Results of Mobile App use of 2013

If you had a mobile app created or in use for during 2013 you were probably someone that benefited from the huge increase of mobile app market usage for 2013. According to Flurry Analytics the results came in for last year showing Mobile-app use increased by 115% for year over year growth.

The biggest growth was in messaging and social apps with an increase of 203%. Next in line was utilities and productivity grew 149%. Coming in last place but still seeing a small increase was news and magazines with a rise of 31% year over year.

Mobile App Use 2013 Year over Year Growth: Click to Enlarge

If you have a consistently growing online audience for your current blog or website you might want to heavily consider adding a mobile app to your social media marketing strategy. Contact a social media consultant at Social Media MasterPiece to see if a mobile-app is right for your marketing campaign.

Also share with us your opinions on the mobile app market. Do you think we will continue to see this trend in 2014?

Top 5 Social BookMarking Sites

Which Social Bookmarking site is best for you?

Every social media marketing strategy should include a list of social bookmarking sites that allow you to not only save your favorite websites but to also boost your search engine ranking. 

In this post I will share the power of each platform, website metrics and which sites are appropriate for your marketing objectives. 

1) Pinterest- is a social media platform that allows you to Pin (upload) photos to a profile that you can share publicly online. Pinterest does not allow you to create back links but it does recognize the image name which will create 'extra credit' relevancy for search engines as they crawl through the internet. Pinterest launched back in 2010 and now has more that 70 million users! According to Business Insider Pinterest is valued at $2 billion. In addition, since Pinterest is a Do follow site you can also implement SEO within the description of every posted Pin. If you have a lot of visual content for example Restaurants, Jewelery Stores, Artists, Designers, etc. Pinterest should be #1 on your list for your social media marketing strategy but anyone can take advantage of this power social media platform.

Look at how 'Jewelry Lady' Amanda Holland leverages Pinterest to create relevant great content for customers and designer enthusiasts will love.


Page Rank: 9
Global Traffic Rank:  27
USA Traffic Rank: 12


2) Google Bookmarks- is a bookmarking service offered by Google which will allow you store your favorite websites to there server and you will be able to access them at any time and anywhere you have internet access. The most important aspect in terms of marketing strategy is using their service to bookmark your own personal websites and creating SMO descriptions when bookmarking your own content. 

Everyone understands and knows the power of the Almighty Google, make sure you are giving them as many opportunities as possible to index your website. 

Page Rank: 9
Global Traffic Rank: 1 
USA Traffic Rank: 1 


 3) Flickr- is a image sharing site similar to Pinterest. You can upload images in real time, create collection homepages, and promote your business through a visionary approach. Flickr has over 87 million users with 3.5 million photos uploaded daily. A necessary step using Flickr is uploading your photos and tagging your images to maximize using their platform. 

Besides the organic traffic you could potentially generate from search engines, your tags are the keywords that will pull your images when people are searching on Flickr. Flickr was purchased by Yahoo! in 2005 for $35 million.

Page Rank: 9
Global Traffic Rank: 70
USA Traffic Rank: 53

 4) Bibsonomy- is a social bookmarking and publication-sharing system. As with most social bookmarking services you can choose your descriptions and tags freely. 

Bibsonomy was created back in 2006 and is a high page rank site that will add to your list of backlinks increasing your ranking on organic search results. Bibsonomy also supports the integration of different communities and people by offering a social platform for literature exchange. 

Page Rank: 7
Global Traffic Rank: 5379
USA Traffic Rank: 36338

5) Yahoo! Bookmarks- is a bookmarking service offered by Yahoo! There social bookmarking service is a great way to gain some extra "link juice" for your website SERP and have access to your favorite websites and personal websites. 
Since Yahoo! is one of the top 4 search engines on the web having a backlink from Yahoo! is a must have part of your social media marketing strategy. 

Page Rank: 6
Global Traffic Rank: 4
USA Traffic Rank: 4

We hope this posts adds some value to your current  social marketing goals. If you would like to learn more about social bookmarking contact a social media consultant today for a free 30 minute session at www.socialmediamasterpiece.com