Day 6 Generate Traffic Using Social Medias
Social medias help generating traffic to your new site
In the past, it was recommended to blog in order to drive quick and easy traffic to your new website. However this is not true any more. Well, you can still blog to generate traffic but you must do much more.
A first option for traffic generation is the setting of a blog. Whether you already have one - if you chose to use WordPress as your new site CMS - or not, you can always create a blog at Blogger.com, which is Google's blogging platform. Google indexes Blogger blogs quickly as long as you don't violate any of their rules and provide actual content. And you should since the trick when blogging is sending your blog readership to your actual site (where you can do almost whatever you want including affiliate marketing) while at the same time build links back to your site.
Your new blog's name should relate to your new site, of course.
Once everything's set up, write your very first post and introduce both you and your new site. Let your future readership know what your blog is all about. Include a link back to your site at the end of your first post.
Here's a shorcut that will enable you to automatically include your site link to your blog posts: log into your Blogger blog and go to "settings", then click on "posts and comments" and look for "Post Template". Type your site anchored link into the box and save your settings.
Then go to Feedburner.com and set up an account. Syndicate your blog feeds with this medium. Feedburner was acquired by Google, therefore, I recommend to open a Gmail.com email address so that you can open all your next Google accounts with this very same email address and have all your info stored in one place.
Once your Feedburner account is set up and that you created your blog feeds, go to Pingoat.net, type your blog name, blog link and copy/paste your Feedburner feed link, then check all the boxes and click on "submit". Other sites will be informed about the existence of your new blog.
Each time you'll make a blog post, you'll go to Pingoat to submit your new blog post link.
Here's a shorcut that will enable you to automatically include your site link to your blog posts: log into your Blogger blog and go to "settings", then click on "posts and comments" and look for "Post Template". Type your site anchored link into the box and save your settings.
Then go to Feedburner.com and set up an account. Syndicate your blog feeds with this medium. Feedburner was acquired by Google, therefore, I recommend to open a Gmail.com email address so that you can open all your next Google accounts with this very same email address and have all your info stored in one place.
Once your Feedburner account is set up and that you created your blog feeds, go to Pingoat.net, type your blog name, blog link and copy/paste your Feedburner feed link, then check all the boxes and click on "submit". Other sites will be informed about the existence of your new blog.
Each time you'll make a blog post, you'll go to Pingoat to submit your new blog post link.
If you have a Facebook account, post your new blog post link to your profile. Do the same if you have a Twitter account. If you use pictures, then I recommend heading to Pinterest.com and sign up. Then create several boards and pin your very first blog post favorite picture to the related board.
You can also set up a Paper.li account that will allow you to create an online newspaper style page that is going to help you promoting your new site.
The number of online social media is quite wide and I can't go through all of them here - especially since I don't use all of them. But Instagram, for example can also work wonders if your niche is more visual.
Well, that's it for today. See you soon for day 7.
Posted by Holly Day
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