Many of us now, including me, are getting into social networking. Popular social networking sites like Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Perfspot, Tagged, Multiply, FriendFinder and other sites have lots of people who are addicted to it, by changing their profile, adding friends, photos, videos, applications or even chat with each other.

Don't you know that social networks helps us generate traffic? Why? Here are the things which you can generate traffic:

1. Profile page

2. Bulletins

3. Blogs

4. Groups

5. Private or group messaging

6. Chat rooms

7. Message boards

8. Banner or contextual advertising

9. Classified ads

10. Forums

11. Marketplace

And so much more!

Understand this, since there are millions of people who are now into social networking, you have a 15% to 35% that your profile, blog, ad, bulletin and message boards can be viewed. Groups are a lot potential than the others.

If you have millions of subscribers in your group, and every time you update your group with some topics to be discussed with your links on it, your group mates will be updated for sure, and they will check out your latest post, link and they will comment or share anything, or even suggestions.

In the marketplace like Facebook, you have a 20% to 30% chance that your item will be viewed by a fellow Facebook viewer or customer. They can make a deal with you, if only your item is really attractive. Contextual or banner advertising can be done by just paying them using your credit card information.

This is where you gain traffic on social networks, and if you keep promoting them, your potentials will increase. Don't just stick to one social network, but also you need many of them and keep adding more friends and group mates.

Here in the internet world, if we want our blog or website to become popular, then all we have to do is to boost our SEO. I understand that there are many ways to boost it up to improve your search rankings in the internet. Gradually, for those who needs basic attention to boost your SEO for your blog or website, here's your chance now.

These are some of the basic ways in order to boost up your SEO for your website or blog:

1. Adding a unique content to your blog or website. You have to brainstorm keywords which your audience might use to find your blog or website. Contents like blog posts and product descriptions should be keyword-riched. The more unique and high quality your contenis, the more visitors will be attracted to your website. Also, building backlinks is also part of the factor popularity which search engines pays attention to.

2. Placing a keyword in its respective key place. Your keywords should appear in the title pages, headings and sub-headings, too. You must use them when they're relevant, but if not, just replace them with effective ones.

3. You must create a sitemap for your own blog or website. It improves SEO rankings by displaying links to pages of your blog or website that search engine bots must not miss it out. Build a good structure of your site's pages and always maintain no more than three clicks from the homepage of your blog or website. You can create a sitemap using Google Webmasters Tools.

4. You must add your links with a strong anchor text. If you're linking to relevant sites, you must tell your readers on when you wanna send it. The anchor text should match closely with the URL of your blog or website.

5. Submit your blog or website to thousands of search engines through the use of Search Engine Marketing (SEM).

6. You must try to ask more help or advice from the experts or professionals about SEO. It really takes time but if we stick with this strategy, it will help build a strong visitor base for your blog or website and to expand your online business through sale increase.

So these are the tips which I know, and I hope you can apply it on your own. At least I've contributed here to help others in becoming a successful optimizer.

If you're truly a beginner on what search engine optimization is all about, we will say that learning from the basics is a good start. Everything we have been trained by our parents since childhood like studies, household chores and other recreational activities, it requires practice if you're a first timer.

The same thing we should apply for SEO. If we don't practice but we just jump one step ahead of the ladder without knowing it, you will be useless. Without learning from the basics, we cannot be successful in any form of work, especially through optimizing your sites.

If you're in a hurry to generate more visitors and earning money on any third party ads like Clickbank and Amazon, you shouldn't be, because you are still learning from it. Here are some values which you need in order for you to become successful someday, as pratice makes perfect:

1. Patience - this is one of the most common catchphrase if you're talking about patience which is "Patience is a virtue". Performing SEO on your site requires patience, as it may take you weeks or months for your site to generate huge traffic and page rankings as well like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Alexa, etc.

2. Focus - if you think you are serious about getting more traffic and backlinks to your site, all you have to do is focus. If some useless websites will catch you attention than to do SEO, all you have to is eliminate them and always focus on your work. If not, your time will be wasted for sure.

3. Responsibility - if you manage your own site and perform some SEO there, you have all the responsibilities there to improve your site's traffic and backlinks. If your website's performance goes down, you have the responsibility to regain control and maintain it's performance.

This is where values are meant to be applied if you want to perfect what you've started. Practice is the start of making yourself perfect, especially on optimizing your sites.