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A Quick Guide to Social Media Traffic

By James Reichert

It’s no secret that Facebook is the top social media platform for driving website traffic. In fact, a recent study by Parse.ly analyzed 400 major media outlets and determined that Facebook now accounts for more traffic to news sites than Google. Is this surprising? Not really. Social media allows brands to consistently connect fans and potential consumers with rich content. Driving fans from borrowed traffic sources (social media platforms) to an owned traffic source (your brand’s website) enables fans and followers to familiarize themselves with your brand and assists them down the sales funnel.

A Shareaholic report found that social media currently drives over thirty percent of all referral traffic on the Internet. But how does each network stack up? Let’s take a closer look.

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