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This post concludes our week of MySpace, I wanted to give a special thanks to all of you that have supported the site. I truly appreciate your purchases and look forward to hearing your feedback.

There are a lot of reasons why a lot of people want to set their MySpace profile to private. Of course, some of the reasons for wanting this private setting are more valid than others. However, the number one reason why so many people wish to set their profiles to private is because they enjoy their privacy and do not want everyone in the world to view their page.

The MySpace community is extremely large. There are practically millions of people that have a page on MySpace. Depending upon if they utilize their page or not is another question. However, not only do the people that are located in the MySpace community going to be able to gain access to your page, but anyone who has access to a computer can do so as well.

There will always be people that prefer to keep their MySpace profile open to the public. It could be simply because they are proud of the page that they made on the social network, or they want as many people as possible to view something, they may have written or to take a gander at their pictures. A lot of people that choose to leave their profiles set to a public viewing setting do not realize how many people have the opportunity to gain access to their information.

People put a lot of personal things on their MySpace pages. There are some people that include their full names on their pages as well as people that post an array of pictures of themselves and their family members on their pages as well. Everyone would be able to look at pictures of your private life, and inadvertently there will be a lot of people that you don’t know that all of a sudden will know you if your profile is not set to private.

When you take the short 5 seconds to set your MySpace page to private you will be avoiding your information being avaliable at the public’s demand. You won’t have to worry about strange people that you will probably never meet seeing pictures of you or your family.

In order to set your MySpace account to private, all you need to do is simply log into your account and go to the account settings tab. After accessing this tab you will see a topic that says privacy settings. Go into these settings and locate change settings. You’ll scroll down and come to a box that says who can view my full profile.

At this point you will be given the option to choose from three different settings. There is the setting for your friends only, the public and another one for only users under the age of 18. Choose to only have your page shown to your friends only and you’re done!

Be aware that if you are under the age of 18 your profile is automatically set to private. If you try to change your profile in order to gain more viewers and you are under the age of 18 you risk the chance of losing your profile page entirely.

For a lot of people when they think of MySpace, they simply look at this site as being a community where people can make friends and reunite with their old ones. However, for people that are skilled internet marketers, MySpace can be a place to get your business out to the public.

Even though, MySpace is intended for non-commercial use, and commercial companies are restricted from advertising in order to generate sales. MySpace can actually still work as a great platform to showcase your business on.

According to the official MySpace mission statement all members are required to sign before gaining access to the online community, MySpace is strictly intended for non-commercial utilization. However, this statement is only referring to individual pages that are built for the sole purpose of selling a particular item.

In fact, MySpace actually is a commercial based website. There are a lot of different advertisements that they showcase on the sidebars on different pages and in other locations around the site. These advertising spaces are actually open to the public and if you wish, you can have your advertisement placed on MySpace as well in order to showcase your business.

However, in order to get your advertisement listed on MySpace you will need to contact the site directly in order to obtain information regarding pricing and things of that nature. This type of advertising is definitely worth your time especially considering all the people that are a part of the MySpace community.

Even though building entire landing pages on MySpace dedicated to a particular niche is prohibited there is still room to insert links to some of your websites. As long as you insert the links in a nonchalant way, often times these links seem irrelevant to the MySpace administrators.

For instance, let’s say you host a blog on another site that has affiliate sites linked to it; you can include this site under a specific topic regarding your interests. This way the people in the community will be able to gain a better understanding of who you are personally and you’re still promoting yourself without being too obvious.

Sites that are made on MySpace that have blatant advertisements posted throughout them are automatically deleted. So if you are trying to advertise through your site it is imperative that you are not obvious with your actions.

MySpace is a great place to not only connect with plethora’s of people that reside all around the world, it is also a great place to advertisement your business. You can opt to advertisement your business through free ventures by posting discrete links on your page, or you can take the route to paid advertisements on MySpace.

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Everyone knows that if something is blocked, or if you are prohibited to enter somewhere online there is always an alternative way to unblock something and get access to the blocked information anyways. With all security measures that are set up on the computer, someone will figure out a way to unblock them and gain access to places where they were not supposed to be.

A lot of schools and libraries and even personal computers have blocks on them prohibiting certain social media sites such as MySpace and Twitter. Well, there are two ways that you can get around these security blocks and gain access to the social media site MySpace whenever you want.

