Which Social Networks do you use the most for getting traffic to your Blog?

I have found the best results I get come from Mom Blog Society and Twitter. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Permalink Reply by Brae on September 23, 2011 at 10:24am

Twitter's not working for me a lot yet...but that is probably because i have like 5 followers. LOL. On my other blog I had awhile back, I got a lot of results from BlogFrog. (www.blogfrog.com ) I do have a new account there, but I haven't cultivated it. So, it's not doing much for me right now either. The problem with Blog Frog is that it's literally an online chat board/forum and you have to spend a lot of time talking with other women and commenting on their topics for it to make a difference. It's great, and I have made some good friends that way- but if you don't have all day to sit around and chat, it really sucks the time out of the day.

Some good networking sites in addition to MBS:

www.mombloggersclub.com

bloggymoms.com

blogher.com

topmommyblogs.com

sits.com

and you can do blog voting sites like

wereonthefence.com

topmommyblogs.com

Permalink Reply by Nicole Hughes on September 28, 2011 at 11:03pm

I will definitely be checking out all of those sites! I'm new to blogging and I have a few followers, mostly from Cafemom.com and a few from using LinkReferral.

Permalink Reply by Debra Ann Gray-Elliott on October 1, 2011 at 8:55am

Most of my blog traffic comes from FB, twitter, Writer's Digest group, SheWrites, BlogFrog, Ruby for Women group.

Permalink Reply by Pamela Maynard on October 1, 2011 at 9:08am

My traffic comes from FB, Twitter, BLog hops, Blogging Mastermind group on FB, Networked blogs and here! And Google plus and Linkedin. My blog is also listed on Parenting NH's website.

Permalink Reply by Nicole Hughes on October 1, 2011 at 11:40am

I joined bloggy moms and tried to join the mom bloggers club but I never got an email back from them. I think maybe I haven't been consistently posting long enough.

Permalink Reply by Lara Kimbrell on October 1, 2011 at 5:59pm

In addition to the great ideas above, I get lots of traffic from my posts in my LinkedIn groups. I write childrens book, food blog, green blog, and have a home business so I get traffic from groups related to those.

Permalink Reply by Nicole Hughes on October 1, 2011 at 6:12pm

Edit... I must have just missed it. I found an email from the buried this afternoon. So I've been checking it out, but I still like it here better

Nicole Hughes said:

I joined bloggy moms and tried to join the mom bloggers club but I never got an email back from them. I think maybe I haven't been consistently posting long enough.

Permalink Reply by becky flansburg on October 3, 2011 at 7:25am

Society's like Mom Blogger and even Blog Frog are great sources for traffic. Facebook and Twitter work great for me and never underestimate the power of guest posting! :)

Permalink Reply by LaDonna on October 3, 2011 at 8:13am

I've used BlogFrog before and just like Brae, I felt I had to spend a ton of time there for little results. It seems that they are mostly concerned with getting rather than giving. At least that has been my experience. And that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid here on MBS. You have to give if you want to receive and that in itself will bring success.

Permalink Reply by Nicole Hughes on October 3, 2011 at 10:33am

That's what I love so much about being here! Everywhere else people are just pitching their thing and leaving.

Mom Blog Society said:

I've used BlogFrog before and just like Brae, I felt I had to spend a ton of time there for little results. It seems that they are mostly concerned with getting rather than giving. At least that has been my experience. And that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid here on MBS. You have to give if you want to receive and that in itself will bring success.

Permalink Reply by Wendy Wright on October 3, 2011 at 6:47pm

I use a variety because each person is different in how they approach the social network. For instance, with Twitter on May 17th I tweeted "Twitter is still a foreign language to me. If I tweet and it is retweeted, how do I find out where it is retweeted or who did the tweeting?" I was a newbie and I didn't really like Twitter. Now...totally different story...BUT...Many people do not like Twitter so if I just ignored Facebook I would leave a huge group of people out of the loop. I integrated my Twitter feed on Facebook as a way to combine the two. Facebook still drives more traffic to my blog posts, probably because the picture of the post is included where it is not on Twitter.

I also get hits from my other site, Arizona Moms Network. Blog Frog has some and I just left Networked Blogs.

Permalink Reply by Elly Filho on October 5, 2011 at 12:38pm