The past two years have seen great change for the internet.
Explosive new "social network" websites were conceived which immediately opened up new advertising opportunities for internet marketers.
With MySpace & YouTube being the two most popular and revolutionary websites, internet marketers were quick to take advantage of it's millions of users.
But what is the best viral marketing method to use on these websites? MySpace There are many different techniques for advertising on MySpace.
While bulletin spamming is well and truly dead, it was the most effective way to bring thousands of visitors to your website.
As it was considered equivalent to illegal email spamming, MySpace quickly tackled the issue and brought down the major offenders by shutting down their accounts and/or taking legal action against them.
To bring in targeted visitors, make the most of MySpace's user search feature to find those that are interested in your website's niche.
Take the time to develop a small friendship with them (a comment a day or two is fine), and they'll eventually visit your website.
Remember to subtly include your website's URL within your profile and/or comments to other people.
MySpace also hosts an extremely popular video service.
As it is very easy for users to add videos to their profile, any relatively decent video will go viral and spread throughout the MySpace cyber-space.
YouTube YouTube is the most popular video service on the internet with millions of visitors every day.
Any video is almost guaranteed to receive a number of views, regardless of it's content.
However, to ensure that a video goes viral, it's important to create something that is completely unique and is of humorous or shocking value.
Optimizing your description and tags will also greatly improve the amount of views your video receives.