Social Media Traffic

May 5, 2008 at 5:35 am · Filed under Social Media & Opimization

How to get traffic from Social Media sites

Remember yourself in school, in school, there are various sections/classes for the same batch and each section/class had set of students. Now think of how popular you were among your entire batch students. How many of them knew your name, how many of them were your friends.

Now the question is suppose you join a school today, how long do you think it takes to become popular among your batchmates. What would you do to become popular among batchmates?

If you have answers to these questions, you have answers to promotion on social media network site.

Almost all businesses are looking to promote their business online. All of them are looking to tap the potential of traffic present on the social media sites. However most of them do not have clear strategy or method to proceed.

This method of marketing on social networks is essentially a form of Direct Marketing. I have participated in social networks and would like to share my experience on starting a community on a social networks and media sites. It requires 100% involvement & participation for making it successful just as you would need to start a new business. There is very thin line of difference between communicating to a community and communicating to a single user. You should be clear of what your site has to offer to the audience. Why should people join your community?

Once your community is built to a stage where it can sustain by itself. It requires minimum participation from your end and will reap maximum benefits. However in initial stages it requires all your time, effort, dedication and careful reputation management.

Social Networks & media sites are best place for reputation management and image building activity for big companies.

There are various smart ways to attract audience to join your community. Link Baiting is very hot topic among webmasters, SEOs, link builders.

If you are good at link baiting then you should know want content to be distributed to attract audience.

  • Use various content formats such as Videos, Images, Content for keep your community happy

  • You can organize contests, puzzles, quizes for engaging the users.

  • Understand & know your community group members, their preferences, geo location, profession, Interests.

  • Mostly the mode of communication is Email, Scrap book(Message Boards) or Chat.

  • Two main areas of management: Managing Content, Managing Users

  • Advertise you community on Blogs, Social Media sites and even on PPC program works good. Nobody has tried advertising

    References:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/21/community.html
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/holy-mother-of-linkbait

http://www.fullcirc.com/community/communitytypes.htm

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11 Comments »

  1. SMO Traffic said,

    May 7, 2008 @ 9:15 pm

    well done, guy..

    Traffic from SMO does not come easy.. it is sweat and effort.. but if you do it well it is worth the effort…

  2. Guy said,

    May 12, 2008 @ 7:02 am

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    . Do let me know your feedback. Tks

  3. Rajiv said,

    May 13, 2008 @ 3:05 pm

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  4. Deepti said,

    May 15, 2008 @ 5:35 am

    Hi Praveen,

    I have some trivial queries regarding SEO things.

    1) What is Meta tag, Title tag, H3 Tag, Anchor Tag and Alt Tag meant?
    2) What is the significance of a URL, if it is static or dynamic?
    3) Why you need Uniqe URLs for some pages in a site?
    4) Why seperate pages to be linked with home page URL?

    Thanks in advance.

    Deepti

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    May 15, 2008 @ 11:40 am

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  6. social media hero said,

    May 16, 2008 @ 8:40 am

    Social media marketing is a full time job.. trust me.. as it requires lots of effort from you and your people

  7. kpraveenkumars said,

    May 25, 2008 @ 5:00 am

    Hi Deepti thanks for writing to me..

    Here are your answers..

    1) What is Meta tag, Title tag, H3 Tag, Anchor Tag and Alt Tag meant?

    All these tags are present in the HTML code of the website. They are a part of your webpage which is in HTML. Each tag has a purpose, such as H3 tag acts as heading, Anchor tag is the link text, Alt tag is the image description, Meta tag is page info read only by search engines.

    2) What is the significance of a URL, if it is static or dynamic?

    URL is the address which points to a content/page. If it is static it looks good, easy to read and makes a good impression of the page to the user. like example.com/travel-to-shimla.html contains a page which talks about travel to shimla. Hence URL containing keywords describing the page is helpful for users and search engines. Dynamic pages and URLs has negative impact on the user and search engines might have a tough time reading it. Users may or may not be able to bookmark the page or link to that page.

    3) Why you need Uniqe URLs for some pages in a site?

    This is essential for being able to link to that page, bookmark the page hence rank.

    4) Why seperate pages to be linked with home page URL?

    I am sorry I am not able to follow this question? please elaborate

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    June 17, 2008 @ 1:29 pm

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  9. Deepti said,

    July 2, 2008 @ 11:54 am

    Hi Praveen,

    Thanks for the info. :)
    I got the answer of 4th point as well. It is much related to 2nd Point.

  10. Christian Consolidation said,

    July 28, 2008 @ 11:40 am

    Hi, thanks for the useful information. One more thing i would like to know that which is the most popular Social Media site in US through which we can get qualified instant traffic.

    reply waiting…

  11. Survey Software said,

    July 28, 2008 @ 11:43 am

    Hi….I just gone through your blog. Its very much interested. But I m looking for a such a SMO site on which i can promote my survey related products.

    Thanks in advance.

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