Media Sonic

     Social media marketing means promoting your website, business through popular social media channels. Social media marketing is a very powerful marketing strategy and it not only brings quality links but also helpful in brand marketing and getting massive traffic to a website. Reason why I am posting information about “Power of social media marketing and SEO” is that while I was analyzing web stats for few of clients’ website for whom we have recently finished social bookmarking campaigns. Below is my observation:

     - Number of visitors from social bookmarking websites were equal to number of visitors from search engines

     - Websites like Stumbleupon, Digg and delicious were among top referrals.

     - Social bookmarks created get indexed by search engines very quickly.

     - Social bookmarks pages appear in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) in a short span of time whereas a website may take anywhere from three to six months to get in top ranks read more »

     While the discipline of social media optimization is not nearly as advanced as SEO, it still holds a wealth of potential for the website owner. How can a business begin to optimize their site for social media?

     Below are some tips.

     What are Social Media Websites?

     First, what is social media? The quintessential social media site is myspace. Myspace is completely user generated, in other words, all the content comes not from some mega corporation, but the users themselves. Other examples of social media sites are Facebook, Digg, del.icio.us, and Squidoo. Basically, a social media site creates a community of people with similar interests, and allows them to network and communicate on any given topic.

     How Can I Advertise With Social Media Sites? read more »