Jun 21 2011

How to Generate Links Through Socializing

Many offline businesses have taken off when the owners made full use of their existing contacts and continued to actively create new ones. Such business contacts are very useful in spreading the word about the business. The same principle applies in online business. By making contact with other site owners and bloggers covering topics closely related to yours, you will be able to generate more links pointed at your website. This will result in high traffic coming to your website directly from the links, which will lead to a higher search engine ranking.

The following are tips for making friends and socializing online.

Invest Time in Socializing

There is plenty to see and do online that many people just can’t find the time to socialize. However, failing to socialize is a big mistake. You need to prioritize your tasks and objectives online. Your top priority should be to increase traffic to your website, which is likely to have a direct effect on your profitability and revenue. Since making friends and socializing online is an effective way of enhancing the visibility of your sites and blogs, it should be one of your main strategies for increasing traffic.

The first step is to allocate time to this task. Make sure you are consistent so as to accomplish this task on a daily basis.

Set a daily target

Set a target for the number of new contacts you want to make every day. It is vital that you maintain a file of all your contacts with their details. This is important because you will need to make your communication with them as personal as possible. Keep in mind that you will encounter different people under different circumstances. Some will be ready to discuss business immediately, while some will need to be pursued for some time before introducing your business interest. For most of your contacts, it will be important to exercise some patience.

Always consider the other person’s interest first

Making friends with a selfish interest is a big mistake. You should always be prepared to give before you can expect to receive. You are likely to be more successful if you start off a friendship putting the other person’s interests before yours.

Exchange links

You need to start off with at least two sites or blogs. This will allow you to swap links with your contacts, while avoiding reciprocal links. Reciprocal links do not carry as much weight as one way links with search engines.

Charles Mburugu is a professional content developer and an entrepreneur. He often writes about real estate, finance, business start-ups and internet marketing. In the past few weeks he has been writing for blogs where you can get the latest coupon code for Bluehost and coupon code for Web.com.

7 Responses to “How to Generate Links Through Socializing”

  1. Maciej Fita says:
    June 22, 2011 at 10:59 am

    There is a very large overlap between being social and generating some nice SEO for a website. When social first really started making waves it was not as apparent but with efforts like the recent Facebook/Bing partnership it is pretty clear now.

  2. Bjorn says:
    June 22, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    I am trying to set time to make connections, but I find it quite time consuming. But the benefit is that you can get long term cooperation by using some time on social media. You can also use social media to learn for yourself and give quick tips to others.

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    June 22, 2011 at 6:04 pm

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    October 10, 2011 at 3:19 am

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  6. Rebecca says:
    October 20, 2011 at 2:14 am

    Great post! I believe in socializing not only for making friends but to increase traffic from my websites.

  7. the ridges in summerlin says:
    November 13, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    Socializing is a very nice way to get to know people and also make new business associates. In the online world it is so easy to socialize and you can also get to know so many people online than offline. It therefore important to know ways in which you can attract them to your business and this is well explained in the post.