Top Web Promotion Methods #8 – #14:

8. Bookmarking/Tagging

Social bookmarking has become a popular method to share, organize, search and manage bookmarks of web resources. Some of the most popular social bookmarking websites: Delicious, Digg, Diigo, Fark, Mixx, MyBlogLog, Newsvine, Propeller, Reddit, Slashdot.org, StumbleUpon, Yahoo!, and Buzz.

9. Discussion Forums and Boards

Participating in online forums can be a great way to market your products and services, and interact with your audience and other professionals. Engaging your audience in a niche forum can bring high value to your website and brand, too.

10. Content Aggregation

Content aggregation offers you the chance to bring all news and feeds around your online community accounts in one place. Some would argue this is the future of social media. Emerging content aggregation websites are: Bloglines, FriendFeed, Lifestream.fm, Lijit.

11. Brand Monitoring

Social networks are also offering a variety of tools that can help businesses understand the positioning of their brand. Popular examples are: Buzzlogic, Radian6, and ReputationDefender.

12. Ratings and Review Sites

Another great way to find out where your website stands, or how your brand is perceived by others, is through ratings and reviews. The two most popular are Yelp and GetSatisfaction.

13. Widgets

For those trying to promote their own brands, they can create personalized badges, using interesting widgets on Facebook, Twitter, and other networks by using WidgetBox or SpringWidgets.

14. Wikis

Wikis are like an online encyclopedia. The most well known is Wikipedia.org, but many other wikis exist, including: Citizendium.org, AboutUs.org, Pbwiki/PBworks.com, or Wetpaint.com.

Along with all the new ways of publishing your content on networking sites, it is important to publish your articles on publishing sites like EzineArticles, eHow, Google Docs (docs.google.com), IdeaMarketers, Yahoo Articles Group (groups.yahoo.com) and submit your press releases on important specialized sites like i-Newswire, PR.com, PressReleasePoint, and PRLog.org.

Social Media Marketing can be very confusing at times, since there are so many networks and channels to choose from. Creating a presence on all the channels is quite time consuming, and randomly choosing a network or networks is not a very good social media strategy either. Many companies have struggled to understand what social media marketing mix they should use to make their brand successful online.

That is why it’s vitally important to identify which channels are suitable for your business depending on your target audience. Businesses should plan a step-by-step onlíne marketing strategy, and brainstorm ideas with their onlíne marketing representative(s) that will work to promote their products and/or services.