Step 6: Tapping Into Social Media To Get Traffic And Links

Social media at a glance

Social media sites, blogs, and forums are one more lever to use. They provide a great way to increase your traffic. Get your site mentioned on social media sites - and this can send an ongoing stream of interested people to your webpage.

So when it comes to SEO, social media sites, blogs, and forums provide a great way to harness the power of word-of-mouth and increase your traffic.

Additionally, the new Google places great value on social media, especially blogs, by ranking the sites blogs link to higher. So getting the attention of bloggers and getting them to link to you is a shortcut to a top Google placement!

Your competitor's using the following blogs, forums and social media sites for Web promotion:

Note: Don't be confused by the traffic rank values. Lower values mean bigger traffic! So the #1 traffic site has a traffic rank of 1.

These sites are an excellent source of free traffic for you. If they are good enough for your competitor, obviously you should tap into these as well.

Other social media sites that can send you a ton of traffic

These are the exact sites you need links from to leverage the traffic potential of the social media on the Net!