30 Social Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic

There is no shortcut to success but, promotion is an easy way. There are now more social websites than ever. These websites may benefit your blog with traffic,new visitors and more page views.
Blog without readers is like an empty cinema hall broadcasting a superhit movie, thus you need visitors to read your posts and visitor that who will love them too.

Sharing your blog on social media websites helps you increase blog traffic.
Sharing your posts on social media websites helps you increase blog traffic.
Today we will discuss about different ways social media websites can help you to boost your blog traffic. Applying these changes to your Blog you can gain more pageviews and if you run ads, more money too.

Increase Blog Traffic Using Social Media

  1. Build a good twitter following.
  2. Create a Facebook page linking to your blog and link it back from your home page.
  3. Add Facebook Like and Share Buttons to every post.
  4. Share every post on your facebook page.
  5. Add Facebook open graph Meta tags.
  6. Create a pinterest pin board for your website.
  7. Share latest photos from your blog to pinterest.
  8. Tag pinterest pin's with proper hashtags.
  9. Share new posts on twitter.
  10. Add trending hashtags to twitter status.
  11. Add tweet buttons with counter to every post.
  12. Enable RSS feeds for your blog and use Feedburner like services to track stats.
  13. Add a linkedin share button to your blog.
  14. Add Digg and StumbleUpon buttons to your blog.
  15. Submit your articles to Reddit.
  16. Promote Blog Giveaways using Facebook Ads.
  17. Post videos related to your blog post on YouTube and link back to original article from video description.
  18. Label your share buttons with some cool text like "sharing and caring" or "spread the word", this encourages users to share your post and you get traffic in return.
  19. Create "like to download" or "tweet to view source" style buttons to increase sharing.
  20. Add both "Google +1" and "Share to Google +" buttons.
  21. Use Google+ hangouts to connect with users.
  22. Join Facebook Groups related to your blog and participate.
  23. Use Google Authorship.
  24. Advertise on twitter.
  25. Using third party sharing widgets like ShareThis or AddThis for easily adding more sharing buttons is also a good practice.
  26. Post testimonials on Facebook page and twitter account for gaining trust of visitors.
  27. Join other Bloggers communities from your country.
  28. Include links to social accounts below your emails.
  29. Add a "subscribe" page to your blog and provide links on this page to your social accounts.
  30. Use URL shorteners for easily sharing your content and for people to remember URL easily.

Over to you bloggers

Using social media to promote your blog is a very good way.
These are some basic tips. Share your tactics you used to increase your blog traffic.
Looking forward to hear some tips you used in comments.

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