SUBMIT 2.0

If you are a fan of social media, you would have noticed at that a point; you have come across businesses promoting their brands. Some of these promotions are free whiles others are paid. This article looks at social media that can effectively help to promote your brand or business.

1. Tweeter – in less than 141 characters, you are supposed to share what is going on around you. Tweeter is number one on this list because it is a free service and currently do not serve any ad meaning everybody has the same opportunity of the platform to market themselves. Any time you update your tweeter status, sign off with your website address. Whether personal or commercial update, always use your website address as a signature. It helps in two ways – first you draw attention to your website and second you create backlinks for your website.

2. Facebook – Facebook is a huge phenomenon. It is the world’s largest social media and continues to grow. The good thing about Facebook is that it allows users to integrate their own applications into the parent website. You also have the chance to create fan pages and groups that relate to your website and invite people to join. When you have a huge fan base, each social bookmarking submission you make for your website is likely to reach a large audience. Facebook allows for you to concentrate on a particular market niche, say U.S. college students but the down side is that paid advertising always works better than free ones.

3. LinkedIn – This is a social website that allows professionals to set up a profile for themselves indicating their area expertise. The idea is to bring these professionals together to network and market themselves. With a LinkedIn profile, other professionals are able to share their experiences in terms of work and service provision. You are even able to gain new clients from there, who will be able to write a review on their experience with you.

4. Digg – Digg is like a form of web directory submission service. The only difference is that the contents are submitted both by webmasters and users alike so it is more of a social directory service. It is an excellent social bookmarking service that shares your content with the rest of the world whiles giving you high value backlinks.

5. Stumbleupon – This is another social bookmarking submission website just like Digg. The little difference is that it focuses more on submissions by users of websites instead of those by the website owners.

A good approach towards the use of the above websites stands to bring in huge benefits sometimes at no monetary costs at all.

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