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Facts About Web 2.0 and Opportunities In Social Networking To Grow Your Business

Here are some interesting facts you will be interested in about the Internet and Web 2.0 and Social Networking. If you are not on page one of Google search results pages for your keywords that you have researched you can be sure to get there through social networking. Some of these sites will have no follow link backs to your website and blog and some do allow follow links. But they all have amazing ways for you to network and increase your SOI.

There are over 1920 sites on the Internet that are considered to be Web 2.0 sites, social networking or bookmarking sites. That is an amazing number of sites. I am talking about sites like Myspace and Facebook which are the most well known of these sites.

But did you know that in Europe over 63% of the social networking is done on a site called, Bebo? If you want to do business with folks oversees in Europe this may just be the right venue for you.

In South America and Asia, there is a site called Orkut that is very popular. ( owned by Google)

You Tube has as many page views as Google does now. You Tube doubles in size every 6 months. It is growing exponentially.

MySpace had more page views than Google did in 2007. MySpace has 45 BILLION page views per month, 185 Million users.

FaceBook gets as many page views as Google does right now. FaceBook, MSN, Google and Ebay have under 15 Billion page views monthly.
FaceBook is the 4th most trafficked site in the world.

Yahoo has 35 Billion page views per month.

So if you are having too much competition to get to the #1 spot on Google's search pages you may want to invest some time building a presence on these powerful social sites.

Don't despair when your mind conjures up all these teeny boppers on MySpace and FaceBook. Check out these statistics:

The average income of people on FaceBook is $100,000 to $125,000. Not exactly allowance money for most teens.

One half of all MySpace users are over the age of 35.

One half of all the FaceBook users are over the age of 35.

On FaceBook, the average user age is fast becoming 64 years old and make $100,000 a year. So don't think baby boomers are not in the know.

So if you are not the king of the hill of Google; there is more to the Internet than just Google. It's not all about Google. There are hundreds of search engines, the big ones being Yahoo and MSN. There are many other ones as well. If you already dominate Google than you can easily dominate the other search engines too.

You can go to these Web 2.0 sites and build back links to your website and your blog and the more that you do that, you will eventually see yourself climbing the ranks on Google too.

And my favorite Web 2.0 Site is none other than Active Rain, for real estate professionals.

Join Active Rain today!

Katerina Gasset, CIPS, Realtor ®, Business and Life Coach, Speaker and Author. Reach Katerina at: 561-753-0135

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Posted by Nestor & Katerina Gasset Realtors® Wellington Florida Luxury Homes on 08/02/2008 02:00 AM

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AUG

2008

Over 1920 web 2.0 sites, wow! Katerina, as always I really enjoy your tips. Thanks for your willingness to share.

Interesting research... which ones are going to give us the best links while we build our network?

The average income of people on FaceBook is $100,000 to $125,000. Not exactly allowance money for most teens.

Hi Katerina,

That's remarkable. I had no idea. I'm finally comfortable with Active Rain. I just don't know if I have time to look into all these other options. But thanks for the very interesting statistics. Definitely something to ponder.

Best regards,

Bruce

Katerina: And just when I was mastering AR, now I have a whole new set of things to explore! Thanks! :-)

Katerina, thanks for clearing up the teen issue. I will spend a little more time on Facebook and youtube.

I am surprised to read that the average age on Facebook is 65. Thanks for all the links.

Mmmmmm. I believe that all Maryland and Virginia real estate practitioners should stick to FaceBook for their web marketing. Except for me.

Katernia-thanks for the information. I'm always struggling with how to figure out the right places to be!

Katerina, Very interesting facts. I used to use Bebo, but on too many occasions was being contacted with spam, so I've recently decided to forego it. I agree with you on ActiveRain, but also like to work in some other social networks as well.

The growth of Web 2.0 is stagering. I am not sure if a single person could even keep up a presence on most of these networks. I notice now that kids are going to YouTube first thing when they get on the web...

