Below are some of the top locations online for social marketing…
Twitter.com
Twitter has grown incredibly in recent months due to the media attention that has been given to it. The good news is that this means that there are just more people to socialize with! With Twitter, you simply leave brief messages of just 140 characters. These messages update others about what you are doing.
So, to use Twitter as a social marketing tool, simply grow your following of friends (these are the people who will see the messages that you leave) and interact with them. In doing so, you can leave posts with links to your website whenever you think it is appropriate to do so.
Facebook.com
Facebook has been around for a long time, and now is an ideal time to start using it for social marketing if you have not done so already. Log in and create a name. Then, post messages about what you are up to. You can locate people you know. Over time, you will grow your following and be able to get more traffic. Fill out your profile, and you’ll have yet another source of information for people to find you (be sure to include a link here to your website).
Digg.com
Use Digg to help you to get more traffic to your blog or to news postings on your website. You can do this rather easily by simply submitting your story from your blog to the site. The more people that read it, the better the traffic numbers you will see. More so, you are sure to also see a number of different links pointing back to your website.
For more websites that work in a similar fashion, consider:
- StumbleUpon.com
- MySpace.com
- YouTube.com (great for video marketing as well)
- Del.icio.us.com
- Reddit.com
There are many more that you can use in the same way. Remember the benefit of doing this. By interacting with groups of people online, you create more people who are interested in learning about what you have to offer. More so, you are also creating a link pointing back to your website.
All of these methods will help you to increase your traffic and your popularity online. Best of all, they will help you to increase your page rank. Combine the methods of search engine optimization and social marketing together, and your website will see the boost you are hoping to see.
