Social Media is here to stay. If you haven’t gotten onto the bandwagon yet, now is the time. Social Media can have a dramatic effect on your sales, increase the amounts of traffic your website gets, and tremendously boost your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) efforts to help increase your Google/Yahoo rankings.
The first step is to come up with a Social Media plan. Not every type of Social Media site is right for you, your product, or service. There are Social Media sites for students, family, books, law, travel, music, various hobbies, friends, dating, and more than I can mention here.
I can tell you for sure that there are three Social Media sites that you absolutely need to plug into. Video (Youtube), professional networking (Linkedin), and Social Bookmarking (Digg.com). These three types of Social Media websites can be used for just about every type of business out there.
The next step is to make a list of the Social Media sites you want to plug into, and then go hog wild submitting to them. But there is one caveat: Submissions take a lot of time. It is very time consuming creating an account, writing up all your keyword rich content (beware of using duplicate content), and uploading video. But… in the end it is well worth the time and effort put in to your Social Media campaign.
According to Mashable.com, there are 350+ Social Media web sites out there right now. Use this list from Mashable.com and start creating a plan of attack. EbizMBA has a list of the top thirty Social Bookmarking Websites. Use this list to bookmark your website so others can find you. Last but not least, Wilsonweb has a list of the top 45 video sharing websites. Plug your videos into these sites and you should start gleaning traffic, and creating some social Buzz in no time at all.
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