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Promoting Websites in 2009

A very Happy New Year to you and your family.  May 2009 be the best ever year for you.

2008 was the year of Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed. Twitter especially was phenomenal. People just seem to love twittering. If they aren’t socializing they twitter simply to promote their web presence. Hope you too did a lot of twittering for whatever reason you actually had. In 2009 there are predictions that Twitter could be a acquired by any large corporation – though nothing official about it yet.

By the way, if you are submitting your site regularly to services like Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed you can consider this cool service called Ping.fm. It’s a major time saver as it posts your message to more than 20 services including mini-blogs and even a few blogs.

Social media marketing will continue to rule and develop into an essential part of the marketing campaign for all businesses in the future. Watch this video where Evan Williams, the CEO of Twitter, claims that the future of Twitter is with marketers. More and more e-Commerce, Business To Business will all begin entering the social media field like never before.

Apart from social media the other thing that will continue to grow big is of course the video sharing sites. If you aren’t leveraging the power of the web video sites like YouTube you are certainly leaving money on the table. YouTube is well on it’s way to become the second largest search engine leaving Yahoo behind. I heard Ed Dale telling that a couple of month back and now it seems that he can’t be more right.

Also, keep an eye on Google Friend Connect. We will have to wait and see if that’s going to be a game changer.

So, that’s it for today. And before I go, best wishes for 2009 again.