3 Major Steps To Drive Social Media Traffic To Your Site

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When it comes to driving traffic to your site, one of the easiest, and cheapest ways to do this is through social media. If you company is not on social media, I hate to break it to you, but you are behind. Marketing is all about chasing the consumer’s attention, and with 3.4 billion social media users around the world, it’s not hard to tell where to focus is.

While it may seem easy that users who follow you on Facebook or Instagram will eventually land on your site, there has to be a quicker way to get them there right? That’s right! By utilizing the right steps, you can use your social media profiles to increase traffic to your site for new user acquisition and increased conversions.

Step 1: Optimizing Your Social Media Pages

The first step in driving more traffic using your social media is to make sure that your social accounts are fully optimized for driving traffic. There are many factors to look at here and the first thing you want to look at is your voice.

Voice

When it comes to social media, people are looking to communicate with people and businesses on the same level as them, in a relatable sense if you will. For this to work in your favor, you need to determine what kind of voice you want your brand to have on social media.

For those with a self-centered business such as an inspiration speaker or athlete, you are going to want to make sure that you are remaining personable and marketing yourself so that others get a personable connection to you.

For those with a brand or using social media as a company, you can use the same approach, but you will want to ensure your brand standards are kept. For example, if you are marketing to millennials, you will want someone with a younger, more hip dialog rather than an older marketer who does not speak the same slang as your target market.

Display

Presentation is everything, especially when it comes to first impressions with your brand or company. Since social media is one of the first places that people discover a brand, it is important that you are making a professional appearance right off the bat.

To optimize your page for a good first impression, you are going to want to include a fully built out profile with photos that represent your business, and about us section, and all of the contact details that one would need to get ahold of you.

One of the most important things to remember is a link to your site. While the link in your profile page isn’t going to be the main focus of traffic driving, it is nice to have it in case anyone is searching for your site on your page.

It is highly important to keep up with the trends on social media posting. Users are using social media profiles to be entertained and find out news updates from their friends and family. By posting ad-like updates, chances are, you are not going to get any interaction from your audience. Finding a way to interact with your audience is going to be key to keeping people interacting with your brand, ultimately helping to drive traffic to your site.

Step 2: Optimize Your Site & Content For Your Consumers

Just like social media, the first impression of your site can make or break a customers decision to stay on your site. Content is king in the internet world and with many of Google’s algorithms look at content and user experience as a ranking factor, it is important to make sure your content is what the customer is wanting.

When creating landing pages for your social media consumers to land on, you will want to make sure that each page is relevant to what they are wanting to see by clicking your link. If you have them land on a product page when they were wanting to get more information on a service you provide, chances are they are going to simply go back to browsing social media rather than trying to navigate your site to find the right service.

To make the most of your landing page, make sure that you are including everything that a consumer may need to see. If you are selling a product, include reviews, install instructions, and all of the product information to push people through the sales funnel and keep them from visiting other sites to get that information.

Step 3: Getting People From Your Social Media To Your Site

Now the fun part - getting people to from your social media profiles to your site. There are many different ways to do this, but following these steps can help ensure that you are maximizing your social media traffic to your site.

Make Sure You Post Often

People are constantly checking social media for the latest news and updates. This is why it is highly important to update often to show up in news feeds more often. While you do not want to flood your fan's timelines, posting 1-2 times a day can help to increase visibility and interactions on your posts. It is also an easy way to show potential consumers that you are active on social media, which is always a plus when someone is researching your company. Include links to your site for more information on your posts.

Switch Up Your Content

Posting simply text status updates is so 2010. In order to take up more real estate on timelines and increase user engagement (not to mention favor algorithms) it is important to use video and photo status updates. With apps like Pinterest and Instagram, more and more people are becoming accustomed to visual stimulation. Videos and photos can evoke a more personal feel about a brand or company as they can show off more than you can type. By seeing the types of photos and videos you share, a person can feel more connected to you and your brand.

Share Content Of Others

One easy way to make a post update when you are having trouble coming up with content is by sharing other company's posts. This helps to give you extra content to post and introduces your brand to another company or individual. If you are lucky, they will return the favor and share one of your posts thus introducing your brand to their network. When doing this, make sure that their content matches your brand's ultimate goal to keep uniformity of your content.

Repost Your Own Posts

Another easy way to come up with content ideas is to share old content that got good engagement in the past. You will see many companies doing this as it is quick, easy, and has been proven to work. A simple click of a button can save you time and energy coming up with a new post, and it is most likely going to do just as good as it did the first time around.

Find Unique Ways To Drive Engagement

Engagement on your posts can help others feel more comfortable about your brand, allow you to connect with your fans, and can even help get your post seen by others thanks to social media algorithms. While telling people to specifically LIKE or COMMENT can trigger some algorithms to mark your post as spammy, there are many ways to get people commenting without telling them what to do. You can ask a question, post a question as a photo, or have people tell their own personal stories that relate to your content.

