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It has not really helped me, but I am lazy when it comes to facebook. I shouldn't say lazy I just hear all of my friends and family complain about the links and cool findings that I post on my wall so I really don't use Facebook for business purposes. …

Thanks InsightsDigital! I love to get personal with my followers but when you 100-200 new followers in a day, you cannot make enough time to write individual thank-you emails.

I'd have to disagree with loftiplamar, social media has brought my sites the most traffic. As long as you keep up with comments and 'tweets' you'll have thousands of followers in no time. You don't necessarily have to post newsworthy comments or tweets to keep people entertained just post anything, …

I agree with mrpals except don't use free classifieds! In my experience submitting your site to classifieds are a waste of time because most of the classifieds sites only keep your site listed for a certain period of time. So you would either lose all of those backlinks or you …

It is also wise to measure the PR of the site as well as the PR of the page where your link is listed. The higher the better.

Sitemaps are very important, especially to new websites. They help search engines index all of your websites pages.

Very cool! It's funny how free drinks can persuade anyone!

What CanadaFred said. You shouldn't hide any of your links, just make an image into a link with an appropriate ALT tag-which is good for SEO as well as your users' sanity.

I use social networks for a number of reasons... 1. To stay connected with friends and family. 2. Make new friends and business connections. 3. Get inspired for new ideas...for blogs, adding new features to my sites, etc. Basically to see what's becoming popular and trendy.

Microblogging has helped my company tremendously...it has encouraged my followers o visit my new features ans is a great way of easy and quick communication with fans.