Part One: Building The Network
Social Media depends on your group of friends entirely. The quality and amount of votes you can get for anything is directly related to the amount of traffic you get from it. As a result there are a few things I do when I get into any network.
The Mass Add
At first I add about 100 users on the network into my friend group. I look for mega users and active users. I find about 50% of these add me back. These form your fringes. The votes that you might get that will really bump your submission up.
New IM Friends
I also like to look around for a few users on the network that have an IM. I have almost every client on my computer for a reason. If I can find one I’ll add them and befriend them. They can be useful for submitting and voting up your stuff. Not only that but I have found some of these people are the most interesting people I’ve met and a ton of fun to talk to.
Your Friends
The next step is seeing which existing IM friends you have that use the network your entering into. These will be very useful contacts in the future. You can get them to submit and vote up your stuff and you can build a little community of helpful friends for that network.
That Being Said…
It is all about reciprocity. A lot of people think that by asking their friends for something all the time and adding new people they will get it without having to do anything. That is a lie. We want to build up a sustainable source of social media traffic not a short term rush. To do this we have to help back. We have to vote up their submissions, submit stuff for our friends and befriend them in a way that will give them the same benefit we get. The time spent on this is relatively short but makes it a win-win situation.
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You know if you take your example and move it to an extremely large scale you will see that is all we were doing over at digital point!
See we use to request for Diggs inside the forums and if you had a lot of friends like me you could get around 100- 200 diggs in less then an hour!
But digg said no to this mass scale friends digging community environment! So you idea is great and you should build your friends list but when it starts getting too big and considered a cult watch out! Digg doesn’t like this because then it’s controls what gets published to a certain extent!
You might be good because you’re keeping it inside digg and maybe that was out problem. everything was done externally over at digital point and they weren’t getting the traffic.
If you think I’m off topic I was just trying to give an example for when you talked about the adding of friends and building the eternal social networking chain!
none the less I have the same attitude as you! If you see my blogcatalog and mybloglog groups they are huge and sitting at over 300 members.
Nice article and I’m going to digg it now!
Cheers
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Great advice. I am always submitting articles but don’t think to use the friends option often enough.
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@ Jennifer - use it, it will bring your social media traffic to the next level
@ bbrain017 - Agreed, that these groups are huge. The thing about them is the networks love to purge them (the stumble group on blog catalog died recently). As a result if you can cultivate some of these members to your personal list, you will get a contact and a bit of social media juice in response
Thanks for the kind comments, and the digg
Time to add some friends I suppose. Thanks for the heads up.
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Great post but do you know that more social network is dying . Watch this video at http://www.getonlinesuccess.com and find put why?
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Well I’ve found problem number 1….
I literally have 1 friend in all the social networking sites, if you add them together.
Guess I have a mission tonight, start adding friends!
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