Keep Up With Interactions

Now that you have people interacting with your content, it is time to go back in and reply to these comments or mentions to interact back with your fans. This goes a long way with most people as it shows the business cares about their fans. This can be done in a quick thank you, answering questions, or providing more information to those who need it. Either way you do it, showing that you are actively interacting with your consumers is a great way to build trust.

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Priya_Kataria 0 Newbie Poster

Research Your Competitors
Discovering how well your rivals are getting along is a proven advertising procedure. A similar thought ought to be set up for your social procedure.

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OliverLucas -4 Oliver

Indeed, it has become the need of an era that a company must focus on building up their digital presence as well. It will definitely assist them in not only keep them connected to their clients but also give boost in generating revenues at fast pace.

Trasser 0 Newbie Poster

I can note that the design of posts on social networks is also very important!

Singh5325 0 Newbie Poster

Build Backlinks
Target Long-Tail Keywords
Guest Blog

robertdavid718 0 Newbie Poster

Track
analyze
optimize
invest in social media tools

rais_11 0 Newbie Poster

Post Some Blog Everyday
Track Your Customers
Target the Field
Use Some Social Media Tool

Naveh 0 Newbie Poster

HI Friends
Following are some steps to drive traffic to your site:
Inspire Your Audience With Visuals.
Make Your Content Easily Shareable.
Improve Your SEO.
Know When Your Audience Is Listening.
Research Your Competitors.

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RichardHarrris commented: nice! +0
divyansha_singh 15 Newbie Poster

Social Media is a great platform to engage with your potential readers. You can drive traffic through social media by posting your content on a daily basis atleast 3-4 content per day. Provide useful information to all your readers so that they will come and read your content. It's the best way to drive traffic to your site.

aishley 0 Newbie Poster

Nicely shared. Helpful tips for social media marketing.

tinamoran 0 Newbie Poster

Build links through guest posting, blog, forum, citation, profile ect ....

tinamoran 0 Newbie Poster

By the way thanks for sharing this :)

sakshispeaks 0 Newbie Poster

Thanks for this post. Yes it is very important to keep your viewers engaged in your page to ensire that there is steady folow of visitoer on your page who are leads and the are converted into sales.

sophiawils59 0 Newbie Poster

Thankas for a sharing a valuable infromation to get the traffic from social media.You have throughly explained how to do it in a perfect manner.

monica_14 -6 Monica Geller

Thanks for sharing the three steps to drive traffic from social media. Consider these steps also:

  1. Share blog Url's in social media
  2. focus on image content
  3. Call to action buttons
DanielKeith 23 Light Poster

Great post!! I am really impressed. You have presented all the necessary information in detail about 3 major steps to drive social media traffic to your site.

ilyasgohar 0 Newbie Poster

Yes absolutely I am 100% agreeed, the following steps that you mention in your thread about driving traffic. Content is alwasy in SEO and social media as well.

sophiedooley54 0 Newbie Poster

To Drive Traffic Through Social Media

  1. blog link post
  2. attractive images and title
  3. post only trending ..and informative post
  4. create strong anfd genuine profile
  5. bookmark your site,
  6. improve technical seo things
  7. use video format
Daniel11 -4 Engineer in Computer

I would also suggest you to manually email people of your domain area and ask them to share your post into there social accounts. This is because the high quality shares you get for your post is a trigger for Search Engines to give your post a boost.

baabroz1 -3 Newbie Poster

How to Drive Website Traffic Through Social Media
Fill in your profile.
Promote your blog content.
Make your content easy to share.
Post when your audience is active.
Focus on sharing visual content.
Engage with your audience (consistently).
Optimize your calls-to-action.
Test paid social advertising.

ultravliftvn 0 Newbie Poster

The best way now is to invest well in content then use social channels to increase traffic.

Hasan_11 0 Newbie Poster

I think good content, graphics and og text are the three main factors for driving traffic through social media, I have observed that well known IT firms like DCS, GoodCore Software and other stick to these basics and get maximum engagment.

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monumohan 0 Newbie Poster

Nice information assite in getting traffic for my website.

alilufyan25 0 Newbie Poster

Different ways to promote your website using social media
Build a Social Media Presence.
Join groups on LinkedIn.
Create Video Content.
Promote Your Website With Ad Spend.
Utilize Trending Hashtags.
Develop a contest and market it only on social media.
Create Teaser Images to Build Anticipation.
Share customer testimonials.

sarahcolbert321 0 Newbie Poster

Nice post! i agree with u

alilufyan25 0 Newbie Poster
  1. Fill in your profile.
  2. Promote your blog content.
  3. Make your content easy to share.
  4. Post when your audience is active.
  5. Focus on sharing visual content.
  6. Engage with your audience (consistently).
  7. Optimize your calls-to-action.
  8. Test paid social advertising.
SubbuPD commented: competitor research and traffic generation holds the key +0
baabrozreal 0 Newbie Poster
  1. Get Listed in Online Directories.
  2. Build Backlinks.
  3. Post to Social Media.
  4. Include Hashtags in Your Posts.
  5. Use Landing Pages.
  6. Target Long-Tail Keywords.
  7. Start Email Marketing.
  8. Guest Blog.
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leo1313 commented: hi +0
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