Participate in social networking to promote your website

Create a group of marketing guidelines or affiliates, invite your friends and prospects to join you. Read about social and business networks and use them accordingly to promote your website. People would much rather work with people who their friends know and trust.

How to Use Online Networks for Marketing

Research your market. Learn about consumer interests and reactions.

Create Competence. You can say something useful, original, and profound in a mailing list, discussion forum, or blog, and reach hundreds or thousands of people.

Build and reinforce your brand. Every signature in an e-mail or on the Web, and every profile online, is an opportunity to reinforce your brand.

Unveil a human voice. A happy employee is a more powerful brand evangelist than almost anyone in Marketing.

Associate yourself with a not-for-profit cause. People are much more willing to gather around a cause than a company.

Microtarget. If it doesn't already exist, just create a virtual community for your target pool, seed it with your closest relationships, and watch it grow.

Ignite word-of-mouth buzz. If you have a new product or service, word-of-mouth-satisfied customers talking about you-is one of the most effective ways to establish your Competence.

Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you. For a cost-free advertisement, or marketing strategy, a few options are available. One way is for an advertiser to get a Facebook profile and to "add" as many friends as possible.
Also, check out FaceBook Blog and New York Times Business Section.

MySpace
Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends!
Also, check out MySpace Blog and New York Times Business Section.

Windows Live Spaces
Keep in touch with family and friends with your own free Web site you can create in minutes. Share your photos, adventures, and lists with friends near and far.
Also, check out Spaces Blog.

Hi5
Get connected with hi5. Find friends in your hometown or other parts of the world. The site targets the teens and twenties demographic and claims to have over 40 million members.

Blogger
A blog is your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more. All for FREE.
Also, check out buzz.blogger and help.blogger.

Linkedln
LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps you discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners.
Join LinkedIn. Also, check out LinkedIn Blog.

LiveJournal
LiveJournal lets you express yourself, share your life, and connect with friends online. You can use LiveJournal in many different ways: as a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum, a social network, and more.

Xanga 
Xanga is an online community for you and your friends. You can easily start your own free weblog, share photos and videos, and meet new friends, too!
Also, check out Xanga Blog.

Flickr
The Flickr API is available for non-commercial use by outside developers. Commercial use is possible by prior arrangement.
Also, check out Yahoo-Flickr Blog.

Craigslist
Craigslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events.

eBay                               
eBay is The World's Online Marketplace®, enabling trade on a local, national and international basis. With a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses, eBay offers an online platform where millions of items are traded each day.

collectivex
Create a free private or public Groupsite for sharing and keeping your group connected. Or join a public group that interests you.

Ryze
Ryze helps you expand your business network; Get a FREE networking-oriented homepage; Make quality business contacts; Re-connect with friends -- You probably know people in here already; Help your company make deals through Ryze members; Build your network BEFORE you need it!

Tribe
The people you connect to can be your friends, people who live in your neighborhood, or people who live in your city that share a common interest with you. Tribe.net makes finding those people easier.