The first way to unblock a MySpace block is to utilize proxy servers. These servers were thought up by a few innovative minds that wanted to find ways to eliminate being told that they could not have access to certain websites. What you will be prompted to do in order to use these servers is to log into them.

These servers are not the ones that the blocked computer is running; therefore you will be able to gain access to the blocked material as long as you are coming through a different server. These proxy servers are actually extremely easy to use and they will allow you to gain access to the MySpace community wherever you are.

In order to gain access to these proxies, as they are so cleverly called you will have to sign up with a particular company in order to gain access to their server. Typically, signing up to gain access to a proxy server is either free or relatively inexpensive.

After you have completed the sign up process, you’ll simply type in the URL that you wish to visit and you will gain access to it. Just imagine being able to use this technique to chat with your friends or check your messages on MySpace while in the library!

Another way that you can gain access to the MySpace community when it is blocked is by using a different Internet browser to surf the internet with. This will not work on library computers or in schools, however at home it will work perfectly.

Typically home computers are set on a particular internet browser; the most common browser used is Internet Explorer. However, by changing your web browser to something such as Mozilla Firefox or Opera you can easily gain access through this alternate browser. Typically blocks that are installed on smaller computers, and home computers do not exist for the entire computer but are more or less used only for a particular browser. This way you can gain access to MySpace and not have to worry about trying to figure out how to join in with the community.

These days there are more people that are signed up to MySpace, in many respects, than there are people that are signed up to their local gyms. According to Nielsen online the number of unique visitors have increased 190 percent from September 2008 to June 2009 “growing from 4.2 million unique visitors to 12.1 million ”
Every single day there are new people joining the MySpace community it just simply keeps expanding.

A lot of people make the decision to join the community in order to reconnect with old friends and create relationships with some new friends as well. Some people are even seeking out an avenue to be able to promote their business through utilizing MySpace.

There are a lot of people that question the point behind using MySpace to promote different things that they are involved in, however if you ever perused the music and movies section you will quickly begin to understand why so many people are taking the opportunity to promote themselves as well as their companies through MySpace.

There are so many people that claim to be staring movie producers or up and coming musicians that are trying to further their careers. Most of these people will actually begin posting samples of their work to various profiles and even entire pieces for people to listen to, watch or simply overhear. The samples are traditionally free, however the bad news is there are so many people who are promoting themselves through MySpace that spam is becoming an excessive problem for the social media network.

If your purpose for your MySpace page is to talk with your friends as well as reconnect with old friends than you definitely can do without the excess spam, that is beginning to take over MySpace. There are a few things that you can do in order to eliminate the amount of spam that your page receives.

The first thing you will need to do in order to eliminate spam is set your MySpace profile to private. This will eliminate a bunch of random people from trying to get in contact with you. A lot of people that are addressed about their spamming activities will often times be extremely angry when confronted about this problem. So, it’s better to set your page to private to eliminate having to deal with people that you do not know.

Another thing that you can do to help eliminate spam is request that only people that know your last name or your email address may request you as a friend. This will help reduce the amount of spam that you receive and also bots from asking you to be a friend. Inadvertently, only people who actually know you will have this information.

You can also set your profile to where it states that all comments posted to your account will need to be approved by you before it can be posted on your page. This way you don’t have an excessive amount of spam comments scattered throughout your MySpace page.

In response to several email requests, I will be spending the bulk of this week sharing some MySpace tips to help users navigate the still, ever popular MySpace Community. As always, your feedback and support is much appreciated.

If you are looking for a way to get noticed while using MySpace, you need to approach the situation in the same way you would a real life circumstance. If your main focus is to bring an adamant amount of attention to your profile, you have to make your profile seem appealing to everyone that views it. You want to start with including content that will generate the desired attention that you are seeking. Getting your MySpace noticed depends upon four qualifying factors.

