SEO-Organics

Many of you might have seen some of the great posts out there that provide lists of social media sites such as Michelle McPherson’s Social Media BluePrint . Social media sites are constantly popping up every day and it can make you dizzy trying to keep up with them all.

One of the mistakes that I first made starting out with social media just a few short years ago, is I tried to put myself on every single social media site out there!  You can’t be everywhere all at once!  At the same time, that’s what is so great about platforms like Ping, which I use quite a bit.

I soon realized that it wasn’t the right strategy to go willy-nilly and try to get on as many social sites as possible.  So, what I wanted to do today is give you my list of my favorite top 50 Social Media sites that I have had experience with and  that have proved the most valuable to myself as a small consulting business.

Some of these I am currently using and some I have stopped using for whatever reason – probably because I felt too spread out trying to maintain them.  You will soon find out that as your client base grows, you quickly realize that you don’t have time to keep up with everything!

 General

1. Twitter  (www.Twitter.com)

2. Facebook (www.Facebook.com)

3. LinkedIn (www.LinkedIn.com )

4. FriendFeed (www.FriendFeed.com )

5.  Aboutus.org (www.aboutus.org )

6. Bebo (www.bebo.com )

7. Dandelife (www.dandelife.com )

8. Lijiit (www.Lijiit.com )

9. Friendster (www.Friendster.com )

10. Gravee (www.Gravee.com )

11. Fast Pitch (www.fastpitchnetworking.com )

12. Hub Pages (www.Hubpages.com )

13. Jaiku (www.jaiku.com )

14. Squidoo (www.squidoo.com )

15. Xing (www.xing.com )

16. Ning (www.ning.com )

17. Orkut (www.orkut.com )

18. Plurk (www.plurk.com )

19. You are (www.youare.com )

 Social Bookmarking/News Sites

20. Delicious (www.delicious.com )

21. Mr-Wong (www.mister-wong.com )

22. Diigo (www.diigo.com )

23. Digg (www.digg.com )

24. Stumbleupon (www.Stumbleupon.com )

25. Review Me (www.reviewme.com )

26. Linkagogo (www.Linkagogo.com )

27. Mixx (www.mixx.com )

28. Propeller (www.propeller.com )

29. Reddit (www.reddit.com )

30. ShoutWire (www.shoutwire.com )

31. Simpy (www.simpy.com )

 Video Sites

32. Blip TV (www.bliptv.com )

33. DailyMotion (www.dailymotion.com )

34. MetaCafe (www.metacafe.com )

35. YouTube (www.youtube.com )

36. MotionBox (www.motionbox.com )

37. Panjea (www.panjea.com )

38. Viddler (www.viddler.com )

 Blogging Platforms

39. Wordpress.org (self-hosted)  (www.Wordpress.org )

40. Blogger (www.blogger.com )

41. MyBlogLog (www.MyBlogLog.com )

42. LiveJournal (www.LiveJournal.com )

43. Tumblr (www.tumblr.com )

44. Typepad ( www.typepad.com )

Photo Sharing

45. Flickr (www.flickr.com )

46. Photo Bucket (www.photobucket.com )

47. Picassa (www.picassa.com )

48. Smugmug (www.smugmug.com )

49. Fotolog (www.fotolog.com )

50. Fotki (www.fotki.com )

Now that you have a good list to start with, make sure you read my other blog post on Tips on Where and How To Start Your Social Media Campaign.  Hopefully that article will tie it all together for you.

Remember, I have a list of 200 more sites besides the ones I listed in this post, but remember, chase the head and not the tail!  ( well, if you’re a guy, you might like the latter! )  What I mean by that is, most of the users are on the Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Linked In.  So you will want to spend most of your time developing social media campaigns on those sites. 

At the same time, you can find some really nice niche traffic on the other sites that are out there.  Don’t forget about them.  Use them. Try them out. Experiment with them.  It’s the only way you will learn.

If you want to comment on your favorite social media sites that aren’t listed here, feel free to add to this list!

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