Google, ever since it launched pay per click model of advertisements, has changed the entire web publishing scenario. Today, web publishing monetized by adsense, has become an industry in itself. However most publishers would agree that monetizing a site from adsense is not a simple thing. Apart from lot of issues to take care of while developing the site, getting traffic and clicks remains biggest hurdle.

Social media marketing is a method of promoting your website by strategically making your presence known across various social media networks (such as Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Myspace, etc). Each category of social media has a different, sometimes intricate method for effective promotion.

Social networking has become an integrated part of one’s life. These sites help in information and expertise sharing, gaining exposure and promoting an organization. As the number of such networking sites is growing every day; apart from managing logging in such sites every now and then; it becomes hard to remember all the passwords, logins of various networking sites.

For better PR or for better traffic or ranking in search engine results, social networking sites are fast gaining prominence. Digg, deli.cio.us or stumble upon have fast emerged as the leading social networking sites. Does linking to these sites help? Answer is, it used to be much more relevant earlier and is now losing prominence. Unfortunately, it is we, the programmers who are basically responsible for defeat of otherwise such a wonderful concept and principle or social networking site.