Social Networking is the number one Internet Marketing technique around in my opinion. This is because it is 100% FREE and if used correctly can drive large amounts of traffic to your site and build your list effectively!

There are many social networking sites out there but there are 2 that stand out from the crowd, they are Twitter and Facebook. Around 15 million people are on Twitter and 65 million people are on Facebook.

This means whatever you are promoting you are guaranteed there will be a considerable number of people that will be interested in your product.

Even though there are millions of people on these social networking sites, there are top tips on how to find targeted traffic, this will prevent you from social networking with people that will not be interested in your product. Here’s the top tips on how to do this: 1. Have your account/profile reflect your business/product and let a person know who you are straight away!

2. Have a bio about yourself and tie it in with what particular niche you are involved with, if you’re an Internet Marketer tell the viewer how you first got involved with Internet Marketing.

3. Make your profile personal; add pictures of yourself and maybe some of your family and pets. This automatically lets any potential visitors know you are not a spammer; instead you are a real person with a real opportunity!

4. Include several links to your sites on your profile; do this on Facebook and Twitter by putting the links in your “about me” section and post them whenever you can. All major social networking sites allow you to update your status; every time you do leave a link to your site.

5. Send an email to any new followers or friends; draft up a generic email where you introduce yourself and give a brief description as to how you can help them, also ask to hear more about that person. This will lead to you building up relationships with your followers, this is important because people buy from those they like and trust, make sure you include their first name in the email.

6. Frequently update your status with helpful information, for example I’m an internet marketer so I continually give people access to helpful information on internet marketing techniques; it might be a free report by myself or a link to a helpful website. By helping others you will become a leader and people looking to get into internet marketing will want to join into a leaders business as they can show them the way to success.

7. Make sure you add targeted people to your social networking site. To do this look for keywords that appear on other people’s profiles. For example if you’re promoting cat food search for the word “cat” this will bring up people that have “cat” on their profile. This means that the likely case is they own a cat so will be interested in buying a cat food product.

Key point – limit the number of people you add on Facebook to 20 a day and the number of people you add on Twitter to 200 a day.

With social networking the key point is to keep it up; you have to continually add more people to your social networking sites if you are to drive large numbers of traffic to your sites.

This article came from the laptop of Jonathan Pitts. Jonathan is one of the highest rated Internet Marketing Mentors and has improved the lives of many people through giving them training on how to become a successful Online Marketer. Jonathan always likes to give valuable information and rid the Hype from this industry so has created a Truth Report detailing the FACTS on Making Money with Internet Marketing.