Getting Real Friends in MySpace
September 15th, 2006 by Michael Gray in Grayhat SEO, Social NetworksIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
One of the problem with MySpace is getting “real” friends. If you go through any of the really popular people you’ll end up with a lot of shills, but there are ways around that.
For exammple lets take a look at one of the “friendliest” people on MySpace Christina Dolce. If you look at her friend list chances are you’ll see a lot of the popular myspace crowd, many of whom I doubt are even real people. Now there is some value in getting on the friend list of shills, the friend list gets scraped and you’ll get spread around quite a bit, but you’ll never make a sale (or anything else of value) marketing to a sock puppet. So what you really want to know is where are the real people at?
Let’s say you’re an emo goth dude who’s got a thing for Danny Elfman and Tim Burton. In fact the news of the upcoming re release of the Nightmare before Christmas in Disney Digital 3-D has you so brought you out of your normally depressed state and you went and bought a domain, and set up a forum for fellow NMBC fans, and now you want to spread the word. So where do you find them? Up in that top nav bar you’ll see a listing for Groups. In the fan club section you’ll find the NMBC fan group with 36,000 members with a much higher potential of being real. Now of course standard rules for setting up a dialogue are at work, so don’t be a dingnut and spam the whole group right away asking them to link to your site, use a little finesse … (what you think I’m going to hand you the whole thing on a silver platter?)
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September 15th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Did something similar to promote my wife’s podcast - ended up with great results. I used a bot to grab the ID numbers of 50K members of topically-related groups on MySpace and then sent out email friends requests. The show’s page is at 13k friends now and adds about 300-400 new ones every day.
September 15th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
do you use proxies when you do myspace stuff? My bot runs into trouble sometimes when i do
September 16th, 2006 at 1:36 am
No - but you tend to have fewer problems on MySpace when you have an account ID that’s under 6 Million. For newer account >6M there are additional anti-spam measures that make running a bot difficult.
October 15th, 2006 at 4:27 am
Indeed - something I’ve done is run a keyword search for targeted phrases, then when I find people to invite, go through their friend’s list to invite some of theirs as well.
And speaking of goths…won’t drop a link, but you can find me in Showmoney’s friends list. I have some beautiful friends.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
if mind is green then i need the green.