When your social marketing did you know?

Today’s world is packed with social marketing strategy’s for almost every application you can think of and just as many sites you can join to pursue networking avenues. I was reading a post yesterday from a fellow blogger who’s site is called Pure Blogic and it seemed they were complaining, well maybe thats down playing it a little,they were down right bitching that they got banned from Reddit as they were accused of spamming the site when they just joined it a few weeks back. Here are a few do’s and do not’s to follow when you join a new social networking group for the first time.

You Can:

When you join a new social networking site make sure you put in as much information as you can into your profile section. The more people learn about who you are, the better there going to understand your writing style and subscribe to your RSS feed and not think of you as a spammer. Browse the member pages and add friends to your friends list. Trying to find friends in your niche is sometimes hard so expand your options and try and learn something new from someone by adding they to your friends list even if they don’t talk about what you talk about, remember your never to old to learn something new. Some of the sites have caps on how many friends you can add in general or each day like MyBlogLog where you can only add 15 members to your friends or Digg who allow you to only have 999 friends total. Not everyone you add to your list is going to return the favor by adding you back so your going to want to keep an eye on your list and edit it as much as you can to insure you get maximum exposure. Socializing with in a community makes it look like your there for all the right reasons as well as the long haul, start a topic group if you can.

The Dont’s

Some social networking sites allow you to submit articles to try and get them popular with in the community, some even have a ranking system that is vote based by the community for such articles. If you are one of the lucky ones who submits a post that goes popular you stand a chance of driving a lot of traffic back to your site. It is when we see this opportunity that new bloggers get excited and are driven to try and submit as many articles as they can even if they are not ours. With sites like Reddit or Digg which are great sites for driving up traffic, you need to try and resit the urge of going nuts submitting articles. What happens is you clearly come across as a spammer which most people hate even if all your doing is trying to been seen or heard. The problem is the community don’t know you, and they see that you are new to the site so they report you for spamming just because, well its like I said……they don’t know you and the next time you log on is when your blocked from posting on those sites and you get all pissed off.

The solution

Take your time to get to know the social networking site you just joined and get to know the community you are a part of, you just may find out that the community and you have nothing in common and that trying to pursue traffic from them will just end up being a waste of your time and there reading. Submit articles to the sites you like maybe once every two days at most to avoid looking like a spammer, and vote on what others are voting on to show you are involved with the community and leave comments. Some sites like Sphinn, have it built into there sites programing that you can only submit one article, once every 24 hours. This site removes the chances right from the start of you ever looking like a spammer, so maybe give them a try.

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