Using Social Media For Generating Traffic

Over the past ten years or so, we’ve witnessed the most incredible changes in web marketing trends. These days, if you want to achieve decent rankings for your web pages, you need to do a lot of hard work – both initially, and on an ongoing basis. There are no short cuts, and you should be weary of anyone who claims they can catapult you to #1 on Google for a modest fee. But you may always use the below Traffic Generation Tips to improve and heighten your websites’ performance and popularity:

1. Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.

2. Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto many of the new age social websites.

3. Inform search engines and aggregators like Technorati (using the ping functionality) when your blog is updated, this should ensure maximum traffic coming from those sources.

4. Install a translator plugin. The translation helps to attract readers that are not fluent in English.

5. Renovate your website once in a while. Not only will it be more attractive to your regular readers, but you can submit it to some CSS gallery showcase sites that feature great designs. This will give you exposure on those sites while generating a lot of traffic and backlinks from those types of sites.

6. Comment on blogs, write useful content and make good friends on forums. Posting comments on other blogs that are related to your topic and pasting your site link in the signature can spread the word about one’s blog and it will certainly attract readers.

7. Pasting your site link on all off-line literature from business cards, letterheads, pamphlets, and adverts helps a lot in increasing local users.

8. To engage your audience and improve traffic to your site, put up polls, ask questions, give them quizzes, free tools, etc. Make them want to come back and tell their friends about your site.

9. Submitting your site to a design portal like www.cssmania.com and www.webcreme.com not only serves well for additional traffic but to build an additional community around your site.

10. Everyone knows that social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, etc. bring lots of traffic. But submitting some of the articles to sites like blogg-buzz.com (a digg like site for bloggers) gets you a good traffic from there. Also participating in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers where you can demonstrate your expertise, get associated with relevant keywords and put your URL out there.

• Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 3 (myventurepad.com)
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• How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic (readwriteweb.com)