There’s a mistake many of us make in trying to drive traffic to our blogs and websites. We spam. We’re not trying to. We may not even think we’re doing it, but it happens. If you’re someone who feels blog comments, Twitter, Facebook and other social networks are only for posting links, you’re guilty of spamming.
Here’s the thing:
Using social media tools absolutely works. You can build up some good traffic using Twitter and blogs if you do it right. Build up relationships first. Join in the conversation. Participate in other communities. This way, when you occasionally share a link no one will think you’re an annoyance.
Spamming on Twitter is probably my biggest mistake, one that I hope I nipped in the bud. Though I do spend plenty of time with the chit chat, I tweet a lot of links. I didn’t realize it until I looked at my timeline one day and saw a list of links and nothing else. No one likes spam.If I don’t want a lot of links littering my Tweetdeck, why would I want to do this to someone else?
Are you guilty?
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Great tip. I know that I am guilty of this with my twitter account but with Facebook I have a lot more relationships so I find that when I do post a link to an article I’m likely to get more feedback on facebook than twitter. This is definitley something I am going to try to work on.
Hi Aja, welcome!
I always have to check myself on Twitter. I want to tweet links all the time but I’m afraid I’m going to scare away my friends.
Thanks for weighing in!
I agree. Sometimes “spam” from friends become things of interest when I’m bored. I don’t mind if someone I added as a network friend posts links. I’ll click on them when I’m brainstorming online for ideas or bored. However, I have on occasion deleted and removed networking friends when I don’t know them and receive too many things that I really don’t care about. I guess it depends on the topics, too.