Pinterest can drive you huge traffic [with statistics]

Social Media has become a part of our life. Spending a day or two without logging to Facebook / Twitter is almost impossible now a days. The initial idea of using Social Media to remain in touch with loved ones now has been extended to almost everything from news and updates, marketing, display of one's talent over the web, breaking news, shopping hub and much more. If you own a blog / website / business, you must be aware how important it is these days to have a social media profile and how much it can contribute to your profit.

Amidst the big giants like Facebook , Google+ and Twitter, the online marketers tends to ignore the others. Pinterest is one such platform which we do not care much but let me tell you, if you have some niche specific products / blogs, Pinterest can drive huge traffic to your blog. I have tried Pinterest to drive some traffic to my blog and it has given me some good results.

Before I present you the stats, let me tell you what you need and how to promote your blog there. Pinterest is a platform where you PIN an image to your boards and the board's followers can see it, like it, send to a person or to a mail id and pin it again to their own boards. Now, what's important here is Pinterest gives you an option to pin an image from your blog post's URL, and when someone clicks on that image, he is redirected to the website. This is a traffic for you. Since the majority of Pinterest users are tier 1 countries, you can convert this traffic in some good dollars.

Pinterest niche is somewhat specific to Quotes, Pet lovers, Female products etc. and most of the user base of females. So, if you have something that is very much technical (that Linux kinda thing), it's not the right place. I had a blog for Quotes and that's why Pinterest brought me some good traffic. Here's the traffic stats which I receive after a month of promotion over Pinterest. 

This is of course Blogger's dashboard. This is some nice traffic from Pinterest. 

So what's need to be done if you have the right content/product for Pinterest users? Here's some points which you can keep in mind and will help you in getting loyal followers and traffics. 

1. Build your follower list - This can be done by putting a Pinterest board to your blog and asking your blog's visitors to follow you there. Another always working method is to follow the right people and they will follow you back. Now, how would you decide the right people? As I told you, I have a blog on Quotes, so I searched for quotes and followed those people who shared / pinned the quotes recently. These were the active people on that day and since they were sharing quotes, they love it. 

2. Create boards - Create specific boards related to what you are promoting. Pin things on there, and you will soon start receiving requests to share on other boards. Accept those requests and utilize those boards to share your blog through pins. 

3. Never forget to upload pins through your website and not as a direct upload. And while uploading, there is a place to add some text for that particular image. Keep that part exciting with a link to your blog at the end. 

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Pinterest is not so complicated and do not have any feeds algorithms in particular, so working on these 3 points is in itself sufficient and you will in a week start seeing traffic to your blog from Pinterest. 

If you are already using Pinterest and want to add something, feel free to add it in the comment section. Thanks!

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Tips to Increase Your Google Plus Page Followers.

Why Google Plus is necessary for SEO.

Google Plus is one of the best social networking media in order to market contents and engage with people. Being the third largest social media after Facebook and Twitter you can't really enjoy to ignore it. Moreover, Google has been constantly updating its rankings algorithm and it is predicted being predicted that Google+ presence will play a major role in coming days in search engine results. Seeing the authorship and followers number in results only prove the point.

Google Authorship.

Google shows the profile picture of your Google+ profile in search results when someone finds your blog in results.

For example, when you will discover my blog in Google search results, you will find something like this.

Google Search Results showing followers.

You may also see that Google tells the searcher the number of followers you have on the search results. If I see some posts with authorship and a good number of Google+ followers I will surely go for it rather than some blog with no followers list.

Personalized results.

If someone is following you on Google+ and uses Google to search for something related to your niche, you will get an advantage in the search results. This personalised results will ensure that someone following you or your page will always find your article normally higher in results than otherwise.

How to Increase Your Google Plus Page Followers.

Google Plus

Google Plus page can be an important medium to market your content. However, the social media is all about the numbers. Higher the number of followers you or your page have, the more traffic you will generate from it. In this article, I am going to tell you some of the important factors that will contribute in increasing your Google Plus page followers.

Build your page.

Give your readers something valuable. You won't get much page followers unless you have something on your page's feed. Build your contents and optimize your page first.

People on Google+ are very much tech savvy and your blank page feed won't really help in attracting followers.

