Today there are billions of searches on the Search engines such as Google, Bing & Yahoo. The search engines have taken up the form of yellow pages and business directories. So if any business really intends to make use of them for leveraging sales, it is important to have a high rank in the search engines to be easily visible and noticeable. This can be easily achieved through search engine optimization (SEO) and social media marketing.

Social sites are gaining huge popularity these days and have become a fad among people. They allow people with similar business, tastes and interests to be in contact with each other thereby enhancing business as well as individual relationships. These social sites can turn out to be a huge advantage to one’s business as they not only allow their members to share links, content, advice, and opinions but also one can use one’s social contacts, for business expansion. Also, as most of these social sites have a powerful domain and high rank in the search engines so, having links in their pages will also enhance one’s site rankings.

The internet is stuffed with numerous Social networking sites. But while using these social sites for promoting traffic to one’s business site and help SEO, one needs to be really cautious and careful. While bringing positive effect to one’s reputation, if wrong sites are chosen they can also seriously harm the business reputation.

Some of the most popular social sites that are being used these days Face book, Twitter, MySpace, Digg, StumbleUpon, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

Facebook
With Google Page Rank – 10 and more than 10 million members, Face book is one of the most popular social sites. Face book can be used for business development and increasing traffic by creating a distinct business page on face book and posting good and related content.
Twitter
With Google Page Rank - 9, and more than 94,933,108 visitors, twitter is another most popular social site that allows micro blogging service and provides real-time information network. It connects its users to the latest information and is being widely used for enhancing traffic to one’s business site.

MySpace
MySpace social networking site with about 191 million members is also a good social site for business promotion.

Digg
With numerous members Digg is a great site where people Members submit their links and stories. This site not only increases the inbound links but also helps in making the site popular.

YouTube
With Google page rank 8, YouTube is the largest video sharing community, it provides a forum for people to connect and inform people across the globe and can be used by business by sharing their videos and products.

LinkedIn
With Google Page Rank - 9 and more than 40,684,735 visitors LinkedIn is a business related social networking site and is available in various languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. This site has also become very popular for business connectivity and enhancing traffic.

Above list is just of a few good social sites, However there are numerous other good sites which may help in growth of one’s business and result in increasing traffic. Participating in these sites would make the people to start talking about your business and would help in improving your business reputation.

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