Building links and increasing your popularity can effectively be done through the vast array of social networking sites up and about in the internet world. Social networking websites are the home of a multitude of diverse individuals who frequent the web to be contact or connect with the people across the world. Thus promoting your website, product, goods, or services over social networking sites is very useful because you are actually targeting an active network of people who will more likely check out what you offer.

Thus follow the important tips below on how to use social networking sites to promote your products, and experience significant results on your website traffic afterwards:

1. First of all, you should be able to have engaging, relevant, and informative content on your site so you can gain more website visitors. When your web content is really good and useful, you will have no trouble making your site popular as website visitors will be the one to link to your site and recommend them to other users as well.

2. Join FaceBook and promote your website or blog through their Fan Page. Through the FaceBook Page, you can be able to share your blog to your friends and a vast array of other people on your network. FaceBook Page allows you to upload pictures, make updates on your account, and showcase your services so your fans will be persuaded to visit your site or blog. Aside from that, you can post your link on your information page, on your wall, and on the wall of your friends.

3. MySpace also offers you another way to promote your link by strategically placing it on your About Me section. Since MySpace and other social networking sites are easily found by Google, you also make use of this advantage by typing in keywords that are targeted towards your site. You can also use the bulletin board to share your links and promote your site.

4. StumbleUpon.com is a nifty website that I find very engaging and enjoyable to navigate. This site allows you to share your link so others may stumble upon it by clicking on the “Stumble” button. You can also use the Stumble Upon toolbar to be able to post any new links or products on your site which you can specifically send to all your friends using their “Send To” option.

5. Twitter is also another social networking site garnering popularity over young and adult surfers alike. Promoting your link on twitter is simple but to generate clicks you must be able to provide an eye-catching and engaging tweet to get your users browsing on your site. Never forget to include relevant keywords as Google and other major search engines easily crawl over social networking sites such as Twitter giving you the advantage of a showcasing your link on popular sites.

6. Other social networking sites worth looking into include Blog Catalog, Traffic Exchange, Plurk, and Digg so be sure to go through these sites and post your link with keywords attached.

Increasing relevant inbound links and clicks through social networking sites can be done only when you exercise patience and effort on doing it. Thus, start now and follow the tips mentioned above so you can significantly increase the traffic on your site. Also remember to check out other people’s pages or sites and exchange links with them so they will return the favor as well.

Author Bio: Bruno is an an experienced web entrepreneur and social media marketing consultant working for the Norwegian dog community website Hundefeber.no where he is responsible for article marketing, blogging and recruitment of new community members. He owns a lovely pomeranian and a mops dog – also called pugs or puglets.

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