{"id":95,"date":"2009-12-14T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T20:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frameworksearchmarketing.com\/development\/?p=95"},"modified":"2009-12-14T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T20:37:07","slug":"social-networking-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frameworksearchmarketing.com\/uncategorized\/social-networking-sites","title":{"rendered":"Social Networking Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking sites are the future of Internet marketing. The good news is that the opportunities for laser-targeted advertising are becoming a reality. Want to target 18-24 year old college graduate women who are engaged? Well, you can\u2026in Facebook. The bad news is that, with this added power, comes much added complexity.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional way of paying for clicks and optimizing links etc. for search engine optimization will not work in a world where the users generate the content\u2026and decide amongst themselves what is popular and what is not. Internet marketers will have to become much more savvy to take advantage of this kind of opportunity. More good news is that there is still time to get an early adopter advantage in this space. It\u2019s almost impossible to dislodge that web site that\u2019s 8 or 9 years old from the number one spot in Google (I don\u2019t care what anyone says they can do for thousands of dollars!) search engine listings, but\u2026in this new arena\u2026you could be that \u201cold\u201d site.<\/p>\n<p>Some facts about social networking sites<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frameworksearchmarketing.com\/site2\/images\/social_networking_sites_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/>MySpace had more traffic in 2007 than Google<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frameworksearchmarketing.com\/site2\/images\/social_networking_sites_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/>Already, FaceBook has reached Google traffic levels<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frameworksearchmarketing.com\/site2\/images\/social_networking_sites_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/>YouTube gets twice as much traffic as Google<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frameworksearchmarketing.com\/site2\/images\/social_networking_sites_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/>These sites are DOUBLING every 6 months ; FaceBook adds 1 million visitors each week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frameworksearchmarketing.com\/site2\/images\/social_networking_sites_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/>In a typical month<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frameworksearchmarketing.com\/site2\/images\/social_networking_sites_14.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/>30% of worldwide Internet users visit MySpace<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frameworksearchmarketing.com\/site2\/images\/social_networking_sites_14.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/>29% visit FaceBook<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frameworksearchmarketing.com\/site2\/images\/social_networking_sites_14.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/>35% visit YouTube<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frameworksearchmarketing.com\/site2\/images\/social_networking_sites_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><strong>It\u2019s not just kids discussing what they\u2019re going to wear to the prom<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frameworksearchmarketing.com\/site2\/images\/social_networking_sites_14.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/>Over 50% of MySpace users are over 35<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frameworksearchmarketing.com\/site2\/images\/social_networking_sites_14.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" \/>Facebook even has 100k users over 64<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking sites are the future of Internet marketing. The good news is that the opportunities for laser-targeted advertising are becoming a reality. Want to target 18-24 year old college graduate women who are engaged? Well, you can\u2026in Facebook. The bad news is that, with this added power, comes much added complexity. 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