Comments on: Social Networking Sites are Missing the Monetization Social Media Golden Goose

By: Jaylan

Jaylan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:09:35 +0000

I agree ! Their method is Flaw and they have to make changes before other networks will and take their place .

By: InternetStrategist@GrowMap.com

InternetStrategist@GrowMap.com — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:20:57 +0000

@jonhc Thank you for letting us know about Proximic. I've visited their site and shared it on FriendFeed and Twitter. I would love to see them gain widespread implementation across blogs and Social Networking sites. All sites will still have to provide targeted pages to display the ads on. The best targeted ads are manually selected and implemented. No algorithm, regardless of how sophisticated, can be as accurate as human selection. InternetStrategist’s last blog post..Have a Blog? You Win By Reading This Blog Review Contest Entry on Best Blog Design!

By: jonhc

jonhc — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:20:04 +0000

I suggest you look toward proximic for social networking monetization technologies.

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By: growmap

growmap — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:12:25 +0000

@Nicholas James Thank you for taking the time to comment on this post. Overture (now Yahoo! Search Marketing) pioneered the idea but Google is profiting most from it.

Since it has already been done and proven to be where the money is it amazes me that no Social Networking site has seen the connection between how search ads are targeted and how they could do the same using ads on targeted pages.

What Social Networking most needs (to make it easy for their users to find the content they want) is also what they most need to target and sell ads!

I am very interested in offering feedback, suggestions and beta testing to FriendFeed and Twitter – or if they are not interested – to any other Social Networking site that will develop this idea.

By: Nicholas James

Nicholas James — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:35:39 +0000

This is something that social networking sites haven't taken advantage of, they haven't realised the true value of the services which they are providing. This is reminiscent of when Google entered the Search Market. No-one saw the true value of Search but the Google guys, did. Search has now become the core service of users on the Internet. Nicholas James’s last blog post..Carol Bartz Yahoo’s New CEO

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By: growmap

growmap — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:32:32 +0000

@Louis Gray – Absolutely! At one point StumbleUpon made it really easy to find the top Stumblers on any subject via tags – well easy if you knew how to access it.

There were pages that showed which users posted the most favored content on any given subject and you could easily see what expertise any particular user had. That content was only a click away.

If I wanted to find a Ubuntu expert I had only to go to the Ubuntu page and I could instantly visit and potentially contact the best Stumblers.

Originally those features weren’t in StumbleUpon (and post-eBay I believe some were removed). Today they aren’t part of FriendFeed but they definitely CAN be added.

Each of those pages brought in valuable incoming links from search engines and introduced more people to SU. While SU never monetized in the manner I am suggesting they certainly could have.

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Turulcsirip - monetization — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:10:23 +0000

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