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Can MySpace really be used as a source of traffic to your existing websites, or as the main site to promote your business to thousands of eager buyers?

I found out from MySpace Marketing expert and author of “MySpace Cash Machine” Matthew Sherbone that it’s not only possible; it’s also a duplicable and low-cost marketing system.

MySpace.com is currently the 4th most popular website on the Internet, right after giants like Yahoo, Msn and Google. They have over 100,000,000 registered users - yes that’s ONE HUNDRED MILLION.

Common marketing wisdom tells us that anywehre there’s that much people, there’s an incredible amount of money to be made. But how do you make all that money?

After reading all kind of crappy information on the Internet about marketing on MySpace, I finally landed a great catch. I found Matthew Sherbone, the guy everyone goes to for tips and tricks on selling and promoting on MySpace.

I trapped him in a corner and forced him to tell me everything about marketing on Myspace, for free. In the end, although there was indefinately too much information to cover, we did get a 27-minute call packed with all the good stuff..

In the call you’ll discover why Matthew choose to market his business on MySpace, and exactly how he goes about doing it. We cover quite a lot of great stuff that you can take away for free.

We discuss several key secrets to successful MySpace marketing campaigns:

• Targeted profiles
• Keyword targeting
• Profile linking
• Using pictures
• Using opt-in forms

We also discuss the common the common mistakes newbies make when marketing on MySpace:

• How many friends to add?
• What type of businesses you should not promote?
• One profile or many profiles?

Just enter your name and email address into the form below to get access to the secret interview:

Redirect Your MySpace Traffic With Flash
By Brian Vuyk

Well, we all know that MySpace pages have the potential to drive a ton of traffic.

Sure, it takes some work to build an extensive network, but eventually many people have gotten their MySpace pages to the point where they might have 1000+ uniques per day running through these pages.

Many slightly devious minds have realized the selling potential of these pages, and place affiliate programs on their MySpace pages, hawking everything from ringtones to jewelry to pr0n and other less ethical products. Now, if you are using MySpace for affiliate marketing, I am sure that you must be somewhat frustrated with the limited freedom you have in creating Myspace pages. In short, they suck.

So, wouldn’t it be nice if you could redirect all of your MySpace visitors to a landing page or website of your choice? Well, this isn’t nearly difficult as you might think. Let’s set up a Flash redirect. To pull this off, you will need a Linux box, and a text editor, and a server of your own somewhere.

First things first, you must install the Ming package. Ming is a library for generating Macromedia Flash files (.swf). This can be done in any Debian based Linux distribution by opening the command prompt and running:

apt-get install libming-util

Now, in your favorite text editor, create a file with the following text:

getURL(”http://www.example.com”);

Substitute the URL for the site you want to redirect to in place of ‘www.example.com’ above. Save this file as redirect.as. Now run the command:

makeswf redirect.as

This will produce a file called out.swf. Upload this file to a webserver where you can now fetch it from an external page.

The final step is to include the new flash file in your MySpace page. Include the following code somewhere on your MySpace page:

embed allowScriptAccess=”always” allowNetworking=”internal” enableJavaScript=”false” xsrc=”http://www.example.com/path/to/out.swf” mce_src=”http://www.example.com/path/to/out.swf” quality=high pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”200″ height=”200″>/embed>

Make sure to change the src tag in the code above to point to the location of your out.swf. And fix the embed tags - I had to break them so they would display. This will enable you to redirect your visitors to the page you specified when creadting your redirect.as. Good Luck!

P.S this may not work for much longer. MySpace is upgrading to Flash 9. This code may or may not work. The issue is that MySpace is now forcing allowScriptAccess=”never” on all embeds, which stops the browser from redirecting. If anyone knows how to avoid this, please comment!

