Author and Originally Published at www.web-orient.com, 7/2009

The year 2006 saw the emergence of social media. If you are involved in operating a website, you must modify your site to take advantage of the popularity of social media sites for increased traffic.You should also introduce social media components to your website, because users in the form of these new sites and interactions over in May, they have an expectation of the same from your site.If you want to attract visitors and want to stay longer, your goal this year, should be placed on the social aspects of your site.

The use of social media technologies such as RSS, blogs, podcasting, tagging, etc., and provides for social networks (MySpace, Facebook), video and picture sharing (YouTube, Flickr) and community-based content ranking (Digg, Miniclip) characteristics.

The central theme of these sites is generated by users for sharing content between users. The social aspects of these sites allows users to setup social communities, invite friends and share common interests.

You do not completely change your site in a month or so to take advantage of new technologies. Gradually, small changes over the years and you’re on your way to meet these new challenges.

The first step is to declare that you are in the online community. People should be able to relate. Unless they know more about you, you’re only a stranger’s identity and most people do not deal with strangers. About us design a page and a list of your accomplishments and skills.

Create a MySpace page and link in your bio page on our MySpace page. A link to the MySpace page of your website. Take one hour a week to develop your online social network MySpace. Invite some friends to write blog articles on your site about your products or services.

Install a free blog software and start publishing at least one item in your blog. Give a simple book Marken social bookmarking sites like delicious. This is done through an action button for each section of your site. The action button takes users to the layout of the book Marken site.

Similarly, an action button for direct display of the articles on Digg blog. Digg is a news site classification. An article dugg thousands of visitors to your site.

A forum to your site for users to discuss your products and services. Do not delete negative comments because they give an overview of the improvements needed to better respond to your visitors. However, hate speech and prohibits censorship ring direction. Register your forum Board Tracker. Council Tracker is a search engine forum.

If you offer products, enabling users to review and evaluate products. This will contribute to the management of stocks in May, because you want to put an end to a low value products.

Provide RSS feeds for your new products, blogs, message forum, etc. An RSS feed can teasers for your content. Users can RSS readers to scan your videos and your web site for more information if the teasers to get their attention.

Submit your feeds to feedburner. FeedBurner offers media distribution of public service and commitment of RSS feeds. They also provide a network of advertising for your feed. If you have quality content, your money using their services.

Make a short skills or new product videos and post these videos in social video sharing sites like YouTube, Google Video. Some start and end frames in these videos to introduce your site with the URL of your site. The posting of these videos with catchy titles, descriptions of pests and labels are detectable.

Integrated links to your videos are viewed on your site. This saves your bandwidth and storage space because the videos on video sharing sites.

Besides the videos, use of social sharing sites for photo sharing as Flickr for images related to the content of your site. Use the same title, description and tag techniques previously social video sites.

A function for sending a friend to all products and services you offer. This feature is a link that sends the article, product description, etc. to a recipient via e-mail.

For starters, Yahoo offers a service action buttons (seeking action buttons of Yahoo) to add links to your website for users to share, store and blog on your website. Yahoo use action buttons delicious social bookmarking, blog and website Yahoo for blogs. It also has a print function.

Social media is not capricious. It is here to stay and major changes to the Internet experience. The time is right to exercise the functions that will make your site social media friendly. The use of marketing techniques that use popular sites for social media, you can generate traffic to your site.

Originally published at: http://web-orient.com/gear-up-your-site-for-social-media-marketing.html

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TELLC
7-5-09