Internet Marketing Today

Using social media internet marketing tactics is critical to your online success. Social sites are becoming more prevalent around the web. With the ability of users to interact, they are going to be the main staple of traffic to your site. Often, you can get more traffic through social sites than you do from search rankings, especially when you first start.
There are some things you need to do, and some you need to avoid, in order to be successful marketing on social media sites. Look at some simple tactics you can use to promote your site through social media.

Social Networking

Social networking and bookmarking sites are a great source of traffic. StumbleUpon, Digg, Mixx, and Facebook are all great sources of traffic. But you have to approach them the right way or you can build a bad reputation very quickly.
When using these social sites, make sure you do not just promote your  own sites. View other sites within your niche. Bookmark and leave positive comments on other peoples sites and profiles. Get to know the other people in your niche running websites. These people can give you a lot of help promoting your site if you make friends with them.

If all you do is spam your own sites, you will lose trust with the people there, and you may even get banned from the site if you go too far. Fill out complete profiles, including your photo. Talk to people. Be willing to help people. If you focus more on helping the people in your niche get what they want, they will give you the trust you need to get what you want, which is sales of your product or your affiliate products.

Video Marketing tactics

Video marketing is one of the hottest things on the web right now. It is simple to do, and can get you a lot of traffic. Video is quickly becoming like article marketing was a couple of years ago. The difference is that so many people still refuse to use it because they do not understand the technology.

Personally I don’t know much about how video works. But I have found that it is not necessary to understand it in order to use it successfully. You can make a short 3-5 minute video on a specific topic in your niche. Put that video on YouTube, Daily Motion, and various other video directory sites. When you fill out the title and video information, make sure you use the keywords you want to rank for. Then you can have friends go in and comment on your video or even watch the video in order to increase your rankings.

Make sure you include a link to your website, preferably an article related to the video. You will get credit for the links, but you will also get a lot of traffic from people who watch the video.
There are a variety of ways to use video to promote your site. You can record a video of yourself talking about something. You can get some friends and make a short film acting out a situation. You can get some pictures, and make a video with inspirational text. You can get a screen capture program, such as Camtasia, and make a short video showing people how to use a piece of software, or showing off  something that you enjoy.

Most video sites allow comments and give you a chance to interact with the viewers of your video, bringing in the social aspect. You can also allow video sharing, so other people can post your video on their website or blog.
These are just a few internet marketing tactics using social media to build your business. Later I will go over more details on how to use each one in your business. I am actually working on a video series right now to show you how to make some simple videos and get them posted to drive you more traffic.

Let me know what you think. Leave a comment ask me any questions you have. The more people let me know what they want, the more I will be able to write posts to help.