1. The first way to get your MySpace profile page noticed is to create a unique page layout. The layout for your page should be free from any clutter and it should not include any fonts that are hard to decipher or flashing objects.Your main objective with your profile page should be to get your point across. Pages that encompass useful information that is geared towards a particular niche will attract a lot more visitors that share an interest in the niche that you are promoting.
2. Offer a unique experience to your visitors. There are so many people that have a social media page on MySpace. If you want your page to get noticed, you are going to want to make it as original as you possibly can. People are often times intrigued by unique things so let your creatively flourish and you will be astonished at the results that you will obtain.
3. The best way to make your page apparent to other people on MySpace is to interact with the MySpace community. Start sending out friend requests and you will be surprised how many people will respond to you.Leave comments on MySpace profile pages. This will intrigue people to want to take a gander at your site which will also help increase the visitor count that you have within the MySpace community.
4. Use search engine optimization or SEO to optimize your MySpace page. You will need to include any and all relevant keywords into the content that you include on your MySpace page. Optimizing your MySpace page will assist search engines with the process of bringing your page up in search results.

SEO tactics are not entirely needed for MySpace pages. However, if you are trying to target the interests of a particular niche, adding in keywords is essential to this task. By using these 4 easy steps, you can gain the attention that you are seeking with your MySpace profile page.

First there was MySpace and it seemed that everyone had his or her own page set up. You put pictures and information about yourself, your family, your pets – your profile was online for your friends and family members to see.

And then all of a sudden, everyone started talking about Facebook. So what is that all about? It seemed like the same thing, so why do we need two major social networking sites that do pretty much the same thing?

Well, they do have their differences and attract different groups of people. Here is what sets each one apart from the other.

The design of the page:
Facebook has a one-size fits all white background; MySpace allows more creativity with the use of additional colors and graphics.

The demographics of the site:
MySpace was created as a means to connect with family and friends and was quickly embraced by kids and adults alike with the average age of its users as 35; Facebook was geared towards college students but has grown to incorporate up and coming professionals. Average age on this site is 23.

Locating others on the site:
MySpace users sign up with a screen name. Being that it started out as a networking tool between you and people you already knew there isn’t really a way to locate someone on MySpace unless you get them to invite you as a friend. When you sign on to Facebook, your first and last name are registered so you are able to put in the name of an old colleague and see if they are registered with Facebook.

Privacy:
This is a big difference between the two sites and it has to do more with the way the sites were positioned. MySpace was really meant for reaching people you were already familiar with but you have to make sure you adjust your settings accordingly so that not just anyone can view your page. Facebook contains information of a less personal nature and you must be approved before anyone can reach your page.

Additional features:
Facebook has an instant chat feature that MySpace currently does not have. But MySpace has the ability to incorporate music on your site. Many musicians are using their MySpace page to build a following or to share their music with family and friends.

Which brings us to the most recent entry into the social media scene: Twitter. Its presence was just as abrupt as MySpace and Facebook – all of a sudden one day, people are talking about it everywhere you go. The first time I hears someone say they just tweeted I thought it was a reaction to something they ate. But alas, Twitter is all about “What are you doing?” I mean, right now. You sign up and the messages are kept to a certain number of characters. You can tweet with friends and family or celebrities.

Check out each site and see which one fits your needs. Just don’t wait too long to sign on- you never know when the next new networking site will pop up.

MySpace announced today of its intent to purchase iLike, a music recommendation service that has been made popular through its integration with other Internet-based services such as Facebook, iTunes, Bebo, and yes – MySpace. As the majority of social network users have flocked to Facebook (+700%) this year, MySpace (-31%) has begun to feel like the next Friendster – slipping in both rank and hype in the face of other services such as Twitter. The question that begs to be answered is – How will it survive?.

This move may prove to be the edge that MySpace needs to solidify itself as the premier social music site. Many bands, local and national, rely on it to serve up news, their latest music, and tour information, often forgoing a website of their own in order to take advantage of the built-in audience (and support features) that MySpace provides. Perhaps MySpace is following the playbook of other companies that have risen from a tenuous business model to focus on what they do best, like IBM did when it dropped OS/2 from consumer PCs in 1995 and exited the PC market in 2004.

There have been no precise details on how MySpace will take advantage of their new acquisition, but according to a conference call with CEO Owen Van Natta, the discovery technology will be expanded beyond the boundaries of music and into other media categories such as videos and games.

While I prefer the simple, yet intimate format of social networks like Twitter, I am looking forward to seeing how MySpace will leverage its new purchase. But as you can learn from anyone who owned a Starter jacket, once you lose your cool, it’s nearly impossible to get it back.