All the cool kids are doing it. Now you can use them to help spread the word about your Website by marketing it to some of the biggest social media sites out there

Online Marketing Blog asked some of the top online marketing gurus how they would get the most out of the social media sites that are the current Internet rave. These experts provided tips for working Twitter, Del.icio.us, MyBlogLog, Flickr and Facebook, among others:

If you want to be successful on Facebook you either need a viral application and/or you will have to spend thousands on advertising. An easy way to think of a viral application is what features does Facebook lack or how can you improve on their current set of features. If you want to go the advertising route, you can pay companies like RockYou 50 cents for every installation they drive.

In addition to strategies for dealing with specific sites, the article also offers a lot of helpful “in general” tips for getting the most from social media sites. Best tip: spend some time getting to know a site before trying to market too heavily to it.