 Top social media sites for search engine optimisation use, Sept 09If you’re a fan of social media marketing (and you should be, it is an invaluable addition to any SEO or link building campaign as well as being a fantastic tool for reputation management and brand building) Hitwise’s latest report will shed some light on the suitability of your strategy. Its data centre has updated its records of most popular social media sites based on visitor numbers and deemed Facebook to be the most popular of all networking sites in the UK. The community site claimed a massive 49.91% of visits, easily beating our YouTube with 16.68%. Bebo, MySpace and Twitter completed the top 5 with 3.58%, 2.04% and 1.88% of visits respectively. Top Position’s SEO team say the results are a great indicator of just which networks you should position your brand on. With video aggregation, community and micro-media all represented in the top 5, using just this small selection of social media outlets will give you a wide-ranging popularity and ensure user eyeballs on the most visited of all social networking sites. “Choosing the most suitable social media properties for your SEOand link building campaign can be a minefield but newcomers can try these popular sites and really get a feel for the web 2.0 marketing landscape,” said Rebecca Appleton, head of SEO at the Nottingham and London based SEM agency. |    |
