Comments on Social Networking

Eric, so true.  How are you going to branch out socially if you keep hanging around the same group of people?  Good point.

Hi Eric,

Social Networking for Links That WILL Make a Difference

Social networking is the buzz right now, but for those of us who also focus on the search engine optimization aspects of our online activities, let's look at it through that lens for a moment.

Most of us already know that links that point back to your own website have a huge influence on search rankings. What's more, when those links have 'anchor text" that is focused on specific search terms that matter to you, it helps even more. 

For instance, is you are ian agent in Rockville IL, and you link back to your site with links that use "Rockville IL real estate" as the link anchor text, you'll REALLY start to help yourself.

Now, take that one step further...link back to a page on your website that is structured to be about "Rockville IL real estate", with that term in the page title, headline, and body content. You have now fully correlated your link popularity and link anchors with your page content. That's when the real traction takes place.

Now, do that as much as you can, as many places as you can (legitimately), on the Web.

Social Network sites allow you to do EXACTLY that. The best part is that YOU have COMPLETE CONTROL of the process. It's an SEO bonanza, and it costs very little to do it.

Here's How:

1) Edit your "profile" on your social network home pages, and be sure to include links to your target pages (i.e. the "Rockville IL real estate" page, in our hypothetical example).

2) Keep track of your profile page URLs, and link to them from YOUR OWN website. This will assure that the search engines can find your profile pages, and index them.

It's that simple. Do that on as many SocNet sites as you can.

If you REALLY want to make this whole task easy, use the new DomainDrivers Social Network Manager!

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• The Social Network Manager makes all of your social networking tasks much easier.
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• Easily track and access your account names, home pages, and content pages.
  
  
• Easily create lists of social networking sites:
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  • Never Visit lists to keep unwanted sites "out of sight".
    
    
• Easily build "Find Me Here" HTML lists of your active home pages. This makes is very easy to place these links on your own Websites, so your site visitors can find you easily on your favorite social networking sites.
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  • General Web directories

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