How many social media networks are you aware of?

I have heard of Orkut before and just doing a simple web search shows the others are real getting millions of visitors a month. And you missed StumbleUpon, Ask.fm,Tagged, LiveJournal, Hi5, Friendster, and the list goes on and on. There are literally hundreds of different networks, some catering to specific regions while others cater to specific niches.

 

Here is a list of 40 different networks http://socialmediatoday.com/node/195917

 

I found this list by simply doing a search on Google so I am not familiar with all of these social networks myself. The truth is that each one has its purpose so some may or may not be good for getting traffic to your website.
Some are specifically targeting a certain region and are only good to join if your business targets that region while others are niche specific. Take myHeritage for example, from what I can see this social network is for people who are into genealogy who are looking to connect with their families and put together family trees. Because of this joining this social network would only be good if your business targets the genealogy niche etc.

 

I have a Wordpress plugin that works great and the list of social media and other similar type sites is remarkable.

The WP plugin is Social Media Widget and lists: Google+, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, LinkedIn, RSSS Feeds, MySpace, Orkut, Hyves, aSmallWorld, Foursquare, MeetUp, About.Me, Skyrock, Goodreads, Github, VK, Digg, Reddit, Buzz, Friendfeed, Slashdot, YouTube.

Then you have other methods of contact by other categories: Blogging, Music & Audio, Gaming, Imaging and Chatting.

Until I downloaded that plugin I had no idea. And of course there are more but this is what the plugin offers but it does include a custom feature.

 

Yes, there are so many social networks but only very few of them are popular. From the lists above I am also excited to check out some other networks with unique features.

 

I have heard of quite a few, but I am only focusing on one at a time until I master how to market it. The thing is people see so many traffic methods but fail to realize you only need to master a couple of free methods and 1 paid traffic method, to get all the traffic you will ever need.

For example there are some people who are generating 15,000 or more visitors a month to their site with forum marketing alone.

So if I were you, I would find the top 3 social sites you enjoy and learn how to mater them before moving onto something else.

 

15K visits to one site per month is an anomaly for most social media marketing unless you're using paid advertising. I have a friend with a drums FB page and he just hit 100K followers. This is a niche that is extremely popular. National figures will get plenty of likes because they are well known but the average Joe and Mary will need to work very hard, have some luck to acquire that much traffic from social media.

I have 14 sites with social media attached to each and they are updated daily. Plenty of pluses, likes and repins but my traffic is generated the old fashioned way - I earn it through frequent original content and good SEO practices, which includes social media but that's not at the top of the SEO list. The traffic comes mostly from the search engines - Google, Bing, Yahoo and a few others.

 

Facebook, Twitter, Vine and Myspace are the ones im really aware of. Ive heard of smaller social networks before but I cant even tell you there names at this point and if they are even still around.

 

Glad to share the info with you!

 

Thanks! let me check if theres one applicable to some of my sites.

Anyways, I just used FB, twitter, Google Plus, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Weheartit and Pinspire.