Consider this: MySpace has a traffic rank of 5; Facebook: 6; Orkut: 10 (source: Alexa.com). All the three are popular social networking sites. With more than 70 million visitors, MySpace is growing like the digital counterpart of the malls for new-age youths; users pack MySpace with images, music group news, colorful profiles and details of likes and dislikes. The popular crowd of college students of Facebook currently rules the Internet social scene. The business minded society of LinkedIn, Konnects and blog based community sites like Xanga are winning the heart of their users.

If you are planning to launch your own website, it is a super-smart idea to launch your own social networking site. One should try and make the complete website extremely interactive so that a user can take keen interest. The viral approach towards marketing helps the company grow by leaps and bounds. The various flashy ads and banners boast of the product and services being offered. Various interest groups can help many people with minor doubts and help them provide a platform to discuss, share and transfer data about the product. People with common interests and likes and come close and share information on your website. This results in increased website traffic which in turn boosts the ratings of your site globally.

Newbie users are fond of social network sites due to the possibility of:

·        Making new friends

·        Meeting a partner

·        Business opportunities

·        Online identity by making profiles or customized personal webpage

·        Sharing thoughts and interests

·        Building own network of personal connections

·        Sending mass messages to large number of friends

·        Being part of groups and communities

How to start? Where to start from? Relax!

You can build up your own social network site by using a software program that specializes in creating Social Networking sites such as Phpfox (available at www.phpfox.com). It’s the best tailor-made software for designing social networking sites. It has some wonderful features like:

·        Music Module

·        Live Chat

·        Instant Messenger

·        Multi-language Capabilities

·        Blog, Video & Image tagging

·        Advanced User Search

·        Advanced Admin Control Panel

·        Video Module

·        WYSIWYG Editor

·        Advanced Profile Editor

How can networking help get you targeted traffic? If you make 20 strong, personal, one-on-one business contacts every month, at least five of them will end up sending you traffic. Somehow, someday, they’ll start pushing the right kinds of visitors to you. It might be by linking to you. They may mention your site in a viral e-book or one of their articles. They might want to do a joint venture or partner on a money making project. They might do all these things – and many more.

Businesswise, a 10,000 member social networking site can sell for thousands of dollars without any effort. There is no better time than now to start your own Social Networking site.