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Social Networking

Social networking is a way to bring people with like-minded interests together to form an online community; people with the same interests can communicate and share ideas and information with one another online.

The great thing about social networking websites is that there can be hundreds of thousands of different interests represented in one website and each one of those interests has the possibility of networking thousands of different people together based on their unique shared interests and activities.

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Social Networking Is Not Business Networking

When people think of networking, most often they think of business networking; ways of working with other businesses to share services and information to help increase and promote their businesses.

While the concept of networking may have its origins in business networking, social networking evolved out of the public’s interest and need to promote ideas, common interests, activities and information. Social networking legitimized the idea of networking shared interests to millions of people; providing them with an ability to communicate easily with others online who share the same interests and activities.

Social Networking Sites

Social networking sites have grown immensely in popularity over the past few years. Many new social networking sites are appearing with some social networks being created to target specific groups of people; such as baby boomers, hobby enthusiasts and more. 

Some of the most popular social networking sites include:

	Facebook.com	Myspace.com	Flickr.com
	Youtube.com	LinkedIn.com	Twitter.com

The Differences Between Social Networking Sites

The most unique differences you will find with these sites are the types of information that is being shared and how it is used to connect users:

Facebook.com

Facebook is a social networking site where people and networks are organized by their location, jobs, schooling and other shared interests.

Linkedin.com

LinkedIn is a social networking site where business people and other professionals set up social networks based on their job history and experiences.

Youtube.com

Youtube is a video hosting, video sharing and social networking site that helps people network by their interest in various video formats. It is a place where people can view, upload and share videos.

Myspace.com

Myspace is one of the most popular social networking sites, connecting users via their friends and personal interests. Myspace utilizes personal profiles, photo sharing, blogs, video and music sharing, etc.

Flickr.com

Flickr is a popular image sharing and video hosting website where photos to be easily tagged and browsed.

Twitter.com

Twitter offers a micro-blogging service where users can send text-based posts and instant messages.

Web 2.0 & Social Networking Sites

Within the past 2 years, social networking sites have gained a lot of momentum; this can be attributed to the power of Web 2.0, a recent “world wide web” trend designed to enhance user collaboration and information sharing plus the syndication of information.

Some of the more popular Web 2.0 areas include:

	Blogging	Social Bookmarking
	Wiki's	Podcasts
	RSS Feeds

 

Social Networking & Search Engine Optimization

Powerful websites that offer real value to their visitors can benefit from social networking through increased backlinks, a large influx of direct traffic from social networking sites and increased natural search engine rankings for the most relevant phrases targeted from their original keyword research.

Essentially social networking and social networking sites can do a lot to help a website owner’s search engine optimization (SEO) efforts and their link building (link popularity) efforts. Other services offered by 1st on the List for improving link popularity include social bookmarking, directory registrations and optimized press release services.

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