Those sites distribute and amplify user-generated content. They tie users together based on their shared interests. They create vibrant communities that stretch across the Web, example, How to Build an Online Business community.

If you have a website, hopefully you also have Facebook and Twitter accounts for that site.

Social media is about the moment. It’s about now, it’s a constant, fast-flowing stream. Thus, the most successful Twitter streams and Facebook walls are updated daily, sometimes several times a day.

In last week’s Hitwise report, according to their data, 1 in 4 page views in the US took place on Facebook.com as of last week.

In March, Hitwise reported that Facebook overcame Google to become the largest website in the U.S. with 7.07% of all U.S. visits. They also says that visits to Facebook have increased by 60% from the same week last year and represented 1 in 10 US Internet visits last week. And the market share of page views for Facebook was 24.27% last week, 3.8x the volume of the 2nd ranked website YouTube with 6.93%. However, the data doesn’t include visits from outside the U.S. and it also excludes mobile traffic.

What’s that means to you? It doesn’t matter which marketers categories you are in, you need to pay attention to those network sites because it tells you that social media is becoming more and more useful to growing a business online and offline.

Just like SiteSell, a total-esolution-provider to help the average Joe (or Joanna) to make money online based on their interests or hobbies, whether they have web-page building skills or not have set up their SiteSell Facebook, Twitter and YouTube account to share the resources, information and up-to-date education materials with their customers, prospects and SBIers.

For myself, I have to remain engaged not only with social media, but also with my own website every single day.

On Twitter I can communicate with others in the same niche and build relationships. By retweeting their content regularly I become “that nice lady at LoveThatBug” so that when I have a question about their product, chances are I get a prompt and full answer instead of the “that’s commercially sensitive information”!

There are many benefits to social media, and there are plenty of good reasons to get involved with social media as well.

Unfortunately, in the rush to be on the cutting edge of social media marketing, many online business people continue to be misguided in their efforts to be relevant.

If you want to pleasing search engine spiders, you should know it is all about feeding them with good content and offering them Link Juice. Writing and post comments for sure helps, but we see similar comments are written around the Web by well-meaning Webmasters, often time, it likely fresh off the plane and out of cash from the latest high-priced conference.

Beside the off-page optimization, which are only one of two main data-measuring sticks of a website, link juice is about how much link popularity a page is given from any inbound link, but search engines look at so much more than just linking. So for webmasters, their main task online is not only to getting more of it while taking part in social networks, they also need to work out the content in a consistence way to track human behavior.

Being involved in social media involves a lot more than just putting the Facebook icon on the bottom of your site or setting up a Twitter profile with your website feed that updates once a week when you post a page.

Social Networking is about interaction with your site visitors, offering new information and building a brand. Thus, you need to focus on the its overall values, at the same time offer something to let your visitors get to know you, your business, services or products, you need to over-deliver for them, and then the Links will come to you at no time.

When it comes to advertising there are many business owners who literally cringe because advertising can cost big bucks. And as a business owner you want to make money and at the same time you don’t want to spend that much money on the ads.

Although you may have to spend money to make your business what you want it to be, you know there are ways to promote your business and the products or services that you sell without having to spend any money on advertising, which means through social networking method.

When it comes to social networking, did you know that a large number of Internet users, in fact millions of them, belong to at least one social networking site if not more.

Over the past few years social networking, especially the online model have rapidly increased in pop­u­lar­ity, which caused many peo­ple to won­der why, together they learn that there is a lot of profit to be made by socializing, continuing read this week’s MBA Digest

As you know, social networking has revolutionized communication and how information is shared. These sites are being used by millions of people every day and their use is growing rapidly. In June 2008, Alexa reported that seven of the top ten most visited websites globally, were social networking or web 2.0 sites. There appears to be frustration with users of social networking sites as these sites are becoming too large, making it difficult to connect with others sharing the same interests especially when it is difficult to differentiate a real user from a scam artist or a computer generated profile.

GoSecure, on the other hand, is a web 2.0 networking tool for the masses. Aside from providing members a place to share their expertise and learn from each other, they also provide the latest and most robust End-Point information protection tools. The platform is not only non-intrusive but also advertisement free.

Back to months ago I have created a short video about how the portal works, its really simple but powerful, you can Watch the Video Here. The design of the new membership portal has changed (I like its new look), the one you see in the video is old design.

When comes to the privacy online, most techies think about Personally Identifiable Information, but that the vast majority of people are thinking about personally embarrassing information. People often share private information with their friends in part because it allows them to bond, it makes them somewhat vulnerable and establishes trust. But when it’s through technology (e.g. Facebook’s public by default setting) it’s a huge technology fail.

In regarding to this matter, GoSecure gives the right tools to network, connect and communicate while users are in complete control of their privacy. Their charter is to help members network, learn, and build relationships that matter but with real people. And they deliver the most popular functions of social networking for end-users along with cutting edge information protection tools.

Beside their private secure social media portal, they also have other solu­tions, which pro­vide indus­trial grade infor­ma­tion secu­rity to the con­sumer at a price point that is not a bar­rier to entry, their trade-secret core tech­nol­ogy of unique encryp­tion and obfus­ca­tion was blended with strong authentication. You can learn more from Want Your Personal Data Get Secured Online article.

Social networking sites, by definition, its exist to share information socially. However, all businesses and personal are entrusted with data of some kind and have an obligation to protect it. It is important that organizations and individuals shall understand that privacy is not dead, and it is important to keep oneself concerns regarding privacy in mind while adapting to evolving technology.

Why Should You Join GoSecure Portal?

GoSecure offers its members secure storage, backup, exchange of information and private networking. By offering integrated encryption, obfuscation as well as strong authentication. With its suite of products and services, a member can upload, share and store information and rest at peace that they are private.

How do You Join GoSecure?

Signup is free. Memberships are by requests or by invitation. After you signup, you will receive an email from them, just click on the link on the invitation and following the instructions on the website, and you done!

GoSecure underlying core technology is flexible, scalable and adaptable to support a broad portfolio of innovative current and future products and solutions. With GoSecure Private Secure Portal, at any time and at any place allows you to have the ability to network ensuring privacy and protection second to none. It is a secure, collaborative and advertisement free environment where members retain ownership of their information and can manage their privacy unlike any other networking portal.

Once you are on board, don’t forget to looking for me and get connected with me on the portal.

When I do my regular RSS catch up, this Soical Media Marketing the Anti-Social Approach caught up my attention and I suggest you read it too.

In the article, Charles Heflin got some interesting questions, he made some good point, shared with you some of his opinions toward social media marketing, together with some applicable tips toward building a content syndication network and what are the benefits you will gain.

Do you like hanging out on Twitter or Facebook working endless hours to attract new business prospects?

Do you like “hanging out” and letting people know every intimiate detail of your life?

Do you like making small talk with hundreds of people every day in hope that some of them will filter into your sales funnel somehow?

How many hours do you spend building/networking with Twitter followers, Facebook friends and the like? What is your goal in all this?

In other words, you can utilize social media by ignoring the “networking” bits and focus on marketing leverage instead.

Most people spend 90% of their time marketing and 10% of their time nurturing their business message. This is backwards.

Why not spend 90% of your time moving prospects into cutomers, enhancing your web presence and nurturing customers for repeat sales?

The answer is simple… You have not found your leverage point yet. You know, that single thing you can do that will reduce your marketing time from 90% down to 20%, then 10%, etc.

With this understanding in place what can you do to leverage your time, effort and money to market your business most efficiently?