Being a blogger, my main aim is to provide the best information and solution to my readers, and the second objective is to get new readers every day to maximize my blog traffic. There are many ideas and ways that we can implement to increase the blog’s traffic, but I find Social Media as the best place from where I can drag massive traffic.
In this post, I am going to make you aware of a few tips that help you increase your blog’s traffic using Social Media.
Install Social Sharing button
When it comes to social media, it is said that as much your post gets shared on various social sites that much traffic you get. The best way to give your readers an ease to share your blog posts on their social profiles is by installing Social Sharing Buttons on the blog. You can find such buttons on almost every blog on the internet.
In the above screenshot, you can see I have installed social sharing button at two places on my blog. When the post get scrolled down, the sharing button below the title will not be visible, so I have added buttons in the sidebar as well which keep showing even you reach the end of the post.
You can install the way you want, but do the install because your readers won’t have time to share your post by copying the link, then pasting onto their social profiles, and then share. These buttons help them share the posts within two clicks only.
Write Attention Grabbing Headlines
Headlines are important if you are targeting social media to get traffic because Headline is an important factor and prominently visible when you share the post on social sites.
Look at the above screenshot that I have taken from my FB timeline, you can see that the Headline of the post is prominently visible, and if people see to this sharing, they must get headline at first to read, and that is why it is indeed important to write headlines that may tempt people to click.
Add good featured image to blog posts
Look at the above screenshot again, along with the headline which is the thing that is prominently displaying?
Of course the image!
Right?
Therefore, always use the best in quality, self-explanatory featured image to your post so that when you share the post on social media sites, they get fetched there to show just like the above image.
Adding great images doesn’t mean to add anything, always use the image that complements your content.
Make a Facebook Fan page for your blog
Using your personal profile for sharing your blog posts is good but the best is when you create a separate business fan page for your blog, build an audience by sharing useful stuff there, and then sharing your blog posts on that. Creating a Facebook fan page is very simple, you can start here.
Add Follow Us button on the blog
You must connect your readers on social media so that you can keep them updated via your status updates. To do this, you should add social follow buttons on your blog as well.
A few examples are given below:
Add your blog link in the Bio of your social profiles
Your profile or fan page bios are the best places to add your blog link because most of the people do check out the bio section if they are interested in your page or profile. Adding links is no tough job at all.
Check screenshots below to get an idea what I am talking about. The first screenshot is from my profile, second is from my Blog’s Facebook Fan page, and the third one is from my Twitter profile.
Adding links give users option to click and visit your blog to know more about it. Thus, traffic increases through it as well.
Syndicate your Blog’s RSS Feed with Social Profiles
Automate a few things to get the work done effectively. One of the ways is to syndicate your blog’s feed to your social profiles so that whenever you publish a post on your blog, it gets automatically posted on all your social profiles.
You can use Twitterfeed or dlvr.it to get this done. All you have to do is to add your blog’s feed to these tools and route the feed to your social profiles, and you are done.
This helps you get instant traffic without putting extra effort.
Ask your friends to share your blog posts
Never feel shy to ask your friends to share your blog posts with their friends. If you ask 10 of your friends, most probably 2 or 3 of them will do share, and you get more traffic. Easy and simple. Make sure you don’t annoy your friends, ask only them who you think are interested in your topics.
Share others’ posts too
If you share only your blog posts on your social profile, it will look monotonous because you share only what you write, but if you share posts from different blogs along with a tag to them, people find your profile more interesting as they get something new every day. Also, when you share others’ blog posts, they start sharing your posts as well. Hence, your blog’s traffic increases gradually.
Final Words
Social Media is in the trend, and almost every internet user is on the social sites. So it is a great place to market and promote your blog posts to get more traffic. Above mentioned ways are the great ways of getting most out of Social Media sites.
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