How to advertise on myspace?

[SyncMaster]

I'll be interested in knowing some useful ways to advertise your resource site on myspace besides bulletin posting.

[AbdulR]

Myspace forum posting. Start threads ask questions encorage people to give their opinions the whole point is to get them to visit your profile (read below for why).

Commenting on your friends pages using one of your images and a linkback. Though you must be careful and do it in a non spammy way.

Using a bot to Add more friends. Even if they don't add you back most of the times they will look at your profile and if a link interests them they will click through. This technique works for me quite well to drive traffic to my arcade. I haven't tried it with a myspace site yet.

[SyncMaster]

valuable indeed :) Where can I get my hands on a bot that can add friends for me?

[Drew]

www.adderrobot.com

I also try and make sure that I always send a birthday glitter to all any "friends" that are having a birthday. (Can be kinda hard when you have thousands of friends, but it seems to work well)

[SyncMaster]

Cool!!

Lets line them up:


Myspace forum posting
Commenting on your friends pages using one of your images and a linkback
Using a bot to Add more friends
Send a birthday glitter to all any "friends" that are having a birthday
find a myspace celeb who wants a profile doing and spend the time/$ to make them one, and of course include links back to your site.
Have something totally unique that everyone wants, a few people see it and it spreads like wildfire.
add all the celebs you can to your profile, and send them comments every now and then, raving about them....and if possible include a suitable glitter....lots of people view those comments.


am sure there are more. so please keep them coming :)

[Drew]

there's heaps....

find a myspace celeb who wants a profile doing and spend the time/$ to make them one, and of course include links back to your site.

The right celeb and you'll get heaps of traffic.

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Have something totally unique that everyone wants, a few people see it and it spreads like wildfire.

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thats two that comes to mind right now that most people probably don't think of.

[SyncMaster]

Great stuff!! Updated the above list :)

[Drew]

I've been trying to get Tom to let me do him a profile...he always says no...bugger it!

Here's another, add all the celebs you can to your profile, and send them comments every now and then, raving about them....and if possible include a suitable glitter....lots of people view those comments.

[Scilynt]

yep, thats a good one. And be sure to use your better images that look great and might not be as popular as some of the ones on there. The more people like it and want to use it themselves the better chance they will go to your site. But not too crazy or annoying or they may block it/deny your comment if they are moderating. I do that all the time on my own account...not because they may be using images with linkbacks to competitors but because they are damn annoying and many will screw up my layout lol.

[AbdulR]

I also try and make sure that I always send a birthday glitter to all any "friends" that are having a birthday. (Can be kinda hard when you have thousands of friends, but it seems to work well)

Adding on to that.... apart from birthdays there's also halloween, easter, christmas, thanksgiving, 4th of july etc.

[Drew]

oh yeah thats a point, always have some good new graphics for the big holidays, send you friends, either via comment or via bulletin a happy x with one of your graphics the day/evening before.

They will do the same thing to their friends usually and use your graphics.

[PGZ]

Also if you dont know it MySpace pages carry PR from Google. When you comment those pages with an image that puts a link back to you and passes said PR your way.

There quite a few pr7 Profiles out there and the link is FREE.

PGZ

[marketingbots]

Also if you dont know it MySpace pages carry PR from Google. When you comment those pages with an image that puts a link back to you and passes said PR your way.

There quite a few pr7 Profiles out there and the link is FREE.

PGZ


This is the one I am playing with now. I run a friend adding service (but it could be anything) and have made some 'friend signs'. Essentially they are banners but don't directly 'promote' my service.

The signs are available to anyone to use. I provide the hosting for the sign and right below the place I make the signs available I provide linking code (for the myspace morons) that includes an href to the front page of my site.

I'm using the signs myself by posting to all my 15k friends that allow HTML. However - since myspace only allows you to post something like 225 comments per day - it's going to take about a month to hit each friend i have right now.

I should get a few clicks from them but mainly I'm after the PR boost.

This SHOULD work 2 fold - 1) i get some traffic and PR from my work and 2) other people are bound to post some to their friends pages as well further boosting my PR and traffic.

Think viral marketing when it comes to myspace.

In theory, I should probably post a nice 'hey, what is up?' on the friend pages that do not allow HTML. it will boost traffic to my myspace account - however, by the time i hit every one of my current 15k friends, i will have added another 10k or so to start the process over again. Trying to get the most out of my daily 225 limit.

werd,
john d

[worlddom]

Well, as a complete novice I must say that this thread is a fantastic resource. I very much appreciate the willingness of more experienced members in sharing these proven methods and ideas.

Greg is building me a combined MSRS/Flickscript site as we speak (hopefully!) which I can't wait to start working with.

Many thanks
Mark

[Greg-J]

I am indeed Mark ;)

Although I wouldn't go announcing that to the world because now I'm going to get hammered with PM's wanting me to build one for them as well ;)

[worlddom]

Cheers Greg

I'm sure that everyone here understands that I was simply joking and that such a site could only ever be the work of myth and legend.

[Drew]

nice try, but we don't believe you.....

oh Greg!!!!!!!!

(j/k I don't want it)

[Greg-J]

This is true. One of the things I can't stand about other forums is this:


:offtopic:


Conversations between people naturally flow from one subject to another. Granted they should be put in their own thread after 4 or 5 posts, but that's what we have mods for, right? ;)

[Drew]

What are you talking about Greg? This thread looks fine.

:innocent:

[jkomp]

lol me thinks a mod has been sprinkling fairy dust and making greg look silly - just a feeling I have.