I put the following social media poll together to see how much time individuals and businesses spends per day on Search Engine Optimization and Social Media. Would love everyone’s feedback! Simply fill out the poll below:

Here are some social media stats from Jake Hird

• Social networks and blogs are the 4th most popular online activities online, including beating personal email. 67% of global users visit member communities and 10% of all time spent on the internet is on social media sites.
• If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth most populated place in the world. This means it easily beats the likes of Brazil, Russia and Japan in terms of size.*
• 80% of companies use, (or are planning to use), LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees during the course of this year. The site has just celebrated reaching its 45-millionth membership.
• Around 64% of marketers are using social media for 5 hours or more each week during campaigns, with 39% using it for 10 or more hours per week.
• It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million listeners. Terrestrial TV took 13 years to reach 50 million users. The internet took four years to reach 50 million people… In less than nine months, Facebook added 100 million users.
• Wikipedia currently has more than 13 million articles in more than 260 different languages. The site attracts over 60 million unique users a month and it’s often hotly debated that the information it contains is more reliable than any printed Encyclopaedia.
• The most recent figure of blogs being indexed by Technorati currently stands at 133 million. The same report into the Blogosphere also revealed that on average, 900,000 blog posts are created within a single 24-hour period.
• It’s been suggested that YouTube is likely to serve over 75 billion video streams to around 375 million unique visitors during this year.
• The top three people on Twitter (Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears) have more combined followers than the entire population of Austria.*
• According to Socialnomics, if you were paid $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $156.23 per hour.
• The online bookmarking service, Delicious, has more than five million users and over 150 million unique bookmarked URLs.
• Since April this year, Twitter has been receiving around 20 million unique visitors to the site each month, according to some analytical sources.
• Formed in 2004, Flickr now hosts more than 3.6 billion user images.
• Universal McCann reports that 77% of all active internet users regularly read blogs.

Stats found at 20+ more mind-blowing social media statistics

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How Much Time Do You Spend A Day On Social Media?

A new content discovery platform where bloggers can monetize on their talent (http://www.bloggersbase.com)

I just recently discovered this website early this month in which subsequently I just found out that the website just started in December 2008.

The website is called BloggersBase.com and is a new Blogging community where you can share your content, enter in weekly cash prizes, actively view/engage the best posts of your favorite niche and gain exposure for yourself as a blogger.

I really like this website because it’s still in Beta and I got a chance to explore the community and provide some of my posts on my website that may of not got much exposure with other avenues.   So I got a chance to test a new audience and a new source of results.

I also noticed one of our Favorite Social Media Marketers is Blonde 2.0 is an active contributor and advocate on the site.

The Blog Competition

The website has it’s standard categories to post your content to; Entertainment, Lifestyle, Technology, World Affairs, Special Events and Partnerships.  Each parent category has it’s own sub-categories.

I am a Tech & Social Media blogger so I found Technology->Internet to post to.  What’s unique about BloggersBase is that you can re-publish your content that you already written and does not have to be an exclusive article.  This is great especially if you are time constraint and wishing to just get more exposure with an article you have written before.

Nuggets

When you first start out you are assigned a newbie rank as a blogger and a reader.  You can promote in ranks for both “Blogger” and “Reader” rank with the more you participate in.  With the higher ranks you achieve, you will gain “Influence” or Authority.

For Example:  A lowbie “Reader” rank who comments and votes.  Your votes are counted very little.  When you gain more higher ranks, your votes will have more value.

A lowbie “Blogger” when posting new posts will not be displayed in the voting competition right away.  The newbie blogger will instead be put in a “Nuggets” category where you have to gain certain votes to get out of.  Once out of the “Nuggets” stage you can then post your posts to the voting competition.

Weekly Prizes

Since Bloggersbase is fairly new, you have less competition and more of a chance to win the weekly cash prizes every week.  Like I said, I just started and already won $50 in 2 weeks time.

$40 for first prize and $10 for second prize.

Payment is sent to Paypal which is great because its fast and secure.

The winners will receive also status points for the “Blogger” rank system, promotional prizes (one week was a BloggersBase Ipod), Cash prizes and the title of Author to keep posting posts to the main blog instead of writing new “Nuggets” for that week.

Conclusion

The last reason why you should join BloggersBase is because most posts have already hit the front page results for Google.  This is another great SEO technique similar to posting to EZine Articles and other posting platforms.

So join now, its Free and less competition right now.  I will see you around Bloggersbase.

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New Blog Platform Competition Community To Gain Exposure & Money – BloggersBase

Twitter Forums (http://www.thetwitterforums.com)

Twitter forums is a new online forum community created by Twitter user Hobsdv  

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where its powered by user-generated content.  It’s a place where online users share ideas, give suggestions and ask for help on specifically niched topics.

Most notable Social Media forums out there now is SitePoint and DigitalPoint forums where it has a large online community of active users.

The Benefit of forums

There is are quite a few benefits in being active in forum communities.  First of all Forums are unlike Twitter in which microblogs are continuously broad casted or tweeted.

Forums are like message boards where threads/topics are created in order to comment on.  Forums are very organized content where you can easily find the topic and interest of your choice to research information on or give advice in the community.

• Driving Traffic – Forums are excellent resources in gaining exposure and driving more traffic to your website.  Other forum users can see your signature which usually promotes your website and is no pressure way to drive more traffic to your website.
• SEO – Forums are very big on SEO content not only are the threads/topics are indexed fast and effective but the DOFOLLOW links on your signatures help develop backlinks to your website which in turn helps out with your Google Page Rank.
• Good Source of information – Forums are the best way to stay tuned in new and upcoming information.  For example at the time of this Post DigitalPoint forums are discussing when the next page rank update will be for Google.

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The Twitter Forums & The Benefit Of Joining One

What is Mahalo: Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. Search results only include great links currently in Beta Stage. Mahalo is Hawaiian for Thank you.

What sets Mahalo from Google: Mahalo is a hybrid of Digg.com and Wikipedia.com.  Most of you know Digg is heavily derived from user submitted and controlled content that showcases links based on user participation.

Wiki is like the new encyclopedia online.  Again is user edited but the boys over Wiki does control the fake submitted content.  Wiki is the best source for information regarding a certain topic.

So in essence when searching Mahalo, spam content is so called taken away and the pages are more “Topic” focused and “Page” focused meaning the users create pages/topics with a who list of 411 information.

For example: See the Topic Hurricane Ike here http://www.mahalo.com/Hurricane_Ike_Projected_Path

This Topic Page includes content of

• Top 7 user controlled related articles
• Guide Note
• Fast Facts
• Discussion Page
• Background

As you can see this is a slew of all sorts of information.

SEO QUICK TIP

Now your up to speed on Mahalo, how does Mahalo help SEO you ask?

Since Mahalo is user contributed content and is still in beta stage.  Theres a huge window of opportunity taking advantage of a certain TOPIC or PAGE of information.  Want to submit your website under the TOPIC of Houses for Sale in State?

Want to see how having your site listed in Mahalo’s Topic of best computer speakers?

Click here http://www.google.com/search?q=best+computer+speakers

You will notice that the #2 ranked search term is Mahalo’s links and just imagine if you added your site to that topic.  See my point now?

So get the cracking and sign up for Mahalo and start adding some content.  Ahead of the game is always better than being left behind.

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Thank you Mahalo SEO