For the most part social networking websites like Myspace, Facebook, Xanga, Moli, and even Twitter (which really isn’t recognized as an SNW) are receiving a lot of buzz these days because they are turning out to be one of the most innovative yet simple ways to make money online by receiving visitors and potential leads to your website(s). You can easily incorporate your website links into these sites by use of bulletins, PMs, IMs, comments, blogs and profiles.
On Facebook and a few other sites you can even develop a plug in of sorts or applications surrounding your business plan, business type, or business function. I have seen a lot of people doing this, they develop something creative yet fun and millions of people flock to their site to see what it’s all about. Grab peoples attention, its key! Another concept you might want to is Wikipedia. Not only can you find tons of info on Wiki about tons of things, but you can also find out about businesses ON Wiki.
Here is an excerpt found in the About Wikipedia section of their website:
“Begun in 2001, Wikipedia has rapidly grown into the largest reference website on the Internet. The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. This website is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit, correct, or improve information throughout the encyclopedia, simply by clicking the edit this page link (with a few minor exceptions such as protected articles).”
The benefits of using Wiki to begin with are tremendous; first off the information submitted about your product or company can be short sweet and to the point. As your content ages and people edit, update and explore your content the more your submission will grow. For example, your submission might start out as a short 50 word “essay” that may eventually turn into a multi-page article.
Also, Wiki has a strong Page Rank of 9 which will help boost your websites PR with a quality backlink from the site! Using keywords relevant to your site in your contribution will aid in controlling more space on the results of search engines such as Google and Yahoo for your particular business, company name, product, or service. Most anything you search for nowadays will result in a result from Wiki. Try it out the next time you are looking for something online!
