How To Get More Targeted Traffic Using Social Networks?
Traffic! Traffic! Traffic! It’s what every website craves for in order to survive in this highly competitive internet world we live in.
Some site owners buy traffic, some borrow traffic and some choose to generate their own traffic.
The majority of us tend to use a mixture of all three methodologies just to get more traffic to our sites.
But nowadays, getting tons of traffic isn’t the whole idea, the main aim is to get heaps of “Targeted” traffic which will ultimately lead to higher sales conversions if you are into internet marketing.
As we all know, social networking is the trend today and sites like Facebook, MySpace and Hi5 are vastly popular among both the young and the old.
Even political figures are jumping on the band wagon and hitching a ride on this massive wave of web communications.
Social networking can be an effective way of getting more “Targeted” traffic for your website if you know how.
In order for social networking to be effective, you must appropriately customize your profile so that more people are willing to befriend you and visit your profile and sites.
Don’t just post another “Boring” old photo of yourself, spice it up a bit more to make it worth another look.
Perhaps you can try using an animated avatar character, but certainly not a revealing photo of yourself, adult themes are a No-No in social networks.
Most social networking sites will allow you to include some form of a link on your profile. And this “Link” is the gateway to getting more traffic to your site.
Fellow members of these social networks are mostly interested in making new friends and will have more tendency to click on links from your profile if they perceive you as a genuine friend.
There are millions of people on these social networking sites and you can easily convert them into “Free Traffic” for your website in as little as 60 minutes once you grasp the underlying concept behind social networking.
Write something informative, interesting or funny so as to entice members & friends to check out your blogs or affiliate products you are promoting, think about it, the possibilities of are endless.
Trust me on this one, it’s all about branding yourself.
Here are some tips & pointers you can try out to see if there is a surge in the amount of traffic going to your site after utilizing the immense power of social networking.
- Write or produce high quality content for your community in order to build credibility and reputation. Always try to write excellent & convincing content that will lure your users to come back and watch out for more of your posts.
- Engage frequently in the social networking activities like visiting other members’ sites, accepting & giving online gift and post-cards, anything a genuine friend in the offline world would do.
- Participate in discussion forums, constantly posting comments on things that interest you and share advice on topics that you have relevant expertise on. Build up your social branding and reputation.
- Review your fellow social network members’ sites and give your comments about the things you like about them. Share and you will be rewarded in return. Some members may even allow you to write contextual links back to your websites from theirs.
- Organize polls and contests to keep your community involved and give them a feeling of belonging.
- Respond to other members’ requests. If you ignore them they won’t come back to you and you lose friends.
- Get an understanding of your community especially their interests, locality and professional domains to make sure you produce content that engages them.
Some social networks like Twitter allows you to register and share a twit with friends who are in your social network. You can create links on these twits (small messages) on practically any topics you desire.
For Twitter lovers, try to post your most interesting or engaging topic with a link to your site on the last twit of the day before you log off so that it stays there for all to view until the next time you log on.
You will be surprised what a small gesture like this can bring a whole lot of extra traffic.
Always remember, the paramount thing to do after joining a social network is to make as many friends as possible.
The more friends you have, the greater the possibility for you to get visitors to your designated sites.
Unfortunately, the largest drawback of social networking is the amount of time you need to commit to expanding your network of friends and getting “popular” in the initial phases of joining.
Sometimes it can get really time-consuming, but in the end, i believe it is still worth every effort spent, so have fun networking.
