What is Social Media Marketing?

Social media marketing is an important process of online marketing. It is a process through which one can get traffic as well as attention from different social media sites. Social media platforms are a huge place that itself shares lot of information and contents shared by different websites. For example, Twitter is place where people can share their thoughts within the limit of 140 characters called as tweets. Apart from that there is Facebook, perhaps, the biggest platform for the social media marketers, that lets people share their photos, messages as well as important contents.

However, all these social sites have some common rules and protocols that one should follow when they tend to market their website in the social media platforms. Different social sites provide FEEDS to the users when they post any contents to their site. By getting the FEEDS the sites can directly earn recognition from the users who view their posts. Apart from that, your site might also directly visit by the viewers as you are permitted to include your website link to your post.

There are so many people who post important contents to their social media profiles. People who visit in their particular social site can follow the post and if they find it important, they might follow you back. Thus you can earn some social reputation from the social sites. As a result you can grow your followers and ultimately this helps you to gain traffic for your website.

As mentioned earlier Facebok and Twitter are two major social media sites that help people to gain traffic or act as an important tool for the social media marketers. Apart from that there are some other social media platforms such as: Delicious, Digg, Foursquare, Googlebuzz, Gowalia, YoutTube, etc.

One of the important advantages of social media marketing is that they are the most cost effective way to gain traffic and web exposure for a website. This is the reason why people mostly prefer this way in order to get ranked their website in search engines.

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