...and this is why you are up at 2:00 AM. oH MY GREAT informaion on Facebook, I had no idea the stat's you provided. So much to keep up with. I just write...I struggle with facebook, too many people wanting to friend me, I always accept KW, remax agents and if they tell me who they are, but other wise, no I don't have time to check their profiles out and I don't want necked woman or men on my page.

I have joined all the social networking sites too.... there is a lot of time involved with writing on all of them...that is why I am a good girl and up at 6am this morning :) I agree with Missy I also get a lot fo people wantng to friend me on Facebook.

Amazing amount of information. The challenge is finding the time for all of them. Yikes

I did not realize that Facebook was getting that much traffic now, but I am not totally surprised, either. I have received a couple of leads there recently!

I was shocked by average age on facebook. Good stats Katerina!

HI KAT!

That's great info to know. I've been having a hard time with google. Do you have a post about backlinking? I've unsure about how that works! Thanks so much for your help.

All the best,

Hi Katerina - Seems to be a glitch in the Facebook stats. "On FaceBook, the average user age is 64 years old and makes $100,000 a year." That doesn't sound right when paired up with "One half of all the FaceBook users are over the age of 35." What is the source of these statistics?

John- YEP, TYPO! Sorry! I guess I should proofread before 2 a.m. !

I went back to change the error:

The FASTEST growing average age group joining Facebook now is 65 years old and makes at least 100 K a year.

When I read the post this morning, I noticed the contradiction! Sorry about that!

Great Information!

I love myspace and facebook. It's a lot of fun. I joined myspace for family and I have a lot of contacts that are my daughters age- 20-28ish and I joined facebook for business contacts. I have set up a referral network with Realtors and CRS agents all over the US. Plus, its fun to send someone a virtual martini afterwork!

Katerina - The typos always strike me late at night, too! That's a very important distinction about seniors, especially for agents in retirement destinations and second home or vacation markets. Facebook has a lot broader demographic than most people realize. The agents who recognize this will be able to target their content accordingly and be successful.

Venancio- You are welcome. There is just not enough time to do it all. I wish there were because the possibilities are endless.

I have received a couple of leads there recently!

Okay. Okay. Since Jason is getting results from FaceBook, I will have to take a look. I'm just afraid my head might explode! :)

Not Yet Licensed- I know! It is so hard to manage it all. I think Jason just sits at his computer all day long and all night long, takes a ride on his bike with his son, goes swimming with him, plays with the kids, then gets back online again! :) In his spare time he shows houses and runs his real estate company:)

Paul- I will write a post about that. The great part of those sites is not so much the links which can be powerful but more than that you can create groups in these sites and develop very targeted niches. I will explain in a post later. Maybe next week. I have to get my localism smashing by the land rush time so I am fevereshly blogging about our town. :)

John- For markets like Las Vegas and Florida and Arizona, this is a huge fact we need to pay attention too! I am not doing nearly all that I could do to harness the power of Facebook! But then again, it is hard to take time off of Active Rain when it generates 2 listings a week and great agents for my coaching practise. But I could make like a goal of 15 minutes a week to start. Just a tiny bite at a time. There is also alot my assistants can do. They do all my back ups of my blog, enter the listings in point 2, and set up my profiles on Facebook and others. I also have some auto software that will auto input all my info in contact forms and profile forms. I just got a software program that will upload to all the sites a snippet or whatever so I don't have to rush around from site to site. I have not learned to use it yet. If I like it, I will post about it. If it is garbage, I won't.

Bruce- Stay on Active Rain. You are too new to spread youself around yet. This is for people who are already on AR for a long time, created their system, and now can add some new stuff and also for those that have too much competition in their city on AR. This is a way they can get on top.

Maybe next week. I have to get my localism smashing by the land rush time so I am fevereshly blogging about our town. :)

Hi Katerina,

Your last sentence caught my eye. My apologies for changing the topic, but do you have a post I can read that explains the benefits of Localism? The reason I came to Active Rain is because I was finding listings posted on AR that were coming up highly ranked on the search engines. I'm not seeing that with Localism posts. Am I searching for the wrong things? Or is Localism something that you're investing time into, now, in hopes of capturing future results?

