March 28th, 2007 Randy Posted in SEO |
- Its free publicity to the 162,404,809 and growing members that are on MySpace
- MySpace profiles are indexed by search engines and show up in almost every result of Google and Yahoo searches.
- There are bulletins and event features that you can use to notify your friends of specials. (Example: if a Anchor Blue and and you’re having a back to school special, you can notify everyone on your friends list with just one notice.)
- Offer incentives to your friends if they post a Banner with a Link to your Website on their MySpace profile. (Once a month pick a winner and give them a prize)
- You are able to target your demographic very easily using the Advanced Browse feature. With options from age range, sex, height and weight specific, has children or not and more. Even the location can be set to span out from a giving zip code in 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 250 mile increments.
- MySpace sells advertising mainly through banner impressions, not clicks. The costs vary, but it’s in the area of $5 per 1,000 impressions. the minimum buy for an advertising campaign is $5,000 to $10,000,” according to Luke J. Bodley from www.MarketingProfs.com
- When you buy banner ad space on MySpace, you can target your banners so they show up only to the exact demographic you want. This includes all those specific demographics like religion, body type, sexual orientation and so on.
- If you are advertising your local business on MySpace, make sure you include your city name on the banner. Your returns will be a lot higher, because people don’t expect to see their own city name on an international Web site, and they will click just out of curiosity.
