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title="http://www.myspace.com" te/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&la
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/font>) can be used by any had 75 million users, 15 million
webmaster to bring traffic and daily unique logins, was growing
customers to its site. by a massive 240,000 new users
per day, and was generating
The MySpace generation brought nearly 30 billion monthly page
some changes to the marketing views (that's 10,593 page views
scene – while conventional per second)
marketing and link exchange In September 2006 MySpace had
solutions are never going to fade more than 100 million users
out, new opportunities arise when
millions of people gather in one Now, with so much traffic and so
place. That's the case of many people, it's clear that this
MySpace. Here are some facts: can be an opportunity. To obvious
thing to do: create an account,
MySpace has a Google PageRank of build a targeted friends network,
8 (many user pages also have PR communicate with them and promote
themselves) your products or services. Well,
According to Alexa (href="http://www.alexa.com/site/d building such a list by hand is
s/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=n impractical because of time
one" consideration. And you probably
title="http://www.alexa.com/site/ (I'd say hopefully) have better
things to do. use a message sending service:
persons who own MySpace accounts
As a side note, there are various send bulletins (bulletins are
so called 'whore trains'- just messages that are sent to
services that promise they will all your friends with a single
bring friends to your account. My click) to all their friends on
advice: don't use them! They only behalf of you – the price is
bring you friends that signed up somewhere around $0.5/1000
for the same service and those friends.
persons are more than certain
just looking to gather a large The key to success is to
amount of people to send messages carefully choose the text of your
to – you want real people as your message and more important, the
friends. title text because everyone sees
first the title and only if they
You actually have more than one click it they can look at the
option: you can buy an already entire message. So you'll need a
made account (the downside is hook there – my advice is to just
that you don't have an accurate make it look natural. You have to
control over the friends added) be sneaky in a way: if it looks
for which the price depends on like advertising your friends
how many friends it has - the will just feel cheated and ignore
usual price is $10/1000 friends. the message.
Or you can hire someone to build
an account from scratch based on What can you write in the
your needs (e.g. you only want bulletin body? Almost anything:
friends from with ages between 20 you can use full HTML and CSS
and 30 years from the US) – here which means links, images and
the price is around $15/1000 pretty much anything that can
friends. Or finally, you can just appear on a web page (no
javascript, iframes or other This brings you to a cost of 2.5
mechanisms that may allow - 5 cents/visit. That's not bad
javascript injection for obvious at all! Now, traffic is
security reasons). something, but targeted traffic
is the king – so if you get good
From my experience, the friends you have no excuse of not
click-through rate for these recovering your investment.
kinds of messages is around 1-2%.
That means, for example, that if Besides traffic you can also get
you submit the bulletin to 10.000 PR from MySpace – remember I said
people (at a regular cost of $5 some user pages have PR. Now
if you choose to use someone consider the fact that you can
else's account) you can expect to post HTML comments on those
receive 100 - 200 visits to your pages. I'll be back with another
site (I presume anyone who article with updates for you.
promotes something will have a
link to the site in the message).
About the Author:
Paul Martin is a specialist in SEO automation software and techniques. Visit his SEO Automation site to see some of his works. For more MySpace opportunities, ideas and services check his MySpace SEO
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