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MySpace, one of the internet’s largest social networks, and a major rival of Facebook, is reported by it’s users to be lacking features. Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg packs all kinds of web apps from developers and welcomes them to promote their profile apps on their network. Some folk say MySpace was late to that game. People who use apps on social networks to crosspost their content are publishers & minds alike to syndicate their content to their social profile friends. One of the things some users report on MySpace is that they are not allowed to crosspost their website and blog content to their myspace blogs with their domain name “URL address” showing within myspace blog posts. People who spam excessively on MySpace made it bad for the honest content publishers to push their content to their MySpace friends. What would that do for publishers if MySpace were to allow webmasters to do so? That means not only backlinks for search engine optimization “SEO” purposes, but pull direct traffic from their MySpace profile’s “friends list” to glue their eyeballs to the specific publishers’ website content that has friend built up on their MySpace page.
Besides website publishers and content creators that would like to pull social networking traffic from their myspace profile pages, regular users are quietly talking about how they wish they knew “who exactly views my myspace page”. Those who chatter about the feature the most are wanting to see not only what screennames stopped by their page, but the “in depth” analytics. These analytics include the time each person stopped by, how many times they stopped by, and the exact state he or she is in. Additionally, those who want this feature implemented within “MySpace” would also like to have the patiently anticipated “who views my profile on MySpace” feature to have deep analytics for users to better understand how people come across their profile.
For example, if a profile page was discovered in Google, and the search led the search engine visitor directly to their profile page, then users would be able to see directly through MySpace profile page analytics (If they decide to get their programmers to write code for everybody - Hopefully, Chris DeWolfe will read this and perhaps consider adding the new feature for everybody). Maybe Mike Arrington will stop on by and sneek peek and talk about it on TechCrunch or CrunchGear. People want to know which exact social networks and search engines led people to their pages. Maybe an old girlfriend or boyfriend punched “so & so’s name” into the search box & [Presto], their MySpace page came up as result #1 in YaHoO, Google , Lycos or whoever. The ?’n is ….when will MySpace consider adding this, since Facebook now has the lead over NewsCorp’s MySpace ?
If they think about it, they can sell more advertising by adding what people have been waiting for the longest, because MySpace users can’t add Google Analytics javascript code to find out where visitors came from. If MySpace were to do this, they could create an entire “profile analytics” page, whereas each demographic could be broken down, not just by the simple stuff, like MySpace profile picture, age, location and maybe IP address, but also show graph and pie charts too, like Google does. This in turn can keep user activity very high, while selling ads, ads, and MORE ads!
Almost all free MySpace layout and comment sites that give away stuff to social profile users of all social websites are reported as having the free “Profile visitor snitching” code available for friends to add into their “about me” section of their MySpace editing html section. That means those sites that sponsor that are not only getting better search engine rankings because more people are using the analytics code, but they are also taking ad money away from this highly popular social networking website.
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