One is that when you create a profile, article, link, tag, or other content people can see it.  If interest is sparked they will visit your website.  Thats called “organic” traffic.  They then become fans, subscribers and customers.

The second reason social media is good is.  Whenever you build a website in a social media environment and you add content that links back to your blog, the search engines see that link.  The more the search engines see those links to your blog, the higher your blog will be ranked and the higher they will be in the listings.  The more backlinks, as they are called, the better.

Now there is a proper way to link…thats with clickable links.  http://ScottThrall.com is a clickable link. 

But we can do one better and make it Social Media. 

Why is this better?  You get credit for the link to your blog, BUT you also get credit for the keyword or “tag”  Social Media as well.  So you get two for the price of one.

So when you go around “tagging” on social media sites remember to make it clickable and use a good keyword/s. 

Thats it for today, there is alot more to Social Media and driving traffic to your blog with it…but we will cover more another day.