Social Media Marketing is a wonderful way to gain good number of unique visits for your website. You can improve your branding and business through social media marketing tactic. Here a list of tactics which we know now. We explained about them. Check out and comments appreciated.
List of Social Media Tools:
- Blogging
- Micro Blogging
- Video Promotion
- Photo Sharing
- PDF Sharing
- Presentation Sharing
- Social Networking
- Bookmarking
- Discussion Board
- Forum Posting & Commenting
- Web2.0 Pages
Here below I would like to explain you about brief informaiton about above process. Currently I can only updated with as of my knowledge. I will keep update this.
Blogging Optimization:
Blogging is a great tool for social media marketing. If you optimize correctly, you can drive more quality traffic to your site from there. A good blog will help in creating internal links, fresh content, active community or non-search engine traffic. Here is the list of example popular blogs where we can create free accounts: WordPress.com, WordPress.org, Blogger.com, Blog.com, Typepad.com, etc…
Micro Blogging:
Like blogs, micro blogs offer huge opportunities for business promotion. That is both through content consistency and good optimization. We always have a chance for informing our followers in the form of quick updates. Here are the two most popular micro blogging sites Posterous and Twitter.
Online Video Promotion:
Online video promotion techniques help you in website promotion on video sites. Here the main advantage of video promotion is bringing the Brand awareness there by pulling traffic with it. Popular video sharing websites include YouTube, Metacafe, Vimeo etc.
Photo Sharing:
Image optimization and sharing is always been proven to be a good SEO stunt. Social media is all about sharing! Therefore, there are numerous platforms that allow photo sharing with your friends. Some of them are: Flickr.com, Memeo.com, and Photobucket.com.
Presentation & PDF Sharing:
Great way to put your brand’s name in the spotlight is by offering presentations on topics of interest for your audience on presentation sharing websites. They are increasingly gaining in popularity nowadays. Some of them are: SlideShare.net, MyPlick.com, Scribd.com or AuthorSTREAM.com.
Social Networking:
Applications, Fan Pages, Groups and Profiles. Social networks are the place where we can find all the related business contacts and connections and also the true customers for the business which we are promoting for. And most of the social networking sites provide special areas for business promotions and maintain related communities with group of members with same ideas. Here are few popular social networking sites: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, FriendFeed.
Bookmarking & Tagging:
Social bookmarking is a method for internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. This is also one of the most trusted way of targeting and sharing the links. Here is the list of examples popular social bookmarking websites: delicious.com, Digg, Diigo, Fark, Mixx, MyBlogLog, Newsvine, Propeller, Reddit, Slashdot.org, StumbleUpon, Yahoo!, and Buzz.
Discussion Boards & Forums:
Boards and forums are a great way to market your products/services and interact with other professionals or your audience. And there is a provision of instant chat and discussion. Engaging your audience in your niche forum can bring high value to your site and brand too.
Side Widgets:
For those who are trying to promote their own brands, they can create personalized badges, using interesting widgets on Facebook, Twitter, and other networks or by simply using WidgetBox or SpringWidgets.
Wikis:
Wikis are our online encyclopedia. A short list of wikis: Wikipedia.org, Citizendium.org, AboutUs.org, Pbwiki(PBworks.com), or Wetpaint.com.
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