October 31 2007
Is Social Media more than a trend?
Social Media websites are popping up all over the place recently. The public is now in the drivers seat allowing Real People to talk about their real lives on the web. New dot.coms rolling out self-publishing models for users is demanding more from web technology and website usability. Is this a trend? Let’s check Alexa.
Top 500 Websites The Alexa.org 10/28/07 results. Here are the top 10:
- Yahoo
- MSN
- You Tube *
- Live
- MySpace *
- FaceBook *
- Wikipedia
- Orkut *
- Hi5 *
The results are interesting some old and new. The “Social Web” constituents above cover 50% of the Top 10 suprise you? I am sure it doesn’t. How many of you and your friends communicate thru your MySpace page? Ahh got ya!
Let’s get practical and see how we can use the Trend data to meet our Search Marketing objectives. Let’s look at some rules defined by some popular authors of SMO Social Media Optimizers as old as 2006 like Rohit Bhargava describes the 5 Rules:
- Increase your Linkability
- Make tagging and bookmarking easy
- Reward inbound links
- Help your content travel
- Encourage the mashup
Rohit has been quoted since 2006 and entered in “till we are blue in the face” blog entries. Other angles played by other SEO’s such as Cameron Olthius expanded his original works by saying:
6. Be a user resource, even if it doesnt help you.
7. Reward helpful and valuable users
Let’s add a few more:
8. Participate. Join the conversation
9. Know how to target your audience
10. Create content
11. Be Real
Number eleven is what I would emphasize the most just Be Real. In conclusion, the trend is social media is more than a trend it is now our new best-friend.
Written by Gene Tapang - Visit Website
Alexa ranking has its own significance in the ranking position of website in the search engines. The ranking in Alexa.com serves as a criteria for the Webmasters, advertisers and ad networks as a gauge to determine the worth of a link on your website. If one depends on link or site selling as a form of monetization one will definitely want to increase their Alexa rank because it’ll increase bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing. Here we are taking into account the ranking of Social media. Social media is an Internet media that allow people to interact in some way. Social media can take many different forms, including Internet Forums, message boards, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures and video. The basic services provided by these sites are interactive connections.