:

1) Myspace Support Link: http://www.myspacesupport.com/myspace-layouts/myspacelayouts.php

2) Doobix Link: http://www.doobix.com/myspace/layouts/

3) Myspace Layouts Link: http://www.myspacelayouts.us/

Once you've located the layout, copy/paste the design code they furnished in to the "About Me" section within your myspace profile.

Take note that most of these web sites could have backlinks for their web site.

Enhancing Your Theme

Now that you have your different theme, it's now time for you to edit it to have links back to the websites you are going to be promoting.

For example by placing your banner code in the about me section it will load your banner in the About Me area.

Start placing links to your site in high visible areas, preferably the top half of your profile page.

Building Your Friends List

Well, now it's time to build up your friends list. You can do this in several ways.

I'll show you the free way which may take a bit longer and entails work, and I will show you the easier way which will build your friends list faster.

Myspace has a section on their website called "Groups".

Each created group is assigned to a particular category.

For example if you want to target a group about "Recipes", then you would go to the Myspace Groups section and do a search for "Recipes".

This will then give you results of groups that relate to the word "recipes".

Review the search results and "Join" the group(s) that relate to your keyword.

Be careful though, you need to build a relationship with your group members before advertising anything.

Do not spam the group or you will be banned in most cases, and you'll ruin your chances of building a targeted network.

You really should do this for a few days, and you may make some posts of your own at the same time and also have a link to your internet site included in the posts.

Never make your posting seem like an ad.

Just come up with a common post or response but in addition have a website link to your web site incorporated.

Now that you've started a relationship of posting and making comments within Groups, the next step is to start sending friend requests.

If clicked, this will send a request to the person stating that you would like to be added to their friend network.

I recommend that you do not go over the limit of 300-400 friend requests per day.

By sending a friend request to users within the group(s), you are building a targeted network of friends that you can send messages and bulletins to regarding your products/services.

Remember the key here is that the group you chose MUST be related to the product/service you are offering.

You do not want to send any bulletins or messages to non-targeted groups as it can be labeled as SPAM.

The more targeted the group is to your product/service the better.

As mentioned prior, the above is the LONG way of acquiring friends as it requires you to manually send requests one by one to each member in the group.

I still strongly believe that the key to myspace marketing is *not* quantity but the quality, therefore targeted members are much better than thousands of members who have absolutely no interest in what you have to offer.

ACCELERATE YOUR FRIEND REQUESTS

You've performed all the research, you've joined groups, and you've posted messages around the group so individuals are aware of who you are.

The next step is accelerating your friends list.

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Link: http://www.daddydanimal.com/Free-Stuff.html

That is a very efficient piece of software we fashioned especially for Myspace Promoting and marketing on friend train sites

here's just what this program is able to do for you.

1)Add you to more than 6000 Myspace trains on more then ninety five Myspace adder web sites

2)Get you maximum points on seventy five diffrent adder websites

3) Plus much more

one great thing about useing adder sites to build friends is even thou you are able to only send out 300-400 request per day you are able to recive an unlimited amount i strongley advise useing this specific resource to get the maximum volume of incomeing friends request

Link: http://www.daddydanimal.com/Free-Stuff.html (look under free stuff)

All these users you will attain while using the program now you can send announcements and also bulletins to regarding anything that is related to the group.

The good news being that since you chose a group that is targeted to your website; your posts cannot or should not be labeled spam since it does relate to what the group is all about.

It is still important to make your messages or posts NOT look like blatant advertising.

Be very selective with your wording and how often you send messages.

I would send a message only once per day unless you are promoting more than one item.

Other Ways to Generate Traffic Using Myspace

Auto Comments

Usually you can leave a comment saying something nice but general, that can be sent to all your friends.

Within your comments you can have a link to your site.

Again, be discreet with your link placement, you can say something friendly such as "Hey, just leaving a comment to say you rock, since I haven't posted a comment on your profile in awhile, if you have some free time you can check out my new site xyz.com, I think you will find it interesting".

When leaving comments, it is important to note you can leave the comment on your friends profile or any profile for that matter that allows comments from anyone.

Some users do restrict comments to people in their friends list only.

To ensure it doesn't look like you are spamming a bunch of people with comments,

Other Ways of Friend Building

There are other non-targeted ways that you can use to build your friends list fast.

If you are not interested in targeting a specific group or users, you can use what is called "Friend Trains" to get friend requests quickly.

A myspace friend train is basically a list of people who add themselves to a "train" requesting that other users add them to their friends list.

Popular Friend Train Sites:

1) http://www.daddydanimal.com/myspacetrains.html

2) http://www.daddydanimal.com/othertrainsites.html

These are list of popular sites that allows users to enter their Myspace Friend Id.

For an example see the screenshot below to find your id #:

Once you enter your friend id, you'll then see a listing of hundreds and sometimes thousands of other users who are looking for friends.

It's the easiest way to grow your friends list fast.

Link: http://spukowanabe.daddydanimal.com/

If you are looking to build your friends list even faster without having to lift a finger, then you should consider a "Featured" or "VIP" spot on one of the sites listed at http://www.daddydanimal.com/myspacetrains/.

A featured spot ensures that you are featured on the site, which in turn will have many users sending YOU friend requests which you'll need to accept.

TIP: The easiest way to get a flood of friend requests is to use the Toolbar mentioned earlier.

Link: http://www.daddydanimal.com/Free-Stuff.html (look under free stuff)

In Conclusion

It is important that you cash in now on this latest marketing trend before any drastic changes happen with Myspace. If you follow the steps I've outlined you can create a very strong network of targeted friends who you can keep informed of all the happenings with your site.

Wishing You The Best

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