In the recent years, social media websites have made a tremendous growth in the market. Some of them have become tech giants in relatively short period of time than others in the silicon valley. For example, Facebook, WhatsApp, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest and much more. Nowadays, it is impossible to imagine a day without visiting our favourite social networking websites. As these social media platforms witness millions of visitors every day, why not redirect a small chunk of these visitors to our website?

Sometimes, we just post our website’s link on our social media profile and wait for a high traffic to drive into our website. Unless we have thousands of followers, the chances are slim for it to happen. If we have an odd hundred followers then there is a high chance of witnessing a traffic of a number less than or equal to hundred people on our website. So, What should we do in order to get more and more traffic from our social media profiles ?

Here, I will give you a mantra for driving huge traffic to your website from different social media platforms. The steps by step procedure for attaining the same is as follows:

• Build a good profile (Not company profile) on your favourite social media profile  mention below.

• Few traits of a good profile are suitable profile picture and banner, properly filled profile bio, link to your website and in some cases your interests as well.

• Join groups, forums and communities related to your target niche.

• Actively participate in different communities according to your niche.

Now, we will discuss what to do on different platforms.

• Facebook Groups:

In my previous blog, I have explained in detail about How to Create a Group in Facebook Effectively.
 

I have personally experienced that Facebook groups prove to be an essential tool to drive social traffic to your website. All you need to do is just search the groups related to your niche and request them to join. For example, if you are in web development business, search around for web development, web design, Joomla, PHP, DotNet, XML, Drupal, Wordpress etc. After the approval of your request, you can post related blogs, service you offer, other promotional posts related to your business. Although a word of caution : refrain from spamming these groups, they may ban you partially or permanently.

• Reddit:

Reddit is an another good source of social media/referral traffic. It is a little different as there are subreddit instead of groups. Before submitting your own website link, make sure you subscribe related subreddits in addition to some sort of engagement on the particular subreddit.

For more information related to posting on reddit, just visit my blogs specially focus on Reddit.

How to Avoid shadowban or Account suspension on Reddit

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Important Reddit Lingos

• LinkedIn Groups:
  
  
   

LinkedIn is the largest professional social networking website. LinkedIn groups are similar to facebook groups but with a little difference. First of all, they approve joining requests very late and the second one is that they are more sensitive to spam posts. There is one thing I’ve figured out from my experience that you can safely post just 2-3 posts a day from one particular profile.

• Google+ Communities:
  
   

As far video blog traffic is concerned, Google+ communities come first in driving  traffic. But in the case of text blogs, there is no huge traffic from Google+ communities. With the high rate of such engagement in groups and sound research, you can get lots of traffic from this social networking website. Particular advantage of Google+ communities over other social media sites is that usually your joining requests are accepted instantly for the particular communities.

I hope this blog post helped you in getting relevant traffic to your business website or blog. If you have any suggestion or a query, please let me know in the comment section below . You can also connect with me at my twitter handle: @iHarishPal.