I don't know why, but MySpace, to me, seems like a great form of free advertising, and not many people have tapped into yet.

Simply create a new myspace account, and change the layout to reflect your site, and even throw some banners up on it. Make a pic with your site's url in it and upload as your profile pic.

Once you have your myspace layout setup, then go ahead and do some searches in the myspace groups in relation to your website's content. Join those groups, and maybe make a post informing everyone in that group of your website. Or, merely by contributing to their group, members will see your profile pic with your website's url or site name in it.

Also, there now seem to be blog groups you can join in on too. So make put your site's updates in a blog to inform people that your site has changes to them.

Finally, maybe get some of the myspace profiles of your current members and simply write something in their myspace. A lot of people people browse profiles, and will eventually come across yours.

My Myspace for my forum has been up for only about 2 weeks, I've only requested to be friends with 2 people, and I have 64 "friends" that I have added, that have come across the myspace profile. Also, the total profile views are: 1343.

Attached is an example layout I'm using on myspace (url and sitename removed)

Ya'll can feel free to edit this or rewrite it, I just wanted to throw the idea out. :p

It def. doesn't hurt any. LeeD bought a myspace account one time with alot of friends on it and we sent out a bulletin to another site we owned and really didn't see alot of traffic generate from it.

But I've never tried it as purely an advertising banner.

Well since I have usercash redirects on some of the links on my myspace, I can give you the following stats:

Clicks coming from MySpace in the past 24 hours:
19 x blog.myspace.com (79%)
1 x forum.myspace.com (100%)
6 x profile.myspace.com (40%)


Redirects from the past month from MySpace:
123


#'s can mean anything, but I've had a few new members actually state stuff like "Hey I saw your profile in XYZ group, clicked it to take a look, and got to your forum from it."

Thanks for those numbers, very impressive.

Very nice idea. Havent thought of that yet