LinkedIn Can Be One of your Greatest Traffic Sources

LinkedIn is often mentioned as a powerful social networking tool and a significant tool for enterprise professionals, employers, and job seekers. What isn’t often mentioned is the site’s capability to easily drive traffic to your site.

LinkedIn can be a powerful source for driving visitors to your blog and therefore should be part of your strategy in building out your “Social Networking Spider Web”.

In some respects, LinkedIn visitors might even be more precious than visitors from other social networks and sites. That is simply because of the generally professional nature of LinkedIn itself.

If you contemplate that LinkedIn could possibly be one of your biggest traffic sources you should you put enough effort into cultivating it as such.

Once you register, put together a complete profile following the steps listed below (you can come back and do some of them as your time permits.)

1. Complete your profile
2. Improve and grow your personal connections
3. Add and Customize your web site links
4. Answer questions
5. Update your status on a regular basis
6. Join area of interest groups
7. Put up feedback in groups
8. Add RSS feeds to groups
9. Create a group
10. Add the LinkedIn weblog software to your profile
11. Put your LinkedIn profile badge and links on your other Social Network sites, e.g. your Google Profile

LinkedIn is also now offering integration with Microsoft Outlook.  So if you use Outlook I suggest taking a look at getting that set up as it will make doing things on LinkedIn easier in some areas.

The thing I like most about LinkedIn, are the groups. Go to the top where it says Groups and click there…go to “find a group” at the top right and do a key word search for groups that interest you. Hint – set up daily updates so you don’t get overwhelmed with email messages.

With Linked In, you’ll be able to promote merchandise, find new customers, build your brand and yourself and continue to build your Social Networking Spider Web.

Why join the world’s largest professional network? Get a sense of the power of LinkedIn from these members who use the site with success.

Dallas Sales and Business Development Group April 27 2010 Thomas Jackson, Founder of Sale Fish Marketing “Tom’s Tips – Rules of the Road” for using Social Media In this ten (10) part series Thomas Jackson will provide valuable information and insight regarding techniques to create a targeted customer / employer database, and how to use Social media and Networking to launch that new career or business. Thomas will demonstrate how to use Reference USA to develop a focused list of targeted accounts or companies. How to use Social Media platforms such as: LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogs and Facebook to increase your ranking and optimize you search results. You will gain strategic insights regarding how Social Media can be used in a Social Marketing strategy to promote your business and your individual brand. These are critical key skills for those in transition or starting a company or small business. Thanks to Dennis O’Hagan the moderator of the Dallas Sales and Business Development Group for all his great work and community service.

Social networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook are a great way to build both friendships and business. But they may also rob you of your rights.

Social networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook are a great way to build both friendships and business. But they may also rob you of your rights.

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Lisa Buyer, The Buyer Group, interviews Neil Johnson, High Road Communications, about the use of social media in a PR campaign. Neil discusses one such example, Canada’s mobile company, Telus, and their business solutions group, uses their editorial calendar through social to create more content and links around their news. Neil goes on to give some tips about how to create an editorial calendar that integrates social media tools. All marketing and communications disciplines have a role to play using social media, in particular when it comes to relationship building. For more information on speaking at SES, please visit: www.searchenginestrategies.com

Social networking sites act as a conduit to connect like-minded people and they are therefore still attracting members because it fuels the human need to feel part of a community. Social media networks are here to stay – though thinking they will stay as they are indefinitely is unrealistic and impractical. They will of course evolve. Social network sites are web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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We are looking to increase our presence and strategy in the social networking world, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. I am trying to do some research as to how other companies use this. I’m interested in hearing how the daycare down the street uses these sites as well as how large companies with unlimited resources use these programs as a way to find the 2 ends of this new market. Any advice?