Social Networking Concept
We are researching the social networking scene to find out if we can successfully drive traffic to a site on our network. Social networking, if you don’t know, is the idea of expanding the number of your contacts by making connections through individuals.
What we hope to do is set up a “profile” on one of the larger social networking sites and build a group of “friends” who are interested in the same topic as our site. For example, if our site had to deal with knitting and knitting supplies we would create a profile about someone who enjoys knitting and join them to social groups about that subject. Once we are established a solid social networking group, we would inform them about our knitting site.
The first social networking concept was Classmates.com. With the success of Classmates in the social networking community, other social networking sites followed. Today, MySpace.com is the number one social networking site on the planet. It is estimated that there are over 200 social networking sites with many more emerging social networking models. While some social networking sites focus on local communities and business reviews. Other social networking sites focus on niches such as travel, golf, and hobbies. There are still other social networking sites that are private, mainly for large corporate use.
Social networking, we believe, may become a real business with a convincing product. Only time will tell.
This is just in the beginning stages so we will see what happens going forward with this new concept but we decided to try and blog our efforts on this so that we can give a play by play along with a summary statement at the end. Check back to see if our social networking has paid off.
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