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Social network Strategies by Seo Creation lab.com

If you direction is aimed more toward creation a personal professional presence on line Example if you were an Executive you would want to look at these networks first.

1. Linked In

2. Plaxo

3. Ryze

4. Small Business Brief

5. Buzzflash.net

6. Networking for Professionals

These sites are set up more for the professional rather than a person just looking to make connections for fun.

With these networks described you have to do mare than just setting up an account or home page you need to involved in your networks. Below are some subjects to address when entering a social network

1. Understand the network you are involved in

You first need to understand the network and how it is going to benefit your business. Do research on the networks, read blogs or reviews of the network to make sure it is the right one for your needs

2. Develop a Strategy

This is defining your over all goal of your campaign the what and how you are going to use this network

3. Make a Unique Profile

You need to make sure what ever you are developing this profile for that is has a professional look and feel. This profile is what is going to be used to draw visitor to your page. If you are selling a product this is extremely important to gain creditability from your visitors.

4. Stay Updated

This is another point that is extremely important in a social network. Visitors want to see new information that is why they are going to bookmark you or add a link to you. It shows them that you are an active member in the network.

5. Meet Others

This is the point of these networks to meet others. Take the time to go through other profiles and invite people into your network. Example two companies are promoting the same identical product on the same network but one company has a network list of 100 people as friends or links the second has none a majority of the people most likely will view the company that has 100 friends. This shows a creditable presence in the network.

6. Add Links

Linking is perhaps one of the most important aspects of social networking that you should not neglect at any cost. Productive social networking is not possible if you were to not pay proper attention to linking. You can use the link to your particular page on a social networking site or your website’s URL, in order to generate increased web traffic and therefore more business.

7. Ask Others to link

You can also ask for a reciprocal arrangement wherein some other members of a social networking site or some your friends could put a link to your page on the social networking site or to your website. You can also request them to blog about your business and put a link back to your website. All these techniques will enable you to generate more web traffic and therefore more business. In the eyes of the Search Engines this has a positive effect.

8. Update With Fresh and Quality Content

You should be constantly updating the content on your page and website on regular basis. This way you will be communicating new things about your products or services to your target audience not to mention that this is one of the single most important things to the Search Engines. That is what they want fresh new content.

This is Part 2 in our 3 Part series on SEO made simple social network strategies.

If this is going to be used for a business promoting products or services as described in question one we are going to be looking at these networks.
1. Facebook
2. MySpace
3. Twitter
4. Digg
5. Stumble Upon
6. Xing
7. Linked In
8. Small Business Brief
9. Google groups
10. MSN groups
11. Ecademy
These are just to list a few to get you started.

If you are going to us social networks for your personal promotion example: Life coaches I would take a look at these as a starting point
1. Facebook
2. MySpace
3. Twitter
4. Digg
5. Stumble Upon
6. Friendster
7. del.icio.us
8. Squidoo
9. reddit
10. Google groups
11. MSN groups
You can also search for your particular interest. Chances are that there is a network out there with other that share your interests. Example if you have an interest in books you might want to join ANobii.

Questions to ask when starting a social network strategy

The use of social networks is crucial to the success of a well planned SEO campaign.

There are some key points that need to be addressed before implementing this. The Questions that need to be asked are

1. Is this strategy going to be used for a business to promote a particular product, service or general awareness?
2. Is this for personal promotion?
3. Is this for professional (executive promotion)?