Businessmen and bloggers treat social media as gold in their pursuit to broaden their business reach. Almost all businesses use Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites to maintain their online presence or to drive traffic to blogs.
Social media and traffic is so sought after that companies spend money for it.
In this article, we will talk about driving traffic to your blogs or business information entities without using organic search traffic or any very technical means and for free!
One way to drive traffic is going in depth and technically coding your website. If you do not want to do with Google’s algorithms and organic search tools, here are 5 effective tips you can use instead!
1. Social Media Promotions
As previously mentioned, social networking sites are great tools for creating exposure to attract traffic to your world.
Let us take a look at 5 sites and tips for each to maximize success.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
Let us start the tips with perhaps the top 3 popular social networking sites as all of them allow easy creation of profiles and pages which also allows for easy sharing.
First off, there is a website called HootSuite where you can place your blog posts with customizable images that aids in your branding. HootSuite also allows you to choose the image you want to share on Facebook to make sure your image there fits your posts.
Most importantly, HootSuite is fully compatible with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, so it allows you to share posts on 3 multiple platforms in one single website to simplify things. Another tip is to put your HootSuite link in your Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn posts for more exposure.
For Facebook, always share your Facebook page and not your Facebook profile. This will draw more traffic as people likes the interaction and liking posts, commenting on them and sharing to friends which multiplies the spreading power.
Google+
Google+ may not be very popular right now but this allows sharing up to 100,000 characters, unlike others that cannot even reach 500.
Google+ updates are being indexed by Google so it will be easier for people to find your posts so consider using this. Many functions like text and formatting are done for you too to make life easier.
Tips to further attract people are to make sure to sign in as your brand page, and put first the URL of your post before anything else to reflect your blog entry.
Put in your entire blog texts there too as Google+ allows this, allowing your users to directly read your blogs there. Then simply click share to spread the word in the Google world!
Many have underestimated Pinterest but this is now the 3rd largest social networking site. This is a pin-board based image sharing site that is very attractive.
Basic tips for this is to simply pin about things that are new and interesting, always employ unique and catchy images.
Strategically put the “Pin It” button in your websites, and make it a point to create a vast array of strategic pin boards to encourage conversation.
Create also unique promos like Sony have done, like unlocking a certain promo board after a certain item is “repinned” 20 times.
Monitor Pinterest statistics by using Pinreach or Curalate and act accordingly to improve stats.
2. Guest Posting
Guest posting is done by creating your blogs and looking for another blogger that has the same niche as you or your blogs, and you share to them your posts so they share it too with their readers and social networks.
In return, you get back links and get to expand your networks too! This is really a win-win situation for both guest and host.
The primary goal of guest posting is added exposure and relationship building and is indeed a high tier link building strategy so take time to search for niche buddies and do guest postings.
3. Blog Commenting
If you show you care, that you participate in community engagement, this can further boost reputation and traffic towards you.
One good way to do this is to do blog commenting or comment marketing. You can do this by simply leaving comments in other bloggers’ works.
Share experience, tips, and thoughts which can improve the discussion generated by the post. Create value on other blogs and you will get the same value eventually too.
Usually, a space to leave your links is there in the comments space so this is another win-win situation that you can take advantage of!
4. RSS Feeds Subscription
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication which allows you to “syndicate” or spread your site content or blogs. RSS allows for personalized views for different sites and allow automatic updates for your audience’s convenience.
You can have your feeds by embedding an RSS standard orange symbol button which can be easily be done by using an API such as Google AJAX Feed API.
There are websites to customize RSS feed contents, which then will allow you to preview it, then generate code for you to copy paste too your blog website code.
Have an RSS widget for your users to subscribe too for them to be easily updated without having the need to go to your website each time (subscribe to my RSS Feeds here!).
Your users will just have to have an RSS Aggregator program with your website link embedded there for them to be updated always in an easy manner to further attract them in.
5. Building Relationship/Community within Your Niche
Needless to say, it will be very helpful too if you can build a relationship or community within your audience. Simply hear their thoughts and open boards for discussions or comments about anything.
Offer help and be open for requests from them about what blogs they want to read from you next. This will have a good impact on your reputation and will allow trust and respect to come to you which will surely yield you more and more followers!
So there you have it!
Follow these 5 tips and for sure, you will not only garner traffic, but you will also create value and branding to make you a unique and attractive blogger.
About Celina Conner
I will study this info carefully and use some of it to reach more visitors. Thank you!
Hi Anna,
I’m glad you liked the article I’ve written.
Study it and improve the SEO of your blog.
don’t forget to interlink the pages of your website to optimize the on site features of your website.
These are some of the important tricks and tips to follow to generate traffic on your blog or website. yes FB, Twitter, Pinterest, G+ today allow you to share your blogs with the other public on the web, also sharing of views through blog commenting is one of the way to build quality links. I will follow the said steps for getting success online Thanks!
Go Ahead and improve your site’s traffic via social media power.
