Facebook is a large source of traffic, with over 1 billion active users, it’s like a swarm of traffic, and the only way we can benefit from it is if we know how to tap it. But for bloggers, having only Facebook as the source of traffic is not enough as tapping traffic from Facebook is somewhat difficult and won’t yield much result if not done correctly.
However, if you have a combination of traffic from Facebook and search engines then be ready to experience a blast of traffic to your blog. In this article, I will be explaining how the traffic varies when using only Facebook and when using Facebook along with search to fetch a good amount of traffic to your blog posts.
Blog Traffic from only Facebook
We often think that getting traffic from Facebook is easier than doing all those search engine optimizations, as we just need to share one link and boom, our blog gets hit by a swarm of traffic. But that’s true only in rare cases and only if you have a good number of followers.
Attract more people to like
Facebook can fetch many readers, if you have a good number of following or liking your page on Facebook, and only if you make them feel interested enough to leave the addictive environment of Facebook and read your post.
If you want to get a lot of visits to your blog from Facebook then you should better start by getting some Facebook likes to your blog page, so as to build an audience for your blog on Facebook, who will actually read your posted content.
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Be Social
Despite of getting all these traffic from Facebook, it still has a limit, as Facebook is a place where people tend to be social. People do not go to Facebook to seek news or articles, so there lies a good chance that people will visits your shared link on Facebook, but still you won’t be seeing a huge bump in traffic.
Moreover, on Facebook, you will need to keep promoting your stuffs in order to attain maximum reach, but in the other case, which is SEO, if your blog is ranked good by Google or any other search engine, then you can get a lot of traffic to your posts without promoting them individually.
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Blog Traffic from Facebook + Google
Since we have discussed how Facebook can help in bringing you new readers, now its time to see the magic of Google as well. With Google your limit to the traffic takes a new level, and you can almost have infinite traffic to your site if you can use Google efficiently. However, that is a very tedious job, so focusing now for getting a decent amount of traffic, Google can help much better than Facebook.
Learn the Things
Here also, it’s better not to focus on a single source of traffic, as Google can provide you with a ton of traffic, as people go to Google for searching information, pages that they need to read or see, so here lies a very good chance that your page will be seen by many, if it ranks well in Google.
Still having a single source of traffic sets a limit, and having multiple sources of traffic extends that limit. In addition, thanks to the various Panda and Penguin updates in Google’s search algorithm, Google also relies on social media, like Facebook to rank pages in its search results pages known as SERPs.
Therefore, that means, a blog that has no influence on social media like Facebook, is likely to be ranked below a blog that has a good influence on social media. So if you can make your blog popular on Facebook, or tend to have a good social signal from Facebook, then your blog will automatically tend to rank higher in Google SERPs.
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It is always recommended by Google team, that a site should establish its presence on the social media, to rank well in Google search results. Now I assume that you have understood that utilizing Facebook and Google both can be a good recipe for getting a large amount of traffic to your blog.
Solution
So, don’t go for a single source, always establish your presence both in the search world and the social world, as that way your site will be considered much more valuable and deserving by the search and social media giants, and will ultimately make your blog much more popular than what it is today.
This brings me to the end of the article and I hope that you have enjoyed reading this article and found it interesting and useful for your blogging career. If you focus on these points then I am sure you will be having a good and popular blog.
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About Rahul Chowdhury
Kulwant Nagi is a 25 years old Full-Time Blogger from Haryana, India. He Loves to write about SEO, WordPress and Blogging. Blogging Cage is a webmasters blog where you will learn blogging and SEO Tips. 
Nice post social network and search engines combination is the perfect recipe for good traffic. These things alone can’t give results that you want from them. You are 100% right. Thanks for the share
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Thanks for your appreciation Ritu, and yes that’s why we need to focus on both social media and search traffic.
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Thanks for the post and the good news is that I am using an advanced recipe than you have stated here. I am using
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Twitter+Facebook+Google+Bing=More than a Perfect recipe for BLOG TRAFFIC.
Good POST.
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Yes Anurag that’s a better recipe, actually I have mentioned only Facebook here because it holds the largest share in the social media. Thanks for your suggestion mate.
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Though for now, social is not major aspect to rank in search engines (it does affect rankings, but to small extent), in near future we can expect majority of rankings on social networks.
FB and G+ are really have big share in getting more social reaction for your online business.
Again it all depends on the niche, yes, you need to try with all major social networks and see where you can get much people interacting about your niche.
~@Khajamoin1
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Well, recently social signals have become an important part of SEO, and you can observe that if you have greater social engagements on your posts then your posts tend to rank higher in SERPs. And you are right about the niche, everything is based on the niche.
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Hello Rahul,
Well I do feel the same like you. Social media and Google definitely creates a good combination these days. So, these methods simply cannot be neglected. Getting social traffic from Facebook is definitely possible but you needs to upgrade your social media account with related posts only. Then that is very effective. Thanks for the share!! I really like going through your informative post!!
Yes Aditi you can tap traffic from Facebook as well, but for that you need to have a strong follower base, building which requires a lot of hard work and time or a lot of investments.
