Get More From Social Sites

Social sites are becoming really popular and therefore social marketing is believed to be the next hot Internet marketing method. Most people are now familiar with social sites and the level of freedom and interaction that they provide. Social sites use the latest technologies (e.g., AJAX) to power them and these technologies also let users personalize their pages by changing the style and background, adding music, posting pictures, posting videos, sharing favorites, storing and sharing documents, and last but not least, connecting with other people and inviting friends to join their network.

How do social sites improve your website? These sites forward visitors to your site and improve the ranking of your site at the search engines. You can divide the social sites into two main categories: social networking and social bookmarking. The first category makes it easy for people sharing similar interests to interact. Some general social networking sites include: Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Bebo, MySpace and Friendster. Many people are active on these sites so they are good places to advertise your products and services. Other more specific social networking sites include: MomJunction, Mothersclick and 43Things.

Some social networking websites link people with common interests while others are more like traditional networking sites. You can showcase your site on your profile for your friends and audience. Facebook, MySpace and other sites let users put ads and promote products as long as they don’t spam. Showcasing great sites normally attracts a large visitor base.

You can also store, manage, organize and share your bookmarks with other people on the same social bookmarking sites.

Go ahead and bookmark pages that are interesting, including pages from your own website. You can help your pages get indexed faster and get a few backlinks at the same time. Some sites will also let you add tags to your bookmarks. You can also mark them for private or public viewing. You can use StumbleUpon, Delicious or Digg to get additional traffic to your site. If your posts become very popular and appear on the homepage of these sites, you will get a deluge of traffic. I hope you’re ready for it.

If you use WordPress for blogging, make sure to have some good plug-ins such as Socializer, Socialmarker and Addthis. They will allow your visitors to easily bookmark your blog. The more bookmarks you get from different users and different bookmarking sites, the better your site will rank at the search engines. You may be interested in using Onlywire or similar plug-ins that instantly bookmark your posts on 20 different bookmarking sites.

You are probably familiar with YouTube and Flickr. These video and photo sharing sites are seen by millions of people per day. Why not be creative and post a great video that will bring you additional traffic? You can also try Metacafe or other similar video sharing sites that give you a share of their revenue simply for publishing a video.

Social networking and bookmarking sites are a great way for you to get found by the search engine spiders. Whether you’re joining the party or not, social sites are here to stay. Why not use this opportunity to get traffic and make money with these sites while you can.

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