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How To Benefit From Social Networking Without Doing It All Day

By Keith A Stauffer

Republish: EasyPublish™ Published: 02Oct2009 Word count: 481 Viewed: 260 time(s) Get Free Content For Your Site

I don't know about you but I find social networking to be somewhat exhausting. I'm not the only one because the majority of people working at making money on the Internet do not want to hang out in social networking sites all day.

This brings up the question of how can you benefit from social networking without having it take over your life?

1. If you do not have a blog you need to start one right now. Hosting your own blog using the Wordpress platform is the best way to do this.

Any serious Internet marketer can post one or two articles a week on their blog. There are a couple of key things you want to keep in mind when you do this.

First of all you should target a keyword phrase that is based on something relevant to the theme of your Internet business. Try and use a longtail phrase of three or more words.

The reason for this is search engines will pick up on that and you stand a better chance of ranking high for those words then you do shorter phrases which are more competitive.

Secondly you should social bookmark your blog post to some of the top directories. You can use a submission service such as Onlywire.com to reach multiple directories with one click.

This includes bookmarking to Twitter, Facebook, Technorati and Stumbleupon which are some of the most important ones.

The benefit of bookmarking your blog post is over time this can lead to backlinks and driving traffic to your site. It also lets search engines know that you are constantly adding fresh content and they will begin to spider your blog on a more consistent basis.

2. You should find one or two discussion forums that you enjoy and hang out in those every week. This is not only fun but can also lead to good traffic and increase rankings in the search engines as well.

The key is to write forum posts again keeping keyword phrases in mind. You should also hyperlink your primary keyword phrase in your signature file to build up relevancy for that phrase.

3. One final point I want to make is about social media. You can benefit from adding videos and audio to your site without creating those yourself.

Google owns YouTube and they are packed with thousands of relevant videos you can post on your blog for free.

This helps make a visitor experience more enjoyable and helps liven up your blog a little bit. By adding videos, audios, and graphics as well your blog becomes more exciting which will help increase the number of subscribers to your RSS feed and repeat visitors.

In summary you can benefit from social networking without doing it all day long. It is important that you do participate at least in a small way as we have outlined in this article.

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