Even a contextual bio and display pic is necessary for your page.

Put a Google Plus Badge on your blog.

Put a Google+ followers gadget on your blog. If you are in blogosphere for sometime then you must have build your own readers base. Putting your Google Plus badge will ensure that people do follow your Page who already have been your loyal readers.

Use other social media.

If you are in blogging, you must be using different social media in order to market your content. Ask your friends and mates to join you on Google+. Tell them you have created a new page and send them an invite. Invite your Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn connections to join you and your page in Google+.

You can even ask your friends to share your page link to their walls to reach to maximum people.

Invite for hangouts.

Hangouts is the what makes G+ stand out from other social media. People can participate in hangouts and can discuss topics and share their views. Hangouts can be a great way of increasing your Google Plus followers. Be ready to conduct hangouts on different topics related to your niche and ask for maximum participation. Although, a maximum of 10 users can only participate at once, the video streaming can be seen by any number of viewers. Bloggers often find visual things more informative.

Hangouts are a great medium to reach out to new audience. You can always record videos and share them to your circles. The chances of being shared increases tremendously if a video is shared as compared to other static links.

Use hashtags in your page descriptions and in promotions.

Frankly, Hashtags is a great feature to connect to right audience. People search for trending topics, pages, groups and peoples and hashtags ensures your visibility in these searches. Using hashtags in your page's bio is an important part to reach to those people who are searching your topics.

Include maximum Hashtags in your page's bio. Although, Google+ use tags automatically from the description you use for any links, you may use hashtags according your preference too. Using a hash (#) in front of a word will make it search valuable.

Engage with people.

Found someone's link on your page informative? Why not to share it, like it or at least leave a comment praising him? You can do so to promote engagement in your page. I sometimes find pages with more than a thousand followers but nothing has been shared from a week. I know this is not the right place for me. Don't make your page look like that. These +s and comments will ensure input from the followers too.

Followers make followers.

The number of present followers will decide if someone who is anonymous to you and discovered your page in results will join or not. You won't get more than a thousand visitors on the first day. Increasing your followers from 0-1000 will be much harder than from 1000-2000. The reason is that people when find a page with already a thousand visitor, then won't think much before joining. You just have to deliver some best articles and keep engaging your followers through quizzes and questions. You may ask their advice on small topics and even create a healthy discussion in your page. So, increase your Google Plus gradually and you will see that it starts attracting followers on its own.

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How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog.

The life of any blog is the traffic it receives. Every blog has one thing in common - to reach out to maximum people and trust me, its not easy at all especially if you are a new blogger with only few hundred followers and not much search engine optimization knowledge. And in case you are there for money from your blog, you have to get thousands of visitors per day.

The main reason for quitting blogging for webmasters is that they never really build up their traffic. Driving traffic to your blog is a gradual process that will take your much time.

In this article, I am going to discuss the most important things to drive traffic to your blog.

Social Media Marketing.

An active engagements on social media will drive a great traffic to your blog. All you have to do is be active, join groups and communities, spread your links and hope for the best. You can join different social media like Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other bookmarking websites like Digg and Delicious, Pinterest, Reddit or StumbleUpon to drive traffic to your blog.

Read Detail: Increase traffic to your blog through Social Media.

Search Engine Optimization.

Search Engine Optimization is a process of optimizing your post to rank higher in search results. There are different factors that affects the search engine rankings of any article and these factors can somewhat be improvised upon to get a better ranking.

SEO

Read Here: On-page Search Engine Optimization.

Guest Posting and Commenting.

I have been an active commenter on different blogs and a part of my traffic comes from CommentLuv enabled blogs. You can subscribe to different CommentLuv enabled blogs and whenever there is any new article published, be the first one to comment there.

You can read the complete list to become a good commenter.

Guest Posting gives you a benefit of reaching to wider audience along with link building. It also lets you market yourself as a brand and widen your reach.


      These 3 basic pillars of driving traffic to your blog will be very crucial in your blog's success. However, each one of these requires your time.

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Get Facebook Like Widget for Your Blog.

Facebook has a like box application designed especially for blogs to promote pages. It allows admins to promote their pages by embedding a like box in their blogs. You do not need any third party widgets in order to implement this Facebook like widget for your blog.

