Use Sub-Domains to Socialize the Web Experience

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May 14, 2008 by James
Filed under: Internet Marketing 

Owning your own domain is one thing and creating an information rich website that helps your clients and customers achieve their objectives is a must. But what about the impact social websites are having on the user experience when it comes to navigation and finding your way around?

I’m a member of dozens of websites, I join more regularly and many of these sites are highly visible brands and represent additional value to my clients - but only if they can find me there…

So how have I made it a little easier for my visitors to find me on these other popular social sites? Here’s how…

Sub Domains

Simply put, I have mapped all of the popular social sites I am member of to a correseponding sub-domain on my main web address. Now, instead of you having to remember:

you can simply type:

And instead of trying to remember my YouTube profile you can now type:

For a complete list as of this morning, take a closer look at the image above.

SOCIAL MARKETING TIP:

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