Social Marketing - A Good Option For Anyone Wants To Make Money Online With A Website or Blog in 2008

Social media marketing has been a hot trend in year 2007 and it will definitely continue to grow in 2008 because there are getting more and more Internet marketers, web publishers and online business owners realized the power of social marketing. The good thing about social marketing is that it is a no cost method that anyone can use it to get traffic and those who learned it well have got massive amount of traffic through social media sites like Digg.com, Squidoo, Myspace.com and many more.

We all know that making money online through a website or a blog require traffic. No traffic means no income to your website. Thus, you'll want as much traffic as possible to make the most from your website or blog. You can get a lot of instant traffic and generate sales, affiliate commission and AdSense earning by paying to pay-per-click (PPC) advertising programs. But since you have a lot of options now 2008, you may not have to rely solely on PPC advertising programs anymore.

There are many social media and "Web 2.0" sites on net that you can use them to drive a lot of consistent traffic to your sites and turn these traffic into cash-paying customers.

However social media traffic have proven to be hard to convert into sales, affiliate and AdSense commission. There have been a number of people commenting in the forums and article sites that they have got a massive amount of "useless" social traffic. So you definitely need to test. You'll want to start testing all your social marketing strategies and campaigns to see what work and what don't.

Speaking about testing social marketing strategies, Andy Jenkins and his team from Stompernet has recently released a social marketing video in their Going Natural Series and a 40-page guide that you can access free to learn how to drive traffic using social media sites.

Going Natural Vidoe Series - Social Marketing
The SMARTS Social Marketing Strategy Guide

These guys have been busy testing a bunch of social marketing techniques and can save you a lot of time and shorten your learning curve.