7 Social Marketing Actions - Making the Most of Social Media for Your SEO

There are a lot of social media sites that you can use to help you increase SEO and lure potential buyers to your website. This can help you make money from contextual advertising, affiliate marketing, and selling your own information and physical online products. Joining plenty of social media sites, creating online profiles, and bookmarking articles, blogs, and videos can help you in a big way. Here are some specific ideas that you can implement to help you make the most of these free SEO and social marketing tools. Spending a bit of time every week on social bookmarking can pay off for you in a big way!

1. Create profiles on at least a dozen social media sites. Fill in the profiles sections with keyword dense information and include your URL and your photo so that people will feel like they connect with you.
2. Participate on each site at least a little. Rotate each week if necessary. By interacting with others, commenting on others' bookmarks, and being a helpful community member, you can get some action happening on your profile and this can help you see which sites are bringing about results.
3. Bookmark some blog entries to bring traffic to them. For every blog entry you write, try bookmarking on 2 to 5 sites.
4. Bookmark some YouTube videos. Video marketing can be very powerful and if you've got a great video you can get more traffic to it by social bookmarking.
5. Link to your articles in life streaming and micro-blogging tools
6. If popular social marketing sites you're using have widgets, add these widgets to your blog sidebar to increase exposure
7. -Add a social marketing button (such as AddThis) to your blog entries so others can bookmark for you when they see a great article.
   

After you've been playing with social networking and bookmarking tools for a few weeks check out your website statistics so you can see which ones are bringing you the most traffic. That can help you see which sites you should focus more time on! Because these sites can bring you search engine traffic as well as human traffic PLUS are a great way to build your online brand recognition, it's very worthwhile to use them regularly.