Can Social Media Increase Web Traffic?
October 3, 2009 by Kim Beasley
Filed under Social Media
Have you taken an assessment of your social media efforts to see if they are having an affect on your website statistic? Have you incorporate your website into your social media strategy? The answer to the question is that social media can have an affect on your website traffic.
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If you haven’t added your website to your social media strategy, then it’s not too late to add it. There are simple things that you can do to add your website to your strategy and they are listed below:
- If you have an RSS feed for your website, you can use TwitterFeed.com automatically pull your RSS feed and have it update our Twitter account.
- You can use Twitwall.com to create a microblogging online presence that connects with your websites by pointing people to your website for more details.
- Create a Facebook Fanpage for your business which will allow you to share links from your website or a web source that your fans would find useful.
- Add your company to the list of business on LinkedIn. You have to have an account in order to gain access to the page “Add Company“.
These are a few things that you can do on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to get started with integrating your website into your social media strategy.
I use VH Tweet, a WordPress plugin. It feeds my Twitter account every time I make a new post, and every time someone makes a comment. The comment tweet include a link to the post, and comment.