When someone becomes my “friend,” I put both a clickable image and a text link in the Comments section of that person’s MySpace page. The links go to my blog. So not only are people clicking to my blog from my MySpace page, they’re clicking there from scores of other pages.

It took some time to get everything set up the way I wanted it, after making my first 100 friends, I stopped going out to hunt for more. People have been spotting my images on other MySpace pages and approaching me. Lately I’ve been accepting 8-10 friends a week. (I don’t accept everyone who asks–there are a lot of weird people out there!)

I usually look in twice during the week and spend perhaps fifteen minutes accepting new friends (going over to their pages and leaving my little images and links) and returning a message or two. It’s painless, once you get set up. But unless one enjoys all the tweaking and twiddling it takes to get started, a MySpace page is probably more trouble than it’s worth.

If anybody’s interested, my page is here.