Social Media Sharing is still a great source of website traffic, only when its done correctly. Installing social media plugins or adding social media button codes from famous sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest alone could not guarantee you traffic for your websites.
To get the full potential of social sharing, you may want to consider the following tips:
1. Your content should be worth sharing, not only useful it should also be interesting to share in social media sites, where people prefer interesting and latest content more than useful tutorial like content.
2. You should encourage your visitors in any form to share your content piece, this can be anything like free ebook download of a surprise gift etc. You may even lock your content and unlock it only when it is shared by the visitor.
3. Enticing social media sharing with cool and eye catchy buttons, cool and latest style buttons can also attract visitors and make your content shared to an extent. If your social media icons are completely unique, this can act as a bait to entice the visitors. You don’t want to hire a graphic expert to design your social media icons but nice eye catchy buttons are available freely to use. Your time spent on this is well worth the effort in long term traffic.
As a rule of thumb your visitors should be eager to share your content with their family and friends, they don’t want to end up boring or blatant, and your content should help for that.
Try and optimize as in any other traffic generation method, there are nifty social media analytics plugin available to track your websites social media performance and the above three tips can help optimize and yield maximum results for your websites.
What are some of your social media traffic tips?
Do you use social media or do you feel it isn’t necessary to grow your business?
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Can’t disagree with any of those points, All very handy tips! Thanks
Thanks Martyn would love to hear ideas from others. Sorry that leaving comments had a bug in for a little while but it is all fixed now so feel free to share your idea’s!
Point 3 seems so silly, but its so vital to getting people to click on your social share buttons. I mean seeing the standard facebook like (ya know, the blue button with the thumbs up) is well…boring and our eyes have become accustomed to it so sometimes we actually don’t even notice it.
Using more engaging items to make our visitors NOTICE…simple but effective. Nice few tips, share more!!
Thanks Ryan yes sometimes it is the simple things that can so effective in our business. It is getting harder though to keep people engaged because of all the distractions out there but if you can then get their attention it is a win win situation.