Building eCommerce

By Ron Subs

When looking at wanting to build a social network, it is first important to define what a social network is. A social network is essentially a group of people connected together through various means such as friends or similar values. Social networking is a term bandied around very often on the Internet these days without any regard to what the term means. By simply understanding the definition, it can allow for deeper discussion into how you can build a social network.

If the definition is used here, the first key when wanting to build a social network is to find a group of like-minded people. If you trawl through Internet chat forums, you can find various topics where like-minded people come to talk about what they are passionate about. If you search through the various topics, this may give you an idea on what you may want to build a social network around. You may not want to choose a particular topic but rather begin a social network to keep in better touch with your friends. In this case, you will take a different approach than for those with a particular topic of interest.

The second key when wanting to build a social network is to decide what your end goal is for the project. Do you simply want a place you can visit everyday to talk with friends or with other people of like mind? Would you like to build your social network into a business where you can create income by helping solve the problems of others? This will help determine what type of approach you take in building the social network.

The third key in wanting to build a social network is to decide how large you want the network to be. This will probably fit in at least loosely with your first two decisions on the spirit of your forum and how you want to run your network. Deciding upon a size can help you when deciding who to let in and how much advertising you want to do in developing the network. Building a social network is like any other project: you must put in the time and work up front to enjoy the payoff in the end. How will you know how to build your social network if you have not set a target for which to shoot for.

Wanting to build a social network starts with asking yourself some very basic but important questions. Without asking these questions, you will not be successful in building a social network which you will be proud to boast to your friends about.

About The Author

Ron Subs works with Mega Star Media Inc. as a public relations consultant, more information about Mega Star Media Inc. can be found at http://www.megastarmedia.com

By Seree Woradechjamroen

It just seems like everybody and their grandmother has a blog these days. But what is the difference between, say, a Perez Hilton and all the other thousands of blogs that fall into obscurity everyday? Well, let me show you a couple of simple ways that you can increase blog traffic without spending a red cent most of the times. So let’s get started, shall we?

First of all, it’s very important that your blog is meaningful and not some kind of repository of rehashed articles. I’m saying this because one of the best ways to attract visitors to your blog is if there’s already heavy activity on the blog. This will have many implications: first of all, every time someone posts a comment on your blog, it is updated, and search engines usually favor sites with fresh content that is updated often. Second, it will encourage others to participate as well and come back frequently to see how others reacted to their comments or just to see how the conversation is evolving.

A good way to build interest to your blog is by posting on similar, yet more popular blogs related to yours, with a link to your blog of course. If you disagree with the blog’s editor, don’t be scared to start a flaming war, this might encourage the blog’s editor to respond and other onlookers to visit your blog to read more of what you have to say. If you completely agree with the blog’s editor and notice that there are occasional guest posters on the blog, try to contact the blogmaster to see if you can write a guest post for them.

Social networking sites such as Digg.com are also a great way to increase blog traffic. Digg works by users giving a thumbs up a dig or a thumbs down to whatever they read online and on the Digg site itself. It’s pretty much a way to rate different pages on the web so that the best stories get the most attention. If you want your site to rate high in Digg, there are a few things you have to know.

First of all, you have to write a meaningful and eye catching headline since it’s the first thing you see before reading a post. Second of all, when you submit your post to Digg, make sure the description is meaningful and that you can get a sense of the post before reading it; nobody likes bad surprises and people are most likely to give your post a thumbs down if the description had nothing to do with the post. Make sure your first paragraph is good and that the rest of the article is meaningful as well, or else you’ll run the risk of irritating your readers, get bad reviews for your posts, and get your site banned from social bookmarking sites; because social bookmarking sites tend to ban people who post junk all the time.

There are plenty of ways that you can attract more traffic to your blog and that was just a few of them. But keep in mind that even the best promoted blog will fail if it doesn’t have good content.

About The Author

Do you want to save your time on internet marketing while increasing your income?

http://www.fasterinternetmarketing.com/