driving traffic to you Proxy Site using SMO
Social Media Optimization(SMO), helps build website traffic to your Proxy Website by using social media based websites.
The nature of Social Media Optimization is such that it could be considered a form of guerrilla marketing.
Website owners and blog owners have the choice of either investing money or their own skills and time in order
to generate traffic from social sites. As long as your efforts are directed appropriately,
the more work you put in the more reward you will reap.
Social Media Optimization(SMO) as a Link Building Technique
Social optimization also has a happy side effect - it helps to build your link profile so you will usually gain search engine traffic in the long term. Becoming a part of an online community is essential to your social optimization and this, in turn, will naturally provide links to your website. The links will usually be from relevant pages based on a similar topic to that of your page. The more popular social sites are also given a lot of weight by certain search engines.
Optimize Your Existing Proxy Site
Create genuinely interesting, intriguing, or informative pages. Include images, links, video, and collaborative tools so that visitors really get involved when they do visit your Proxy site. SMO is basically digital word-of-mouth and, if your website doesn’t provide some kind of appealing experience to your visitors, then it simply won’t attract the positive word-of-mouth that you want.
Add new pages, if necessary, so that you can include more information. However, don’t just add pages for the sake of it - ensure that each page really does have something unique to offer. A website still needs to be well structured.
Some Social Sites To Help Your Proxy Website
Determine the sites that are most suitable to your website, join them, and become an active member. Choose some broad topic sites as well as some that are specific to those interested in the industry(Proxy,Security) in which you operate or topic that you cover. Look at social news submission sites, content sharing sites, bookmarking, and networking sites and try to get a broad coverage of all of them. Here are just a few of the sites you should seriously consider using:
Social News/Media Sharing Websites
• Reddit - Reddit is a very popular social news website that boasts a lot of subscribers and covers a wide range of topics.
• Digg - Initially, Digg was reserved to technology and related topics but is now a broad topic news site that again has a lot of subscribers and regular readers.
• Newsvine - Not as popular as the two above but offering a slightly more formal tone to its content. Again, a good range of topics are covered.
Social Networking Sites
• MySpace - It may be largely riddled with spam, but there are still too many genuine users for you to ignore MySpace. You don’t have to be an unsigned band to take advantage either.
• Facebook - Has caused quite a stir and offers users the chance to create and distribute their own applications as well as content. Another very popular site.
• LinkedIn - LinkedIn is a social networking site dedicated to professionals and businesses. It can really help to build a huge network of partners, customers, and other useful contacts in a business network.
Social Bookmarking Websites
• del.icio.us - Register, store bookmarks that you find useful, and include a bookmark to your website and use a public profile.
• Stumble Upon - Same again. Alternatively, you can add a Stumble icon to each of your pages, blog posts, and other media and let your readers do the walking for you.
Buttons For Your Pages
Many social websites provide a button that your readers or visitors can use to automatically add a page. Bookmarking and content sharing sites, in particular, have these buttons and, if you’ve ever read a website or an article site, then you will have seen the Digg This and Stumble buttons at the bottom of each entry. Users registered with these sites can click the button and quickly add your page. The most popular websites are usually displayed on the high traffic home pages delivering yet more visitors to your site.