Social Media Can Increase Your Traffic

By Louis Cripe

One of the biggest difficulties facing any Internet marketer is the fact that they have a hard time driving traffic to their websites. Of course what you truly want is targeted traffic which is in fact much harder to get. Here I am going to go over the primary difference between website visitors and targeted prospects and why you absolutely need the targeted visitors to achieve success. Moreover we are also going to teach you how one can use social media sites to acquire the targeted visitors you need.

So what is traffic? Whenever somebody visits your website, that is viewed as traffic. There are loads of methods for getting traffic to your site and you can get hundreds or even thousands of website visitors each day, but unless this traffic is targeted you may not make a sale. The reason is this isn't targeted visitors. Targeted prospects, will be traffic that reached your website because they are interested in that which you have to offer. As an example, if someone is looking at a weight loss blog and they see an advertisement for your website saying something like, "Lose 20 Lbs In 20 Days" and they click on that ad, that is a targeted prospect.

A great technique to obtain targeted prospects to your internet sites and affiliate links is to use social media websites. Were you aware that YouTube gets more than 1 Billion views every single day? Over half of the visitors that YouTube receives is coming from the major search engines. At this point make an effort to picture this.
Suppose you would like to make a bird house, you go to Google and perform a search for "Build A Bird House". As soon as the results return you can see a YouTube video on the first page, and you wish to watch an individual do it because it's much easier to learn this way. Many individuals will click on that link simply because they would rather watch a video about it than go through directions.

This is how you can begin receiving that targeted traffic. The video itself is probably not showing you the way to make a bird house it is an individual just constructing a quick bird house, however at the conclusion of the video you are able to add a little something to tell people to utilize the link below for complete instructions. Of course after they click the link or enter in the web address inside their web browser they are taken to a site that is advertising a bird house building book. And because your promoting to them an item which they really want, this is regarded as targeted visitors. Now if people saw your website in a traffic exchange, they probably wouldn't even pay attention to it, that's the difference.

Of course there are other social media sites you can utilize besides YouTube. You can do the same type of thing on FaceBook or Myspace to receive the targeted prospects you need. And since these types of social media websites can be so powerful you may not need to worry about any other kind of marketing again. You'll need to be mindful when making your pages, you don't want these pages to resemble spam. In addition, you should go through their terms to ensure your not violating any of their regulations, the very last thing you would like is to have your web pages removed, so stick to their rules.