Everyone has a Facebook™ page right?

Do you know anyone who doesn’t?

At time of writing, there are just over 1 billion Facebook™ users. Think about that for a minute. That is 1 billion users! There are a lot of zeros in that number…and it is growing everyday!

Chances are that anyone reading this article also has a Facebook™ account. And that you also are an online marketer with a product or service of your own that you are marketing, either as the primary source of the product or service or as an affiliate of the product or service.

If you are an online marketer, how can you then harness the power of Facebook™ to share your product or service with those 1 billion others?

In this article I would like to share with you seven simple and easy steps to start an avalanche of viral traffic to your Facebook™ page so that you can expand the number of viewers who are exposed to your product or service. Imagine what having hundreds, and even thousands of people coming to your Facebook™ page every day and checking out your product or service could mean to your sales and profit picture..

It doesn’t matter what product you are promoting. It can be any "how to" program such as "how to quit smoking", "how to lose weight", "how to make money from home", "how to generate residual income streams", "how to protect your online identity", "how to get out of debt", "how to stop gambling", or anything else for that matter. It could be other things such as how to cook a roast, or how to decorate your living room, or any other "how to" for that matter.

What I am about to show you will generate hundreds, if not thousands of hits or views of your Facebook™ page every day depending upon the number of friends you have online to begin with.

Here are the seven steps to generate huge volumes of traffic to your Facebook™ page:

1. Always place your photo on your Facebook™ page.

It is a known fact that is borne out statistically...those who place a photo of themselves on their Facebook page attract more viewers, friends, and repeat visitors than those who don’t. It has something to do with credibility, believability, and attraction marketing. People are more prone to believe and relate to others who have posted a picture on their Facebook™ page as it gives them something to anchor to, and reason to return.

Sadly, a lot of unscrupulous operators online never post their picture, and they can be accused of being spammers and certainly not as someone you would want to associate with.

2. Create or set up a blog.

Blogs are easy to set up and easy to maintain. Get one at blogger.com and you can begin to start your online advertising efforts in earnest. It is not difficult to incorporate your new blog into your Facebook™ account and then to add RSS feeds to it so that your visitors can follow up and return frequently to your Facebook™ page. An added with creating a blog is that you can also post comments to other bloggers and blogs that post to yours, or link with yours. The more links you generate in this manner, the more traffic you will get virally.

3. Get more friends to your Facebook™ page.

Every aspect of social marketing depends on you getting more friends to your page. The more friends you get to your page the more virally your traffic will become. It is a truism that the more friends you have, the more visibility your business will get and keep, which then translates into more sales of your service or product. Every effort in your marketing should be to increase and expand the number of friends on your Facebook™ page. Use your link to your Facebook™ page in all advertising you do online and offline, as this will attract visitors to your site who will become friends.

4. Set up a professional-looking Profile Page.

If you are just starting out online you have to pay attention to the way your Profile Page looks to others. Is it professional, is it aesthetically pleasing, is it something that will draw your visitor’s attention and keep it? Or is it something that will turn off visitors, and never allow them to become friends? Take the necessary time to set up a really nice looking Profile Page. It will speak to your visitors for you and it will either keep them, or it will repel them! If you do not know how to do this, you need to get help from someone who has done it and can assist you. Don’t skimp on this part of your image. A professional looking Profile Page will make you money, whereas a poorly designed one will most certainly turn off your visitors.

Also, you will need to link all of your social network profiles like Twitter and Linkedh to your Facebook™ page in order to maximize the exposure your page will generate. Cross links to your other social network sites will generate additional visitors who will return regularly if what you are offering is attractive to the market.

5. Create and post good content.

I am sure you have heard the phrase "content is king". Good writers in any popular niche will always attract visitors to their social networking sites and business opportunities. People like good content and will take the time to read what you are offering if it is appealing to them and it is informative. Articles with titles such as "10 things you need to know about…", and 7 deadly sins of …" will always attract interest, curiosity, visitors, clients and ultimately, sales!

If you are not a good writer, you need to secure good sources of content in your niche to ensure that visitors attracted to your site do not leave and then never return! If that describes you, then you need to find article writers, or others who can write material for you. Never post anything to your Facebook™ page or blog that is poorly written, edited, or put together.

6. Give away freebies to attract visitors.

Everyone loves a freebie!

Visitors to your Facebook™ page who can obtain a freebie just for visiting will remember your page and your offer. They will return to your site often, as long as it follows the suggestions above and does not turn them off after their initial visit. I give away freebies such as ebooks, articles, newsletters, mailing credits, text ad exchange credits, and other things like this in order to keep my visitors coming back. Remember, though, that the freebies you are giving away relate to the essence of your Facebook™ page and are related to your niche.

Telling visitors that you offer a new freebie every week is a sure fire method of keeping them coming back often so that they can see what else they can get from your site.

7. Use the "Notes" and "Events" Features in your Facebook™ page.

Experienced Facebook™ marketers use these two options regularly as a method of getting or drawing attention to something that they are promoting in their business endeavours. They regularly send notes and events to their friends as a way of informing them of upcoming business ventures, promotions, or any other business-related initiative they are planning. And, in many cases, the friends who receive these notes pass them along to their friends and share the announcements with them as well. In this case, your Facebook™ page will go viral in no time flat!

So, there you have it.

These are the seven ways to ensure that your Facebook™ page explodes with traffic virally. Review these strategies carefully and then review tour own Facebook™ site and see where you can use these suggestions to improve your page. Your traffic will come in less time than not.

And…your bank balance will thank you.