Social Traffic Tactics
The word ‘social’ on the term ‘social media site’ is an indication of what purpose social media sites serve. Yes, they are designed to allow people to ‘socialize’ effectively using the World Wide Web.
This resulted in the millions of people that go online every day to update their social media account. But where people are, business is sure to follow. Although originally designed for ‘online socializing’, social media sites have come to serve another purpose – it has become a powerful marketing tool for online entrepreneurs.
Now, popular social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn, Google+, and others can be used to help websites generate more views and traffic. It is now also used for advertising and promoting products and services.And because social media sites such as Facebook consists of millions of subscribers, social media sites have become a tool used by online merchants to reach more people than they were able to before.