TRAFFIC
most social media sites can act like feeds
which followers either get via email, or
on their Facebook wall (for example). All
of these social media networks can rank
within Google’s search engine, and these
sites are also search engines themselves.
The relevant platforms the site is focusing
on are Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter,
YouTube and Pinterest. Receiving emails
is probably the best bet, but this isn’t the
safest means of acquiring followers as
emails can end up in spam filters. When
you add this all up, social media should
be a good source of new traffic and return
visitors. For a three-month period on the
original site, social media represented one
percent of the traffic and 16.5 percent of
traffic was from referrals. The new site
has six percent social media traffic and 16
percent referral traffic. This is
despite barely making an effort with social
media for the new site, as many campaigns
are still to come, especially for
Pinterest and YouTube.
However, today it is becoming too difficult
to have anonymous content and authors.
Some webmasters are either creating fake
Google Plus profiles or making them
somewhat anonymous by using an alias,
cartoon pictures and eve