You are certainly familiar with Myspace and Facebook, but did you know
gather.com?
Not yet as popular as MySpace or Facebook, Gather.com is a social
networking site that is any Internet marketer’s dream. In its own
words Gather is a ‘place where informed, engaged people share
perspectives on everything” Consider the following about Gather.com
- At least 75% of the members have a college education
- A majority of the members fall within the 30-60 age group
- More than 80% of the site members enjoy a $50000 annual household
income
- These members enjoy spending
These well placed citizens on Gather.com would constitute quality
traffic. Can you ignore it? Of course you can’t. So as a first step
visit gather.com and register for a free account.
After signing up, you can head to ‘My Gather’ and create your
member profile. You can then post an article or comment. You can
also browse around, read other people’s articles, and share images.
You can join groups that appeal to you and also invite other
friends or associates to join.
Since your intention is to generate traffic, you must make your
profile attractive by posting quality articles that are interesting
to read. You must ensure that your headlines are catchy with
relevant tags.
When you post your articles, you can also include links, images and
lay them out to look pleasing so that you get a lot of highly
targeted visitors who click the link to your website and can
convert into customers.
Gather.com is a social networking site, and as such, you can
promote yourself. You can network with members who are in your
target market. Get your friends also to join gather.com and rate
your posts - highly.
You can ask people to recommend your posts and share it with others
by bookmarking it on del.icio.us or ‘digging it.’ If you have any
free stuff to offer, mention this at the end of your article with a
link. This can get you heavy traffic.
Commenting on other popular members’ articles particularly if they
are in your niche can get you lots of highly traffic.
Gather.com is also a great place for pay per click advertising and
paid ads. So cash in on this little known social networking site to
attract these prosperous members to your website.
Like Gather.com, there are other social networking sites that can
also be effective in getting you highly traffic. Social media
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