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Top websites for increased traffic this month:

Below are the top 5 websites ranked by traffic growth compared to last month. These are all websites created, managed and hosted by sparticle limited. When we build websites, whethere they are 5 pages or 500 pages we always make sure they are SEO optimised and the modules we have such as the Spartpress blog/news tool are key to driving traffic.

• Spartmedia.co.uk - up by 85%
• corza.net - up by 56%
• gbcharityevents.co.uk - up by 54%
• provocativechangeworks.com - up by 44%
• edinburghbioquarter.com - up by 18%

Using blogs to increase traffic - Social Media Marketing

When we look at the analytics for spartmedia.co.uk shown in the diagram, we see that the top five traffic sources include twitter, facebook and youtube. This is a compelling example of how easy it is to drive traffic to your site when you've got the right tools, like Spartpress, and understand effective Social Media Marketing strategies.

Social Media Marketing Strategy

Here is a very simple strategy that will drive more traffic to your site.

1. Once you've got the spartpress blog tool in your site, which is very easy to get and easy to use...
2. Write a relevant, interesting and most importantly engaging short article/blog post
3. Link to the article on your website from facebook, linkedIn, twitter etc.

It's that simple! and the more you do it the more momentum your site and marketing get.

Learn how to get more business using Social Media Marketing

Over the last few years I've run a number of training courses specifically for businesses to help them leverage the power of facebook, twitter, linkedIn, youTube and other social networking sites. The next session I will be co-presenting is a morning training session on the 15th of June in Medway (more details to follow). So feel free to get in contact to find out more and watch this space for the official press release for this event.