Social media marketing - best practises

[IdeaAlex]

As we all know, social media sites provide great opportunity for free web traffic.
I would like to hear your success stories with various sites.
Here are the questions that would be interesting to get answers for.

- what 3 social networking sites generates most traffic for your business (please in order of performance)?
- how much traffic each of them dries to you per month?
- what tips and tricks can you share to maximize the traffic from those sites? (please provide as many details as you can)

If you are interested our CEO can cover the most successful cases on our blog (free PR for you as a marketing pro).

[SEO-Firm-India]

Facebook is a good social media marketing website. Also Youtube and various others.

[manomanjudotcom]

Social media marketing sites are the new destinations for getting traffic. Millions of people are using social media sites today to find information regarding a particular topic or news etc.

The most popular and traffic infested ones like Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com, Del.icio.us, Reddit.com, Sphinn.com, Furl.net, Spurl.net, etc...

[redesignunit]

Stumble is good site for us because we can send our page to our friends

[bobchrist]

There are many good social networking sites out there from where you can get good amount of traffic but you need to understand how specific network work? You should also spare your time to get involved and develop new connection on regular basis.

[rajivpindvar]

yes It's a Most Popular website for get Traffic - Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com, Del.icio.us, Reddit.com, Sphinn.com, Furl.net, Spurl.net

Social media marketing sites are the new destinations for getting traffic. Millions of people are using social media sites today to find information regarding a particular topic or news etc.

The most popular and traffic infested ones like Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com, Del.icio.us, Reddit.com, Sphinn.com, Furl.net, Spurl.net, etc...

[IdeaAlex]

Guys, thank you very much for your comments. But could you please be more specific and try to follow questions I suggested us to cover? Otherwise it's a;; basic information that we all know and the thread will be of no value to its readers.

Once gain:
Here are the questions that would be interesting to get answers for.

- what 3 social networking sites generates most traffic for YOUR particular business (please in order of performance)?

- how much traffic each of them dries to you per month?

- what tips and tricks can you share to maximize the traffic from those sites? (please provide as many details as you can)

Thank you for sharing.

[InsightsDigital]

Here are the questions that would be interesting to get answers for.

- what 3 social networking sites generates most traffic for YOUR particular business (please in order of performance)?

1. LinkedIn, a Meetup bullentin board, and a Google Group (tech related).

- how much traffic each of them dries to you per month?

It depends, I can have as much as 750 uniques to as little as 100 per month. It depends with how much plugging I do on the above mentioned sites.

- what tips and tricks can you share to maximize the traffic from those sites? (please provide as many details as you can)

Constantly post something from the perspective from the visitor and not from the perspective it can help my business

[ChiefLee]

Important to limit your time and focus on a few. For us:

Priority One - Have a good blog. Good content. Good value for our customers. And hopefully generates inbound links naturally.

Priority Two - We have a good Facebook page, and are developing a good fan base.

Priority Three - Just really starting to utilize Twitter and developing a following.

Priority Four - Diving into social bookmarking, but mostly for backlinks.

[johnvitc]

Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com are the top 2 for me

[jusvie]

Social networking sites like facebook, twitter, myspace, and multiply helps generate traffic on your site/blog.. But of course you have to get more followers and invite more friends to achieve the amount of traffic you want..

[ayoungpretender]

Facebook StumbleUpon Digg
my top three :D

[Angela12]

Facebook, myspace and twitter work well as social media marketing....these are hot techniques of marketing now.

[mickeyy]

I track my social bookmarking pretty effectively in my opinion. Here is what I do: First I set up a folder in my favorites just for social bookmarking website's. Secondly I search the internet to find over 100 bookmarking sites. Then I submit a new link once a week every week to all of the websites in that folder. Over time this increases my link popularity as well as increasing visitors through clicking on the links. It also provides me a easy, quick, and cheap form of advertising. Over time this yields unbelievable results.

[InsightsDigital]

That is a very good post - thank you. The common thread here is that you constantly have to contribute in order to receive.

[jay 11]

i agree - nice post and method mickeyy.

[seoevans]

Yes you are right social media optimization is very effective and free way to attract more traffic...twitter, facebook and mypace are best make attractive profile on them.... bookmarking and blooging is also effective..
Now a days twitter and facebook is first choice to promote business...
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[tonygreg123]

Digg.com , twitter.com and facebook.com are 3 best options for me from social media

[jennypitts]

I like to combine and social network and bookmark on a variety of social sites.

Mainstream sites like:
Facebook.com
Twitter.com

More specialized site like:
Reddit.com
Diggo.com
Stumple.com

And the more internet marketing targeted like:

Startbiz.com
Apsense.com
PrimeRealAdState.com
Adlandpro.com
Yuwie.com

But the key is to build your list of friends (followers) then keep in contact commenting and marketing.

[mackone]

Social bookmarking can be good to an extent, if you have power users on your side on sites like Propeller, Delicious, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Digg.