One of the most preferred ways is to start by building your brand profile on sites like Facebook and Second Life. These sites offer self-publishing tools which are easily accessible to everyone visiting them. You can also create communities on sites like LinkedIn and Orkut and mark your presence in these areas as well.
When you have designed a page for your brand in a social networking site, make sure that it includes links to your official website, which is the website you want to promote. Your work is not over here!! In fact, it has just begun.
Keep in touch with people visiting your page. Engage them by posting new and interesting content. Get feedback and encourage comments. Can you now see how social networking helps you in the marketing of your site. Gradually visitors to your page will start adding content and following links. You are now building a following for friends of friends to locate you.
The social networking sites on which you post your links already attract good traffic, and this traffic gets directed to your site from there. Try building good relations with members who are popular in the community. This is a good strategy to promote your products and services by making use of the already existing popularity of a member and this is where social networking comes into play. But do make sure that you post useful comments and anything you post should be relevant to the member’s ride, so that you don’t seem like a foolish salesman whom no one wants to listen to.
On ‘tagging’ sites like Digg, it won’t harm your reputation if you are a little more frank. If you want your content to feature higher in news then you need people to vote for you.
Finally, after you have dealt all your cards, don’t forget to deal again. Building and maintaining relationships in social networking sites is an ongoing process and you might also make some great relationships on the way.
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