subject: Social Networking Strategies - Using Facebook to Drive Website Traffic and Increase Online Profits [print this page] If you are reading this article more than likely you are interested in either using Facebook, driving traffic to your website or increasing your online profits. Or, it could be a combination of all of them.
Today, Facebook is the number one social networking platform which attracts more visitors and users than any other network. In January 2010, Facebook took over the number one spot for social networking and he came the second most visited website on the Internet. Who is the number one most visited site on the web? Google of course.
For the Internet marketer, Facebook offers many tools to add to your online strategies when trying to increase traffic to your external website or sales pages.
Because of the ease of use of the site, marketers can find and recruit contacts who are specific to their niche industry. Once you have developed your network through the site you can then provide them with direct content on an ongoing basis which provides a solution to some business problems or life issues your contacts are experiencing. This is the key to online marketing. By identifying what problems your contacts and subscribers have, then developing a product or service to meet their needs to provide a solution, there is no better way to sell products to people than through social networking.
Facebook also allows the marketer to use ads on the site. This network as one of the best demographic tools of any advertising site on the Internet. You can choose between age, location, male or female, likes, hobbies and practically any other criteria you can think of to target customers. These ads are some of the cheapest on the web for online advertising.
You can also provide free giveaway products to your contacts through your Facebook wall page. If you have a business, it is better to develop a business profile than to use your personal fan page. The reason for this is that on a personal fan page Facebook only allows you up to 5000 contacts or friends. On the business page you can pretty much have an unlimited number.
If you are out to attract prospective customers and develop your online presence and exposure, you owe it to yourself and the financial future of your business to learn everything you can about Internet marketing.
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