Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn- Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn should all be solid drivers of traffic to your site, providing you post your material properly in each of them. Make sure your tweet and posts tease the material enough to make readers want to click on your link and read your content. Also, if you are referencing another brand or business in your content, don’t hesitate to @mention them in your Tweet or post. You never know when a brand will notice your material and share it with their followers, exposing your content to an exponentially larger audience. StumbleUpon- StumbleUpon is a great tool to drive semi-qualified traffic to your site. Essentially, users select a specific topic that they are interested in reading more about and then they can randomly “stumble” on pages that have been submitted to that category. I would suggest always submitting your new content to StumbleUpon. I have found that it is a great source of traffic for new posts and old.

Google+- I personally have a decent-sized network on Google+, so posting links to my content there has been a solid traffic generator. You may not be in a large amount of users’ circles, but you should still regularly post your content to both your brand page (you should have one!) and your personal profile. Include a note with your submission that is provocative and enticing for the reader to click on the link.

Use hashtags that you think someone may search on and be interested in your content. More and more people are using the Google+ search feature to find new content, so you should take advantage of it. Snip.it, Scoop.it, Flud.it – We have seen a bunch of user-generated news sites and apps pop up over the past year or so. They are usually image-rich and laid out in a very visually pleasing way to target the tablet crowd. They are all socially connected and most post directly to a user’s Facebook timeline. Snip.it, Scoop.it and Flud.it are all ones I like to use and ones that have generated traffic to my site in the past. Each offers a bookmarklet that you can paste into your browser’s bookmark bar with which you can submit a page by clicking on it. Of course, you will only be successful in submitting content to these networks if you have compelling imagery in your content. The better the image that accompanies your post, the more likely it will catch a user’s eye and make them want to click on your submission. Continue to Page 3