Interesting Notes From Derek Gehl

Derek Gehl always has great ideas on ways to promote your site and get more traffic to it.
The following is just some of the interesting tidbits he offers to any that would like to use them as new strategies for their website.


These days, social media sites are HUGE! In fact, they make up five of the top 10 fastest-growing Web brands on the Internet, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.

And this explosive growth isn't likely to end anytime soon.

So if people are hanging out on these sites in ever-expanding numbers, don't you want to be there too? Just like in the offline world, "location, location, location" is the key to success!

Now, there's been a pretty big buzz around the phrase "social media" lately. But what exactly does it mean?

Social media sites are simply online gathering places where people share interesting, entertaining, informative, or just plain *goofy* content with each other.

This content can take many different forms. It can be...

* Personal information in the form of blogs

* Useful articles about anything and everything

* Photos or video clips that people might get a kick out of watching

* Collections of bookmarks to favorite online articles or web sites that people
can check out for themselves

Members of these communities can comment
on each other's contributions, engage in
discussions, and find other people who
are interested in the same things they are.

Hanging out and participating at these
sites can be a great way to make new
online friends or business contacts.

It's also an effective strategy you can
use to drive more traffic to your business
site -- not only from the social media
sites themselves, but also from the
improved search engine placement you'll
get from having more high Page Rank links
pointing to your web site!