When was the last time a site with over 30 million visitors, with 1 million new people joining each week, rolled out the red carpet to you and said, come and mingle with our self-targeted clients for free?

Yep, not ever.

Even Google and Yahoo only give you access to the people who are looking for keywords you may or may not be listed under.

Neither of them give you a page about each individual with their likes, and dislikes, or pre-sorted into groups that give you clues as to whether they’d be interested in your products and services, or know people who would be.

In the last week, I’ve had hundreds of visitors from Facebook directly. In the past week a message and a link from a friend in Facebook sent me about 700 extra visitors in a day. The same thing happened two and a half weeks ago.

Yes, your connections, and even a properly arranged profile can bring you lots of traffic. But that is by far not the only benefit to being on Facebook.

You can get next to the influencers in your industry, people who are drowning in email but have relatively empty Inboxes within Facebook.

But on Facebook, I control who has my information and who is allowed to contact me. I can get back to someone much faster in Facebook than I can everywhere else.

If you’re a blogger or have an RSS feed, it’s even more critical that you join Facebook. When you know the right tools to use, Facebook can become a new place to find friends of your resource, who will read, visit, and comment often. Not all of them will buy, but many will help spread the word about you to people who WILL buy.

Most of the time you don’t even have to ask. Just create quality content and put it where it can be easily found, and you’ll get noticed.

And yet, it’s not as simple as creating a profile and waiting for people to befriend you. There are certain ways in which you must be proactive. And in my book, I’ll teach you all those ways.

I’ve updated the free excerpt - it’s now compressed so that you can easily download it, and has a few extra pages to help you understand why now it is the time to get on Facebook and how my book can cut your learning curve down from six weeks to a few hours.

A few hours from now, you could start getting traffic from Facebook. And I’ll help - in fact I’m starting a private Facebook group of people who have my book to help understand Social Media in general, and to coordinate the groundswell effort it takes to be on the first page of many social news sites like Digg.

The tips which I supply for you are the most important to a new bloggers. If you follow this tips, I make sure that you will be benefited.