Search engines are ranking sites based upon good content and links back to the site , while social sites are actually giving out tons of quality links . The conclusion that many have come to is that there is alot to benefit Seo wise from these social communities. So you want to be joining as many of these communities as you can and building a profile about your business.
Social Media Strategies
First off joining the top 50 social and video sites (bellow this post) and creating a profile is a great start (typically I tend to fill out my profile , put up a picture , post a blog , create a group and join niche related groups). Use your judgement based upon how you feel about that community (like it was a stock ) into deciding how much effort you want to put into it based upon the results and potential the platform has in the future. Personally rite now I am really leveraging communities such as Youtube , Facebook , Blogcatalog , Mybloglog , Twitter , Myspace and a couple other smaller places where I feel im getting the most value out of my effort ( this list can change week to week).
1) Take time and join smaller social sites and communities online! You never know which one is going to blow up like Reddit, Stumbleupon and Digg. This will give you a great boost of traffic if your already established in communities that all of a sudden hit a critical mass point.
2) Build Targeted Friends List - Add as many niche related friends as possible while staying within the sites guidelines , this is the first step to leveraging these social sites . Simply find related groups to what your niche is and add people within those groups , this way your building a list within the social networks and leveraging yourself at the same time. I want to also encourage you to join every group that's indirectly and directly related to your niche as this will put some of your leveraging on auto pilot as people will start adding you from the groups.
3) Provide Good Content so readers bookmark or subscribe to your site ( this is one of the most important parts )
Social Media Strategies
First off joining the top 50 social and video sites (bellow this post) and creating a profile is a great start (typically I tend to fill out my profile , put up a picture , post a blog , create a group and join niche related groups). Use your judgement based upon how you feel about that community (like it was a stock ) into deciding how much effort you want to put into it based upon the results and potential the platform has in the future. Personally rite now I am really leveraging communities such as Youtube , Facebook , Blogcatalog , Mybloglog , Twitter , Myspace and a couple other smaller places where I feel im getting the most value out of my effort ( this list can change week to week).
1) Take time and join smaller social sites and communities online! You never know which one is going to blow up like Reddit, Stumbleupon and Digg. This will give you a great boost of traffic if your already established in communities that all of a sudden hit a critical mass point.
2) Build Targeted Friends List - Add as many niche related friends as possible while staying within the sites guidelines , this is the first step to leveraging these social sites . Simply find related groups to what your niche is and add people within those groups , this way your building a list within the social networks and leveraging yourself at the same time. I want to also encourage you to join every group that's indirectly and directly related to your niche as this will put some of your leveraging on auto pilot as people will start adding you from the groups.
3) Provide Good Content so readers bookmark or subscribe to your site ( this is one of the most important parts )
