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The Ultimate Social Media Profile Chart
By David Wallace
Expert Author
Article Date: 2011-03-07
Below is a list of some of the most popular social media sites, all arranged by category (i.e., bookmarking, blogging, news, etc.). Besides the obvious factor that these sites allow you to get involved in their communities, they also allow you to create a unique profile which includes your own custom URL, a link (or sometimes links) back to your site and information about you and/or your company.
While engaging the features and communities of social media site can be very beneficial to your business, social media profiles additionally help you to accomplish two things: build inbound links to your site and help manage online reputation. That is the primary focus of the chart below.The Chart Explained - Site - Logo and link to site's home page
- Title - Refers to title that will appear on your profile page. Most often this will be the username you select but at times it can be customized separate from the user name. This can be an important asset when using social media profile pages to manage online reputation for a brand or product name.
- Bio - Simply an area in the profile where you can add a brief description about yourself, your company or even the services you offer.
- Links(s) - Most social media sites will allow you to link back to your site. Some even allow you multiple links as well as the ability to connect to other social media profiles.In this chart, a "1″ means you can link to one site; a "1+" means you can link to more than one site; and finally, the addition of "S" means you can link to other social media profiles.
- Followed - Are links followed or nofollowed? A simple "yes" or "no" will be entered here.
- Description - Brief description of what social media site offers.
Now with no further ado, I give you The Ultimate Social Media Profile Chart. Enjoy! Blogging | Site | Title | Bio | Link(s) | Followed | Description |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | Syndication service and online community of the alternative press featuring news stories from alternative newsweeklies, magazines and web publications. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | A unique media publishing platform & a suite of tools that help you build an audience reaching far beyond the walls of this site.the |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | No | A weblog publishing service that is easy enough for a beginner and advanced enough for an expert. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | No | By asking bloggers to write about a particular subject on 1 day of the month, a single voice can be joined with thousands to help make a difference. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | Get a free blog quick and easily! |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | Community site designed for bloggers based on LiveJournal source code. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | Helps you build and manage an online portfolio website. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | No | A comment and moderation tool that allows users to track and manage comments in one place. |  | None | Yes | 1,S | Yes | Poster yourself - Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | Yes | A simple yet very customizable online diary built on open source software. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | A news ecosystem bringing bloggers, citizen journalists and traditional media together. |  | Custom | Yes | 1, S | Yes | A comment system that enhances and encourages conversation on blogs or websites. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | A leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, books, catalogs, reports, and more. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | The simplest web creation tool on the web, Kafafa gives you everything you need to make your own website and get it up on the Internet, all for free. |  | Custom | Yes | 1, S | Yes | A community publishing platform that since 1999 has been home to a wide array of creative individuals looking to share common interests, meet new friends, and express themselves. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | Provides a means for users to chronicle their days and share their experiences with as little effort as possible. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | Makes it easy for users to create inspired content by providing a daily prompt (i.e. a question or challenge) which they answer. Users can share answers on Facebook, Twitter and blogs. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | Allows users to post things online fast using email. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | No | Offers timely topic suggestions for bloggers to end writer's block and assists bloggers in writing more relevant articles for their readers. |  | Username | Yes | 1, S | Yes | A tumblelog; a super-easy blog that can do more than just text including post links, quotes, videos, audio, files, reviews and events |  | Username | Yes | 1+,S | Yes | The popular (free) site for creating single webpages on your interests and recommendations. Even earn money for charity or yourself. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | Makes it effortless to share text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | Web site builder that allows choice from of 100′s of templates (or design your own); then edit site in place with our content management toolbar. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | Create a free website or blog in minutes by using a simple drag and drop interface. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. |
