The Instagram Advantage

Instagram is among the most popular of social media networking websites. It brings people together and allows them to share their lives through pictures. But how useful can Instagram be at driving traffic to your site?

Though this may not be the traditional route to getting new visitors, it can certainly be done. Let's discuss a few tips on how you can use this social media site to improve your online visibility.

Use Watermarking Strategically

We typically think of watermarking as a way to prevent digital images from being stolen. However, it can also be used as a form of internet marketing by inserting your web address as the mark. It's important that this mark is dark enough to be noticeable, but transparent enough so that it won't intrude upon the image.

Use Creative Captioning

There is no better way to drive to your website than an excellent caption. Provide a link to your website and interesting description to go along with it. However, you should be careful when using this method. If the link is not relative to the image it could be viewed as spam and inevitably do more harm than good.

Set Up a Facebook Fan Page for Your Customers and Prospects to Gather

A Facebook fan page is like having a Facebook profile dedicated to your business. While you could make a profile for your business, Facebook will likely flag it and remove the profile, leaving your customers and prospects without a way to connect with your brand on Facebook.  Instead of a profile, you want a fan page for your business. Fan pages are a way for your customers and prospects to identify with you and associate who you are with your brand as well as share the page with others.

41 Fabulous Social Media Tips

41 Fabulous Social Media Tips

1. What’s your social media goal? If you don’t know where you want to go, it’s pretty hard to get there. 
2. Promote your most popular posts – and that goes for blog posts as well as social media posts.
3. If you hate tracking, at least track with Facebook Insights. It’ll show you a lot about your Page progress. 

Awesome Ways to do Affiliate Marketing without a Website

Although using a website is the most common way to do affiliate marketing, it can be done effectively without a website, at least in the beginning.  It is important to keep in mind that the goal is to get your merchant’s website out there for potential visitors and customers, and this can be done without a website with a bit of creativity.  Here are just a few ways to do that:

Boost Your Visibility With Facebook

Many businesses are now taking full benefit of Facebook’s cover page and timeline features.  It can be said for certain that there is more opportunity there to drive more traffic to your website than ever before.  Shift your Facebook practice of doing your regular status updates, and try using some of these tips to give your page a boost in both traffic and image.