P.S. Thanks for the advice. I'll stay here. :)

Katerina, very cool information. I think I belong to about 1900 of those social network sites - or at least it feels that way. ;-) I need to find the time, time, time to maintain them as well. ;-)

great stats for the other sites that I wasn't aware of! I am working on making a plan to consistently contribute to all sites...why not? especially since most are FREE!!!

Katerina, I had no idea that there is such a 35+ presence on Facebook... Thanks, more work for melodic

Debbie- I was very surprised about myspace,actually. There are great ways and niches to create on myspace and facebook. I would rather be here on Active Rain.

Steve- DO the Active Rain thing first and get it working for you. Active Rain has powerful google juice, just need to learn how to use it.

Fran- There is a lot of business to be had on the social networks. It is best not to advertise that you are an agent but rather to work from a hobby perspective and build relationships.

Gita- That was a typo, read my corrected version. Sorry about that.

Lenn- I so agree! And all the agents here in Wellington can market themselves on facebook while I blog here on Active Rain!:)

Cindy- It should all fit into your marketing plan, look at what your long term objectives are.

Marc- I get stalked on TAGGED. I am about to quit that network. This one guy 60 years old just won't leave me alone. I joined with an invite from an AR member but now I regret not checking them out more fully first.

Charles- It is mind boggling. And extremely cool! To know that we can communicate with people all over the globe with just tapping on our keyboards is very amazing.

Missy- The whole idea of facebook is to make friends with people who are not in real estate. There is such an abundance of opportunity with networking on different levels. I am on Seth Godin's tribe waiting list, waiting to get in!

Anne and Eddie- Read my comment to Missy about facebook. Jason Crouch just got 2 leads from facebook. I Should write a post about how to work those networks. Some other time though.

Martha- You are right, the challenge is time!

Jason- Congrats on getting leads from Facebook! There is so much opportunity but you know how to master it all, see my comment above to 'not yet licensed' about you:) just kidding with you:)

Jeremy- OOPs, I made a typo on the facebook stats and corrected it. Sorry about that.

Yvette- Read my posts about interlinking and all the posts on keywords. That is where you need to start. Don't worry about the backlinking right now. You will get those naturally as you keep on blogging but you have to find out what people are searching for.

Leslie- That is great to hear, thanks for sharing. This networking you are doing can blossom into business and referrals.

Not Yet Licensed- Yes, look under my tags about Localism and active rain community support and then find the ones that tell you how to blog for Localism. Localism has power google juice. When you write local content for your area those should show up on google with localism as the 'author' so to speak.

I will write a post later on more about it once this new localism has bugs worked out. You will get amazing link backs from Localism.

Teri- That is the challenge;)

Naoma- When you come up with the plan share it with all of us. It would be so cool to master them all:)

AUG

2008

Still at 64 that is way older than I would ever gues..i wouldve said like 31

Jeremy- 65 and older are joining in leaps and bounds. More than half that are joining Facebook now are over the age of 35. OF course that includes this older group. The senior group is the fastest growing age group online now. That is a great thing. I love that they are actively online.

Katerina I just finally set up a Facebook account......I was reluctant because as you mentioned I thought it was for the teeny boppers!! Guess I was wrong! Those are some amazing statistics you posted. I need to get back into my AR blogging and you seem to be the one to have lit the fire under me!! Thanks!!

Katerina - Nice post. Social networking is going to become a bigger and bigger part of our business. It is still in it's infancy.

Great info, that is alot of information. I will have to take the time to disect it all later today.. I do know that web 2.0 and SEO and the internet in general is the wave of the future for those in the service oriented businesses like Real Estate and Mortgaes

Sandy- I need to do a whole lot more with it all. I just get such great results from Active Rain and I don't want to take away time from what is working so well. I have accounts set up all over the place but need to just spend a few minutes here and there adding to my profile and then networking.

Bill- I know this is just the tip of the iceberg especially on a global level. We are already moving into what is going to be called web 3.0. This is going to be one incredible journey!

Thomas- These are so big in our future for all businesses. That is why all the big companies are even going to web 2.0. Just jumping on the train is the first step.

DEC

2008

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