In the last article we discussed how web 2.0 marketing can be a valuable asset for your business. We talked about web 2.0 marketing, social media services and marketing by social media, how it is the new phenomena of the decade and how you can use it to spread knowledge, gain trust, build relationship and gain more new clients.
Today we’re going to talk about the top 10 social media sites, how they play a role in web 2.0 marketing, and how you can easily build accounts with each of them, along with our personal ranking chart and how marketing by social media to these top 10 sites can help you begin expanding your business.
1. Digg.com – After in depth analysis, we decided Digg, in terms of article marketing, social media marketing, and expanding your presence on the internet, to be ranked higher than both Facebook and Twitter. Here’s why; Digg is a social bookmarking site that let’s you easily setup Instagram volgers kopen an account, connect it directly to both your Twitter and Facebook accounts, and bookmark links with embeded urls that direct back to web pages, articles, social sites, videos and blogs. Digg has been around since 1998, and has a page rank of 8. Digg receives millions of visitors every single month. When you are marketing by social media, using Digg as a social media site is crucial to your success.
General posting capabilities – 10
Account setup – 10
Google pagerank – 8
Activity – 9
Spam Friendly – 9
Overall User rating – 9.2
2. Facebook.com – Facebook by far has been the fastest growing full capacity social media site thus far. Currently they have over 400 millions users worldwide with over 50% of them active on a daily basis. Facebook has a fully capable user interface with applications, blogs, comment posting, friend adding, video uploading and more. Adding friends on Facebook is easy. Building lasting relationships is a bit more challenging, but critical. Adding comments each day to your own page can be seen by your friends, which virally transcends out into the community and can eventually be seen by thousands and thousands of potentially interested prospects. But be careful, once you get up towards 5,000 friends, Facebook will prevent you from gaiNing any more friends, and at that point you will need to create a fan page where you can post from and invite friends to give you positive feedback.
General posting capabilities – 10
Account setup – 8
Google pagerank – 10
Activity – 10
Spam Friendly – 7
Overall User rating – 9
3. Twitter.com – Twitter is the newest and fastest growing web 2.0 marketing platform known to date. Twitter doesn’t have the expansive user interface and full personal networking platform that Facebook does, but it’s simplicity and fast posting capabilities make it a site to be reckoned with. Twitter was developed with a simple idea that asks, “what are you doing?” This idea turned out to be such a gold mine, that now social networks left and right are adding the “what are you doing” feature to their interface. This feature allows you to inform people about what kinds of recipes you offer, products you’ve tried, websites you read or promote, and so on and so forth. With the url shorteNing services like biturl, you can turn your long website addresses into short links allowing more room to pass along your message to your followers.
General posting capabilities – 10
Account setup – 8
Google pagerank – 9
Activity – 10
Spam Friendly – 6
Overall User rating – 8.6
4. Ning.com – A lot of people don’t know about Ning sites, yet even more are learNing about them everyday. If you don’t know, Ning is a simplified social network platform that allows you to open your own social network based on any topic of your choice, and build a community of members within the site. Ning allows you to fully customize your user interface and member’s pages, connect with Twitter and Facebook, upload blogs, photos, pictures, and add applications to make the network more interactive for your members. For web 2.0 marketing, sigNing up with a Ning site is easy, fast and free. Currently to open your own social network is free, but we believe that by July of 2010 they are planNing to convert all sites into paying sites for the moderators, with plans less than $5 per month and up to $50 per month, still allowing members who sign up to join for free. These Ning sites are customized to your specific target market place, just be careful that you follow all of the moderators rules for that site, because they will ban you at the click of a button if you’re off beat, and it’s not easy to persuade them to let you back in.
General posting capabilities – 9
Account setup – 8
Google pagerank – 8
Activity – 9
Spam Friendly – 7
Overall User rating – 8.2
5. Delicious.com – Delicious is a social bookmarking site that is excellent for web 2.0 marketing and marketing by social media. Its user interface is simple, easy and elegant. You can insert keywords and descriptions to your liking. Their social media services allow you to bookmark and embed links into keyword phrases which link back to your website helping your organic search ranking in search engines. Delicious is a must-use social media site when marketing by social media.