Facebook is the biggest social networking site and a great platform to reach to your audience, engage with them and increase traffic to your blog. More traffic means you will earn more money online. 

▌ How to get Facebook Like Widget for Your Blog.

♦ Go to Facebook developer site: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-box-for-pages/

Facebook like box widget

♦ Enter your page address of your Facebook page and select width and height and color schemes. The Facebook like widget will look like this.

Facebook like box widget

♦ Click on Get Code.

♦ You will have two codes. One, you have to put it in your <body> tag. For that, go to your Blogger Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML and search for <body> tag.

Code

To search, press Ctrl + F and type <body> in the search box.

Now put the code just below the <body> tag.

♦ The second code part you have to put in a javascripts widget. For that, go to Blogger dashboard > Layout > Add a widget > HTML/Javascripts and place the code there.

♦ Now drag the widget where you want the Facebook Like widget to appear on your blog.

Facebook like widget gives a professional look to your blog and also a chance to increase your fan base.

You do not need any third party javascripts to implement a Facebook like widget on your blog.

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Increase Traffic to Your Blog : Social Media

This is the first article of the series about how to increase traffic to your blog. No matter how well you write and to whatever topic you devote your blog to, you are going to face difficulty in bringing traffic to your blog initially.

When you start up your blog, your search engine optimization process won't kick in for some time. May be a week, may be a month you have to wait for. You don't have subscribers to your blog and no one really knows about your blog. Then comes the role of social media.

Social Media can bring you a lot of traffic to your blog in any condition: whether your blog is new or is an established one. However, you must know how to fully utilize these social media in order to increase traffic to your blog.

▌ By social media, I mean non other than:

♦ Facebook
♦ Google+
♦ LinkedIn
♦ Twitter

▌ Set up yourself.

The first step towards utilizing social media to bring traffic to your blog is to set up your profile if you don't have one and adding people you know to your profile. You have to look genuine there and for that, you have to put your own display picture along with your bio. Now its time to import all your contacts and connecting with them.

▌ Increase your influence.

After setting up your profile, you need to reach to maximum people. Add people in your friend list and circles whom you know. Search for people with same interest in different groups and communities over the social media and join them, follow them or connect with them.

▌ Set up your blog identity on these media.

Now to increase traffic to your blog, you have to market your blog over these media. This can be done by creating pages, asking your friends to like or subscribe to these pages and join your blog community and asking them to re share it to reach to maximum people.

You can even use paid advertising in order to reach to people who are interested in blog's niche. These people will eventually be your readers and will bring regular traffic to your blog. However, buying twitter followers is not a good idea. You can Google about its reason.

▌ Marketing your content.

Facebook Page for my blog.

I presume that you have set up your profile and community and pages for your blog. Now its time to share your content to your subscribers. Using catching titles and images in your link share is a better way of driving traffic to your blog as compared to posting plain simple links. Putting up an image increases your chance of re sharing.

▌ Communication with readers.

There will be people who will like your links and re-share them. There is no problem giving them a word of thanks. People will comment on your links and may praise you or criticize. You have to take the criticism in a constructive way and give a thanks to the praises. You have to satisfy your readers who have queries. And provide solutions to the problems asked by other users in different communities.

      The basic aim of social media optimization is to reach to maximum people and connect with them. Social media is a great place to drive traffic to your blog with very less efforts.

If you think the article misses any points, feel free to share in comments. :)


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How to Increase Your Twitter Followers.

Unless you are a celebrity, you will have to work hard to Increase your twitter followers. Twitter is a social networking site than can bring a huge traffic to your blog if used effectively. The ultimate success of Twitter as a marketing tool and for driving traffic to your blog relies mostly on the number of followers you have.

twitter as a marketing tool

They are a number of services that will say that they can Increase your twitter followers from a thousand to ten thousand with some amount of money. But what I suggest is you should not waste your money in buying these followers since most of them are not even concerned about your posts and niche.

Its a good idea to increase your twitter followers naturally and gradually.

▌ Tips to Increase your twitter followers.

1. Use your Social Connections. 

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The first step towards Increasing your twitter followers is to ask people who already are in your connections on other social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Plus. These are the people whom you personally know and are willingly going to follow you on twitter. Leave a Personal Message or post a message on your wall asking people to follow you there.

