The Ultimate MySpace Resource

I've been utilitizing MySpace as a vehicle to find people with my site's niche for a while now, and I've had some good experiences and some bad. This lets me learn a few things, which I'm going to provide to Digital Point members, free of charge.

1. Don't be a bot.
MySpace is overflowing with the feces that is bots. The community is warming up to this, and can smell them from miles away.

2. Be social.
People like personality. People thrive on interaction. This is a social media site, not an advertisement service. Sure, use an automated poster (see below) but be sure to be social.

3. Use the search.
To drive users to your page and consequently to your site, you have to reach out. Use the search tool to find users with the same General Interests as are related your niche.

4. Be viral.
When posting, you want to do a few things:
a) be more than just a comment: you want to capture a user's attention
b) keep them coming back, if this is your blog or your page.
c) make them work for you: the viral component. Make a flash video or an image that they WANT to share, that makes it easy to share, that links back to you _casually_ but maintains its use as a device of humor or awesome...ness.

5. Be unique.
Create something that no one else has, or uses. There's a lot of stamp and repeat content on MySpace - and yes, we want to utilize that - but create NEW content that people want to share, read, or whatever.

I'll add more here as I go along.


Tools
The single most effective tool I've found for MySpace is FriendBlasterPro. I've been using it to send frie...ey if you decide to purchase FriendBlasterPro.

I'll be updating this thread as I mentioned above, as I learn and grow in my MySpace experience.

I hope everyone enjoys!

 

Aww, no input from anyone?

 

Good article, but you forgot to close the tags on your first URL.

 

Aww man, and it's not letting me edit it, now.

 

How many users do you get from your myspace site?

 

17.78% conversion rate, and that's what's up.

45 unique visits in the past week, without actually pushing the links. Not much, but like I said, just getting started. And with this kind of targeting? Oh, yes. I think I will.

 

My member id is below 70,000,000, which is what I've read to be the cutoff for some of the limits imposed upon members, and I've been sending up to 2000+ messages a day recently. My account, however, got locked yesterday, and while it allowed me to send a verification email to unblock it, it still makes me wonder what the actual limits are on message sending for low member ids, so my account doesn't get deleted next time around.

 

I'm still getting great results - my account continues to be flagged from time to time, but I can always get the unblock email almost instantaneously, as long as I see my blockage.

Has anyone else had success using these techniques?

 

This guy has a good start

 

That's impressive, since I thought that the Myspace algorithm only allows 500 messages a day.

 

myspace is easy on on old accounts. but 500 message on new accounts is a sure reciepe to get banned.
i have been marketing my sites and that of clients with good results on myspace.

 

Yeah, I peaked at about 9000 messages in one day - but within an hour I found that message in my inbox, "This account has been blocked due to suspicious activity."

I clicked a link there to send an email to verify my account, and bam, it's reactivated.

Before I reactivated my account, I saw in my sent messages folder, when I opened each of the messages, it showed the "This account has been deleted!" thing. But, as soon as I reactivated my account, the messages showed up fine.

 

My band's ID is 2287506...what does this mean?

 

I think myspace is on its last legs. The past two months have been nothing but spam and 10 friend requests per day from a bunch of losers try to get webcam site hits.

 

Yeah, I agree. Fortunately, we know this before the general community does, and we can still glean members from MySpace.

 

I have been trying to figure out MySpace for about 8 months now. Where do I post a comment-- on their blog?

Q...

 

What's the difference between "old" account and "new" account ?

 

An "old" account is one created before they went explosive - typically, user IDs below the 70,000,000 mark.