Promoting via Myspace

How many of you webmasters out there have actually used Myspace as a promotion tool?


If you did - did myspace bring in much traffic for you?

 

I'm getting over 100 hits/day from MySpace and not even trying. I have no clue why?

 

I was thinking about this... some major gorup owner offered me a huge banner spot on his group but Im wondering if its worth it.... he wants quite a bit of money though, more than my 4 year old site earns monthly haha.

 

If I get 100 hits/day by making one blog entry over there, I won't doubt that it could actually be worth it.

 

Perhaps you should check your keywords? Or maybe a user of yours is advertising on Myspace, no idea.

 

We receive 35,000-40,000 unique visitors a day from MySpace.

We also serve over 200,000,000 "Bling" files to MySpace pages each month, all linking back to BlingJam.net

Marketing through social networks can be very sucessful. I'm not sure how productive advertising on one particular group would be unless that group had a ton of members and a lot of page views.

 

I signed up for MySpace about 6 months ago. I got so much spam mail from other members trying to sell me something that I deleted my account within a week.

Jim

 

It's a tough market. The porn people are invading the space with fake profiles and pointing people to porn sites. There is also a lot of minors who lie about their age, I mean younger than 14 and if you "whore" other members to get a big list of friends, you end up with little girls and little kids who are minors in your list or you have to manually delete the ones you suspect are under 18. All it takes is one parent mad at a message you send to your "list of friends" and a major law suit could happen, they are MINORS at 14. I think myspace should raise the age group to 18 but that won't happen. These 14-17 year olds also don't buy anything. They're into bands, gothic stuff, emos, homos, all sorts of weird stuff. One look at the profiles and you go "WTF"?
If you have lots of time in your hands, myspace is the place to be but if you want to make money, stick with more guaranteed income stuff. Besides you cannot place any ads inside myspace to their members or collect email addresses for your list, etc. It's a hang out for 14-29 year olds. You rarely see anyone married over 30 in there. It's the perfect place to hang out if you scratch your navel all day. It gets old very quickly.

 

yea if you want you can get a myspace "spammer" i guess you could call it and send unified messages to thousands of people a day it works amazing!

 

As mentioned above, MySpace is a place with a lot of young people with little disposable income. The key to this group is that there are a lot of first time buyers. If your in the internet business for the long haul, these are the exact people you want to cultivate as customers. The sales may not me immediate or enormous but vision is the key to success in any business.

I suggest making yourself known to this up and coming market ASAP.

 

I have a major project I hope to launch next month that will get the same results as you bunnybling.

It will basically depend on social sites for the bulk of it's traffic but bloggers and pretty much any site owner will find use for it too.

I may be interested in advertising on your site.

I'll PM you

 

Heh, are you talking about the auto friend adder bot or something?
You can also use whore trains to help get more friends.

 

If your seeing lots of "hits" from myspace they are probably just kids hotlinking your images.

I've been playing with MySpace traffic for a while. Its definately not as easy as I thought it would be. Its looking something like for every 1GB of bandwidth I send there I get one or two uniques visiting my site.

 

I like experimenting with new techniques, so I tried the myspace thing. It's been a pretty much waste of time for me. I bought a banner on some guy's profile that has thousands of friends, and after 3 weeks I have had exactly 7 visits. Not a great ROI.

 

i bought a myspace account yesterday with 10k friends from a friend of mine. i guess he phishes the accounts or cracks them, whatever. anyhow, so far the account has sent me 268 uniques today, not bad.

 

Well I set up and account - add me to your friends list...

http://www.myspace.com/honeheke

 

I've added you, good luck.

 

Thanks cpvr is their way to get huge amounts of friends for virtually no effort which won't get you banned?

 

lol nice profile you got there haha

 

Thanks for adding me to your profile bunny bling! How did you get so many friends?