12 Simple Steps to Explode Your Site Traffic Using Online Social Media

This article is a good one especially for the end of the year. Web site owners really need to get into the social media marketing mode for 2008. It's what web visitors expect.

Just two REALLY SIMPLE ways that are my favorites:

1. Set up a profile at Flickr and add photos of products, events, staff whatever you take pictures of for your business. People LOVE photos and if you take good ones, they'll follow your links back to your web site.
2. Add interactivity to your web site: let visitors vote on their favorite (whatever) on your web site. I just yesterday added a rating system to my web design portfolio. Allow visitors to write reviews of your products and services-and publish them on your site for all to see.

What these social things allow your visitors to do is feel like they are participating. Not everyone using the Internet wants to be isolated. We, as humans need to connect to each other and any site that shares of itself and allows its visitors to participate will come out ahead in 2008. The static site will soon be dead.

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