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How do you increase social traffic to a site/bog?

by Anton543
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I put up sharing buttons at the end of my articles and I have some likes and tweets and so on from those, but how do you deliberately increase traffic from them? I have never created a FB page, Twitter and Google Plus accounts for my sites because I didn't like the idea of having to work on them to drive traffic. I was busy enough as it is. In fact, I don't even know the basics of how a social account tied to a site brings in traffic. What do you need to do, do you see a boost in traffic to your site or does the social traffic remain separate i.e. stays on the FB page, Twitter page ,etc? He do you actively get others to share your content.

I simply haven't explored the social side other than putting up share buttons.

Can anyone please forward me to an article that explains the basics of how you drive traffic to a site using social marketing. I may need to hire someone to manage these accounts, as I want to keep focussing on content, SEO, revenue strategy.
#increase #site or bog #social #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Sampsonite
    Hi there!

    First off, I would definitely setup a Facebook page at least, if not also a twitter page, g+ page, or any other social site you can think of.
    I'll layout a typical strategy that I might use in this situation.

    - Create website and facebook page
    - Populate site with content
    - Start posting niche relevant content to your facebook page (ie, if your niche is a about recreational drugs, post articles about recreational drugs)
    - Using facebooks built in ad campaign, create an ad that will attract the right audience for your niche to your facebook page
    - Once you've got a good audience built up (100 - 1,000 - 100,000) start posting links to your site along with the niche relevant content

    Your aim with this is to take people from facebook, and push them to your website, where they will hopefully click on things/buy things.

    A few tips:
    - Memes work really really well and are excellent content to share. Look at your own facebook and see how many people are sharing meme images, funny videos, etc.
    - DO NOT BUY LIKES. You want the page likes to be organic so that the people who like your page are more likely to be active on your page, like and share your content, and then hopefully go to your site.
    - Setup a fake account for facebook/twitter/instagram and start following pages in your nice. You can quite easily find a weeks worth of sharable content to 'borrow' for your facebook page in 10 minutes. Then schedule this content to go out through the week. You should be able to do this in about 30 minutes easily.
    - Don't forget to make the links to your site look natural, make sure you add value every time you post, as people might quickly dislike your page.

    I hope that gave you a few ideas, if you have any other questions just ask!
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  • Profile picture of the author mani222
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    Few Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
    1---Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share
    2---Participate in the Communities Where Your Audience Already Gathers
    3---Make Your Blog's Content SEO-Friendly
    4---Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Share Your Posts & Find New Connections
    5---Install Analytics and Pay Attention to the Results
    6---Add Graphics, Photos and Illustrations (with link-back licensing)
    7---Conduct Keyword Research While Writing Your Posts
    8---Frequently Reference Your Own Posts and Those of Others
    9---Create a Newsletter To Showcase Your Best Blog Posts
    10---Finding Long Tail Keywords
    11---Make Sure Your Site is Responsive
    12---Make Yourself Heard in Comment Sections
    13---Generate ideas from useful comments
    14---Email Traffic Generation
    15---Twisted Guest Blogging
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Yunker
    Hey Anton,

    Just a quick tip, but guest posting works wonders for brining traffic and remember capture their emails so once they leave you can stay connected with them!

    Guest blogging is the most powerful so try checking out some videos on how to get people to let you guest post, but anyway you want to drive traffic is great. Just make sure when their there get as many emails as possible because that's your key!!

    Hope this quick tip helped

    Best of luck to your success!

    Adam
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  • Profile picture of the author aizazsaleem
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeMizOne
      because I didn't like the idea of having to work on them to drive traffic. I was busy enough as it is.
      Exactly, I felt the same when I asked myself the same question. It's kind of ironic, you want traffic from social media, but you need social followers, to get social followers you need traffic.

      If you want to generate traffic from social media I would recommend using Reddit. A lot of the users there are active on other social media sites as well. If you have something that is worth sharing, Reddit will do the work for you.

      The majority of the articles I have posted to Reddit have been shared on Facebook and Twitter by hundreds of people.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Byhovtsov
    I like such blogs as Social media examiner and Social media today, you will find there a lot of different useful information, good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author jogunn
    Social media can consistently bring traffic to your blog, but as it was mentioned before you need to gain traction there and build a follower/fan base first. If you create social media content that solves people's problems - people are going to share it, it also helps if you include an attractive graphic or video that supports your content. If you intermix those posts with links back to your blog posts, you'll start to pull traffic from your social media sites back to your blog. It can be a huge time pull, but this work can be easily outsourced to people who know what they're doing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Platt
    If you decide on making a Facebook page (which I recommend) you can share some things of your website on that page. The threshold is much lower for people to go on your Facebook-page (and then on your website) than it is to go immediately on your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Yunker
    I'd say the best way is to build an email list for your niche with a simple squeeze page and deliver a lot of value and grow your list.

    Once it's big enough create a Facebook, Twitter page and send it to your list. Then you can use both platforms to freely drive traffic to your blog

    Just something quick, but it's worked for me!

    Hope that helps

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    • Profile picture of the author drjoeel
      To be honest with you I tried for one year adding relevant content 3 times a day on our facebook page and did several different things like asking engaging questions and even doing free giveaways. They increases my facebook likes but did not do much as far as return on invested time. I have found niche forums, reddit, collaborating with people that have a list to be much more productive. I have found facebook ads to work but having a page to engage people to come to my site seemed to be point less compared to the other alternatives.
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  • Profile picture of the author jogunn
    I just recently helped launch a page for a new app launching soon and got a pretty decent chunk of likes simply by interacting as the group page on relevant pages. You don't want to spam them, but if you comment something of worth, it helps get your page in front of more people that are looking for your page directly.
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  • Profile picture of the author chrisjohn93
    Few Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
    1---Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share
    2---Participate in the Communities Where Your Audience Already Gathers
    3---Make Your Blog's Content SEO-Friendly
    4---Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Share Your Posts & Find New Connections
    5---Install Analytics and Pay Attention to the Results
    6---Add Graphics, Photos and Illustrations (with link-back licensing)
    7---Conduct Keyword Research While Writing Your Posts
    8---Frequently Reference Your Own Posts and Those of Others
    9---Create a Newsletter To Showcase Your Best Blog Posts
    10---Finding Long Tail Keywords
    11 ---- Use Social Media
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