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thanks for sharing this post. facebook and google help great to get traffic to the blog posts. really nice points. a useful post.
Thanks for your appreciation mate.
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Hey Rahul !
Very interesting article. you have shared a nice combination of facebook and google. I actually enjoyed this article. there are lots of things to learn from this post.
Thanks.
Matt
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Glad to know that you found it useful Matt, hope this will help you out.
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Now google + has started a new option as “Communities” so we can pull more traffic same as we do on Facebook “Groups”
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Yes I have seen that too Ravi, and that surely gives a lot more opportunities to Bloggers to obtain traffic from Google+, thanks for your suggestion mate.
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Rahul, great explanation about Social stuff, but i think Facebook +Twitter+ Google is perfect recipe. yes, Twitter loss some traffic compare to last few months, but i’m sure , twitter work with realtime traffic. I use twitter,when they are with google search real time. great result. Anyway, you explained very well about Social stuff.
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Yes Pallavi, Twitter is another excellent source of traffic, but in this article I chose to keep only Facebook. I will surely include a point about Twitter and Google+ on my next article. Thanks for your suggestion.
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You are right here Rahul, i think posting in facebook groups and sharing posts on own profile is very useful to get traffic and yes probable google rocks while we talk about organic traffic. Thanks for Sharing.
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Yup Jatin, posting links on your own profile matters when you have a lot of friends who have an interest in the topics that you post, and Google is always the king of organic traffic.
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Now a days if we can comprision between google and facebook then it is very difficult for us to decide that wich one is more use .
because facebook have a 1 billion active user and most of people use facebook for searching rather then google search engine.
Now a days everyone want to make his/her account or profile on facebook. Day by day user of facebook is increasing.
within some days facebook become a most papular application.
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I am sorry I didn’t get your point. Could you please explain how people “use Facebook for searching” than Google?
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Hi Rahul Chowdhury
Awesome post social network and search engines combination is the better recipe for huge traffic.Nice post
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Thanks for your suggestion mate.
Really a unique blog post, Rahul.
Attracting readers from facebook has always been a different strategy. It all depends on how creatively you tell and how strong your network is. Anyways, that’s a great read.
~Cheers
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Yup you are right there, it does depend on how creatively you share your posts on Facebook.
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Hello Dear
what a great point to discuses with me really its very useful and interesting article and i think you are right social media one of the great way for blog promotions and facebook is great place really thanks for the sharing me
Glad to know that you found the article helpful Sarika.
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HI Rahul, Kulwant
Nice Post!
Ulimately it boils down to building relationships. Starting Blocks of building Strong relationship is Friends on Social Media.
Kumar
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Yup that’s a point, building good relationship on social network with your followers is essential.
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Let me share a learning – To get blog traffic from Facebook, the title of the post should be so powerful, that users would be convinced that the post will add value to them. Then only would they leave the Facebook world, click on your blog’s shared URL on the wall & read it. Don’t I make sense? I do, I guess! : )
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Yes Jane, that’s a good point, thanks for sharing it. I totally agree with you on that, a catchy title is really essential when sharing any article on Facebook.
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Thanks for sharing! I am focusing on networking and trying to make my blog more socially friendly, although it is quite challenging sometimes. Combined with a mobile adaptable theme, I think it could bring great results.
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Yes mobile themes help, but didn’t get the fact that how it can help to make your blog more social. Would you elaborate Dragos?
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Really Facebook give many visitors for blog. Even in my case, I have used Facebook as an alternative of Google Adwords.
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You used Facebook ads, as an alternative to Google Adwords? How was the experience? Do share it with us, would like to know about it.
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Hi
Facebook is an essential tool as I looked at a google search this morning I noticed quite a few Facebook pages ranking on their own right so that is a big plus for your site to be connected to
Great tips thanks lee
Well that’s a very good news Lee, and I think that Facebook really has the potential to send swarms of genuine and targeted traffic to your site if you know how to use it, I think even Kulwant Nagi will agree to this.
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Facebook is goldmine of traffic. Bit for getting traffic you will be become a well known authority and help people. My 70% traffic is from Facebook.
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I disagree. I personally find Twitter to be of help more. Facebook is just a place where people chat blah blah. But Twitter is the actual king which drives real time traffic.
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Well my friend, I think you don’t have the idea of what Facebook can do. You just need to harness it properly, by making use of images on your Facebook shares and attractive titles, and you can see Facebook casting its charm.
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Well mate, ask any pro.
How can you say that being dependent on two sources of traffic will be the “perfect” recipe?
Sure saying that? Then if that’s already perfect, there’s no sense people using StumbleUpon, Twitter, Feedburner, etc. etc. coz when you’re already perfect at something, why would you need to add more value as a perfectionist yourself? Ironically nothing is perfect in this world, buddy. Driving Traffic has deep aspects. There aren’t two; there’re many, some sources such that a rare fraction of people are known to it.
Hope I’m apt at my point.
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Facebook is the nice medium for finding new readers for our blog. And yes Google plus is also a good choice. It is good but not as good as Facebook.
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