2. Follow and get followed. 

This is perhaps the best technique to increase your twitter followers. This is often known as the fundamental rule of increasing your twitter followers. So, search for people you know, people of your niche and follow them. And most probably you will get followed back.

3. Update your Bio and Profile. 

If your profile looks spammy, your chances are less. Put your real photo, a short and effective bio with hash tags. Hash Tags ensures that your profile is popped up in search queries on twitter.

4. Tweet.

The more you tweet, the better it is. Do not only use twitter for marketing your articles. Tweet news and quotes and other people's articles. Re-tweeting other article drives their attention to you and will be helpful in developing a mutual relationship of give and take.

5. Join twitter chats. 

There are various groups on twitter that assemble together to talk about any particular topic. Participate in these discussions. This will give you more coverage and new followers.


      There are several other factors that will count in Increasing your twitter followers. These 5 points will surely gonna help you. If you have any other point in mind to increase your twitter followers do share with our readers in comments.

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How to Get On the First Page of Google

Todd jensen mentions in one of his article that about 94% people clicks on 1st page results and only about 6% people clicks on search results on 2nd or 3rd page.

That means if you are ranking even on 2nd  page of Google Search results, only 6 out of 100 people will click on yours blog link. Now considering the fact that there is (usually) 10 sites displayed per page, your chances of getting a visitor become as less as 0.6%. And this small percent increases to 9.4% if you are on 1st page of Google. Isn't that a great increase?

Let me talk about myself. f I am not satisfied with the results on 1st page, I simply search again for some other words combination rather that going to 2nd or 3rd page of Google to see if there is any solution out there for my query.

Chances are that you too do the same.

So, ranking on first page of Google has a great importance if you want some huge traffic from Search engine.

▌ Write great content. 

♦ A blog is a place where you write something and people read it. So, what if you are not giving your full devotion to writing articles? You will never get a large audience and readers. To get loyal readers, you need to have quality content and that too regularly.

content policy.

♦ Give your readers something new. You can use graphics, pie charts, graphs in you article to make it more interacting.

♦ Stats plays an important role. Give some stats from your side, or request other bloggers of your niche to share their stats on your blog.

♦ A picture is a thousand words. The phrase is so true. Very less people really read the complete post word by word. So, try to give a rough idea in some pictures only.

♦ Use points and heading, subheading, and bulleted texts unless you are writing an essay :P

▌ Social Media Marketing. 

♦ If Google advice you to place a +1 button on your blog for your posts, then you should give attention to it.

♦ Number of Facebook is 2 billions and if you ignore them, search engine will ignore you.

Social Media Marketing.

♦ Social Bookmarking sites provide a great way of sharing your contents to the readers and build a loyal audience to your blog.

♦ You can't expect to be on Google's first page with 20visitors/day. So, initially you have to work it out on different social media like Facebook, Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn.

▌ Search Engine Optimization. 

♦ Search Engine Optimization comprises of the steps that will increase your search engine ranking.

♦ Do a lot of link building through Guest posting and commenting.

optimization.

♦ Keywords research has to be done in order to get on 1st page of Google.

♦ On-page and Off-page optimization should be implemented.

♦ Working on titles, URLs, meta descriptions, and site's layout is equally important.

      In this post, I have just outlines the steps that needs to be taken for getting on first page of Google. I have written descriptively on some of the points and I will be writing some more articles in coming days.

If you have any other point which you want to mention, do mention it in comments. It will work great as an input to my coming posts.

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How to get more traffic to your blog.

The blogs success is usually measured by the amount of traffic you receive. Getting traffic to your blog is not an easy thing unless you are already a very big name or have lots of money to spend on buying traffic. In this post, I am discussing some of the basics yet effective ways of driving traffic to your blog.

Traffic to your blog.

▌ Blog regularly.

Update your blog regularly with fresh content and give your reader something to read. Frequently updated blogs will develop audience at a faster rate. It depends on you to decide how frequently you post articles but its a good idea to publish 2-3 articles per week. If you are new, you may have to do it daily.

▌ Search Engine listing and optimization.

Submit your sitemap to search engines like Yahoo!! and Google so that your articles are indexed by them and is visible in search engine results. Search Engine Optimization will help you in getting a better ranking and will help you in driving more traffic to your blog.

