Social Networking Sites
Social networking sites are one of the fastest growing areas on the internet and are currently attracting considerable publicity as the bigger media players are becoming involved through acquisition. As the Internet continues to grow, social networking sites are becoming more popular to help surfers sort through information, organize it, and share it with others. These sites are driven by user content, the sheer numbers of visitors and users on social network sites open up important marketing opportunities for hospitality providers. Discover Travel Planners can create hotel content and listings on the key site that will provide:-
- Increased exposure
- Improved search engine page ranking
- Syndication through RSS feeds
- Competitive advantage
- Distribution of key information about your hotel
Here are just a few of the main social networking sites
Wikipedia is the worlds largest internet based encyclopaedia.
Reddit is a community web site where users can post links to content on the web.
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site came online in late 2003 and was recently purchased by Yahoo!.
MySpace is one of the most popular social sites on the Internet, but in reality it is the next generation of marketing, advertising and promotion, creatively disguised as social networking.