Bookmarking | Site | Title | Bio | Link(s) | Followed | Description |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | A service for engaging in conversation about news, thoughts and ideas that people share. |  | Username | No | 1+ | No | Bookmarking services that allows you instantly save any website you find with one click. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | No | Allows users to see clips of text, images or video about all sorts of topics that other people find while surfing the web. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | No | A free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists. |  | Username | No | 1+ | No | Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service. |  | Custom | Yes | 1,S | No | A powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | Helps users discover the most personally relevant web content across a broad variety of topics. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | Aggregate recommendations, tags (keywords), comments or just "more information" which exists within knowledge of the people (the folks!) and connect it to particular web pages or topics. |  | Username | No | 1 | Yes | Makes it easy for you to write and read comments at any web site on the fly, in fact without leaving the page you are at. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | No | A revolutionary Web 2.0 social bookmarking web service for collecting, storing, sharing and distributing web bookmark |  | Username | No | 1 | Yes | A social media platform to find cool things, read a smart scoop, connect with fab ideas, exceptional people, useful information, excellent products, and more. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+,S | No | You can search for the best websites, save them and share them with others, completely free |  | None | No | 1 | Yes | An African Social Bookmarking Service dedicated to content of interest to Africans, or those interested in Africa. |  | None | N0 | 1+ | Yes | A free online favorites manager that features an easy drag-and-drop interface, so users can rearrange links and categories quickly and easily. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | Yes | A social bookmark manager that allows you to add web sites to your personal collection of links, categorize those sites with tags and share your collection not only with your own browsers and machine, but also with other people. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | No | Helps users (Stumblers) discover and share great websites. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | A social bookmarking website for visual contents which allows you to remember your favorite images from all over the web, and share them with everyone. |  | Username | No | 1+ | Yes | Social community based on bookmarked websites. |
Business | Site | Title | Bio | Link(s) | Followed | Description |  | Username | Yes | 1+,S | Yes | A small business community and social media site where small businesses, entrepreneurs and startups can discover, share and vote for business tips and news on the web. |  | None | Yes | 1 | Yes | The smarter way to create and share your resume - quick and painless resume management. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+,S | Yes/No | Offers profile pages to put you in control of training search engines about the best of your personal brand and online identity. |  | Custom | No | 1 | No | A community for people to find and share professional documents. Find free legal documents and free business documents. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | No | A social business network founded in 1998, a community that enables people to learn, network and develop their business with a "digital mindset" for effective economic growth. |  | Username | Yes | 1+,S | Yes | Provides a highly interactivity environment for publishing and distributing an organisation's public documents across the Internet. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | A social media site that allows you to buy and sell tasks for $5. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | No | Brings customers and company employees together to make things better for everyone buy providing great answers and ideas that can come from anywhere. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | A person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | No | A place for people and companies to come together as friends and explore opportunity. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | No | A networking tool that helps you discover inside connections. |  | Username | No | 1 | Yes | The UK's first social fashion website. Shop on our High Street for the latest clothing items and steal the hottest celebrity styles. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+,S | Yes | A business networking site that allows great free promotion for user's websites and to networking for social business profiles. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | A social media site for Ryz brand of products. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | No | Offers on-demand business to business contact information for sales people, marketers, and recruiters. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | Enables collaboration and networking between entrepreneurs globally. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | No | Share investing ideas and learn from real professionals |  | None | No | 1 | Yes | A career quiz resource for people looking to figure out the perfect career path| find jobs| and learn about careers through personality quizzes and tests. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | No | A place where users can explore great product recommendations, get personalized shopping suggestions and rave about products they like. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | A social media site for financial news, ideas and tips. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+,S | No | Where business information, communications and connections come together to enhance your business life. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | A free multimedia online resume that sets you apart from the competition. |  | Username | No | 1 | Yes | The Wesabe community shares tips and advice to help each other make better financial decisions. |  | Custom | No | 1+,S | No | Provides free real estate information. Search homes for sale; home prices; home values; recently sold homes; mortgage rates; and more. |
Community | Site | Title | Bio | Link(s) | Followed | Description |  | Username | No | 1+ | Yes | A community for creative professionals that provides an effortless way for anyone to build, manageand fully customize their portfolios. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | No | A one stop shop for how-to, informational & educational content. Content is provided in the form of articles, videos, presentations, audio recordings and image slideshows. |  | Username | No | 1+ | Yes | A community where moms get advice and support, connect with other moms, and express themselves in groups, journals, polls, and more. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | Find local events in your town or across the world. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | No | A social utility that connects people with friends and others who work; study and live around them |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | A leading global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | No | An Interactive collaborative and educational community bringing together individuals, communities, organizations and corporations to help people learn. