Social Media
Social media is one of the three pillars of search engine optimization (SEO), according to Jayson DeMers’ article in Forbes.com. “Social media gives companies an additional platform to interact with customers, build their brand, and create a community, all while also driving traffic to their website,” stated DeMers. Source: Forbes.com
Social Networking
What are the top 15 social networking sites? Below are the top five according to eBizMba. Visit eBizMba.com to find the other 10 sites.
Social Networking: Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors*
Facebook: 900,000,000*
Twitter: 310,000,000*
LinkedIn: 255,000,000*
Pinterest: 250,000,000*
Google Plus: 120,000,000*
YouTube and Blogging are some other great venues for social networking.
YouTube: Over 1 billion users**
Blogging: “Small businesses that blog get 126% more lead growth than small
businesses that do not blog” ***
*Source, eBizMBA.com. | ** Source, YouTube.com. | ***Source, smallbusiness.Yahoo.com
Web Directory Listings
The Good, the Bad and the Really Ugly!
More is not always better, be selective when choosing your SEO links. Google, Yelp, DMOZ are among some of the must have listings. However, did you know that Google has a list of 94 directories that were banned and over 400 that were penalized according to Moz.com blog - posted by Kurtis Bohrnsted? Check out this article. Source, Moz.com blog
Moz.com's Web Directory Lists
Kurtis Bohrnsted's blog contains over 2,600 Web site directories.Below are two links with a spreadsheet that shows which Web site directories were banned and which ones were penalized by Google.
Other Web Directory Lists
Another source Web directories is Best-Web-Directories.com. The site has a listing of free submission Web directories and each site is rated.