Will buying Twitter followers or Facebook Fans increase traffic to my website?
A common question we get asked nearly every day is “will buying Twitter followers or Facebook Fans increase traffic to my website?”. This is sometimes a hard question to answer and is dependant on a number of factors. We need to know what you are trying to to say/sell. How are you using your Twitter accounts or Facebook Page? Are you using original content? Are your profile/ Page set up correctly? The potential is certainly there for your Twitter accounts and Facebook Pages to help increase website traffic and having your profiles and pages set up correctly is a good place to start.
You need to ensure that you are displaying your website addresses clearly in either your Twitter profile of Facebook Page. Using common branding across all platforms will ensure familiarity for your potential readers/ clients. Insert links in your Twitter or Facebook feeds to articles or products you are displaying on your web site. Make the content surrounding the links interesting and try to be original on each of the platforms. Don’t just connect your Twitter or Facebook accounts to your blog feeds through automation and use the exact same wording as you do on your website. Remember, each platform is a chance to engage with potential customers/ readers in different ways. Twitter needs to be short and sweet and to the point. With only 140 characters available per tweet for Twitter including links, it is important to try and be very direct. Facebook tends to be more focused and targeted readers and much more of a personal feeling to the community. More in depth discussions take place within the Facebook Pages, and due to the less anonymous nature of Facebook topics are approached differently than on Twitter.
So, buying Twitter followers or Facebook fans can definitely increase the potential for more website traffic referrals. Buy, ultimately it is up to you as the Twitter or Facebook user to engage your audience and use each platform to their full potential. The more followers or fans you have or the more people who read your messages, the more potential there is that someone interested in your messages will read them.