Social
Networking has become very popular nowadays. They have the capacity to
stimulate large no. of traffic towards a website or business. It’s a complete
procedure of spreading a business or building a brand by making friends of
similar interests and so on. In fact, everyone nowadays uses platforms like
Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus etc to make online presence of their business
or services. Usually these 3 platforms are the main focus of numerous of
people, in this strand they forget about the other social networking sites that
can actually them in promoting their business and building online reputation among
people.
So,
I did a deep analysis on this fact and bring down top 7 most popular website of
2014 for Social Networking. The list is given below along with the pros
associated with the distinct social media sites.
Facebook
Facebook
was prior used for personal usage, to connect with your dear ones but now it
comes under top Social Networking websites. It has provided an edge to the
users to create their business page under main 6 categories i.e. Local Business
or Place, Company Organization or Institution, Brand or Product, Artist, Brand
or Public Figure, Entertainment, Cause or Community. Users can sign up with
their any email ID and can create a page varying on their business niche.
Currently, Facebook has reached beyond 500 million users and turn out to be
most popular social networking site.
Google plus
Google
has launched its social networking site with the name of Google Plus, until
then it has become the biggest competitor for already popular website “Facebook”.
Nowadays it becomes necessary to share every post in your Google+ account as it’s
considered to be one of the ranking factors for your web pages. The more no. of
followers you have the chances of getting popular on web are higher. So, keep
following people of similar interests and niche and also stay posting relevant
and unique content for your users to get higher ranking on SERP.
Twitter
Twitter
is one of the most widely used platforms for social networking and known as
micro-blogging websites. Recently Twitter has added "search by date" option for its users and makes the process of advance search more feasible. With your twitter account you can post any no. of messages and share it with your contacts. You can increase no. of followers by following others, re-tweeting their posts on your wall and invite other members to follow you or like your posts. It is the most talked social media sites over the internet.
YouTube
YouTube
can’t be compared to any other site when it comes to video sharing. However
like Google+, YouTube is also owned by Google only but in all these years it
has actually succeeded in building its own identity in the eyes of users. This is
the top most platforms to share video, vlogging etc. Users can avail the
benefit with YouTube by making user-interactive videos which in return
increases their Video view as well as subscribers. All in all this entire tasks
makes the business popular enough.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn
is basically as professional cum networking website which has currently
millions of users engaged. The traffic diverted from site is most relevant
because it is largely used by professional people who look out for better jobs
as well as opportunities. Groups created in LinkedIn are open to everyone where
users can promote their business, post attractive opportunities as well as
discussion over various attention seeking topics.
Pinterest
Pinterest
is not a very old social networking website but in less time it has gained a
lot of popularity. It is an accomplished networking platform which is able to
generate 10 million monthly unique visits and provides its users a great
experience. This is also a great social site to build your business and it
basically focuses on image promotion associated with your business.
Tumblr
Tumblr
is a very popular blogging website but most of the users are not aware of how
to get benefit out of it. Blogs created with Tumblr get unexpected SERP as well
as users hit so one should not avoid this great blogging site and should use it
in their social networking websites list.
Myspace
There
was a time when Myspace was on the 1st no. in the list of social
networking sites before Facebook entered. But still after the entry of giant
platforms like Facebook, Twitter Google plus, Myspace is still able to grab
large no. of users and is used in various countries for socializing as well as
business promotion. So, blogger must use Myspace for endorsement purpose of
their product or services.