Social Media Up 230% Since 2007 . 43% visit multiple times per day. The love affair between Internet-connected Americans and social networks continues, with two-thirds claiming to visit sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, up about 230% from the 20% penetration in 2007, and 43% are visiting these sites more than once a day, according to a new report by Experian Simmons.

People primarily logon to stay in touch with friends, followed by for fun and to communicate with family, according to the study. Career- and job-related reasons were low on the list: 19% said they used the sites to keep in touch with professional contacts; 9% wanted to make new professional contacts; 6% sought professional development; and 5% said it was part of their job, the report found.

Social networking sites’ impact on business is growing. This year, 68% have become a fan or friend of a product, service, company, or group on a social networking site, compared with 57% last year, the study said.

You can’t just put up a 5 to 20 page brochure/pamphlet site and expect visitors to find you.

You have to work at it regularly and consistently.

SOLUTION: We NEED Work at it …… regularly adding fresh / relevant info / text into the web site and Blog Consistently. implement social media strategies specific to your web site !

With new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.
we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index. That means you can find fresher information than ever before—no matter when or where it was published.
– Carrie Grimes, Software Engineer, Google

This is great for those of us who use Google to search and find relevant results to our most common inquiries. Results will become timelier, more social and rely more heavily on keyword strings, ultimately providing more useful results as newer content can be indexed much quicker and from a much larger base of sites.
Is your SERP spot threatened?

When Google says “fresher” results, what they’re saying is that ranking principles have not changed, but rather rankings are (and will become) more dynamic, shifting to display the latest and greatest (and, therefore, hopefully best) information as a result of being able to reach deeper and more frequently into the Web.
But what about website owners who have come to rely on the steady ebb and flow of organic traffic that a high Search Engine Results Page (SERP) position provides?

Many website owners who have long enjoyed a top spot, or even a high spot, have suddenly found their sites displaced, resulting in a massive dip in organic traffic. And to make matters even more vexing, the position your site is in this month will likely be different from where you find yourself next month.
Of course, your main goal should be to deliver value to your customers and audience. After all, ranking is only a means to an end.

Contact Andy @ 281-570-5804 to implement these changes , social media tactics etc specific to your business web site !

==>> Video Marketing and Video optimizarion / Video SEO
==>> Guest Posting on Blogs
==>> Blog Commenting and custom Blogs designing
==>> Twitter and Facebook and Linkedin message management
==>> Social Bookmarking on key high traffic and high page rank sites
==>> Optimizing your website for both speed and maximum search engine visibility
==>> Directory Submissions
==>> Web 2.0 properties
==>> SEO Optimized Press releases
==>> Article writing and syndication and so on

The good thing about the web is its level playing ground -and that is rapidly changing these days- and the opportunity it affords anyone, whether small businesses or huge Fortune 100 companies. So, any organization willing to gain an edge over its competition has to jump online and social media marketing as soon as possible.

Increase qualified web site traffic
Increase the optins on your landing pages
Increase your conversion rates
Increase the backlinks to your web site
Amplify your online reputation with subject matter info
Improve your organic search engine rankings
Build trust with potential clients
Build relationships with current clients
Increase value of your business in your industry

- 52% of all web traffic is video (according to industry watchdog, eMarketer)

- More than 70% of all web visitors watch online video (according to NY Times)

- YouTube had 9.5 billion videos viewed by 138 million Americans in one month (according to comScore Media Metrix)

- The average YouTube visitor spends 27 minutes watching video per day

- Online video is more popular than use of portable MP3 players (38 percent).

- Watch video online is the most popular emerging media activity, and equal to the number of people who text-message via cell phone. (Touchpoints IV survey)

- The search engines visit video sites every few minutes—so your videos appear in Google, Yahoo and MSN just MINUTES after you submit, not days or weeks

- Cisco boosted traffic to its site 600% by added streaming video

- Because video is so popular, video links and clips often show up before other content

- Between April and June, 94 Million U.S. based internet surfers viewed online videos… spending 73 minutes per month on average (comScore Media Metrix)

- 123 MILLION Americans viewed online video every month in 2007 (Emarketer estimates)

call us for your custom web site VIDEO production today @ 281-570-5804