Summary: Social media channels like Facebook, twitter, and YouTube are great places to share your blog posts. Doing so will drive some traffic back to your blog and make you more affiliate sales!
Last time you learned about submitting your articles to article directories and certain social media content-sharing sites to drive traffic to your blog.
This time you’ll learn how to use social bookmarking and social networking sites to get traffic.
Get Traffic Using Social Networking
The biggest social networking site around is Facebook.com. Maybe you already use it for personal reasons, such as keeping in contact with friends and family. Whether you’re already using it or not, you should start using it to stay in touch with business connections and prospects.
If you don’t want to mix business with personal contacts, then open up a Facebook Business page. You can do this by logging into your existing account and then going to: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php.
Once you’ve created your page, you can start sharing your blog posts. You can also publish post “teasers” – this is where you publish part of a post and then point your readers towards your blog to read more.
Tip: You can cross-promote your Facebook Business Page by linking to it on your blog. Doing so gives you just one more way to connect with your prospects on a regular basis. You can also use Facebook’s pay-per-click advertising to advertise your Business page.
Drive Traffic Using Social Bookmarking
Another way to drive traffic to your site using social media is by using social bookmarking sites. Some of the top sites include:
When you publish a post on your blog, you can then “bookmark” the post using the above sites. Here are a few tips to make it more effective:
- Bookmark share-worthy content. Rants, controversial posts, or highly useful posts are the best types of content to share on bookmarking sites. That’s because people are more likely to follow your lead and share this content with their social networks.
- Encourage others to bookmark and share your content. An easy way to do this is by installing a social bookmarking plugin on your blog, like this: WordPress Social Sharing Plugin.
- Get involved on the sites. These aren’t just bookmarking sites – they’re social bookmarking. And that means you should spend time finding and befriending others on the sites who share your interests. Be sure to bookmark and comment on their content, too.
Today’s task: Choose one of your most share-worthy posts, publish it on your blog and start bookmarking it using the sites above.
Tomorrow you’ll discover a unique way to get more traffic – for free!