July 13, 2008
Using Social Networking Sites to Generate Traffic to your Website or Blog
If one more “social networking guru,” tells me I need to use Social Networking Sites to generate a TRAFFIC JAM!!!! I will spit. Is anyone else sick and tired of hearing this?
Unfortunately, the hype surrounding this is getting to breaking point as far as I am concerned. There are more social networking sites than normal websites as far as I can tell. Sure, Facebook and Digg are pretty popular sites, but if you want to generate a Digg TRAFFIC JAM THAT WILL CRASH YOUR SERVER ! -
You need to pay people to digg your article for you or spend 10 hours a day digging other people’s submissions and making thousands of “friends.” Is it worth it is the question - and much of what I see on the front page of digg is garbage.
Facebook is not as bad - but I am getting completely fed up with people sending me good karma or asking me how much I think I would pay to “own them” or whatever. Come on facebook - let’s see some useful apps please……
If everyone is doing this surely that makes it worthless? How many social networking sites is enough? The only possible value I can see is when we start to see some niche social networking sites. Maybe they would be worth joining. So, if you write about “interesting cornflakes shaped like countries,” or “home brewing with nuts,” or “mid-life crisis, how to find that hottie after a nasty divorce,” here are a few suggestions. But I would think the latter is quite a big niche. Which begs the question - how big does a niche have to get before it becomes mainstream?
Contentinople has a list of the “Ten strangest Niche Social Networking Sites,” but they don’t seem to be that strange too me. Sad -Yes, Strange -No.
ReadWriteWeb thinks it is time for a social networking silver bullet. Presumably this will rid us of the vampire and werewolf networking sites. Where do the werewolves network online anyway?
ZDNet has a list of 12 social network sites for niche lovers. Which is, of course an oxymoron. No one loves all these niches. By their very definition, they have a narrow focus aimed specifically at people interested in that niche. So it is really 1 social network site for people who love pets or nurses or etc etc etc….. 
The other question of course is - what is the point of network marketing to people who are already interested in whatever niche you are in?
Happy Niche Social Networking !
Filed under Social Networking by Mark
Comments on Using Social Networking Sites to Generate Traffic to your Website or Blog »
I agree whole heartedly with your assessment of Facebook, some half decent apps wouldn’t go astray.
It’s a hard slog trying to get traffic from Digg unless your one of the diggorati. Pay for diggs is very useful.
Digg is one of the good and high quality social bookmarking site. normally you are making thousands of friends in digg. you get more traffic and article readers.