13 Ways to Drive More Website Traffic from Your Facebook Page

 

13 Ways to Drive More Website Traffic from Your Facebook Page

Would you like to drive more website traffic from your Facebook page?

Combining your Facebook page and your website can have a powerful affect on your business. You can use your Facebook page to attract thousands to millions of fans and then use them to drive website traffic to generate leads, increase sales, etc.

I have shared 13 tips below to help you make the most of your Facebook page by driving lots of website traffic…

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4 Ways to Boost Blog Traffic on the Weekend

 

4 Ways to Boost Blog Traffic on the Weekend

Does your blog traffic decrease on the weekend? Would you like to attract more people to your blog over the weekend?

Most blogs will usually see a dip in traffic over the weekend. This is probably because there are fewer people online and at work. Here’s a discussion on Quora on blog traffic over the weekends with lots of graphs and examples. As you can see, this is a common problem. But it can be solved by attracting more visitors by taking some simple steps. Here’s how you can do it…

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10 Ways to Find Great Content to Share on Social Media

 

10 Ways to Find Great Content to Share on Social Media

Would you like to quickly and easily find quality content that can be shared across various social networks?

Sharing a lot of useful content is a vital part of networking. You need to not only share content you create, but those others create too. As it can help you build influence and make you the go to person on the web to find content on the topic you specialize in (share). This can help you attract new followers, build relationships and generate sales and leads.

So make use of all the tips mentioned in the article below and look for helpful content to share with your audience everyday…

1. Browse Through Social Media:

Of course the best place to find content to share on social media is on social media itself. There are millions of people on these sites sharing tons of content. If you can figure out a way to get hold of this content, you should have an endless supply to share. Below are some tips on how to find quality content on various social networks…

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13 Tips to Crafting Mind Grabbing Headlines for Your Content

 

13 Tips to Crafting Mind Grabbing Headlines for Your Content

Would you like to learn the secrets to crafting powerful headlines?

A good headline is the requisite to writing effective content as it is the first thing the reader sees. If it isn’t written properly then the reader will ignore your content and all your effort in writing it will go to waste, but if it is well written more people will read it. Even poorly written content can get more readers if they have a good headline. So to help you craft headlines that will convince more people to read your content I have listed out 13 tips below…

1. Mention a Benefit:

People read content that is going to benefit them in some way. It could be to help them solve a problem, to help them understand why taking a certain step is important, etc. So mentioning a benefit in the headline could convince them to read the rest of content to help them learn more about this benefit. So go through your content and find the most important benefit your audience will be interested in and add it to your headline.

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How to Get More than 200,000 Email Subscribers in Less than 4 Years

 

How to Get More than 200,000 Email Subscribers in Less than 4 Years

Wouldn’t it be nice to have over 200,000 email subscribers for your blog?

One blog that can boast this number is Social Media Examiner, which has recently achieved this milestone. Ever since they started their blog, they have focused on gaining more email subscribers, which has helped them achieve this feat and the number continues to grow quite rapidly.

Benefits of having many subscribers:-

Having 200,000 email subscribers can be highly beneficial in increasing website traffic, as you can send out blog updates asking people to check out posts on your blog. And as Social Media Examiner’s editors post articles six days a week and send out updates every time they post, they can expect massive amounts of traffic every time, even if only a tiny amount of subscribers check the post. All these subscribers have also helped them boost their revenue through newsletter sponsorship, as their founder, Michael Stelzner, has mentioned in this interview. For each newsletter ad, they charge a minimum of $5,000. You can also use your newsletter to build stronger relationships with your audience and eventually convert them into customers.

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15 Indispensable WordPress Plugins

15 Indispensable WordPress Plugins

WordPress is a fantastic blogging platform. I use it for all of my blogs. Some of the tools that make it so amazing are the various plugins – they can be used to improve blog performance, optimize it for mobile viewing, better SEO for your content, and lots of other wonderful things. I have listed some important WordPress plugins below that are absolutely necessary to help you run a powerful blog…

1. All in one SEO Pack:

All in one SEO Pack

 

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10 Brands Flourishing With Content Marketing

 

Content marketing has become immensely popular over the past few years. It’s not only been small businesses that have adapted and taken advantage of it, but big brands too. As with everything, some of these campaigns have failed while some have succeeded. I have listed out 10 brands that have successfully implemented content marketing and explained what they have done right that has helped them flourish…

1. Radian6:

10 Brands Flourishing With Content Marketing

 

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5 Reasons Why Your Business Should Keep A Blog

This is a guest post by Natalie Hamlin of Increase Visibility.

What if those mere minutes could be the key to connecting your business with an intently-listening audience?

Working in the digital-media sphere, any Internet guru can tell you that content is the key to gaining listeners, and there are a ton of businesses that haven’t gotten the memo yet. For all you companies that have a dedicated blogger on your team, here’s an imaginary gold star. For companies that haven’t yet jumped on the blogging bandwagon, listen to these five reasons why your business needs an up-to-date blog:-

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6 Secrets to Successfully Using Pinterest [Infographic]

 

Would you like to learn the 6 secrets to using Pinterest effectively?

A recent study by ComScore shows that Pinterest is one of the top 50 most visited sites in the U.S. with over 25 million unique visitors in September alone. The network’s amazing growth continues.

So if you would like to take advantage of this amazing growth and watch your business grow along with Pinterest then check out the Infographic by Hubze below. Here you will find some great tips on how to not only use Pinterest effectively, but to also optimize your site and blog so that your images are frequently shared on the social network by your website’s visitors.

Infographic Credit: Hubze

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6 Steps to Building an Evergreen Inbound Marketing Strategy

 

Inbound marketing is quickly growing into a popular marketing method. Many businesses have already had a lot of success using social media, blogs and other forms of content. Seeing this many other businesses are planning to give inbound marketing a go too. 2012 could be a year where the internet is filled with loads and loads of content.

This can be worrying for many other businesses because they will need to somehow get their content to stay afloat in this big content pool.

So how do businesses stay ahead of their competition through inbound marketing?

The best way to stay ahead of your competition is through an inbound marketing strategy. Having an inbound marketing strategy, will keep you way ahead of your competition as you will be sure about what you want to achieve. With an inbound marketing strategy – you will be able to plan what your target audience wants, what you need to produce, how to distribute it and how to generate leads from it.

The 6 steps below will help you get started with your inbound marketing strategy:-

1. Find out what your target audience wants:  

You need to create what your target audience wants. Your target audience doesn’t care about what you do, how experienced you are or what you care about. They care about how you can help them. This is why you need to find out all about what type of problems your target audience face, how can you help them solve these problems, what sort of content do they prefer reading (blogs, reports, white papers, videos, etc.), how long would they like it to be, what’s their favourite social media, etc. You can learn more about researching your target audience on this post.

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