Social Media Marketing

Social media optimization is a set of methods for generating publicity through social media, online communities and community websites. Now a day’s trend has changed, almost many people started using Internet for creating their own profile, making lot of friends, sharing knowledge, creating communities, groups and so on.

Social media optimization is in many ways connected as a technique to viral marketing where word of mouth is created not through friends or family but through the use of networking in social bookmarking, video and photo sharing sites.

Here are few social media sites.

· Digg

· Flickr

· Del.icio.us

· WikiHow

· Reddit

· BlueDot

· Technorati

· StyleHive

· Squidoo

· JotSpot

· Netscape

· Wetpaint

· LinkedIn

· Shadows

· Newsvine

· Yahoo! 360

· Wikipedia

· Furl

· Ma.gnolia

· Ning

· StumbleUpon

· Frappr

· Shoutwire

· Facebook

· MySpace

· 43 Things

· Yahoo! Answers

· YourElevatorPitch

· identi.ca

· Sphinn

· Reddit

· Twitter

· Bebo

· YouTube

· Plurk

Below are the some of the tips for starting out in social media sites.

1. Create a blog. Post interesting content on it.

2. Join Social media sites. Know what joining a network means.

3. Find like minded people and connect with them.

4. Read other peoples content, bookmark and link them.

5. Ask your network for advice. It shows you want to learn things to do it in systematic way.

6. Publish your content, announce it and ask your network to bookmark them. People will read it or bookmark or vote your content. You will have many followers in twitter.

7. Use tools as many as you can like stumble upon toolbar etc.

In SEO point of view social media optimization is very useful in link building, promoting websites, advertising, commenting, posting blogs, discussions and many things. This is more effective than other methods which are used for acquiring backlinks. The Social Media websites are being crawled by Search Engines frequently and so this is one of the best methods to acquire backlinks.

People are using this kind of site rapidly and they are very familiar to this site so we can take advantage of these sites for link building. Making more activities like updating blogs, news, press release and many more can attract more visitors to your sites. Due to this you can generate link popularity and it also enhances your brand image.