Social Networking | Can Social Networking Help get better Search Results?
Does Social Networking help Google recognize your site? Short answer – YES!
1. RSS FEED – which will put a notification anywhere they want when you post a new article.
2. FEEDBURNER which is you emailing them stuff. Some people prefer email.
3. EMAIL LIST – paid for like Aweber.com – that has auto-responders – it can send emails periodically. The most respected businesses use a company called AWeber.com for this type of emailing. I just started with them and can’t tell you if I like it yet. For the past 8 years or so I used a company called MyEmma.com and I loved them but they’re pricey and Aweber.com does the same thing.
4. SOCIAL NETWORKING: Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and many more. By joining these Social places and making friends who are interested in what you do, they can sign up to your email list or RSS Feed. You periodically make comments in those places and send people to your site. And your site has links to those places so people can join you too.
5. BUSINESS LISTINGS: Dmoz.org, Yahoo, Google Business, Yelp, Linkedin etc. These are places you need to be listed if you have a business, and want to be recognized online. And its another way folks will be in touch with you.
Top Twenty Five Social Networking Sites – Feb 2009
http://social-media-optimization.com
Interesting information from Compete.com that shows Facebook surging past MySpace in Monthly Unique Visitors and that Twitter has moved from #22 to #3 in the rankings of the top 25 social networking sites by monthly visits. Facebook is now the most visited social network, with nearly 1.2 billion visits in January 2009. That is an increase of 36% over December, and 256% over the previous twelve months. MySpace slipped into second place at the end of 2008 and since September of that year has been seeing visits levelling at about 810 thousand a month.
The big winner in the social networking area has been Twitter which jumoed from the 22nd most visited social network at the start of 2008, to third most visited in January. A growth of 1,227% in 12 months. So Twitter.com is the big mover in the last twelve months, gaining 19 spots. Other big winner was Flixster (up 12spots) a social movie review site. Two social networking sites that are going backwards are Bebo and Hi5. One of the key metrics that Compete measures revolves around the activity of the user base – visits per unique visitor and time on site. While Facebook has excelled in both areas, MySpace has remained flat or fallen off, with new hot property Twitter climbing the ranks.
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