1. Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking just started at the beginning of the 21st century. When sites like delicious, Simpy and Furl started around 2003 -2004. Since then, social bookmarking sites have become amazingly viral, opening new doorways to billions around the world; Giving users the opportunity to express different perspectives on information informally and genuinely to create new communities of users on the Social Web today. Online Forums also started during the period of 2003-2004 when Social Media Advertising started. Create a profile now and start posting to socialize with already established audiences, some sites are Warrior Forums, Facebook and DigitalPoint.
2. Making social sharing buttons visible
Making the social sharing button visible is a no-brainer if you want to get more traffic to your site. Instead of forcing people, making the sharing links obvious is a much better option. For instance, WordPress bloggers can use a social sharing plug-in that will allow the buttons to scroll up and down the page as people scroll through it.
3. Social Call To Action
I recently read a post on increasing blog traffic on CopyBlogger, the website of one of my favourite bloggers Brian Clark and found something astounding. The most powerful evidence of the power of “Social Calls to Action” is shown in the graph below. Just a simple “Please Re-tweet” will make your twitter post much more likely to be re-tweeted and increasing the chances of reaching larger audiences.
In the case of the longer “please retweet” the tweets were four times more likely to be shared by followers. Not “Please RT” or “RT” but specifically “Please re-tweet”, which greatly boosts search engine optimization on your blog.
Other calls to action include:
Check out…
Follow this person
Please vote….
Questions eg. What do you think of?
Don’t assume your readers know that they have to re-tweet, ask them!
This brings us to our next one of the commandments of blogging, “Don’t assume your readers know that they have to re-tweet, ask them!”. This commandment is definitely true, many people are afraid of asking or do not know how to ask their readers how to share the content through social networking sites. Yet almost 70% of all Re-Tweets contain a link to the post, and could rapidly spread to larger audiences in a very short period of time. This is great news for marketers, proving that re-tweeting is a great way to spread your content around.
So one tactic to increasing your ReTweetability could be to message or otherwise persuade other users to Re Tweet your content for you, in order to stimulate further organic Re-tweeting. This can be especially powerful if you can get well known users to share your content, as they’ll then be lending their authority and reach to your message as well as your calls to action. It could be as simple as
“Check out my blog @ googlehammer.com”! You might want to check out CopyBlogger for more information on “Social Call To Action”.
Let me know what you guys think, do you use any other ways of increasing blog traffic? Leave it in the comments below!
Tan Jie Hao, Freelance Writer @ googlehammer.com
Social bookmarking just started at the beginning of the 21st century. When sites like delicious, Simpy and Furl started around 2003 -2004. Since then, social bookmarking sites have become amazingly viral, opening new doorways to billions around the world; Giving users the opportunity to express different perspectives on information informally and genuinely to create new communities of users on the Social Web today. Online Forums also started during the period of 2003-2004 when Social Media Advertising started. Create a profile now and start posting to socialize with already established audiences, some sites are Warrior Forums, Facebook and DigitalPoint.
2. Making social sharing buttons visible
Making the social sharing button visible is a no-brainer if you want to get more traffic to your site. Instead of forcing people, making the sharing links obvious is a much better option. For instance, WordPress bloggers can use a social sharing plug-in that will allow the buttons to scroll up and down the page as people scroll through it.
3. Social Call To Action
I recently read a post on increasing blog traffic on CopyBlogger, the website of one of my favourite bloggers Brian Clark and found something astounding. The most powerful evidence of the power of “Social Calls to Action” is shown in the graph below. Just a simple “Please Re-tweet” will make your twitter post much more likely to be re-tweeted and increasing the chances of reaching larger audiences.
In the case of the longer “please retweet” the tweets were four times more likely to be shared by followers. Not “Please RT” or “RT” but specifically “Please re-tweet”, which greatly boosts search engine optimization on your blog.
Other calls to action include:
Check out…
Follow this person
Please vote….
Questions eg. What do you think of?
Don’t assume your readers know that they have to re-tweet, ask them!
This brings us to our next one of the commandments of blogging, “Don’t assume your readers know that they have to re-tweet, ask them!”. This commandment is definitely true, many people are afraid of asking or do not know how to ask their readers how to share the content through social networking sites. Yet almost 70% of all Re-Tweets contain a link to the post, and could rapidly spread to larger audiences in a very short period of time. This is great news for marketers, proving that re-tweeting is a great way to spread your content around.
So one tactic to increasing your ReTweetability could be to message or otherwise persuade other users to Re Tweet your content for you, in order to stimulate further organic Re-tweeting. This can be especially powerful if you can get well known users to share your content, as they’ll then be lending their authority and reach to your message as well as your calls to action. It could be as simple as
“Check out my blog @ googlehammer.com”! You might want to check out CopyBlogger for more information on “Social Call To Action”.
Let me know what you guys think, do you use any other ways of increasing blog traffic? Leave it in the comments below!
Tan Jie Hao, Freelance Writer @ googlehammer.com
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