Here is, by far, one of the most common questions I get:

"I just started a new business. How do I get people to my site?"

Another great question from our community... because it's true --
the hardest part
about traffic building is getting to your first 1,000 visitors and
keeping the momentum
going after that.

Today you get your answer. If I started a new site, here's exactly
what I would do to get
my first 1,000 visitors:

The first thing to understand is there's an easy way and a hard way
to jump-start your
traffic.

In the old days, your only choice was to take the slow route: build
links to get search
rankings, grow your prominence on forums, and other things like
that. These were and
still are good, but they take time.

And I find that, when you're just starting, the key to keeping
motivated is to see quick
results. And today that is much easier because you've got sites
like Facebook and
Twitter with millions and MILLIONs of users on them every day.

(Plus, as an added bonus, it is easy to find people in your target
market on them, too.
Jackpot.)

So the easiest way to 1,000 visitors is by focusing time and energy
into building your
Twitter and Facebook profile.

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With Twitter do the following:
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1. After you create your profile start following other people and
companies in your
industry.

2. Perform keyword searches on Twitter for keywords related to what
you do. Also start
following 100 to 200 of those people each day.

3. Start tweeting about topics related to your industry (don't just
tweet about things
on your website).

4. You'll notice that after a few days 20 to 30% of the people you
follow will follow you
back. You can start manually unfollowing the people who don't
follow you back or if
you don't have the time you can use a service like Tweet Adder
which can do this for
you in an automated fashion.

5. Start participating on Twitter by tweeting at people in your
industry and retweeting
some of their tweets.

6. At this point you should have been on Twitter for more than 5
days and now you
can start tweeting about your company and content. Make sure you
aren't doing a
hard sell and that 80% of the time you are still tweeting about
stuff that isn't related to
your company.

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Now with Facebook you should:
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1. Friend thought leaders in your industry. Although a large
percentage of the people
will not accept your friend request, at least 10% of the thought
leaders should.

2. Start engaging with your audience by posting stuff on your wall.
The stuff shouldn't
be about your company, but more so about industry news and events
related to your
sector.

3. To create the most engagement post things that are short and
during times you
think your "target friends" are online.

4. Start commenting on your friends' wall and like messages that
you like within your
feed.

5. Start asking questions on your wall. These questions should be
related to your
industry. By asking questions you'll start to see more engagement
from your "target
friends".

6. After a week of engaging more heavily on Facebook you should
start seeing more
friend requests. Instead of turning away people you don't know,
accept them as they
could be a reader or your website or a potential customer of your
product/service.

7. At this point you should be posting information about your
company 30% of the time.
But, again, don't hard sell your product... only do soft pitches.

8. After you spend a month or so building up your Facebook and
Twitter presence it
shouldn't be hard to get at least a few thousand visitors to your
website just from these
2 traffic sources.

And that's all there is to it. It's not rocket science (anyone
telling you otherwise is trying
real hard to sell you something).

Building on that, the REAL key is to understand how social media
fits into your overall
traffic strategy.

Source: http://www.quicksprout.com/blog

Great tutorial. I use to get upto 500 visitors to my blog a day using just the twitter method with some of my own twists and I also used TweetAdder to automate all my things

Yesterday I showed how to get your first 1,000 visitors... a strategy that
leverages the incredible opportunities of Twitter and Facebook.

Today I want to show you how social media fits into your overall strategy for getting
traffic, links, and ultimately more customers.

This is exactly how I build both my personal and my companies' brands. As you'll
notice, social media is the center stone... but here's how it all fits together:

1. First I build presences on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and LinkedIn --
participate
in the community, add friends, and join the conversation.

(Refer back to the previous email on "Part 1" on how I do this.)

2. I link each of my profiles to my personal website to help build my personal
brand. At
the same time I link to my company from each profile, which helps it build more
traffic
and potentially acquire new customers.

3. On the social profiles I post on topics that make me seem like an authority
figure in
my space, which helps me land speaking gigs. These speaking gigs tend to convert very
well for customer acquisition for my company.

(Refer back to my email about the "3 Big Mistakes" for how to identify exactly what
your
readers / niche leaders are interested in.)

4. Every time I speak I tell people to follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and
LinkedIn, which helps me grow my audience.

5. As I start getting more of a following on these social sites I promote my
businesses
through there, which doesn't just build traffic, it also causes new people to discover
them and link to them from their blogs/websites.

6. Because my social media profiles are growing, I then hit up industry news websites
and blogs and ask them if I can guest post on their site. I also tell them how I will
promote the post through my social profiles, which helps get them more traffic. These
guest posts also bring in more customers as I include a bio in each guest post that
links
back to my company website.

7. Lastly, I constantly monitor who is saying what about my competition on these
social
websites. When I hear people complain I hit them up and tell them how my company can
solve their problems. This has helped me land big contracts with companies like HP and
Samsung.

Using the steps I mentioned above, not only am I increasing my traffic, but more
importantly I am acquiring new customers through social media.

The thing is, you can do this, too. This email shows how it all fits together, and
previous emails went in depth on most of these steps... like how to get started on
Facebook and Twitter (the same methods work on other social sites, too)...

... how to quickly identify article topics that your niche is guaranteed to like
(and then
how to promote that content)... how to "reprogram" your mind to stay motivated
through it all... and what to stop doing so you keep your time, energy and emotion
focused on this effective stuff while your competitors waste it on worthless,
conventional
tactics.

Sounds like you're in a pretty good spot.

PS -- Next up we answer the question on all our minds: How do you automate this stuff?

Source: http://www.quicksprout.com/blog

That's beautiful. Hope you are sharing with others.

huzaifaidris: Great tutorial. I use to get upto 500 visitors to my blog a day using just the twitter method with some of my own twists and I also used TweetAdder to automate all my things

Great contribution. These methods sure brings results but honestly, because they are FREE, they will take time. Lastly, I admire your courage to put up such guides. All the best.

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