▌ Social media marketing.

In the beginning of your blogging, you may not expect traffic from search engine. So, social media marketing comes into play. Its a good idea to spread your blog's post links in different media like Google+, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon or Reddit. These are a great way of introducing your blog to audience and making a reader base. Social Bookmarking websites can boost your traffic a lot.

Social Media marketing.

▌ Comment on other blogs. 

Subscribe to other blogs of your niche and read their articles. When you see a new post, try making a genuine comment there. Most of the blogs provide a facility of leaving your link in the comment section and this will help you in getting traffic. Always try to be first in commenting. You may have noticed your self that you always tend to read few of the first comments on any posts.

▌ Link building. 

Link building.

Link building is a way of distributing links over the web. You can do it through commenting on com-luv enabled blogs, through guest posting and by actively participating in forums and  leaving your blogs link in the signature. There are hundreds of forums that allows links in your signature and are free to sign up. Make use o
f them. You may even want to try yahoo answers to answer different queries and leaving a link to your posts.

▌ Link other blog.

Everybody wants their blogs to be linked in another blog. Start from yourself. Link blogs with the same niche as yours. You may drop them a mail telling them about the linking so that they know about it and link you back somewhere sometime in the future.

▌ Yep. It takes time. 

Don't expect a thousand visitors on the first day of your blogging. It will take time according to your posting frequency, quality of articles, search engine optimization, and many other factors. So, wait before you quit. Work for about 3 months and you will see a good change.


This list for driving more traffic to your blog is basic and perhaps you already know it if you are in blogging world for some time. However, new bloggers may follow these steps to build their audience and drive some traffic to their blog.

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5 Best Social Bookmarking websites for marketing.

Social Bookmarking Websites are a great place to add, discover, search bookmarks online. These websites can be used to share your content and build an audience. You can build relationship with other people of your niche and interest.

Social Bookmarking websites are the best way to create back links to your blog and drive a consistent targeted traffic to your blog. If used properly, these are the surest and cheapest way to increase your search engine optimization practice and with the use of anchor text, you can create quality backlinks to your posts with different keywords/phrases.

Here is a list of top 5 social bookmarking websites to market your blog.

NOTE: Is their a need to mention twitter in the list? 

1. Pinterest

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2. Delicious

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3. Digg

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4. Reddit

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5. StumbleUpon

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These 5 Best Social Bookmarking Websites will help you in driving traffic to your blog. Create accounts, pin your articles (pinteres), submit your posts/ articles on these social bookmarking websites and you will have a good amount of traffic from these.

These best social bookmarking websites will be even helpful in improving your PageRank.

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How to get more twitter followers.

Twitter is the second biggest social network after Facebook. If you are not using twitter, you are missing a share of your traffic generation. If you are a twitter user, you must be knowing how important it is to build a follower list on twitter and to get more twitter followers. Here are some of the genuine and traditional ways of increasing your twitter followers.

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▌ Be real. 

♦ Put your real photo with your face visible.
♦ Write up your bio. Don't leave it blank.
♦ Use hashtags in your bio so that people will find you through the hash tags search.

▌ Tweet often. 

♦ Tweet regularly.
♦ Mention people in your tweets.
♦ Use hash tags.
♦ Re-tweet others work.

▌ Follow me and I will follow you back. 

♦ Search people of your niche to follow.
♦ There is no point of following someone with 1 lac followers. You may not even get noticed.
♦ Your already-estabilished networks on Facebook or Google+ are best to start with following.

▌ Ask people to follow you. 

♦ Ask your friends on other social networks to follow you.
♦ Place a gadget on your blog requesting people to follow you.
♦ Mention you twitter name on your other social profiles.
♦ Some commenting system does provide an option of placing your twitter names. DO NOT forget to mention.

Now, what not to do!!

♦ Don't buy followers. You are just increasing your followers who don't give a damn about what you tweet.

♦ Don't use auto posting services. This gives a false impression that you are not interested in building relationship. Its better than you post it manually and post a thanks who praise you or give you a re-tweet.



Do you have any other point for increasing twitter followers which you want to see in this list? We will love to hear that. Do leave a comment.

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