Did you like this article? Keep up with Brian’s expert search optimization tips and tricks at http://www.caydel.com

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The Power of Myspace
By Jeff Lawrence

Traditional ways of generating traffic to a website have revolved around PPC advertising, search engine optimization, reciprocal linking, content generation, and a wide variety of other means. As the internet continues to evolve another form has made waves in the online world: Myspace. Myspace is categorized as a “social networking site.” What that means it is it is a gathering center for almost everyone. People find old high school friends, arrange for potential dates, communicate with friends, and most importantly to those in the SEO and web analytics fields they use myspace to promote a product or service. Although advertising businesses is technically against myspace’s terms and conditions (they would rather you pay to advertise) hundreds of thousands of businesses and bands reside on myspace. With reports of 100 million users of myspace the potential for promotion is incredible. Myspace, for the first time ever directed more traffic to online retailers last month than yahoo did according to hitwise. That was just from paid advertising, not from individual users of the site.

As an example of the power of myspace we had a staffer create a myspace profile with her name, a few pictures, and a description of the company she works for, us. She added her friends, and then added some friends of her friends. Within four days she had over 650 friends that generated hundreds of hits onto our main website. At the time of this article she was upto 3000 friends in two weeks of Myspace membership. Other myspace members had tens of thousands of friends, and used the myspace bulletin feature to send traffic to events that they were planning, or invitations for their “friends” to visit their website for a new promotion. In addition to this your website link is indexed by Google, further enhancing your position for link building as well. The potential unique visitors that myspace can generate is increasing important on today’s rapidly changing internet. If you have any further questions that we haven’t clearly addressed, or just need some advise feel free to email us at info@sonicko.com or visit us at http://www.sonicko.com

Jeff Lawrence is the owner of Sonicko Consultanting. This article may be reused provided that the full content is published. Sonicko focuses on web analytics and search engine optimization and is based out of Los Angeles, CA. You can reach them at their website at http://www.sonicko.com

A Myspace Sidebar - It’s Simple Using DIV
By J Andrew Morrison

How would you like to have a column on the left side of your Myspace profile in which you could place anything you like? Even better, what if this column was never covered when some one’s browser window is smaller than the Myspace layout “grid”? Well the solution is much simpler than you might think, and I am going to give it to you right now. I’m not going in depth into the workings of CSS or the Myspace structure. There are a lot of great CSS tutorial sites out there to learn the deeper and more complex aspects of modifying your Myspace layout and Myspace background. Just type Myspace tutorials into Google. Here, I am just going to give you the code and brief explanations of what it does.

First, just to make sure you understand what I am speaking of, visit my Myspace layout at profile sbccjohn (I would recommend opening a new tab/window for reference). Notice the grey box in the upper left corner (I left it plain so it would stand out). Now make your browser window smaller using the resize corner and notice how the banner ad and table stops when it gets near the box. I’ll show you why and how it does this.

Let’s dive right into this Myspace layout modification by looking at the code.

Here is the code that actually builds the box seen in the sidebar. Place this CSS code wherever you put your own modification code. I prefer the top of the “About Me” edit box:

You can put whatever your want here. Even aligned images:

< img xsrc=" url of desired image" />

There is only one line of code needed to keep the sidebar from being covered by the rest of the Myspace layout, it’s in bold below. If you already have CSS modifications using the ‘body’ tag you just need to add the line to the current code. Otherwise you can add the entire style block below the div code listed above; just be careful not to place it inside another style block. Here is the code:

body {
margin-left:155px;
}

That is all you need to build the sidebar for your Myspace layout.

The first block of code tells the browser to create a block of space, 15 pixels from the top and 7 pixels from the left, 150 pixels wide and 400 pixels high, with a 1 pixel border that is black and solid, and to not put any space between the edge and inside content (padding) or around the outside (margin), and make the background color grey.

The second block of code tells the browser to keep the entire Myspace layout at least 155 pixels from the left. It’s important to note the relationship between the margin-left in this block of code and the width in the previous code. You need to keep margin-left larger than width or the Myspace layout might cover your sidebar in smaller browser windows.

Now you can explore with different combinations of colors, widths, heights, borders and position. For example you can have the sidebar start lower by changing top to 100px. You can even add a background image using the same methods you add a Myspace background image. Enjoy the new layout!

J Andrew Morrison is a writer, inventor, and online merchandiser of products and services. You can visit his Myspace Tutorial site at Myspace-Modifier.com. He also has a daily Internet marketing journal and resource center at Getting-Clicks.com.