Creating a strong presence on Facebook can take you a long way. This is especially if you’re an online marketer that’s looking for targeted exposure, better promotion and a stronger brand building. So in order to use Facebook marketing to your advantage the correct way, what should you keep in mind? These are things that you should take into consideration.

Advertising & Facebook: Why would you choose to use another pay-per-click option when you can keep it all on one site, like Facebook? If you don’t have a big budget for this yet, start small and increase what you contribute once you see that it’s working. You will have the ability to get a great return on what you invest in marketing with Facebook.

You should start small on your investment so that you don’t risk everything and it doesn’t work out because you didn’t know what to do. So before you start putting up your ads on Facebook, it’s important that you do your homework and be sure of what you’re doing.

No one can gain every time they choose a marketing plan, and the same is true here. If this is completely new territory, start small and work your way up in advertising on Facebook. Put Your Web Store on Your Facebook Page: If your overall goal is to promote and sell your services to a particular group of people, then you should place a link to your internet store on your Facebook page.

Social commerce should continue to grow as the years go on. This is why doing this can be very helpful for getting more sales and business in the long run. If you look around, you will find out that other companies and celebrities have started to utilize this technique.

They are successful doing great business with Facebook marketing and promoting the products and services in their niche. It does not matter what market you are in, if you utilize Facebook marketing, you will get more traffic and get your goods and services seen.

Utilizing Other Social Media Sites: Facebook is great, but you’ll need to also use your personal website and blog to attract even more fans. You can put the Facebook social plugin on your blog which will allow people to ‘like’ your page from there without ever visiting your fan page.

You will see more growth on your fan page by taking advantage of the other social media outlets. Maintain the quality of your product and follow these guidelines to garner more fans. Make a quality product of your fan page and watch how people react.

Basically, the results that you get from Facebook will depend on you. So make sure you don’t really lack in those areas.

If you want to benefit your online business, then as an Internet marketer, you will always need to be well equipped to taking that next step. Creating a podcast is something that can immensely help you build a strong relationship with your target audience and actually give real value to them. below.

Give Good Quality on a Regular Basis: The attention that your listeners will give to your podcast will be more focused than that of the readers of your blog post. This is an opportunity that you want to make the most of, so it is important to ensure you don’t offer any low quality content in your podcast.

Obviously, even if you offer a weekly podcast, but don’t pay attention to the quality, your listeners won’t find it valuable. Your listeners will be much happier if you fill your podcast with real value, even if you only do one a month. If your plan it to publish a podcast on a regular schedule, make sure it is worth it.

Refrain From Bragging: A podcast is not the place for you to boast about who you are or brag about what makes you so great. A small introduction might be needed in certain circumstances, but your readers won’t be very happy if you take yourself to seriously.

People want something of value when they listen to your podcast, so be sure to keep that in mind at all times. This shouldn’t be about “you”, but more about “them”. Don’t keep repeating your expertise in your niche or keep telling your listeners over and over how you can save the economy. They will be able to see if you are any good. That’s all it takes.

Enhance With Music: Adding music to your podcast can make the experience much more pleasant for your listeners. This certainly doesn’t mean that you should simply go ahead and use your favorite mp3 track in your podcast.

However, by adding some light, soothing background music to your podcast can do wonders and make you look a lot more professional. In a way, when you use good music for your background, intro, etc, you polish up your podcast and make it sound better and give your readers an experience that they will remember, not just because of the quality of the content of the podcast, but also because of the way you presented it.

If you apply these tips to your podcast, you will notice an instant difference in the response from your listeners, something you can build up on as time goes by.

I was sitting down watching tv this week when I thought ‘why not do a detailed killer traffic strategy’ for attracting thousands of visitors to your website on a regular basis week in and week out…

I went off and noted the seven main areas to include:

-    High-Profile Article Marketing
-    Forum Marketing
-    Ebook Syndication
-    Video Marketing
-    Viral Pushes
-    Ad Swaps
-    Paid Advertising

Wether you want to build a list of promiote your site i’ll out line the strategies do follow to enable you to do this. SO lets go and out line what you need to do.

