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Building Traffic With Social Networking Sites

Social networking sites are designed for people to let each other know about their blogs, websites, and other projects.

The popularity started with MySpace, which was soon overwhelmed with thousands and thousands of users. It’s still a great place to promote your site, but there are others to try, too, such as the new Facebook.

A Site to Promote Every Interest

Then there are the sites specializing in a particular category. If you want to promote your band or your new musical compositions, you could join Buzznet. Bebo is aimed at schools and colleges, and Care2 is all about green living.

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Facebook Service - Appaholic

Appaholic does not make any secret that it wants to be the Alexa of the Facebook application community, and while it won’t win any artistic awards it certainly delivers what it says. Jesse Farmer developed the site where visitors can compare user bases among Facebook applications. He keeps the twenty applications with the most users on the front page. The site allows for a quick comparison of up to three applications by number of users, percentage change, and number of users per hour. He has also recently added a feature called the “Viral Dashboard.” The dashboard puts every application in the Facebook directory into a sortable table, along with a link to the application’s primary page. I see that “What’s your stripper name?” finally got knocked out of the top spot after several days of amazing growth by none other than Harry Potter Magic Spells . I doubt I am alone in spending more time than a human should browsing the pages everyday to see who is getting contagious and who is not, but then again I write a blog about contagious applications.

Sweet Parts:
Obviously the information is the sweet part of the site. Farmer is pretty modest about what he has done, but his service has quickly become essential for the FB application community. The information itself is available to anyone, but Farmer is the only one who has organized it and put it into an extremely easy to use format. While it might be fun to compare the top twenty applications, the real use is in comparing similar applications and monitoring the daily movers and shakers. Before Appaholic users were limited to Facebook’s “most popular,” “newest,” and “most users” categories. That service is marginally useful. Now there are real numbers to see, analyze, and for many development teams obsess over.

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