Do you use the power of soical media sites to your advantage?

[kgun]

1. Social media as a digital source to your site.

An example may say more than a lot of words. Here chrispederick.com (http://chrispederick.com/) is an example of how Chris Pederick uses social media sites to his advantage. Look at the bottom of the page:

Blog powered by
Books powered by
Links powered by
Photos powered by
Updates powered by
Videos powered by2. A django blog using OpenID to sign in.

Simon Willison's Weblog is powered by Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines (http://www.djangoproject.com/) and you sign in with OpenID (http://openid.net/) .

3. What are the advantages and disadvantages.

The advantages of the last example is obvious. By using OpenId to log into the Blog, you should get rid of most (all?) spamBots. The advantages of the first example regarding BandWith and storage capacity for your photos and your videos are also obvious. The disadvantages are also obvious. You don't have control of the external server, and the services may be halted.

4. Friendfeed.

There is another social media site that you should be aware of, FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/). I use that site on my FaceBook profile to automatically updating my delicious bookmarks (http://delicious.com/kbleivik) so all in my FaceBook network can see the update of my social bookmarks.

Note the RSS feed at the bottom of these bookmarks. You can use this feed in Google Adsense for feed if you have an AdSense account;)

[kgun]

No answer here either.

[kgun]

Still no reaction. Nevertheless I will share these related

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[xuchunfeng1984]

Still no reaction. Nevertheless I will share these related
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good content, thank you for sharing this.

[NeuroBenz]

Try blogcentral. You may find your answer there.

[streetforce1]

I use social media to help really get the word out there. Site like Twitter and Digg have really brought a new level of traffic to my site.

[kgun]

I think integration between different social network and media platforms with tools like FriendFeed will be more and more important.

[aleksandarr]

That example


1. Blog powered by
2. Books powered by
3. Links powered by
4. Photos powered by
5. Updates powered by
6. Videos powered by


is very interesting.

I use social plugin for Wordpress and experimenting with Facebook a lot. Of course, Digg, Twitter and others are in the game, too.

[streetforce1]

FriendFeed is a cool service but I don't really know how to tap into it to help increase traffic to my site

[cw1865]

Youtube is great for product demonstrations where a static picture doesn't tell the whole story. Social networking online and offline has definitely generated business for me.

[jabo]

^how do we rank our videos in youtube well anyways? do they do it like Google do with keywords? I mean, they do have SERP as well right? how do we obtain the higher positions

[AtlantaGaToday]

The more you can do the more exposure you will get. I use Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, etc...