A lot of marketers skip over Myspace because theres so many high school kids and spammers that it just makes it a waste of time. However, Myspace can be a great source of traffic ( especially depending on what your niche is) if you know how to work it. The basic thing you always want to do is pose as a hot girl (or if you already are a hot girl, post pictures of yourself ). Sex sells and your profile will get a much higher CTR if you are a hot girl as opposed to a fat guy. This is by far the most important thing from the article, in addition to looking “non spammy.” You can automate the Myspace friend adding process with a bot such as www.openadder.com, www.adderdemon.com, or www.addnewfriends.com. The way these programs work is you login with your email and password and visit other peoples pages, and it scrapes the IDs of all the profile links on that page. You can then click on another page and scrape the ID’s from that page. This can also be done with group pages ( very useful for targeting a niche ), events, friend lists, comment lists, and anything else. You can easily scrape hundreds of ID’s in just a few minutes, hit “start,” and the software will automatically add all those friends for you.

This is very important: Myspace does not want you doing this and if they see you adding too many friends ( usually more than 500 a day ) they’ll flag you as a spammer and delete your account. It’s best to create your profile and start off adding about 50 people a day for a few days, and then gradually increase, but don’t go over 400 or so. Most of these programs allow you to link multiple accounts though, so you can create ten Myspace accounts, scrape three thousand ID’s, and add three hundred to each account. Having ten accounts with three hundred friends each is essentially the same as having one account with three thousand friends. In fact, for marketing purposes, it’s actually better. If you have some time to blow, you can also try out friend adding sites such as www.friendstorm.net, www.friendfrost.com, and www.tonsofadds.com. These sites work similarly to the Stumble and Digg exchange sites Ive already mentioned, but you’re doing it with Myspace friends. You get points for each person you add, and the more people you add, the higher you show up in the “adding queue.” Since most people don’t sit there and add every single person in the queue, being higher up in it gives you a much better chance of getting added by a lot more people. Here’s a little trick: you don’t actually have to add the people, you can just click the add button for everyone and it will give you the points anyway. If you want to spend some money, you could automate this process by buying “featured” and “VIP” memberships which basically just move you up to the front of the queue, although I recommend testing your profiles with the free versions first to figure out your CTR and see if paying the fee would be profitable.