This is a guest post written by Bilal Ahmad, who is the owner of WP Content Plugins. If you would like to write for TechieMania, check our guest posting guidelines.
It is now not only Search Engine Optimization that will help in attracting customers and visitors to your blog, but social media websites are now the major contributors in driving traffic to your blog. The most popular social media websites are Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Although there are a lot of more, but these are the most popular. Facebook is the world 2nd high trafficked website which is considered as a tap competitive of Google. Similarly YouTube is the world 3rd high trafficked website, which is owned by Google. The role of social media website in traffic generation is now very important and you can’t ignore social websites. Similarly you can’t ignore social bookmarking websites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Delicious.
Why You Should Care About Social Marketing?
1. Stability
You can create stability in your traffic, because if you just rely on Google and one day due to any reason, Google ban your blog then what you will do? At least you will get traffic from social bookmarking and networking websites. So care about these websites and spend some time on Facebook, YouTube, Digg, Twitter etc.
2. Visibility
The more your blog is visible the more regular visitors you will get. No matter if search engines are not sending traffic to your blog, but still you will be able to get a lot of visitors if you make visible your blog in social media websites.
3. Durability
Social Media traffic is real and based on interesting human beings. They know that where they are going and what they will get if they click on a article. Although social media traffic is not consider profitable for AdSense, but for product and service selling this traffic is considered very profitable. So make sure that you spend time in social media websites, because it will send durable traffic to your blog.
The benefits of social bookmarking and networking websites are a lot, but the only thing you need is to keep consistency in your blog. The more consistence you are the better and quick will be result. The best and working social media website is Facebook, so try to create Facebook fan page for your blog. So that you can build a strong network around your blog.
Have you tried Social Marketing for your blog? Do share your experience with us, here in the comments section.
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Hi Bilal !
I agree with you, not alone seo makes a blog/site perfect
we should also take care about social networking stuff’s also
Thanks for the good content
We are getting good amount of traffic through facebook,haven’t spent much time on Twitter ,but I think Facebook traffic is cool
Hi Bilal
Visibility and Branding is tow factors for which I love to use Social Networks like Facebook and Twitter
After search engines social Medias plays best roll for building traffic, All we have to do is actively participate the part of the healthy discussion, Help other niche people by the way of spreading their contents mutually…
social media is needed but it does not guarantee regular traffic
Thanks for sharing this. I am lagging behind in traffic from social but good from google.
I have to improve on it.
Nice Post Bilal…I also agree with @praveen that social media cant assure regular traffic but sometimes it can be useful when we are not getting enough traffic from Google..