Don’t forget twitter, it’s a fantastic way of increasing links to your site, think about, everyone who follows you has added a link to your site, or a particular page, which means that search engine ‘crawlers’ will find it more often, and that combined with the relevant content will increase your rankings.
Perhaps you can think of an editorial to do on your site, complete with an image or two, then write about that on twitter, mention on facebook, then …. wow look at all those links! That’s how you use social media to drive traffic to your site…
There are several plugins to make this work…
- Tweet Blender – although when I added this to GodVenture, it broke the page – will probably work with a more robust template. Having said that, also broke commercial template by changing background colour.
- Facebook Dashboard Widget – for displaying ‘friend’s’ status updates, etc….
- Simple Facebook Share Button – Excellent! Works well automatically, with neat standardised buttons. Works well with Firefox, not on Chrome.