Online E-Commerce Helped Along by Social Media

It's true that social networking sites are definately directing an increasing number of online users towards shopping web sites.

You can find comments and shopping info on sites like Flickr, MySpace, etc. According to research, sites like these increase their shares in September due to shopping and ecommerce becoming a big part of the social networking activities.

Research from Hitwise revealed that shopping and classified sites received 2.4 per cent of their visits from MySpace during September, and furthermore that this represented an 83 per cent increase on figures released six months earlier.

I have found that google alerts that have come up for snazzygirl.com, that were original on blogs and social network sites, talking about opinion about products on the site, really do direct people in a postive way towards the web site. Much more than doing any kind of online advertising.