The Top 50 Social Media Resources by Website Magazine

Posting on Facebook and tweeting on Titter... with so many social media resources and so little extra time, where should you invest your efforts? Social networking is definitely an important part of marketing any business today, but it becomes even more important if you are operating a service-oriented business. You want to be viewed as an expert and social networking can help give you the competitive edge. As it is will all marketing strategies, it all depends on how much time you can consistently devote to making your presence known.

Website Magazine periodically ranks the top social media resources. This listing may help you determine the sites that will give you the most exposure. To view the latest ranking results click on the following link:

http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/pages/top-50-social-media-resources.aspx

Website Magazine’s Top 50 rankings are a measure of a website’s popularity. Ranks are calculating using a proprietary method that focuses on average daily unique visitors and page views over a specified period of time as reported by multiple data sources. The website with the highest combination of factors is ranked in the first position. Conducting research, making formal comparisons, and talking to existing clients and users before making purchasing decisions is always recommended.

Building One-Way Links

If you're marketing your business on-line, you know Search Engine Optimization is important to increasing your rankings within all the major search engines. If your web site doesn't show up on the first 3 pages of listings, potential customers probably won't find you. Proper use of keyword phrases, meta tags, descriptions, and alt tags all play a major role in increasing your site's visibility.

You may have also heard that link building is important. And while reciprocal links are good, SEO expert, Rank Magic, says that one-way links are even more powerful. They recently made some suggestions on how you can quickly build one-way links to your web site. Here are the approaches they suggest:

• Article Marketing
• AddThis Bookmark
• Google Alerts Link Building
• Press Releases

For more great information on SEO, you can visit the Rank Magic blog at http://www.rankmagic.com/blog/index.htm.