Social Media is a hot topic, possibly the hottest on the
Internet, so I guess I better move my rumpus to show you how to generate
traffic with it. Even though there are
web savvy gurus that are specialized in how to get loads of followers almost
overnight on Facebook or LinkedIn, I’m just going to show you how I use it to
get people over to my blog.
Actually, this the last post in my series of blog posts I
started writing awhile back, and then for some odd reason, I decided to just
write about traffic generating methods.
This is also a method of generating a load of traffic to your site as
well, but if you want the whole treatment on how to decide on a niche, get a blog or website, make schedule for
yourself and get started read these posts first:
Ok, once you have loaded up on those goodies, you can now
proceed on to the next step. You’ll want to join as many of the top drawer
social media sites that you can. You can
see the list of some of them in the graphic.
I wouldn't join more than six or seven social media sites for starters
because as you’ll see in a minute, this tactic will eat up some of your time.
The easiest way to explain this is with a graphic:
In the center of your social marketing universe is your
blog. It’s the place where you’ll post
high quality content for the niche that you have decided upon. My recommendation is to write at least 500
word posts, include pictures, charts and graphs as well as relevant YouTube
videos. If you really want to get the
low down on how to write really great blog posts here are a couple of awesome
references:
Problogger How toWrite Great Blog Content
The Hardest Part...
In my humble opinion, this is the hardest part of the whole
scheme. You have got to get your readers
engaged in what you have to say. If you don’t
somehow connect with them, they’ll come to your site, poke their heads in the
door, and then leave probably never to return. So, you need to write awesome
content, or at least enough to be seen as a good resource for your herd.
Once you’ve written your blog post, you can now start to
work with the different social media sites.
You aren’t going to write entire posts for them, you are merely going to
write a brief notice of your post and then place it into the social media
sites. For example:
How I Made a Huge Mistake and Got Slapped in the Face by a Supermodel
--- Read it Here: http://www.blahblahblah.com/HowIMade.html ß
(Blog Post Address – Not the home page of your blog, but the specific post
page.)
You can then copy that entire message and begin to post it
into the different social networking sites you have joined. (This is why I told you to join only six or
seven of them, because it would take you a considerable amount of time to post
on all of these.)
Now, this isn't all there is to this strategy. Make sure that you use the following steps:
1.
Use relevant, exciting pictures. They will draw
attention to your post on the sites because they will pop up next to your post.
2.
Make sure your web address is from the post’s
exclusive page. In other words, when you
go to your blog you’ll see a bunch of your previous posts on there. You don’t want your blogs home page address
to post with your announcement. You
want to click on the post title and it will take you to the specific post page. You then highlight that address to post on
social media sites!
3.
You will want to post in different groups too on
those social media sites. For example, you are on Facebook, you’ll want to join
as many of those groups on there that relate to your niche. You can post to those places as well. You can usually do that by joining those
groups and posting regularly to them.
4.
Remember, this is a long term strategy, not
overnight. It takes people awhile to
know you and love what you have to say.
If you start getting a lot of traffic right away, don’t get too
excited. There are a TON of people out
there that will click on your link and not even read what you have to say, much
less respond to any offer you have.
5.
If I were you, I wouldn’t try to sell anyone
anything for quite some time. You are
building trust just like any other business.
McDonald’s wasn’t built in a year.
It took decades to get to where it is now.
I’m sure your brain is full now. Go out there and give it your best shot and
remember THIS IS A LONG TERM STRATEGY!!!
Slow and steady wins the race!
To Your Success!
Mark “Elmo”
Ellis
"When
it comes to high response copy, I've got your back!"
(859) 797-9560
elmo033057@gmail.com
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