Relying too heavily on social media traffic is pretty easy for bloggers to do. If you have some time to work on your blog you can go after social media and maybe see a few thousand visitors within 24 hours, or you can work on developing some other types of traffic that might lead to […]
Entries Tagged as 'Traffic Building'
The Costs of Over Reliance On Social Media Traffic
Long Term Results of Social Media Success: Increased Search Engine Traffic
When I look at the statistics for my primary blog, it’s pretty obvious that the posts with the most overall pageviews are the posts that have done well with social media. That’s no surprise because of the high numbers of visitors that have been sent to those posts from sites like […]
Search Engine Traffic & New Blogs
When the blog at vandelaydesign.com was started about a year ago the primary motivation for the blog was to draw search engine traffic that would hopefully result in more business. Over the past year the search engine traffic has slowly increased and March was a landmark month with over 17,000 visitors arriving from search engines. […]
5 Flaws of Social Media Traffic
Social media websites provide some of the best opportunities for free traffic generation. Unfortunately, there is also a downside to social media traffic. Here are a few of the flaws and a look at what you can do to overcome them.
1 - It’s Temporary
With most social media sites, success equals a burst of traffic for a day or two, and then it’s back to life as normal. While the surge in traffic can be exciting, it can be equally depressing when things return to status quo.
How to overcome it: It is possible to get steady traffic from social media. To increase your chances you can post frequently, develop high quality content, build a strong profile, and focus on sites like StumbleUpon that send lasting traffic rather than sites like Digg.
6 Steps to Building Diversity In Traffic
Having multiple and diverse sources of traffic is important to the long-term success of any website. Although it can be tempting to only pursue the traffic sources that produce the most visitors, relying exclusively on a particular traffic source can have adverse effects. Diversity is important for the following reasons:
