A senior member at UK WW forum made an observation about social networking sites based on his experience of how some users of social networking site Squidoo has been promoting their site using other social networking sites and forums, excerpts follows:

With so many social networks to choose from their are some do’s and don’t’s you should pay some attention to. Most if it makes perfect sense, but it’s hopefully worth repeating.

Don’t just join a social network for the purpose of dropping a load of links to your sites/pages. - This is often seen as spamming by genuine members of web 2.0 networks.

He went on to offer the following suggestions as to how to interact at social networking sites:

Do take part in discussions that you can contribute to. Be active and share your knowledge.

Only leave links to your site when relevant. The worst and most popular example of this is - blah on topic blah on topic blah off topic link to my site. Another example of this is just replying to a thread, page, comment, etc, in order to leave your signature link behind.

You can read his full post at the social media section of UK WW forum.

Squidoo is described by different people as different things, some think its like wikipedia, others thing its excellent for building backlink, yet others use it to generate revenue.

UK WW member ROO who uses Squidoo successfully for various things have this to say about his experience with using Squidoo:

Very possibly if I could focus on a particular niche! Instead I find squidoo great for developing my ’skills’ at web publishing, treating each page as a mini-site on the subject that catches my imagination at the time. Also it allows me to experiment with niches that I may develop into websites in future. Meanwhile I have no web hosting charges or do I have to search and pay for a relevant URL, and squidoo pages usually get googled and start getting traffic within days of publishing.

Other UK WW users have a different take on Squidoo, you can join in the most convinient ways:

UK WW Social Media discussions  ::  UK WW RSS Feeds 

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