If you have been on the Internet for any length of time you can be sure that you have received numerous invitations to join various social network organizations. Unlike some people I simply can not spend time on those social sites or I would never manage to get anything accomplished that I need to do. It doesn't seem practical to sign up for everyone that sends me an invitation.
A better solution would be to at least sign up for those which you may deem to be important in regards to your niche. Immediately go to the profile page and create your personal profile. If you find that it is not to your advantage to remain in these network merely stop going there. You will eventually select several which you plan to contribute to as a result of its usefulness to you.
Using blogs for SEO
I had always considered blogs to be an internet feature that was reserved for geeks that were overly self opinionated zealots who tended to push their own political agenda. Or they were an assortment of teenage school children who complained about getting another zit while using language that bordered upon one of two extremes. The first was it put a blush on many a sailors while the second one would require the translation services of a rocket scientist to interrupt it.
I finally changed my thinking in regards to these blog entries and realized that the blog could very well be used as a tool for SEO purposes. In its most basic form it resembled spamming however it should be completed properly it can certainly get your web site spidered almost immediately.
It seems to be a very effective method to write pages into your blog which you want Google and Yahoo to locate and index. Since you previously had setup a yahoo page and you now ping it to let it know that you have new information posted yahoo will automatically spider the feed since it does so with ever feed on its pages.
Linking to your business site
When you use the social network blogs and post various messages it becomes a simple matter to link to your business site. You will first place this link in your profile which will be available for all people to view. Then any messages which you post should clearly have your website listed in your email signature.
This is simple yet effect if you do the same with each and every blog that you go to