subject: Taking Advantage of Social Media Sites [print this page] Taking Advantage of Social Media Sites Taking Advantage of Social Media Sites
Every month different social media sites welcome billions of visitors. In 2009, Facebook grew by more than 200%, Twitter grew over 600% and LinkedIn by 85%. During that same year, Technorati indexed blogs that numbered over 130 million and in one day period there are almost 900,000 created blog posts. Simultaneously that year, YouTube operated over 75 billion video streams to almost 370 million unique visitors. Need more facts to prove that social media is really on the go? Well, let us just take blog as an example. If you want to determine if your blog is a hit, you may observe if your blog receives large number of spam comments. Since spammers aim hot topics and you saw that its rises then obviously you are talking about something that is significant and interesting. It is just evident that it is a hit, as well as online video.
There are 186 videos every month that are being watched by an average U.S. Internet user. In May 2010 alone, users of Facebook watched around 245 million videos. The video views of this type of medium soar up to more than 230% in one whole year. It was found out that more video was uploaded to YouTube in the period of 2 months compared to TV networks that were created in 6 decades. It does work because more than 5% of small business advertisers are already utilizing videos since last year.
If you want to take advantage of these kinds of sites (e.g. increase your sales revenue), there are available marketing strategies that can help you. One good illustration is to include the URL of your website in the video description section as it allows you to leave your link so that viewers as well as search engines may link to your website. If you choose not do it, your video may most likely end up one of those ordinary videos with no extraordinary that may disappoint you.
