The massive growth in social marketing has created a great opportunity to be able to benefit with free traffic source and also boosting ranking by providing links pointing back to your main focus site or blog.
Go to sites like squidoo, wetpaint, hubpages, zimbio, quizilla, weebly, blogspot, and create free accounts. Where possible, choose names that use the keywords you are using for your blog site. Build out the free social media sites with text, images, and relevant youtube clips. Within the content postings being put on the social media sites, use anchor text to put in links pointing back to your main blog site. Having these links pointing back to your blogsite helps to boost the main site in the way the search engines perceive it. You don’t need to labour over the sites you set up in these accounts, your main focus will be your main blog, and the other sites are a form of “advertising” - but without being spammy.
The social media sites are easy to navigate and provide easy to follow directions for use. Creating just one social media site each week, over a few weeks, can have powerful effects for your main blog site.
If your blog site is built on the researched keywords, and then those keywords are used to build social media sites, which then link back to your main blog site, your site will be very bouyant in the search rankings which can result in a great boost in visiting traffic numbers.
Video marketing is a particularly powerful tool. Create videos (under 5 minutes) and post them to youtube or metacafe with links back to your blog site. For further details about creating and marketing with videos, see separate post on video marketing.
To Your Money Blogging Success,
Julie