** High-Profile Article Marketing

Within the internet Marketing arena we all know that article marketing is one of the best ways to drive highly-targeted traffic to your website. However, if you re-focus your efforts towards high-profile article marketing can generate 10x as much traffic as standard article marketing.

Don’t waste your time submitting your articles to bulk standard article directories when you can submit to the more specific targetted top websites and blogs in your target market.

If you have a blog about sports then we need to be submitting our articles to sites such as http://bleacherreport.com/ which is one of the most popular sports websites online today. What if your website is all about weddings and wedding related servcies then you should be submitting articles to sites such as http://www.favorideas.com/submit-wedding-articles/

How about if your niche web site is all about parenting, you could submit articles to http://www.momsnetwork.com/submit-articles.shtml

How about if your niche web site is all about about finance, you could submit articles to  http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/submitarticle.html

Do you see a pattern emerging here? We need to be submitting your articles to a targetted audience of readers to gain massive amounts of traffic for your articles. So use the very popular websites for submitting articles to gain this massive traffic.

Here’s a list of very popular websites that I personally submit articles to. The list below is a gold mine for building a list of thousands of subscribers. If you published just ONE really good article every day to the following websites, and had a good call to action in your resource box that sent people to your squeeze page, then you would have a highly responsive list of AT LEAST 1,000 subscribers by the end of the month.

http://sitefling.com/blog/steal-our-traffic-be-a-guest-poster-today/

http://www.associateprograms.com/authors/register

http://www.site-reference.com/submit.php

http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com/2008/12/im-looking-for-guest-bloggers.html (This site ranks #2 for “make money online” and they are looking for guest bloggers!

http://www.tutorialized.com (Submit your articles in the Marketing or SEO sections. This site will send traffic directly to your blog or website. So you will need to have a website set up to submit your articles here. But they can drive hundreds of visitors to your site.)

http://mashable.com/writers/

http://www.searchengineguide.com

http://www.evancarmichael.com/Author/partnerLeads.php

http://www.isedb.com/db/pages/Contribute-Articles-to-ISEdb.com

http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/become-an-npt-guest-blogger/

http://www.imnewswatch.com

http://www.carlocab.com/get-featured-for-free/

http://www.bloggingtips.com/write-for-us/

http://www.sitepoint.com/about/writeforus

http://www.zeromillion.com/involve/

http://www.promotionworld.com/submit/submitcontent.html

http://www.lifehack.org/about/contribute

http://www.copyblogger.com (a very popular IM blog that accepts guest bloggers.)

The following is a list of sites where you can syndicate your articles.

http://www.instablogs.com/write_article.php

http://blogcarnival.com/bc/ (Submit all of your articles to blog carnivals for extra traffic.)

http://www.gather.com/

http://www.nowpublic.com/

http://www.scribd.com/

** Forum Marketing

Forum marketing is another excellent strategy for building a list of subscribers and sending tons of traffic to your website.

Forum marketing is a highly underrated, but extremely effective strategy for building a list of subscribers, driving highly-targeted traffic, and establishing yourself as an authority in your particular market.

Forums put you directly in front of your target market, making it a goldmine for driving thousands of highly targeted visitors to your website.

But keep in mind here that the key to successful forum marketing is to become an active participant in the community. Your first priority is to deliver lots of value. And that means posting highly valuable content in the forums and helping people with their questions.

Once you’ve become a trusted member and delivered some great value in your posts, people will naturally want to learn more about what you have to offer.

This is where your signature link comes in…

You’ll want to use your signature link to send people to your squeeze page where you can build your list of subscribers.

