Spend time contributing to others

Posted on Wed Jun 08
Tagged: General

The title says it all really. Surviving on the internet these days is as much about socialising as the standard networkng practices of any business. The age old saying of "it's not what you know but who you know" still has a presents in todays online companies and successfull websites.

Think of social networking sites as your lunches, dinner drinks, industry events and networking events. Using them correctly just for a short time each day and increase your sites traffic. I get tired of people saying or but we need to be position 1 for Google on all of our keywords. That's all well and good but at the end of the day traffic is what you want.

Look at Able Net Design for example. I recently changed my strategy from worrying about position 1 to making my presence on the internet. I am launching a few applications all with the Able Net Design logo on them, I am actively talking on plurk, twitter, facebook etc... For the first time in my 7 year history of being a web designer I had to extend my Bandwidth for the site. This monring when I logged on I had exceeded my bandwidth. Let me tell you that is a lot of traffic. I can also say that with this increase in traffic I have also seen a large increase in new work coming my way.

To further capitalise on this I am changing one of my sites moozel.com into a more generalised lifestyle blog, and I will be moving all of the current posts over to this blog. Which will become not just my outlet for work related posts but also some fantastic tips for those wanting to monetise their blogs and websites.

You could look at it as though I am creating my own mini Able Net Design Network with a variety of different sites. I like to have different sites my point is though that I have been forced to do this simply because of my new marketing strategy. This doesn't mean that you need to. I have a few clients that are on the same strategy as mine and I can safely say that their traffic in increasing steadily. More pages are being index via search engines, so at this stage it is win win.

I keep saying this the internet is about Trust. Get yourself out their and you start to be trusted by others.