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Social media marketing has become one of the more popular methods for promoting website products and services. In my opinion, there are reasons to continue using social media marketing, but there are also reasons against.

The advantage of social media marketing is the relative ease of using such a medium. You can have a link to a product or website posted in mere seconds. Gone are the days of posting ads in the newspaper or mail when you would have to wait weeks and even months to see if your advertising was having an effect. With Twitter and Facebook you can track whether people visited your link in a matter of hours. At then end of the night you can check your Google Analytics account and find out exactly whether or not you received any referrals from your twitter links. It allows much quicker market testing and the opportunity to reach a broad audience.

Twitter is especially suited for broadcasting new events surrounding business area of choice. The application known as TweetSearch allows you to type in keywords that match your business interests. Others who share those same business interests will show up in the results where you can quickly choose to follow their tweets. The more people you follow, the more likely others will follow you. Since you are following people who share common business interests, it will allow a much better opportunity to share whatever it is your website has to offer. People who follow your tweets will be more likely to click on your links since they have already stated their mutual business interest. Such targeted traffic could prove useful should you have an exciting new product or idea to announce.

Negative aspects that surround Twitter and other social media marketing mediums include heavy spam content. Have you ever actually gone through all the tweets from those you follow? My interest is online business so I have chosen to follow many people who share that interest. Reading their tweets is a complete waste of time. 90% of the tweets are self-promoting, "look at my website or product" tweets. It is nearly impossible to filter through the garbage and find an idea of worth. There are many times when I do not read through any of the posted tweets. I log in to twitter post my tweet and get out for fear that the shameless advertising will put me into a state of complete boredom.

How do we combat the fact that social media marketing may not always be effective? Diversify your marketing tactics. Just as stock brokers will tell you to diversify your investments, it is important you use more than one method of advertising your website. For example, if the only method of marketing you used was pay per click advertising, you would go broke in a couple of months. If you combine pay per click, social media marketing, blogging, article marketing, banner advertising, and a host of other methods you are much more likely to gain a steady stream of traffic. When social media marketing is not going so well then perhaps your submitted articles will pick up the slack by producing clicks. Or if your articles are not working that day then your blog will produce traffic. It is all about being creative and staying on top of the best ways to market your website. As you continue marketing each day you will find the methods that best suit your business.

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