Thanks a lot!
All things are on target and every one who involve in online marketing he/she wants to see their site top in major search engine so these are the perfect rules to apply.
Beside that my favorite activity in that do blog commenting on others blog because this is perfect option to gain more and more experience about that field in which you are interested.
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you’re right Sam! blog commenting somehow helps your site to gain value through quality comments. Your comments should be simple and applicable for people to appreciate it..
And of course, it should be a do follow link.
Great Post!
I think Email subscribers can be the key of success, I saw many bloggers who get their regular traffic from email subscribers they have huge list of subscribers.
That’s also another way of driving traffic to your website. It is one of the most effective because it is done in a regular basis. Set up an RSS Feeding application in your site to do the same.
Awesome tips hanged up here.
I believe that organic traffic don’t work every time and so we need to depend on social media, list building, guest posting and blog commenting.
Great tips. Thanks.
don’t get me wrong. Organic traffic is very important. social media only compliments it.
but it is so powerful..
Hi Celina,
Nice experience you have from developing your blog. Organic search however is still important I guess. and all the tips you gave is great alternative to boost more traffics.
I like much on tips number 5. Build a targeted traffic from your community is essentials moreover if you have related product to over them.
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You’re right okto.
It is still relevant..
Organic Traffic is very important but in case you’re website is not yet in that level then these tips will work for your site.
On two of my projects, the main traffic comes from search engines or social media. I’ll try other resources too, now that I’ve learned about them from you
Thanks for sharing!
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Great!Go ahead and try it for yourself..
Hi Celina,
Great information on how to leverage traffic with your social media connections.Really loved the details that you have mentioned in the post.Keep up the good work
Regards,
Joel
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Hi Selina. Guest posting can be very effective, Write great content and get it published on a related niche site with lots of traffic and you will see traffic coming to your site. BUT, for this to really work then your content has to be good! I recommend signing up to sites like My Blog Guest if you are looking for blogs to guest post on.
Mel
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sure, ill check on your blog and will submit my posts.
Great ideas here – I’m definitely looking to get into guest posting as that’s one method here I haven’t tried much yet. I definitely like the idea of driving traffic without thinking too much about SEO and just having that be “icing on the cake”.
Thomas
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I loved your analogy..
icing on a cake..
You’re right. we need baits on our site for it to attract traffic.
Celina:
Thanks for the great post. Anyone who wants to ask questions about stuff can use Rately to publish to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, etc.
While the pages will live on Rately, all the traffic will link back from the images to the source – i.e. your blog.
Everything is highly visual these days, so bloggers can use Rately to create cool collection images that bring traffic right back to their content.
Thanks
Bob
hi Bob,
People are surfing the net not just on their computers but in their tvs even.
It is a new era of computing.
thank goodness we dont only have organic traffic to rely on, luckily there’s social media, list building, guest posting and blog commenting, to rely on too!
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Great post! I have been posting to social networks for some time but I have jut recently trying to put some strategy around this process.
Be sure to apply some of the tips I’ve mentioned. I’m sure you’ll see results.
Hi Celina
Another source of repeat and sure traffic is your list. Each time I mail my list, I’m sure to have more visits to my site that day and the following day
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That’s great!
continue to widen your list.
might want to share your list building techniques to me.
Wow Celina,
You really covered a lot of area here with just these five tips.
I know that a lot of people rely on Google traffic but you’ve shared with them other ways to create your own because we never want to just rely on one source. For me, Facebook and Twitter are constantly vying for the number one spot for referral traffic to my blog so it’s definitely worth getting serious about.
Thanks for sharing this with us and I appreciate the post.
~Adrienne
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You’re Right, Adrienne!
Web Masters or blog owners shouldn’t be satisfied with the traffic they’re getting from google images
They should also venture on what social media can offer them.
go viral! Go Social!
Thanks for sharing this with us. you have covered many things in 5 tips. specially about Pinterest !I had no clue about that and benefits I could get from it.
Thank you. It is my privilege to share my ideas to all of you.
Hi Celina,
These are certainly 5 helpful tips to deliver organic traffic towards your site without any search engine. The best part of it all is that it is free as you do not need to pay for any ads placement. Although this may look simple, it still requires a lot of hard work. However, if you do it properly, your site will be enjoying a lot of traffic.
You’re right felicia. These tips are very simple that you don’t think it’s work but in fact while going on facebook, tumblr, twitter and others you’re already working.
you will not only garner traffic, but you will also create value and branding to make you a unique and attractive blogger.
Great article. It has lot of information for improving traffic for Starters like me. Thanks Celina
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Hey Irfan!
Wow! Thanks for dropping by. It is indeed my pleasure that the article helped you..
Keep us posted about your blog
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Very nice tips given in this article if we apply all the tips mentioned on your article we will surely get organic traffic as well thanks for sharing
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Thanks for this great traffic tips. They really work. I’m currently working out on Guest Posting, and it’s turning out great. Nice share anyway.
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