How to Get Social Networking Links to Your Article or Website

There is a lot of debate whether or not it is worth it to spend your time promoting your website or article on social networking sites like Facebook or Stumble Upon. My argument is, why not? The more traffic you get, the more clicks on ads you will get, and the more money you will make. Keep in mind that the conversion ratio is generally quite less than search engine traffic but you may still earn some repeat customers.

Instructions

1. Make sure that you post links to your articles on your existing social networking sites. There is a fine line between posting useful information and spamming. If you post links to everything you've done, whenever you do it, your links will lose meaning. These are your friends and they are clicking on the links because they know and trust you, not because they are incredibly interested in the subject.

2. Add buttons on your website that offer viewers the opportunity to post your site or article to their social networks. If someone likes your site or article, the will post it on their social networking site. If enough of this happens then it will be like a domino effect and you will get an endless stream of social networking traffic.

3. You can actually advertise your stuff on Facebook now. It seems to work like Google Adwords where you pay for the clicks you receive on the site. I would be wary about this because generally the conversion ratio is less than on Google.