© 2007 - 2011 Allan Cockerill All Rights Reserved
The importance of friends on social networks can’t be underestimated.
In fact, without them, the sites wouldn’t be the same, and they certainly wouldn’t be social for a start.
As silly as it may sounds, there are people who think that they can join a site like Plurk or Twitter, and simply start making announcements about their web site or products!
There’s only one problem, if you want anybody to see it, you have to have friends, or followers.
And if you spam them, you won’t have them for long.
Sounds simple, doesn’t it?
Strange as it may seem though, some people still don’t get it!
I have a friend who plurked a question about his web site over a week ago. Today, he added a reply and wondered why no body had responded.
So I responded by saying that he only had one friend on the site, and that I hadn’t seen it.
The trouble is, I don’t think he hung around long enough to see my response, so he’s probably still wandering around wondering why no one talks to him!
It really is all about relationship!
You can keep your courses about using social media sites to build traffic.
The truth is that even though I do get traffic from social media sites, most of my visitors still come via search engines.
Those people come looking for something, and it is up to me to be out there helping them to find it.
Using social networking sites sounds like a great idea, but are people on Facebook or Myspace really looking for what you are selling?
And if they do happen to add you as a friend, are they really signing up for your sales blurbs?
Over the next little while, I will be writing about the right way to use social media to help build your business online.
I hope that you call back and check it out.
In the meantime, have a great day.
© 2007 - 2011 Allan Cockerill All Rights Reserved
