Social networking sites any use?

Which social networking sites do you use as part of a strategy to
boost SEO?
Someone's suggested flickr to me recently - do you have any experience
of using this site?
facebook makes me feel very old as most users weren't born when I left
school.
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Mogga <di (AT) nospamohpleasenospammogga (DOT) com> wrote:

Which social networking sites do you use as part of a strategy to
boost SEO?
Someone's suggested flickr to me recently - do you have any experience
of using this site?

Yeah, have several photos on it, but I am afraid that you have to spend a
lot of time on it to get action. In my opinion, and in my case, I get much
more visitors by publishing the photo on my own site, with some content.

facebook makes me feel very old as most users weren't born when I left
school.

You can get a lot of visitors via digg, but IMO they are worthless. A few
times I got like 40k extra on a single day, but after a day or two traffic
is back to normal, and no extra money was made. Maybe long term it does
have an effect (people post later on a link on a message board because
they read it on digg, etc.). Anyway, it's not something I recommend to put
(a lot of) time in, based on my experiences.

Focus on adding good content if you have already a site that does ok.

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Which social networking sites do you use as part of a strategy to
boost SEO?

LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/) is the only one that makes a difference
to me. All you need to do is ensure you add your website to your profile.

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Digg-one day spikes in traffic.
Stumbleupon - the queen of social networking to promote sites, as many
people like doshdosh or Andy Beard (I think) claim the traffic can be
sustained, however, if you spam the site your out. It has to be used
just as a 'social network' and when you build friends you gain more
respect via positive reviews and positive stumbles- you get more
traffic. You basically build your stumble page. But it has to be a
natural gradual network type traffic not just jump in and stumble your
pages. But if you spend so many hours building your stumble page why
not build your own page? I think I have like 3 friends on stumble
after 1 year which says something
Facebook, myspace, reddit- once in a blue moon I get traffic from
these site, but if I applied myself more and more work and effort I
think I would get more traffic so IMO I think it goes back to Bokma's
comment above that is: your better off building good content unless
networking with people online is your thing... and you do not mind
spending 2 hours a day on this....then it can be effective.

In terms of traffic digg, stumble etc have low quality instant
gratification pleasure clicker type traffic with low converstion rates
but can produce such great raw visits on some days that ....

its like thowing spaghetti against the wall, you though enough some
will stick. That means some of the traffic might actually subscribe to
your RSS feed. However, they will drop your from your feed in 1 week
at a 50% rate by most people's comments. But some will stick. But
these are people who are really interested in your content not the
party crashers who stumble you for a few days and then are gone.

Again look at doshdosh.com he really likes this type marketing as
doshdosh claims step 1 is quality content however, step 2 is to market
it.

On the other hand another SEO guru Uberdose writes this....
http://wp.uberdose.com/2008/02/24/mo...really-counts/
I agree what he writes as I am not into spending hours a week chatting
up friends online unless they really do share a commonality of
interests.



Mark Biernat
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Further more here is an excellent post about the cost -reward - ROI of
using social media as a form of marketing.
http://www.doshdosh.com/social-media...rking-and-roi/
I hope this helps



Mark Biernat
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mbiernat (AT) hotmail (DOT) com wrote:

Further more here is an excellent post about the cost -reward - ROI of
using social media as a form of marketing.
http://www.doshdosh.com/social-media...rking-and-roi/
I hope this helps

What a great idea... I mean the above article interjecting (?)
interesting yet un-related images into a big block of text to break
concentration into several smaller chunks.

Worked for me anyway.
:¬)

Pete

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"Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk" wrote ...

mbiernat (AT) hotmail (DOT) com wrote:
Further more here is an excellent post about the cost -reward - ROI of
using social media as a form of marketing.
What a great idea... I mean the above article interjecting (?) interesting
yet un-related images into a big block of text to break concentration into
several smaller chunks.
Worked for me anyway.

I like the way he shows his stupidy by using spam ALT text on the page
obviously thinks is his best one.
He also edits out any comments that remotely criticise his blather.
(Or maybe he picks his friends from folk who have no clue?).

This guy will go far ... the further away from me, the better!

Andrew Heenan wrote:

I like the way he shows his stupidy by using spam ALT text on the page
obviously thinks is his best one.

OK, so even if the purpose of the images is to use ALT tags (which I
hadn't realised) then perhaps the visual benefit of using is an
accidental discovery rather than a clever and (for me) effective way of
holding attention within a long block of text.

And if you have an image then why ever not bung an ALT tag onto it after
all, it can't do any harm even if it night have no benefit.

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Doshdosh is the 21st most popular blog on the Interent,
http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/?page=3 according to Technorati, so i
think he knows what he is doing with alt text and images. I try to
match my images to the topic but not in every case, and the same with
the alt text. Doshdosh does the same, many of his images are not
connected to the topic but just nice images.... in his mind this is
part of marketing. And as the 21st most popular blog on the web he
is someone's advice I trust.




Mark
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"Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk" wrote ...

OK, so even if the purpose of the images is to use ALT tags (which I
hadn't realised) ...
And if you have an image then why ever not bung an ALT tag onto it after
all, it can't do any harm even if it night have no benefit.

Hey, what's a Google ban between friends?
You have NO CLUE and yet you fake a blog of raving fans for your expertise.
Go search for [alt attribute] and learn.
Then search for [spam].
If you want to teach people to spam, that's your choice.
But surely you should at least warn them of the risks?
Twat.