For the last few years the social media sites have been continuing to become bigger. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube proved how they can effect the people and the way the world goes!? and the biggest example for this is Egypt revolution, but before you start readying I want to let you know that I’m a big fan of Google and I’m writing this article because there are a lot of people who aren’t using social media sites to generate traffic and I really want to prove how big social media for generating traffic.
This is my rule: ( Facebook + twitter + Youtube > Google ).
what i really want to deliver by this rule is that the traffic we can generate from the social media sites combined can be bigger than the search engines sites traffic, especially Google. Moreover, back to Alexa.com we can know that 7.63% of the people who visit google They were in Facebook, Twitter or Youtube. In addition, 7.06% of the people who quite from Google they go to Facebook, Twitter or Yourtube. Furthermore, 2 of the first 3 biggest world sites are Social Media sites, so a lot of traffic is waiting for you 
Here is my best 3 social media sites:
600 million active users representing this site from all over the world, back to Alexa.com Facebook comes 2nd after Google for the biggest sites in the world. In Facebook you can share links, text, photos or videos with your friends or fans. What’s more, this flexibilities to choose the way you want to deliver your message can make everything easy for you to generate traffic to your blog or your article.
Twitter:
190 million active users representing Twitter from all over the world, back to Alexa.com twitter comes 9th from the biggest world sites. Twitter is a micro-blogging tool that allow you share a text message with a 140 characters as a maximum length. What is awesome about twitter that you can follow people who are within your city and the awesome ability for their search engine, we all know Google has robots that work for them while twitter search has 190 million users typing and updating. For example, if you type Ice cream in twitter search, you will find a lot of results that people from your city have written.
Youtube:
If you are good in front of the camera, you should be fine using Youtube. Video marketing has proved the awesome result that can generate to the marketers. Of course the effect of the videos in people mind is really big, video is one of the best ways to increase your sales and traffic, as you have the ability to talk to people and this can walk you through to people trust.
If you know how to use those 3 social media sites you will see an awesome result coming to your blog or your business, for me I’m getting a visitors only from Twitter more than Google. I may not good in SEO but believe me social media is easier than a piece of cake. Finally we conclude that social media is as important as SEO.
Now do you use any other social media sites that help you generate a lot of visitors or having an experience with social media? may you please share it with us by writing a comment?!
Could you actually explain just how we can use social media to generate real traffic, I don’t just mean come and see my site traffic, I mean people who are visting with an intent to use your services
jimmycook recently posted..BA Cabin Crew Ballot to Strike
Twitter: faissalhaithami
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Hi, let me tell you something important! when you use social media you use it to promote your self, and not your products
so what you need to do is promoting your self and do what we called “self branding” ! when you started getting attention from your followers then you will have the abilities to promote your products.
but i don’t recommend promoting products using social media as the followers don’t like it! but you can use social media to increase your traffic and get more leads then you can promote to your leads
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Ok I see what you mean with self promotion, keep the products on the downlow, I will give it a go and see how it works.
jimmycook recently posted..BA Cabin Crew Ballot to Strike
Twitter: faissalhaithami
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will be glad if you update me with the result! and don’t forget to give it a time
faissal alhaithami recently posted..8 tips before starting your Facebook advertising
hey man, i think as a small time blog, even promoting yourself using these mediums is pretty tough.. people wont even bother listening or clicking on your link:(
nickyong recently posted..Gogobeans
Twitter: faissalhaithami
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actually i have been using social media for about 3 months! I’m getting from only twitter more than 100 clicks a month for free! moreover, I’m a 4 months blogger ^,^
my advice to you is ” don’t wait for result, just go with it! promote your self then promote your self then promote your self ”
give people valuable contents and they will love you, I promise !
faissal alhaithami recently posted..8 tips before starting your Facebook advertising
Twitter: dotcosecrets
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Social media now is much effective than Google.
I will be more likely to buy a product when my friends recommend to me or share with me, than I see on the Google result page.
We can see the effect more quickly with social media marketing than Google.
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Twitter: faissalhaithami
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yeah that so true we can see a strong and fast result from social media!
thanks for your comment!
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Twitter: seotard
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Twitter is our preferred method of Social networking & marketing. I believe it has more effect on driving traffic to websites then say, Facebook.
Twitter: faissalhaithami
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awesome! not only you preferred it ! i preferred it too
and i guess alot more preferred twitter! thanks mate for your comment!
faissal alhaithami recently posted..8 tips before starting your Facebook advertising
Yea I am totally with you. Social media is here to stay. However, Google is still important! lol cos they are still the best in searches, even if social media is very updated, they may not be relevant.
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Twitter: faissalhaithami
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yep so true !! we as marketers must stick with every free method that brings traffic! for people who know about SEO google is the best place to get traffic ! but for people like me I guess we should stick more with social media and of course I welcome any traffic from google LoL^^
faissal alhaithami recently posted..8 tips before starting your Facebook advertising
personally I like to use reddit and stumbleupon – everyone knows about the 3 social media items you addressed
i would have liked to seen some sites that people might not know about
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Twitter: faissalhaithami
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great! agree with you! but may you let us know about the other social media sites?
faissal alhaithami recently posted..bloginteract come and interact with other bloggers
Twitter: sonnylanorias
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I agree that getting traffic from social media sites such as facebook, twitter and youtube are by far easier and more effective method especially if you’re just a beginner. The competition in Google is so harsh because if your goal is not to position on the top 3 for a keyword that you wanna rank, then you are just wasting your time and effort. Thanks again for this great post!
~Sonny
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Twitter: faissalhaithami
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so true! having result in social media is very fast compering to search engines. thanks a lot for your comment.
That so true, social media traffic so much easier than Google. and ofcourse if we use social media the right way it can be bigger than search engines.
Twitter: faissalhaithami
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thx nasser!
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Twitter: danielmason1
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I agree with some of the comments above. I understand that social media is a powerful tool for personal branding and for building your repoire online but for actual business purposes, it seems to only be useful in very specific, niche industries. Twitter, particularly, is a phenomenal tool for sharing your thoughts but it seems like the amount of people who actually use Twitter for getting information, as opposed to posting information, is really small.
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Twitter: JaredDetroit
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I find social media being a good complement to an Internet marketing plan but I don’t see it taking over for good Search Engine Marketing and SEO. It still comes down to where people look for products and services when they’re ready to buy. In almost all of my client’s cases, that’s Google. Younger crowds are using social media and they may click through to view a blog post or read something interesting but the conversion rate of those click-throughs is almost non-existent.
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