A critical part of any Seo Strategy should be Social Network Analysis (SNA). When you pick your niche one of your first tasks should be to kick off some SNA of to the top social networks in your niche so that you can strategically spend your time getting to know the right people.

What you are looking to do is figure out who are the real influencers in your sector, lets take SEO an an example. If we have a quick look at sphinn we can quickly gleam some useful information on where we should spend our time if we wanted to get integrated quickly into a community.

XIII. THE USE OF SPIES

1. Sun Tzu said: Raising a host of a hundred thousand men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the people and a drain on the resources of the State. The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces of silver. There will be commotion at home and abroad, and men will drop down exhausted on the highways. As many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded in their labour.