SEO News- Is your Website SEO fits Social media Trends?
Last month when I was reviewing my website I found my website was not active in social networking website and that was why it was not getting enough visits from referral sources. I used to discuss in the social media channels to bring visitors to my site. But what next, I could have grabbed the visitors and make them to share the site for me, increase the number of returning visitors ….all this by just making my site shareable.
I have sorted out few techniques with which we can make our site or blog to comply with the latest social media trends. These are very simple but very important features to add to your website or blog:
- Social sharing / bookmarking buttons: Adding a share this or AddThis button to your website/blog helps create one way back-links to your website and make it easy for your visitor to recommend or share your link with others.
- Facebook sharing widget: The Facebook share widget is the best way to share your Facebook information and updates to your website. This widget gives your visitors the ability to effortlessly share and bookmark your website through the well known social network Facebook.
- Twitter following widget: Tweets are the most in thing among social media lovers. This gives you the opportunity to show off your tweets to your visitors; also the visitors can get regular updates about you product and services by following you on Twitter.
- Send to a friend: This widget enables the user to send a link of the current web/blog page to their friends or colleagues via E-mail.
- Subscribe (RSS feed, feedburner) : RSS feeds are the best way to distribute their content beyond the regular visitors using various browsers. It permits the subscription to regular updates, delivered via news readers, web portals, or old email also feeds make it possible for the website content to be enclosed into gadgets, widgets and mobile devices.
- Review & Rating: This option lets the visitor to provide feedback for your services, content and products through comments, rating options or by adding like or dislike buttons. The feedback helps in making your site/blog better and more users friendly.
- Polls: Polls and surveys are the excellent ways to understand your customers and visitors. A poll is one of the best ways to understand the needs and wants of the customer and also will let you know what the majority has to say. Determining what visitors want helps you make modifications to your website and convert your visitors into customers.
- Retweet button: Popular as the viral marketing, getting visitors to retweet your content gives you the power to your network to spread and take over your message, products and services on Twitter.
- Vote (digg, sphinn, folkd): Votes provide the feedback and let you understand the requirement of users. Votes are a kind of positive feedback by the visitor for your website. You may allow the visitors to vote and share using Digg this, Sphinn it, Folkd it and many more.
- Forums & blogs: Forum and blogs have made the publication of content much easier. To keep up your visitors more engaged to your website, its better to engage them with a forum or blog integrated with or for your website.
These widgets have helped my website to reach large number of visitor's world wide and the feedbacks from the readers helped me to improve my site and make it more users friendly!
About the Author
Social Media Guide suggests that, your website must be ready for SEO and Social Media together. If you running a Business website, Social media branding is always an important Factor which affects you. For More SEO Newscial media Updates, Visit SEO-SMO.NET
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