What Every Website Needs: Part 3: Social Media
In this five part series of blogs, we’re going to talk about what your website needs. There is a lot more than five things that your website needs, but we’ll talk about five to get you started. These things will help elevate your website from just a placeholder and a business expense to a useful and productive part of your business that well help you GENERATE income.
3. Social Media
Social media can be a huge time suck. But the truth is – your social media platforms might actually have better SEO than your own website!
Make sure to get links to all your social media profiles on your own website. This allows your customers to easily connect to a platform that makes it even EASIER for you to market to them.
ALSO – make sure you have a “like” or “share” button – so that with one click – website visitors can share your blog posts or your page. (It helps if while you are blogging – you give them the kind of content that they would WANT to share.)
November 17, 2014 @ 2:19 pm
As somebody with very little knowledge about working the internet, I’m very glad to have found this series as it is easy to understand. Thanks for the helpful posts.
November 17, 2014 @ 2:25 pm
Thanks Colleen! I have a LOT more stuff like this that I think will help if you read through my posts!
I appreciating you checking out the blog!
November 18, 2014 @ 12:10 pm
Yes, I agree with this 100%. Thank you for putting this series up! Great stuff.
November 18, 2014 @ 12:42 pm
Saying that social media is a time suck is such an understatement, but it’s true that it’s value can’t be underestimated.
November 21, 2014 @ 9:44 am
Josh, Good stuff. I’m looking forward to the rest of the series. Lately I’ve felt like social media is consuming my life. I’m trying to get a good system for maximizing results from the least amount of time on FB and Twitter.
November 21, 2014 @ 9:59 am
Bradley – I can relate. We’ve got to limit our social media time – and I’m not always that good at it! I’m a bit of an addict. But I’ve found that if I spend concentrated time working AHEAD on my social media posts (particular for business) than I can set it – let it do it’s thing – and then any other time I spend on social media is for fun, and I can’t justify it as “work” … so at least in my mind it’s easier to limit.
I’m working on BLOG CAMP 2015 (http://www.hatchermedia.net/blog-camp-2015 ) for January – and I intend on creating a Premium Social Media Camp as well, where I’ll be putting together my secrets for social media planning and scheduling.