In order for people to find you online you have to make an effort to be found. Just because you have a web site or an email address doesn't mean people are going to rush to meet you. You have to enter the web communities that are of interest to you and are your target market. Perhaps the most basic and first one you should consider is Twitter.
Signing up on Twitter will allow you communicate in semi-real time with those whom you network with online. If you are not already tweeting (posting to your twitter profile) you're out of touch with the fastest growing form of social networking communication.
Twitter is a fast growing, leading edge form of online social networking that has a real time aspect that appeals to many. Tweets are short bursts of information from you to those who follow you. It is accessible from cell phones and via the internet, accepting 140 character messages, as you post them. In that 140 characters you can include URLs, which makes Twitter an incredibly powerful way to convey lot's of information about a topic of interest to a group of followers.
Twitter allows a person to follow the activities and share in the discoveries of friends and interesting people and organizations. Want to keep up to date with your favorite band member or policies in your corporation or your favorite tech gurus? Want to save time getting news out to friends and family members? Want to know what is coming to market soon or going on sale at your favorite stores? Twitter is the perfect tool for you.
Every time you, or anyone you follow, tweets, everyone in your network can see it. Networks of like minded people communicating worldwide in real time. Membership rose from 6 million to over 9 million between Jan and Feb of this year, and Google is in the final stages of negotiations to buy it. You can even set Twitter to post your tweets on your Facebook profile.
And speaking of Facebook, that's the next place you will want to set up a profile. Like Twitter it allows you to post things and your friends will see your posts, only on Facebook you can post pictures, videos, large blocks of text and much more, but still in a fairly rigid format.
Once you have signed up on Twitter and have set up a basic Facebook profile, complete with a photo or logo and information that will lead your followers to your main website, start doing research on what is working for others in your area of interest as far as getting their name and website in front of a lot of people.
On Twitter you will want to follow Mashable, who is currently one of the top social networking gurus. I have found his posts incredibly useful. Search who he follows and add those whose posts you find helpful. Soon others will begin to follow you. Tweet at least a couple of times a day and follow the suggestions you will find on what kind of things attract and hold followers.
Another good way to get noticed online is to sign up for a Technorati Profile.
Take advantage of the code various sites offer to cross promote yourself such as:
or by providing links to your various profiles:
I read a lot every day. when I find something really cool, something that makes me say "WOW!", I tweet about it. You can track how well you are doing in Twitter by using a cool free service called Twitter Grader Following tips I found online I managed to take my grade on Twitter Graderfrom 64 to 70 in just a few hours.
Tweet, search for people to follow, build up your Facebook profile, and expand your knowledge of web page coding, particularly HTML. The process takes time, I suggest doing a little bit every day instead of trying to do it all at once.
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