How can Social Networking sites drive targeted traffic for you?
Which sites work, which sites don’t?
Where should you invest your time for your niche?
Discover the dark horse of the social networking world and how you can use this particular site to improve your Google ranking.
Look through the more popular bookmarking and social networking sites to see how these can be exploited to drive traffic to your website.
Contents
Introduction.......................................................................................................5
So What Is Social Networking?.................................................................................6
How does Web 2.0 fit into this? Why are Social Networking sites important to businesses?. . .7
What’s the difference between Bookmarking, Sharing, and these other terms?...................9
Popular Bookmarking Sites.....................................................................................10
Delicious............................................................................................................10
Diigo (formerly Furl)..............................................................................................12
Google Bookmarks.................................................................................................13
Newsvine............................................................................................................14
Propeller.............................................................................................................15
StumbleUpon........................................................................................................16
YahooBuzz............................................................................................................18
A Summary of Bookmarking Sites................................................................................19
Popular Sharing Sites...............................................................................................20
Digg.....................................................................................................................20
Facebook...............................................................................................................21
Fark.....................................................................................................................23
Linkedin................................................................................................................25
MySpace................................................................................................................26
Reddit...................................................................................................................28
Send To A Friend......................................................................................................30
SlashDot.................................................................................................................31
Sphinn....................................................................................................................32
Technorati..............................................................................................................34
Twitter...................................................................................................................35
YouTube..................................................................................................................37
A Summary of Sharing Social Networking Sites..................................................................39
To use more than about 5 of these sites sounds like a lot of work. Are there any shortcuts?.40
At A Glance Guide......................................................................................................42
Useful Resources........................................................................................................43
A Final Word from the Author........................................................................................44
have you ever wondered what all these different social networking sites do, and how they can be utilised for your business? If you don’t know your Fark from your Facebook or your Digg from your Delicious, then this book is for you.
Bonus: Social Media Traffic (See details in pictures)
