Online Social Networking

Online social networking is a great way to dramatically increase both your sites visibility & your web traffic & it fits in perfectly with a well thought-through link building strategy.

The very nature of online social networking is that it is all very much "realtime", so you are interacting directly with huge global audiences, who "digest" information very quickly, and thus can give you immediate levels of traffic & pageviews that the traditional search engines cannot!.

Social Networking Sites

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Twitter's one-to-one communication—or its ability to simulate it—is what makes the service different from its social networking predecessors.

We use Twitter as being the primary entrypoint into online social networking, it is not the biggest (Facebook over 100m+ members, Twitter 50m+ members), but it has certainly taken online social networking by the scruff of the neck & soundly shook it.

The real beauty of the Twitter system is that if you are smart you can actually feed Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon & several of the other social networks simultaneously through the same feed, thus opening up your unique content rich sites to huge new audiences

Just to give you a flavor of how we do with online social networking, between the 10x websites we run we get around 2k unique(new) visitors & 5k pageviews daily - which constitutes just under 50% of our total daily traffic!.

Do's and Don'ts for Online Social Networking

1. You can't just wing it. Put yourself in your readers' shoes and figure out what kind of comments about your business would keep their interest. Before you post anything, ask yourself, 'Who cares?'

2. The key is to move beyond a pure corporate marketing model to one that emphasizes "personality". Social networking site users are smart to the point where they don't just want to be marketed to. To make an impact, you have to have a personality. Put a real person behind your brand and be accessible!.