Social Media Under arrest

Most of us must have heard about word social media. It’s a slogan is catching online marketer’s worldwide. In this article we will discuss about various social media websites making news:



Digg, Stumble upon, Reddit- There’s a tremendous swell of interest in social bookmarking.These three musketeers organize social news remarkably.

Delo.icio.us-. absolutely delicious for online marketing ninjas who want to manage bookmark of pages. Delicious pioneered tagging in the year 2003.

Wikipedia-This is one website I’m thoroughly impressed with, as apart from providing information on everything under the sun it can be amended as well.

Flicker – On this website you can not just manage your photos but also share it with friends. Social media marketer’s can give a link after uploading the photos of their product or service

News Vine –do you have quality news? And are not aware of place where you upload it.Newsvine is the perfect destination for submitting news and top of that it’s very swift so the user is assured of news being singled out and featured.

Yahoo answers-It is preeminent way to get brand publicity as a person can woo online audience by answering question in one's area of expertise.

Blogging Rules

Blogs are very valuable marketing tool, blogging scores over any other social media activity because
-It provides unsullied content to the website
-There are diverse ways to promote blog through directories and link
-Starting blog and optimizing is not very time consuming
-Search engine tend to optimize it quickly
- It helps is networking as well, you can connect to people in the field of one’s interest
Online users are searching for information and disseminating information through blogs is a wonderful medium for communicating the message.

Benefits of promoting on social networking sites

Social networking is a potent vehicle to drive visitors to the website; a company can do a range of things to get the visitors and brand the company online

Benefits of launching a page on social networking sites like orkut, facebook, myspace are:

Video/multimedia promotion- Any multimedia prepared for company can be displayed through social networking site.

Recent developments-Our competitors can be made aware of recent developments, latest updates in the company as pages can be customized in a fraction of seconds.

Blog- Many websites like Facebook and MySpace have a free blog on each page they create, which means you can have the double exposure of blogging while having your social network page as well

Building Contacts – Social networking company websites are a great way to build contacts. People with similar interests will find your page, and link to it with what these sites refer to as “Friend lists”.