What Is Social Networking? Best Social Networking Sites,
Top Social Networking Sites vs Reaching Top Web Site Ranking.
Social Marketing Definition, Social Networking Ideas. Blog vs Site.

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You'd think learning how to get top search engine ranking would be enough. But no. Now there's the Web 2.0. Blogs and more blogs. Top social networking sites, best social networking sites - Facebook and Myspace and Twitter and StumbleUpon and Digg and the list goes on and on. Dogpile. LinkedIn. HubPages, Squidoo lenses.

The first piece of advice. First things first.

There's a lot of marvelous stuff to social networking. People can put their music, writings, their profiles on the web. People can find like-minded people from around the world. Wonderful.

But ... for a lasting space on the web, nothing works as well as a web site. A friend is just putting his blog, page by page, into a web site. The difference? With a blog, the pages quickly became "old". But the information was still valid. Very frustrating for him.

What is social networking? It's using the top social networking sites and smaller niche sites to reach people. Some people use it as an alternative to a web site. Some use it in addition to having a web site.

I'm writing as someone who's built 2 sites which have increasing traffic. I was swamped buiding the sites. Yet I kept hearing that social networking is the now thing, social networking is where it's at. Reach the top fast with the power of Web 2.0. Dialogue and communication instead of a site which just sits there.

In the fist place, neither of my sites just sits there. They both invite comments. One even has pages for people to respond.

In the second, the information on my sites doesn't get dated, as it does on the top social networking sites. Instead, the traffic keeps increasing.

Social marketing is more like a radio program, a tv announcement, a newspaper article. Rarely something lasting, no matter how important the information. Still, you may reach a lot of people (usually briefly).

I was so relieved when, recently, my sense was validated by SiteSell - click here for their full message. (What is SiteSell, in case you happened to start on this page? It's the amazing web host which has taught me how to create sites that work.) The message from SiteSell: So many people pour months of time into social marketing. In the end, they may be close to where they started.

It's a bit like the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. No matter how fast he ran, he never got any further. (Is it the white rabbit? It could be one of the queens. Whoever it is, the message is the same.)

This is not to put down social marketing. I'm on Facebook. I've had surges of traffic through Stumbleupon. I leave the occasional comment on Twitter. I've explored (a bit) the world of social networking. I've taken a course. The more I learned, the more it seemed like a full time job. And (or at least so I learned), the best way to get ahead quickly was through manipulation, by getting friends who aren't really friends and so on. Social marketing definition: often it's a bit like, wolf in sheep's clothing. In this case, marketer in friend's clothing.

BUT YOU CAN HAVE THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: IF YOU LIKE, SITESELL WILL ADD A COMMENT BOX TO YOUR PAGES. PEOPLE WILL COME TO YOU!

In general, you have to know what you're aiming for. A strong steady lasting presence. My verdict and SiteSell's: build a site, most easily done with the fantastic SiteSell tools - AND USE THEIR SBI 2.0 feature (included).

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SITESELL - BETTER SEARCH ENGINE RANKS. Here, a great introduction.

SITESELL - IMPROVE SEARCH ENGINE RANKS. Here, all about SiteSell.

SITESELL - TOP WEB SITE RANKING. Here, more about SiteSell.

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