Common Pitfalls of Social Networks

Since the social networks are free to use, it has a danger beneath. It is the total waste of time investing in their use. Here are the list of some details on that and other very common pitfalls:

Time suck: Common social network active user spend a more time online. Commonly young (teens), single with apparently have a few obligations. With plenty of free time for socializing, social media comes to be a part of their lives. Therefore, they are willing to invest countless time into social network sites than you can afford or want to afford, especially given the potential inconsistent ROI from social media marketing.

Conduct Unbecoming: Mixing business and social lifestyle can also direct to hardship. If you really want your business contacts to automatically be altered that you've posted your out of town photo online (especially those picture of you drunk on the beach)? Those scenario may deliver some negative feedback from your clients or readers.

Over-disclosure: The internet or web memory is long or possible it is permanent. You need to think first about anything you post online, especially if it waded the line between social and business. There are countless number of stories day by day about job applicants losing out on their dream jobs because of the risque or otherwise not appropriate materials that company HR found on their social network pages (Facebook or MySpace page). Also, prosecutors used MySpace and Facebook party photo's to get longer jail sentences for drunk driving convection too.

Friends Overload: This is a variation of the time suck issue I mention earlier in this blog post. This is where you connect with so many other social media users online that you can't keep up with all the updates. Your real relationships get lost in the noise. These also the reason why user leads to log off entirely or quit and start over again with new account ( it leads of losing much of the brand equity and network of contacts that they had worked really hard to establish). This is why I advise getting started as soon as possible but taking it slowly once you're active on social network sites.

Don't Spam: If you hear "spam" what the first thing comes to your mind? Spam is usually refers to unwanted promotions, such as e-mails, blog commenting and a lot more. All these new ways to communicate via social networks offer you many ways to annoy people. Yes, you can use these tools for promotional outreach, but never be evil - spam, spam is still be spam no matter what. And spamming is a cyber crime.

Social media can help you control the message

Another reason why social media networks are critical to modern marketers (internet marketers) is that social network pages appear highly (PageRank) ranked in search engine results. Search engine like Google, Yahoo, Bing will pick up everything you have in your social network site weather you will like it or not. However, if done correctly this will decide for your online success.

So, creating a profile on a social network in addition to your own blog-site gives you an additional point of products presence. Its another credible, public website where you can control the message displayed in search engine result to potentials customers who search for your company name or products online.