What is social Media

Social media are websites which allow individuals and businesses to; link to family, friends and groups. Uploading updates, comments, photos and video about themselves for everyone to say in touch with what they are doing around the world. Most commonly known social media websites include; Facebook, Twitter, My Space and Linkedin but there are 100s online. Quite a number of the different social media sites allow you to link your accounts together or you can use seperate system to manage all your blogs, post, and comments in one place like PING.

Why is social media important?

Google and other search engines are now paying more attention to the social media pages of businesses to find the businesses that have a constant or more active presence on the internet. This is because content on a website may not change or update regularly. Website designs may not be updated or changed for 12 to 24 months meaning it is difficult for them to find the businesses that are ensuring that the sites users and of course the users of the search engines are getting the best experience and most up to date information.

Social media is a powerful tool for it's ability to reach out and send stories and posts viral through the 100's of different social media sites and internet if the content is important or interesting. This is done through like, comments boxes. retweets etc. Where if someone likes a page it automatically tells that persons friends and contacts that they too would maybe interested in reading the story or see the comments written. Pictures, videos and stories are very popular and are great ways to get people to jump to your website to read more about them. Simply upload content to your websites news and press then copy the link and upload it to your friends or followers on your social media pages.

There is no single answer to high ranks and traffic on your website it takes time and patients. It is not difficult to maintain a social media page but can be time consuming. For advance social media techniques please contact the MarineDex support team.