Vacation Rules and Social Media Marketing
I am currently on vacation. My self imposed rule is, No work. Simple, one would think. As a work-a-holic I am continuously fighting the challenge of working to much… i really enjoy what I do…outside of the job world anyway. As I have communicated I started a new position last week. I really intended to wait until after vacation to start but for a few reasons went ahead and started early. I havent posted since being at camp with the fam so have been pretty good. I fired up the computer today though and looked the blog…geez its looks bad the last few weeks with big holes in the posting consistency. So I will be diligent when I get home and get caught up on the myriad of things that are lacking. One of which is editing podcasts. I have some great content just waiting to be posted…I cant wait. also as mentioned in an earlier post I am hoping to help John Derry get ready to sell some of his images.
So, this post will help fill some gaps before I get home to where the podcasts are waiting on my Mac hard-drive. I did get to peak at some alexa ratings when I hooked up with a SEO expert here. He was trying to sneak some work in also. (When the kids went down for a nap i stole away) Anyway the social media sites have exploded in the last three years. i cant give you screen shots as I dont have a wa yto caputure them on this antiquated laptop. If you look at Facebook on Alexa.com you will see that it has almost as much trafficas Google. Yep. Myspace vs Google reveals that Myspace actually beat the Almighty Google during much of 2007. How about YouTube…nearly twice the monthly views as google. The social media sites are pretty much doubling every six months.
Here is nother interesting find. According to Comscore (a highly trusted global internet research company) in a typical month people who go online can be tracked in this way:
*just under 2/3rds visits my space
*29% of them visited facebook
*35% visit YouTube
*and 27% visit wikipedia
Whats the point of looking at this? To make sure we begin to take advantage of the growth in social media usage. Social media sites many times are responsible for 8 out of the first page rankings on Google or Yahoo search engines. That means we have the opportunity to compete with the big dogs without spending a ton of money on adwords…at least for a while longer. Who knows when it will change? 12-24 months is what i have seen as a guestimate from many people. I dont know anything other than I want to take advantage of the small window of opportunity. Following are a few ways to do that.
Get involved with some of the sites and post on a consistent basis. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Photobucket, Flickr ect. Place some content on Scribd.com, squidoo.com, hubpages.com. If there seems to be interest we can address these in greater detail. I have tutorials for most areas that I can put up as well.
Ok, that’s it for now I will write after I get back from Family Camp. Ciao’
Tim
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