5 proven methods to Drive Traffic to Your Blog from Facebook

Web-blog Traffic is the most important factor which decides the period of time that your blog survives on the internet. Whatever the niche you select, whatever the quality of articles you publish, without readers, all your efforts goes in vain.

If you have an online store, you know the importance of blog traffic and conversion rates. As a marketer, you should create web-traffic.

Facebook is a very good source of traffic and it can increase readership for your blog drastically. Here are the 11 proven methods that are actionable and creative methods that can increase blog traffic consistently.

1. Your images should be large enough:

As you know Facebook has survives this much with sharing of images only. Then why you hesitate to share a post with images. According to Facebook survey, those who share articles from a blog which includes images have high chances of clicking. Trust me you will get more than 150% of traffic from Facebook when your articles have descent featured images. Upload the appealing images with the original size to create a full sized image Facebook post.

2. Shorten links:

Always use shorten links while sharing your article in social media. Use bit.ly or Google URL Shortener to shorten your links. Because a complete web page link might look awkward because It looks very lengthy. No one wants to click a lengthy link. Short and sweet links are always clickable in social media. If you want to keep your post text looking cleaner then you should use URL shortener.

3. Your update should be short and sweet:

Your blog article might be consists of 1000 words or some articles might be more. But your headline or the post title should be limited to 50 to 60 characters. In social media, nobody wants to read a story in the headline itself. It looks unpleasant. Make your updates short, witty and focus on the niche topic you want to share with the audience. Don’t reveal the entire subject in the headline itself. Audience should have some excitement to know what’s going on your blog. those short and sweet updates gets the most clicks. Make sure your update is just one sentence.

Many of the visits (up to 65%) to Facebook is from mobile users only. So mobile users are the key source of traffic from Facebook. Creating text that is like a story definitely disappoints audience. Your click rate downfalls. Your update should be like a teaser.

4. Ask Questions your audience:

Questioning definitely invokes a response from the audience.
Ask questions on various topics that your niche involved in. Your fans might have not known solution to many of your questions, so there is chance of getting solution by clicking your article link. It’s a pure source of web-traffic. Most importantly, your solutions should satisfy the audience. Place review plugin at the end of every post so that your visitors can rate your answer. From rating you get 2 benefits. You will know how much your answer is fit and you will know how much amount you have to improve to write a quality article.

There are many forms of questions you can ask like fill-in-the-blanks, trivia, personal views, etc. Try some problem-solving types of forms to engage your blog more time with your readers.

5. Make use of short Quotes:

Whatever the story you tell your audience, at the end they search for the summary and a final word. Those are simply represented by a quote. Including an intrinsic quote never defame any article. If a visitor gets impressed with your quote, there are high chances of getting clicks.

Guest article written by: Maya is IT Girl, content writer for 99techpost.com and Digital marketing specialist since 4 year, she always like to write on tech topic. She spent most of her career as Guest Blogger and Digital marking expert.

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