How to Get Massive Myspace Traffic - Part 2

(This article has been transcribed from a video on how to get MySpace traffic - you can follow along and use it to get traffic for your website).

And here you get the sign-up page. You put in the usual details, your email address, first name, etc, select your country.

Now I have heard people recommend that if you’re being slightly underhand - and I leave this open to your decision, I’m not recommending this nor am I discouraging it, I’m just letting you know that this is a tactic that people are using. You can actually put in a post code that’s different from your own, a post code that’s maybe highly dense or a densely populated area.

What that will do is if there are a lot of people in the postal code area that you put in, communities start to build online. So people may search online for ‘dog grooming New York’ or dog grooming in a certain area or certain city or whatever, or they may look to try and make friends on My Space with people in their area.

Now if you put in a postal code that’s in the middle of nowhere, you’re restricting yourself a little bit for being open to that sort of traffic. It goes slightly against what I’ve said about being genuine and I’m not recommending you do this. I’m just making you aware that this is a possibility and some people do that. They put a densely populated area in the postal code to try and tap into a larger community on My Space.

Remember, as I say, there’s well over 100 million people using this now, so you can widen the net. You don’t just need to look at your post code, but if you pick a post code that’s a highly dense area then it can actually have benefits in the longer term.

The other thing when you’re actually getting your account set up, once you’ve actually gone through this, is you can set up custom pages. You really need to make your account unique. So let me just go through this now. I’ll just pause this video briefly. I’ll go through and I’ll get this set up and I’ll see you on the other side and we’ll see what a standard account looks like, and then we’ll start looking to how we actually customize it.

Ok, I’ve put in the basic details on the submission form and it’s now asking me for a photo. You can add a photo immediately or you can skip it, as it says here. If you have a photo that you want to use, whether it’s a photo of yourself or a photo that you’ve taken of an image or whatever, you can go and browse for it here and then upload it.

Another tactic that I’ve heard about - I’m not recommending you do this, I’m just telling you that I’ve heard about it - is that depending on your marketplace you might want to consider what type of photo you actually use there. I’m going to leave that to your imagination. I’m not recommending anything. I’m just saying if you’re appealing to certain target audience and certain market, you might want to consider about the type of image that you’re going to use there.

Now I’m not saying you use anything visually offensive or anything like that. I’m just saying maybe have something related to your product, related to your market, or related to the type of people that you’re looking to approach. That’s all I’m saying. We’ll leave it at that. Consult your attorney or whatever!

So you can upload a photo there. What we’re going to do just now is just skip it for now. So we’ll just skip this. You can add that later on, let’s just click there.

Ok, so that’s basically it. There’s a couple things that I did to get to here that I did when the video was paused. The first is I skipped past the section where it says, "Do you wish to send messages to your friends to tell them that you’re a member of My Space and get them signed up as well?"

That’s their attempt to do viral marketing. I chose to skip that particular part. I then went back to my in-box and clicked on the confirmation message. To make sure that you’re actually using the right email address they’ll send you an email. You need to click on that and then you’re activated.

So this is in our profile on My Space. Now when you first go in here there’s quite a lot going on, so let me just take you through this pretty quickly.

The first thing you’ve got is a lot of ads. I mean that’s the first thing I’m going to say. There’s quite a lot of things zipping around the screen, so it can be pretty distracting.

You’ve got the main navigation bar here. We’ll look at these in later videos, some of these. We’ll go through and show you what you can do with each of these different things and why some of these are important and how you can use this to get traffic.

This is really an overview, this part, an overview to how you’re actually performing at the moment.

This is your network. When it says your network, that is how many people are using My Space? 160 million. This is how many people viewed your profile. Zero obviously in my case, as I’ve just created it.

You’ve got other things down here.

What I’ve found is I kind of think of it like a dashboard on a car. There’s maybe 5% of the stuff you’ll use all the time. Some of the stuff you’ll never touch, and some of the stuff you’ll maybe use very very infrequently.

Ok, so that’s your kind of profile. As you see you’ve got more ads down here, and then at the bottom it says you’ve got one friend. You’ve got this guy, Tom. He’s everyone’s friend when they first join My Space.

When you actually start getting friends, and I’ll go into this in later videos, they’ll start appearing here and this is what you want to do. You want to start building friends. They’ll link to you, they’ll send traffic to you, you’ll send traffic to them, and so on.

Let’s go down the left-hand side. You’ll see here you can edit your profile, you’ve got account settings, you can add any photos, manage your blog, etc. This is your URL, so you can actually give your URL away. This will send people to you’re My Space page.

This is your mail where you get messages. You’ve got an inbox and you do friend requests. We’ll get into all this later. Don’t worry too much. I’m just trying to give you an overview on this page.

Then you actually set up your school, go back and find your old school, link to them, and it’s a great way to start getting friends.

In this screen I’m showing you here, this is your profile page. This is kind of like your control panel behind the scenes, where you can go in and edit stuff and change things, add photos, edit your profile.

Let’s just go now and have a look at this URL. I’ll go and show you what this looks like, what my My Space page looks like to the public at the moment. Let’s just go and click on that.

You can see this is my page at the moment. I haven’t done anything to it. If somebody was to visit my page just now this is all they would see. There’s no photo. They get a little bit of description about me.

Now I should point out right now that I do not live in Melville, New York. I have created a dummy account and I will be deleting this account after I create these videos. You can try and find it but it won’t exist. The reason for me doing that is I don’t want to go off and create a dummy account on My Space.

If you search you will find my real account and I’m not advising that you go off and set up multiple accounts, which is why I’ll delete this test account once I’ve finished this.

But just for testing purposes I’ve gone in and done this. You can see at the moment, because I’ve not changed anything on the My Space account, there’s nothing really for people to see. I haven’t written anything about me, who I’d like to meet, there’s no pictures of videos. I haven’t put a photo up. I haven’t done anything here. That’s the default. All this stuff is default. I haven’t put any of this information in.

So we need to go and do that. We need to start customizing our My Space account, and that’s what I’m going to show you on the next video.