Here’s an example of a good signature line:

“Find out how to get front-page Google Rankings in 24 hours with my FREE Google Mystic 2.0 Video series… http://www.yoursqueezepagehere.com ”

The key here is to entice them with some sort of benefit to get them tocome to your website. Keep your signature file short and to the point.You should only be promoting one page in your signature file. Don’t confuse people with multiple options.

Also keep in mind that it’s the value of your post that drives people to look at your signature. If you provide people with extraordinary value, then they will naturally want to check out more of your content.

So focus on providing value. One extremely valuable post is worth 10x more than 20 average posts.

Here’s a list of the top Internet Marketing Forums:

http://www.warriorforum.com/

http://forums.digitalpoint.com

http://www.ewealth.com/

http://www.v7n.com/forums/

http://www.internetmarketingforums.net/

http://www.clickbanksuccessforum.com/forum/

http://forum.abestweb.com

http://ablakeforum.com/index.php

http://www.namepros.com/

http://www.webmaster-talk.com

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/

http://www.whydowork.com/forums/

http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com/forum/

http://www.promojunkie.com/forum/

http://www.netaffiliatetalk.com/

http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/

http://www.dnforum.com/

http://talk.iwebtool.com/

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/

http://www.forumforwebmasters.com

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/

http://www.conqueryourniche.com/forum/

http://forums.seochat.com/

http://forum.affiliatebot.com/

http://www.siteownersforums.com

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum25.html

You can also use the Warrior Forum to quickly build a large list of subscribers by posting free WSO’s. http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/

You can also build your list by posting free offers on the Digital Point Forums as well (in the Buy, Sell, and Trade section.)

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24

Another great place to post your offer and build your list is http://marketplace.sitepoint.com

You can create free reports to give away on these forums simply by combining a collection of your article into a free PDF report. By re-purposing your articles, you will be able to generate even more traffic and subscribers.

*** Always be looking for ways to re-purpose your content. There are a TON of ways to get extra mileage out of any type of content you create online.

See you in part 2 of the killer strategy guide.

If you liked this post then you would also enjoy our FREE article domination strategy –>  Dominating Article Strategies

Super Web Site Traffic - This is the first in a series of posts on getting more traffic for your web site..

This is a minor strategy that MUST be followed for a SET period of time.. if you want to track any links the use ‘budurl’ as its free and works well..

if you want an article spinner then head over to the ‘jet submitter’ web site and signup for a free account. The account is free and it allows to use the ‘article spinner’ in which you can spin up to 100 articles at a time to use as your site content..

The following is a minor part of the full ‘Traffic Mystic Secrets 2.0 – Google Mystify‘ web traffic strategy that is not yet available for release. But don’t under estimate what is to come next, it yield’s exceptional results.

The first assumption I’m making is that you have main blog or money site.

1) create a squidoo lens and link it back to your main site
2) create a hub page and link it back to your main site and your squidoo lens
3) create 3 articles (maybe take 1 and spin it)
4) submit one article to ‘ezine’ and link it to your squidoo lens
5) submit one article to www.articlecat.com and link it to your hub page
6) submit one article to www.articlemotron.com and link it to your main site

Do this over a 5 day period. carry out 1 action per day. Rinse and repeat this cycle for 3 weeks. make sure you start your cycle on the same day.. Ie.. create a squidoo on a monday then the next monday etc.

Next you must Socially bookmark each of your sites and articles with the following sites.

• Propeller.com
• Furl.net
• Digg.com
• Technorati.com
• Del.icio.us
• Stumbleupon.com
• Twitter.com

Now ping each of the sites after the content has been created and published.

Do this using http://www.feedping.com/

One of my test sites I’ve used with my full strategy ranked at number 3 / 4 (indented) within 2 weeks and that was in early testing (october 2008) and it still in the same position and here is the search traffic:

Results 1 – 100 of about 4,570,000 for

I’m above wiki / amazon and all the other big guys apart from 1 major brand who has line a million links that will take a wee bit longer..

Now go off and implement this strategy for your own site and please email me with your results.

For a full article strategy go to here