Plain Old Social Networking

By Martin • December 23, 2007

If you’re like me, you have profiles setup on most of the social networking sites available. So let me ask you a really quick question…why? Why are the social network sites so popular these days? I know that for me, I don’t use them to “make new friends” as many do. I use them for marketing.

It’s very useful to get your site dugg (ok, a play on words from digg.com) , reddit, stumbled (stumbleupon.com), and the many other sites. So how is that good for marketing? Simply because of the traffic those submissions generate. Not to mention the linkbacks. You see, those sites are highly crawled by the big search engines, and so they’ll find a link pointing to your site very fast.

So how many of you are actively marketing your websites the social way?

Popularity: 55% [?]

Categories: Off-Topic
Tags: internet marketing, social networks

About the Author

Martin

Member of the GAWDs and Web Standards Group. As a member of the Web Standards Group, as well as membership in the Guild of Accessible Web Designers, I strive to achieve maximum website accessibility in my designs, while using the latest, cutting-edge eXtensible HyperText Mark-up Language/CSS markup. My sites fully validate with the W3C standards for XHTML/CSS, as well as comply with the W3C's WAI - A, AA, or AAA standards. Separation of Content from presentation and a site that fully complies with this philosophy - will reach more than just your intended audience, it'll reach everyone! Web standards at FierceStreet Networks is all about usability - XHTML for content, and CSS for presentation.

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