Top Five Social Networking Sites

Sites You Can Use to Personally Network or Network Your Business

Social networking sites are used for a number of reasons, both personal and business related. The Internet is an ever growing resource that allows anyone, anywhere to access information with the click of a button. For those who are using social networking to promote their business this can be an extremely valuable tool. The biggest issue that a website owner will have will be getting traffic to their site. Without traffic and without promotion a site will not be indexed (or found) in a search engine. And if a site is not in a search engine there is no way that anyone will find it. But the biggest question remains - what are the top social networking sites, and what are they used to promote?

Before moving on to the list, I want to mention I am not going to tackle networking sites like Facebook and Myspace which can be great social networking tools. The reason is because they tend to rely on you already being established and having a reasonably large friends listing or where you have to seek people out to send information. I am going to target social networking sites that do not have that requirement. Basically the premise is you post and through social networking they find you, not the other way around.

Twitter
I admit I use Twitter and first wondered what in the world it was good for if I didn't already have friends there. (And none of my friends are remotely interested in this site either.) I joined out of curiosity and am glad I did. Even though I essentially started sending "tweets" to no one but myself, other people quickly found me that had similar interests. Now I can send out information of what I am doing and working on, but I can get information from other people that might help me out with what I am doing. When you send out a tweet it is very limited in length, so you are only sending a sentence on what you are doing at that particular moment. It is a great asset to building your social network, and you do not have to do anything - just sign up and send tweets, others will come and find you.
www.twitter.com