The day I started this blog I had no idea how I will manage to get traffic and readers until a friend of mine suggested that I should target Orkut as my main traffic source. Orkut, as most of you know, is the world’s second biggest social network after MySpace with users mainly from Brazil, USA, India, Pakistan and Iran etc.

How To Get Exposure on Orkut?

If you have a popular profile at Orkut thats all you need to publicize your blog. I personally believe that Orkut can act as your biggest traffic source in case you have a new blog but the question is “How”. For that matter I have come up with 5 easy tips for you that can help you get traffic from Orkut easy and fast.

1. Publicize Your Blog Feed

Take use of the new Orkut RSS feature and publicize your blog to thousands of people across the Orkut community. The new feature is great in the sense that it will let you add your blog feed which will then be openly viewable by all the people who visit your Orkut Profile. Moreover if they like the Feed Content they will surely subscribe to your RSS or even become your regular blog reader.

Displaying your blog feed on your own Profile is not the only solution you have. If you have a loyal army of friends you can ask them to add your blog feed to their Orkut Profiles which will help you to expose your blog more and more. For example if I have 50 friends who are displaying my blog feed and all of them have 200+ friends on average on Orkut then your blog is getting exposure to approximately 10 thousand people alone on Orkut. Thats a big wow now.

2. Be The Mystery Guy

If you want some fame then play the mystery game. New people who visit your Orkut Profile are always in some curiosity to know more about you. If you are a popular guy on Orkut but your tone of communicating and your profile is mysterious then people will definitely be interested in searching you out. The “about me” you see above is from my profile. It puts the people in deep thinking as to what Sizlopedia really is? and this curiosity of them leads them to my Blog. Remember to have the web page as your Blog URL too so that this can generate more desperation in the minds of the people who read your profile.

3. Expose Your Brand

When you become a Blogger you are known on the Internet through your Blog name rather than your real name. You Blog name becomes your true brand and the best way to publicize your blog is to expose your brand. You will see that at Orkut people keep weird and odd Profile names just to seek visitor attention. They actually brand themselves with new aliases and being a blogger your Blog name is your real alias. Change your profile name to the name of your Blog. This will not only help you in seeking visitor attention at Orkut but will also give your Blog some exposure.

4. Brand Your Profile Picture

Orkut lets you keep a picture of your choice as your display picture. The display picture is actually a representation of your profile and is displayed in scrapbooks, friend lists, communities, searches and almost everywhere. You can say that your Profile Picture is more like a pictorial representation of your what you like.

Use this Orkut feature and keep your Blog brand logo as your Profile picture. One example of this can be seen above where I have kept my branded Sizlopedia Blog logo as my logo. This attracts visitors and entices them to follow to your Blog through your Orkut profile.

5. Create Your Personal Signature

Scraps are the biggest means of communication on Orkut. Scraps are like text messages that are used to communicate with your friends or anyone you know on Orkut. Scrapbook is a place where all you recent scraps are displayed and can be viewed and read by anyone. Here I have a tip for you to take this of the Orkut Scrap feature to publicize your blog.

Unfortunately Orkut does not give you the ability to create a “Personal Scrap Signature” by default but who says you cannot create one yourself? all you need to do is use the Orkut scrap formatting tags. In the picture above you can see my personal signature that I use along with my every scrap.

This signature gives my blog an over publicity to over thousands of other people on Orkut. Here your signature is the gem which can attract visitors to your blog. You can also use signature in other portions of Orkut such as on community posts or even on your profile.

You can get the Orkut Signature script from OrkutPlus. Thanks to avinash for the Tip.

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