Social Media Marketing Can Bring in a Whole Lot of Traffic

Social media marketing is a method of promoting a website through places like MySpace, Stumbled Upon, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo Answers, and Facebook. It's a proven method of generating interest in a website and delivering traffic.

If you want to try social media marketing, you need to know how to do it right. There are thousands of visitors to these sites at any given time, and a good number of them will probably be interested in what you have to offer.

Do you have a personal MySpace or Facebook profile? Why not make a special profile about your website as well? Why not use social media marketing methods with these sites? Encourage your friends to add your business profile to their friends list as well.

Keep them all updated about your site by posting bulletins. Hopefully, their friends will take notice of your business profile, and their friends' friends, and so forth.

YouTube is extremely popular for social media marketing. Create informative, interesting, and unique videos about your niche. If you don't know how to make videos, have someone to help you. Add your website url in the video. It should also be the very first thing listed under the video description.

Thousands of people are on the site at any given time, and many will ask questions about any topic imaginable. You go through and answer questions about the same topic that your site is about. You can add your link in the resource box. The more popular the question is, the more people will click on your link to find out more about your answer.