I think you will agree when I say: driving traffic to your WordPress website is a tough nut to crack, especially as a beginner.
Where do you start? What traffic generation methods are good for newbies? And, do you really need to spend a load of money to drive traffic to your site?
Things become tricky because you don’t understand the nuances of SEO, link building, paid ads, and other advanced methods of generating traffic for your shiny new site.
Not to worry, however, because – in today’s post – you will learn how to drive free traffic from social networking sites simply by sharing your WordPress posts.
A couple of years ago, social media marketing was just a fad. Today, it’s one of the best ways of driving lots of traffic to your site.
Social Share Stats to Drive the Point Home
- Facebook has 2.89 billion monthly active users as of the second quarter of 2021, making it the most popular social media network. “Monthly active users” means the number of people who have used Facebook in the last 30 days.
- Twitter had over 330 million monthly active users as of the first quarter of 2019.
I could add other social networks but you probably get the point already. No matter how you look at it, social networking sites offer you a lot of exposure. If you play your cards right, you can have a piece of the action and drive a lot of traffic to your site. Freely.
Today, I show you how to automatically share every WordPress post you publish to social media.
Why might you want to?
- Sharing your posts manually is time-consuming, terribly tiring, and boring.
- Additionally, you might forget to share your awesome posts (the posts that have the potential to send lots of your traffic your way), especially if you have other business tasks to handle.
- It’s incredibly easy to implement you don’t need a developer to hold your hand.
With that preamble, let us discover how to share WordPress posts to social media sites automatically. Before that, why bother sharing your posts to social networking sites, to begin with?
Why Share WordPress Posts to Social Media Sites Automatically?
Is it not rather obvious? Why would you or anyone leave social media out of their marketing strategy? You spend a lot of time on social media, and so does your target audience.
Social networking sites offer you the golden chance to meet your target audience where they hang out. When you’re starting, nobody knows you or your beautiful website.
Sharing your WordPress posts on social media sites puts your brand and content in front of the people who are looking for what you’re offering.
Here is how you benefit by sharing your beautiful content on social media.
More Traffic
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This article was written by Freddy and originally published on WPExplorer.