Here’s a really good way I’ve found to bring in more website traffic for free using social media.
- Set up a WordPress blog.
- Use some nice featured images, which can be shared (960 x 502 works well).
- Use the “Revive Old Posts” plugin.
- Let it tweet out your posts automagically.
- You get traffic.
I just got a retweet from Google Analytics because of doing this:
“Instead of just setting up links to your website when you set up marketing campaigns, include tracking so you know where the inbound traffic actually comes from.”
How to Set Up Campaign/Marketing Tracking with Google Analytics https://t.co/dDcnrdcGT5 /by @tonyhermancom #measure pic.twitter.com/1jCtfANmtX
— Google Analytics (@googleanalytics) September 16, 2020
Also on LinkedIn:
And I saw a nice boost in traffic:
Which caused me to show up over at Search Engine Roundtable:
Promote, promote, promote!
And if you can find some tools to help automate it, you’re money!
The first step, though, is creating content and then making it sharable. Get out and do it.