Blogs The Best Social Media Traffic?
A lot of people for some reason don’t consider blogs to be social media, but last time I checked Wikipedia listed blogs in their definition of social media. The thing that most people get wrong is they don’t make their blog social media friendly. The result is you’re blog is more like a regular website than it is a blog.
Don’t get me wrong you can use wordpress or any blog cms (content management system) to turn it into a different type of site such as a sales page, opt in page, affiliate review site… but you should still have a blog that works like a normal blog.
If you are using any form of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube where do you send your visitors? Or worse do you send them anywhere?
I send them to my blog and you should too. Most people on other social media sites are looking for interesting information and interaction. If they like your YouTube videos, twitter post… then they will be interested to see what other cool information you have and to interact with you more.
So the ideal place for them to go is your blog. You should want them to go to your blog – it should be your home base for interaction. You should link to it from the other social media sites that you are a part of.
Why should your blog be your social media home? Because you have more control over the content of your blog than any other form of social media. Therefore the visitor from the other social media sites can go to your site and then you can direct them to sign up for your list or buy a product from you.
So here’s what you do…
Go to Twitter post a tweet about one of your blog post, put a link in your twitter background about your blog so that whenever someone comes to your twitter profile page they can go to your blog to see more of your content and interact with you.
It’s hard to sell to social media traffic, you should always try to entertain them and build up trust with them and to do that a blog is a powerful tool, then when they are on your blog you transition them into signing up to your list or buying your product.
You can do the same thing with other social media sites including other blogs. You can post videos on YouTube or other video sites and put a link to your blog in your channel background, video descriptions and actual videos. Then tell them they can get more information about you at your blog.
YouTube is the 4th biggest site in the world, people go there to find information (to learn how to do something) and to be entertained. What you have to do is show them or teach them something and entertain them. Next tell them to get more from you head over to your blog.
Following this simple traffic funnel method you can get tons of visitors to your site, you just have to do it. Just make sure you make your blog social media friendly allow people to post comments easily. Then make sure you post some good content related to what you are selling or giving away. Finally make sure you make it easy for them to sign up for your list or buy your products. Then create a video related to that content and link to your blog, create some tweets about your blog post and do that over and over, soon you will be getting tons of traffic to your blog. Just do it once you have the blog post the rest is easy.
Remember there’s massive free traffic from these sites and if you do it correctly you can get a massive amount of new visitors onto your blog and into your business take advantage of it!
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Great content, I liked it. Still I think there is one more thing you can do to drive tons of traffic…off page commenting. Comment on other people blogs and get tons of inbound links too:) It is not “so” social media traffic, but it helps very well on SEO and with getting traffic.
Take care
Inga
Yes, I that’s an excellent way… I cover that in my blog comment invasion post on this blog
This is sound advise with clear direction.
All the best
Mark
great content! i like it…thnks a lot
Now I got the concept. I must apply this afterwords. Thanks for sharing this valuable info.
Hey there Jeff, thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a positive comment, its really appreciated.
Great post aswell by the way Jeff, I completely agree with you on this subject aswell. I am currently in the middle of writing a brand new ebook about driving traffic to blogs via social media and this is something I touch on.
Great website…….I mean blog
you have here Jeff, keep up the good work mate and ill speak to you soon.
Michael Appleton
Hi Jeff,
As always, great article. I’ve just created a new WP blog and working on good content. Love your site. You do a wonderful job. Marlene
I think the main thing that people miss is that their are two types of blogs:
(1) blogs on other people’s servers, e.g. a hosted Wordpress or Blogger blog. These have an obvious social media feel.
(2) blogs on your own server, or integrated as part of your own site. These seem less social media like.
The big advantage of the latter, of course, is that you have full control over anything posted on your own site. With anything posted on another social site (blog or otherwise), this could be removed without warning and recourse.
The solution. Use a balanced traffic generation and promotional strategy. By all means, use the social media opportunities, but keep quality content on your own sites, where you have full control.
very good point Thomas… social media content should just interest the visitor enough to get them to your site!
Very great article and advise to motivate new bie like me.
Thank You.
great article, i like it, thanks a lot
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Hey Jeff
Fully agree. I am finding by linking my blog in social media profiles get regular visitors