Long Term Methods To Get More Blog Traffic (Social Media) – Part II

by: Mr. Ven 3

Social media network tools are emerging like anything and its a great Internet evolution too. Yes, the advancement in the social technology and how people are addicted to such social media tools ? is unpredictable. Every year the percentage of social tool users are growing in great extent. When it comes to blogging, tools like Twitter, Facebook are playing a major role especially in building networks and driving traffic. Many of the blogs are getting major share of traffic from these tools. You should know that Social media has business benefits too.

Apart from the long term methods to get more blog traffic using search engines, your new blog shall drive visitors from social tools also. Lets see those methods in simple steps.

Social Tools To Use.

There are many social tools available in the market. But the most utilized ones are Twitter and Facebook. Facebook is growing very fast, see this statistics which says there are 400 million active users as of now. At the same time, Twitter had a great growth in the past and now there are slowness in Twitter growth.

But it is true that, Facebook and Twitter are having the major population of social network users. As a blogger, we should not avoid these 2 tools. If you don’t have an account, Sign up for Twitter here and for Facebook here.

Networking To Get Blog Traffic.

Blogging is not only sharing information, its about networking too. Networking with similar people. And its one of the important factor to create visibility to your new blog. Its tough to get networked with other bloggers or peoples who are in your industry. But with Twitter, Facebook you could easily build that network.

What you have to do is grow the number of your followers/fans and interact with them. This creates an opportunity to link with many like minded people.
In actual, your blog gets around a network which is more targeted. You could pull your blog visitors to follow you and hence you get socially networked with them.
The advantage is that you will be sharing your own articles with all your followers and this gets more traffic to your blog. Also, you could share other articles in Internet too and this way, interaction, relationship with your network builds.
Not only sharing, you could ask questions or clear doubts for others in your network.
Being active with social networking tools helps you to grow your blog network consistently.

Tips To Grow Your Social Network.

Lets see few simpler yet powerful tips to grow the size of your social network which inturn helps to get more traffic to your blog.

Use tools to enlarge your account. Recently, i tried Buzzom for Twitter which helps me to instantly Increase the Twitter followers from 200 to 600+ with a month. Looks, it has Facebook support too.
Manually, search keywords in Twitter search and Facebook Search, find people who are similar to your industry and connect with them. Do this every day and over a period of time, you networks will be big.
Other option, buy the network. There are many social network services to instantly buy the network for money. But i am not sure how far you will get true/active followers.
Be active with these tools. Interact with people.
Ask questions, clear doubts.
Share only useful information to others.
Learn how to keep good social media relation ?
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Final words, social tools are helping blogs to get more targeted traffic provided you built the right network. It actually takes time to grow your network and to see the results. At any cost, don’t avoid social tools for getting traffic to your blog.

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