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Top Three Social Networks.

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Casper in Social Marketing

Social marketing is the newest way to promote your website for large amounts of targeted traffic. The popularity alone makes this a tremendous medium for internet marketers in any niche. Other benefits make this extremely successful also. Networking, building a strong reputation, helping people solve problems, instant traffic, and other helpful benefits make social marketing a must in any marketing toolbox.

The one caveat to this whole thing is that there are literally millions of social networks on the internet today. With about 2,500 new ones being started each day, that leaves internet marketers with a big problem. Which ones to be connected on?

Twitter Is The King

Twitter is the king of all social networking websites. Twitter is what is called a microblog that simply asks the question “What are you doing?” Your answer to that question can only come in the form of 140 characters. The beauty of this is that that’s enough.

Twitter allows you to follow people who you want to connect with and engage them in real time conversation. These conversations can come in the form replies to either your tweets (twitter lingo for update) or theirs. Updating your Twitter stream with information, answers to questions, blog posts, links to products, or just glimpses into your everyday life will guarantee you constant traffic.

Get Your Face On Facebook

Following closely begin Twitter is Facebook. Facebook is a network much like MySpace but with a more mature atmosphere. Marketers can benefit from Facebook with several great features like Fan pages and the ability to form groups. By starting either one of these you can send updates to the people who join them, interact with them, and learn from them. Facebook is also powerful as it can be synced with your Twitter stream and be automatically updated whenever you update Twitter.

Stumble Over Digg

This is really two social networking sites, but they closely resemble each other. StumbleUpon and Digg are social bookmarking websites where you can show people who you are friends with the sites you like. When interacting on these sites you are suggesting websites and either “stumbling” or “digging” sites that they suggest. When your site pages are stumbled or dugg by users (and they will be if you are active enough) that means more visitors to your site.

Put Social Marketing Into Your Campaign

Getting into social marketing is as simple as creating profiles and interacting. The hard part comes in choosing which networks to be involved in. Choose these three to start and get comfortable with it, then you can get more involved with more focused to your niche.

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