Social Bookmarking Guide: Friendfeed

Friendfeed is one of the top social media site that allows you to communicate with other members on its site. You can use friendfeed to create customize feeds of your site and share with your friends and discussions. The purpose of friendfeed is to allow users to easily find useful content on the internet. Friendfeeds can be joined by all kinds of users including individual, and business.

Friendfeed was established by the former employees of Google Inc including Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh. The employees were involved in the development of Gmail and Google Maps. You can integrate friendfeeds with other social media site such as Twitter, Digg and StumbleUpon.

Friendfeed’s site interface and platform is just like Twitter. It allows you to compose short messages and post it up to the site. Your messages will be displayed across your friend’s profile page. You can befriends with a lot of people on friendfeeds. To find friends on friendfeed, you can use the advanced search tools. You should find friends that are related to your industry. For example, if you are promoting a travel site, you can enter the keyword “travel” into the search box. After hitting enter, you will see of users that are blogging on the same topic on Friendfeeds. To befriend a user, select the link of the user name and click on the subscribe button.  You should keep befriending people until you have a large amount of subscribers. The subscribers are people who are already interested in the product or services which you offer. In this way, you can market you product your products to them easily.

If you have a blog, you can use it to post link of the new post you have created. Besides promoting your site, you can use it to post other interesting content. The content should be related to the industry which you are involved. Occasionally, you can post a humorous jokes to your friends. It is important to engage in conversation with your friends from time to time. After a while, you will no longer be a stranger to them. They will be receptive to your marketing message.

The direct messages feature allows you to send messages to users within the friendfeeds network. Each time a person subscribes to you, you can send a thank you note to them. This will create a good impression on them. Someday, they might recommend you to other users. Despite that, it doesn’t mean that you can use the direct message to spam people with promotional advertisements. If you do this, someone may report you to the moderator which will result in your account being banned permanently.

You can take advantage of the My discussions feature to discuss about a new product, an upcoming event of your company and etc. In the post, you can insert a link to your site. Though Friend feed is a nofollow site, it can increase the exposure of your products or services because it receives a large amount of traffic every day.