LinkedIn Traffic Tactics
This is a site used more for professional networking, but is a
good site that still allows not only other businesses to offer tips but to help
gain more traffic towards your business web pages. This can find like-minded
clients and potential business growth which means sales.
Many businesses find this site to be very useful as they gain and
share insight into like businesses, advertising, as well as exchanging
advice or direct questions and answers to assist each other. This is a site
that allows other businesses that share the same interest to be in groups
which many find very helpful by having that support available to them. It
also expands growth as well as potential profit by being involved on this site.
New member growth is approximately one new member every second of the day around the clock. Users span across more than 196
countries and territories, nearly half the members being in the United States.
But other countries are catching on and creating a rapid growth of this
media marketing traffic site. India is currently having the most rapid
growth at this time. LinkedIn, as of June, 2011, had a growth of membership
additions over 63 percent as compared to the previous year.
This site has many features to offer as well. The main feature is
called “Connections” and maintains a list of contact details of others
that you share like interests or relationships with.
One unique and rewarding feature discourages attempts of
potentially harmful contacts getting through to you. They count and put a cap
on the number of contact requests by some when they don’t provide their
recipient email address and the contact request is not accepted by the
member.
This discourages spammers and others that attempt to copy-cat or
find a way to gain profit from your business.
The Connections, or contact list, allows exponential growth of
others getting involved with the same interest and purpose that you have.
This social media trafficking network encourages your contacts to trust
and support each other with helpful business ideas, advice or someone
to ask questions to get answers from. They even offer discussion forums
that you can select to discuss current ideas, questions or dilemmas with
others that may be having the same issues.
It also has a “Gated-Access” which allows the general community to
ask questions about your business, make comments or help provide the information and feed-back that you are seeking at the time. Again,
this is ‘gated’ to prevent any potential harmful contacts but yet allows
you to gauge how the general public views your business and website.
LinkedIn does allow pictures and graphics to be posted, allowing
for better business identification. It spreads connections through your
contacts so others will keep passing it on encouraging your growth of marketing
traffic. It also has a “Poll” feature as well as a forum for sponsored
advertising called “DirectAds.” Again, the best feature for growth and people
finding your website is that it does allow links and applications to be
embedded to direct traffic to you. It is also ‘on the go’ like most people
these days and can be accessed by mobile electronics. Letting your business
travel with
your customers is always a good thing.
