What’s Social Media Networks ?

The Social Media Networks are a great tool for all us, the bloggers. With them, news, blog posts, photos, videos, and podcasts are made public via social media websites through submission. Thus networks are big communities online, normally accompanied with a voting process to make media items become “popular” and be shown on the popular or hot list.

The Importance Of Social Media Networks

You should know in the blogging world, be referred on other sites is the key to expand your blog and attract more readers. And what’s better than social media networks? All them are really important to get new readers because their system makes easy the promotion task, showing your link for everywhere and letting to the people rate your post/blog.

All thus latest days I was joining to many networks, the next is a list with some of them:

• Digg
• StumpleUpon
• Reddit
• Delicious
• Mixx
• Propeller
• MyBlogLog
• BlogCatalog

When someone give you a digg, a stumble or tagged you, your respective post will be show in their social media profile as a recent activity. Everybody who check their profile, will see your post and the reviews about it, and there is good possibility that visit your post. But how can you get this points, reviews or comments? very simple, you need to start to add people to your profile, look for who has a good mount of friends and review their profile. Giving good reviews about their posts and commenting on other profiles will help you to make tons of friends and you will start to attract them, getting their attention and get tons of traffic by there. Yesterday, Tal Siach from www.walyou.com stumble my post Introducing OIOpublisher Pluging For WordPress and I got a dramatical increase over my traffic, see the graphic:

As you can see, on my first days I was getting ~100 visitors by day, and you can see how my traffic exploded from ~150 to almost 300 visitors yesterday! and that was with a simple stumble, imagine if you get many stumbles, diggs and reddits everyday…that is to get 5000+ visitors by day ! think about it.

Social Media Advantages

• Cost: you need to pay for nothing, all those stuff is free!.
• Improve Traffic: get tons of visitors by day, getting more readers and expanding your network exponentially.
• Make Friends: make new friends and partnership. This will help you to future actions/deals.
• Share Your Media: your media will be public shared: posts, photos, blogs and everything you want.
• Discover: discover interesting sites with the big directory.

Disadvantages? I don’t think so !!!

Moral: Using social media networks you can easily share your media with people around the world. Those networks are perfect to get a viral traffic, being linked in too many different profiles, you can explode your traffic in few days, you noticed it, the changes are instantly .