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | No | A platform for social groups to get together. Choose template and pick all the modules that you want (wiki, blogs, photos, links etc). |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | A place to connect with your friends, followers and contacts. Play social network games, Multiplayer Games with friends and participate in reality game shows. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | A web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | Users can create, share and discuss blogs, photos, videos and music with others as well as post reviews of movies and books, or share a calendar of events. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | Helps you find and enjoy videos, photos, music and websites recommended by people who love the same stuff you do. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | No | A community with blogging as well as sharing of music, videos and more. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | No | A business media site for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | An easy; fluid; social way to share your life with the people around you. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | Online community of youth interested in global issues and creating positive change |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | An online community, based in several cities throughout the US and in Canada. Users create a network of friends, and join or create tribes for common interests. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | No | A community where you can start your own free weblog, share photos and videos, and meet new friends too! |
Design | Site | Title | Bio | Link(s) | Followed | Description |  | Username | No | 1+ | Yes | Allows users to Eeit images, create mind-blowing effects, design logos, find colors, collaborate, and more. All you need is a web browser. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | Yes | Provides comprehensive info and reviews and conversations about the latest and greatest in art. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | Find design inspiration with thousands of palettes and color schemes to fall in love with. Influence color trends by rating, commenting and sharing. |  | None | No | 1+ | Yes | A community where people create designs using an online drawing application. These designs can be rated, downloaded, and archived. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | Design industry news & discussion. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | The place for web designers, interaction designers, information architects and user experience professionals to share and discuss their inspiration |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | A place where you can draw and share. |
Entertainment | Site | Title | Bio | Link(s) | Followed | Description |  | Username | No | 1+ | No | Find custom cars, car pictures, car show coverage and more. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | No | A humorous look at cats and other animals through hilarious user-generated photo and video content |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | Yes | A fashion social network that focuses on fashion discovery. |  | Custom | No | 1 | No | An online service that makes it easy to discover and buy the products, brands, and fashions being used by your favorite celebrities - in their real lives, and in movies and television. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | No | An online video service and community that offers full-length episodes and movies of the very best in Japanese anime and Asian entertainment. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | No | MMORPG downloads, forums, news, guides, videos and screenshots.videos |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | Yes | A real gaming community - on and offline. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | Yes | A social calendar that helps you share, follow and discover events. |  | Username | No | 1+ | Yes | a network of fan clubs for fans of television, movies, music and more to discuss and share photos, videos, news and opinions with fellow fans. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | No | Empowers every type of football fan to get personalized news updates, results, statistics, blogs, forums, media, interact with fans around the world. |  | Username | No | 1 | Yes | Watch new video game trailers, read reviews and previews of upcoming video games. |  | None | No | 1 | Yes | A Gawker owned "gamers guide" social networking site. |  | None | No | 1 | Yes | A place to catalog your media collection, whether it be books, DVDs, or CDs. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | A large Flash games and animation site that accepts user-produced submissions. |  | Username | Yes | 1+ | Yes | Change the way you play and discover games and share your gaming experiences with friends. |  | Custom | Yes | 1+ | Yes | An online style club for people who live for fashion, design and shopping. |  | Username | Yes | 1,S | No | Aims to capture and celebrate the contemporary video gaming lifestyle and the diverse global video game culture. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | Express yourself by customizing your profile page and uploading your juiciest celebrity stories, photos and videos to The Insider community. |
Health/Food | Site | Title | Bio | Link(s) | Followed | Description |  | Username | Yes | 1 | No | A social networking site where users create accounts and then share lists of goals and hopes. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | No | A social media playground for wine lovers. |  | Custom | Yes | 1 | No | A Social Community for food lovers; cooks & creators world wide. |  | Custom | No | 1 | No | Share training with friends and stay motivated. Find training partners, local events, routes, and groups. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | Yes | A community for parenting, education and planning - meet other parents, share tips and ask advice. |  | Username | Yes | 1 | No | Menus and user reviews for restaurants all over the US and Canada. Rate what you ate in a personal dining guide and read other's journals. |  | Username |
About the Author:
David Wallace, co-founder and CEO of SearchRank, is a recognized expert in the industry of search and social media marketing. A blogger and widely published author, David has been featured in many online publications such as Search Engine Guide, Search Engine Watch, WebPro News, SEO Today, and Pandia to name a few. David also serves as a frequent speaker at the Search Marketing Expo, Search Engine Strategies and PubCon conferences.
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