Experiments in social networking

I’ve had a go at creating some profiles on a few social networking sites. I put a profile on Yahoo! 360° and on MySpace.

Both profiles have been quite successful, currently I’ve converted a lot more from Yahoo! than from MySpace which may seem surprising but although MySpace is a much bigger community it seems to be easier to find the right people on Yahoo. My sign-up conversion rate from the Yahoo profile is currently hovering around 18%.

With both sites it’s really important to understand that simply creating a profile is pretty pointless, you really need to get involved in the communities by joining groups and inviting lots of appropriate people to become friends. As well as recruiting lots of new members I think it may have been good for link building, it’s certainly set my Google Alerts off several since times since I started.

Technically I much prefer Yahoo! 360° to MySpace, one of the nice features is the ability to add RSS feeds to your profile, so I’ve added a feed of new swingers to the profile which is working pretty well.

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