16 Useful Social Media Backlinks for Massive Website Traffic

If you want to rank in search engines then backlinks building is pretty much essential.

All the backlinks which you acquire are important. Any website who is linking to your site is counted as a backlink. You can link to the sites who are holding high page ranks and authority. When such sites link back to your blog then it contributes more weight-age than a site having low page rank. So instead of gathering 50 links from Pr0, PR1 sites it is much more important to have 2 links from High page ranks as PR8 or PR9. 

Most of the social media sites are a great backlinks source. They hold high page ranks and definitely are authoritative websites. It is even easy to get backlinks from social media sites through posts and profile bio.

But how much value do social media backlinks have?

DO SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS IMPROVE YOUR SEARCH ENGINE RANKINGS?

When it comes to search engine’s rankings, Google has an ever-changing game of algorithm to determine the ranking factors. In 2014, Matt Cutt the former head of web spam Google stated:

Facebook and Twitter pages are treated like any other pages in our web index, and so if something occurs on Twitter or occurs on Facebook and we’re able to crawl it then we can return that in our search results.

But how exactly do search engines treat the social link signals? It is a highly debatable topic among SEO professionals. Though Matt Cutts gave us a clear answer that the Twitter, Facebook backlinks are not a part of the Search engine ranking algorithm. Let us take a dig at Bing Search Engine statement:

We take into consideration how often a link has been tweeted or re-tweeted, as well as the authority of the Twitter users that shared the link.

So Bing clearly stated that it takes the likes, shares, retweets, repins into account as potential ranking factors when it comes from popular and authorized users. This is for obvious reasons as anyone can create multiple accounts in social media and start sharing their own content. So, the authority of users is a vital point. Content which gets massively shared gather backlinks and engagement from users which affect the SEO.

It is 2019 and social media is so huge now that the social signals cannot be ignored.

Google may or may not use the social signals as ranking factors in the present scenario, but in near future, it will surely be considered for sure, as link these days are mainly achieved through sharing across social media. Whether it is StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Digg, Reddit, Facebook or others.

The domain authority of a site largely depends on the number of quality backlinks it has acquired. To get high-quality link backs you need high-quality sites pointing towards your web page. Social Media does the work very well in pointing backlinks towards your site & hence enhance the backlinks SEO.

Organic visitors will always be there as top contributors from search engines but social links cannot be ignored anymore when it comes to website traffic and participation and engagement of users.

SOCIAL SHARES AND WEBSITE TRAFFIC

In the present era when it comes to digital marketing then Social media plays a major converting factor. It is a giant. Social backlinks are very much important for website traffic. When we get a lot of shares and tweets for any particular post then it makes our link trustworthy as well as gives our site immense popularity.

SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES ITSELF RANK IN SEARCH ENGINES

Even if your search engines rankings are not influenced by social shares but your social profiles can definitely rank in search listings. For example: Searching for the term ‘birthday celebrations’

You can see that the very first result of a search engine is a Pinterest Profile. Now you can know the power of social media sharing.

WEBSITE TRAFFIC FROM SOCIAL MEDIA

Presenting data about referral traffic from social media account.

You can see Facebook and Pinterest social profiles directs a good number of website traffic for a given month. There are bloggers who drive millions of page views from their social accounts itself. Social media traffic can be huge if done correctly. Social media marketing is one of the hottest trends which have taken over.

HOW TO CREATE BACKLINKS MANUALLY FROM SOCIAL MEDIA SITES

These days there are so many social sites and you can grab a backlink from each one of them. The popular ones are StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Tumblr, WeChat, Instagram, Facebook, and the list will go on and you can add your website link in each of their Profile Bio’s. This post shows how to create backlinks from Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Pinterest.

GOOGLE BACKLINKS

Starting with Google’s own Google Backlinks. Google Backlinks? Sounds a lucrative offer. Isn’t it?

You can have multiple google backlinks by posting your site links in different communities. You can put your own website link by Creating a community and editing the community descriptions.

G+ works like other social media. Here you can join many other communities in your niche and post your and other bloggers work. Read the community guidelines before posting self-promoting links.

FACEBOOK BACKLINKS

The 2nd interesting social media backlink is from Facebook.

There is a myth about getting a Do follow backlink from Facebook. Study it to avoid misconception.

Let us check the other ways to get the link back to our sites from Facebook.

4 WAYS TO GET FACEBOOK BACKLINKS

Facebook gives ample places to put our website link. The simpler are:

a. YOUR PERSONAL PROFILE

When someone visits your profile connect them to your website. Go to your personal profile> About Tab> Contact and Basic Info

Add website link and make it public so that everyone can see it even if they are not in your friend list.

You can also add other social profiles in ‘social link’ as twitter, instagram, pinterest, tumblr and many more.

b. ADD A WORKPLACE

You can put your FB page in your personal profile as the current employer if you are a full-time blogger. This will also give a very good exposure of your site to the people in your friend list.

Your personal profile> About Tab> Add a workplace In the Company Name choose your Website Fan Page. You can also link back to your site in the description section.

c. THE FB PAGE

This is the most obvious one as an FB fan page will definitely link back to its original site.

Open your FB Page> Go to About section

Directly you can enter your website link here.

It will look like this after linking.

d. DESCRIPTION OF POSTS

While you post on your FB page, why not add a description linking back to your site. This practice you can do for each and every post related to your site. When we acquire many social links from likes and shares for a particular post, it helps in SEO indirectly. You will see many times that the search engine displays the social media profiles for particular search terms. It has a positive effect on SEO unintentionally.

TWITTER

Are you aware of the fact that Twitter is having a page rank 10? Yes, a PR 10. It is having a Domain authority of 100 which is the highest and Page authority of 97 with a Global Rank of 9.

So you can definitely figure it out that how much important a back-link from Twitter can be.

1. Go to your Twitter account.

5. Save Changes.

GET TWITTER BACKLINKS FOR SPECIFIC POSTS

You can tweet posts with a link to specific blog URL.

 

If you post some interesting or funny article in your niche then probably lot of people will re-tweet it. You can get a viral content and several backlinks from a single tweet. It also helps you to improve page authority for that particular post. Master the game of Twitter.

Not only for quality backlinks but Twitter can send you massive traffic in a single tweet if you have a good number of followers. In Twitter, while increasing followers and following other people just make sure you follow the right people who are interested in your niche else they will not be keen on your posts.

YOUTUBE

 

c. WEBSITE SECTION

In the above example, you can see that the post URL must be included in the website section too.

INSTAGRAM

Instagram is a very very popular photo sharing application with a domain and page authority of 98 and 90 respectively. A backlink from Instagram is definitely worth when it comes from a high PR quality website.

But there is a drawback in the Instagram backlink. Instagram does not allow you to have a backlink for every photos and video. Instead, you can always use your brand name in the description for making your brand name popular and ask your followers to click on your profile link to be directed to your website.

Get  the prominent Instagram backlink: Edit Profile

Finally, it will be a clickable link.

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WRAPPING UP

To get website traffic to your blog start working with 1-2 social media accounts, after acquiring the backlinks from all the social media sites.

Do not get crazy over driving traffic from 4-5 social accounts if you are the sole marketer for your blog. Concentrate on 1-2 profiles which can send you meaningful and quality traffic.

For organic traffic start thinking about link building seriously. To begin with, you can study the basics of SEO. Do not forget to check the On-Page SEO checklist which your competitors can say you about.

Backlinks seo are important but do not buy some spammy stuff or do some cheap link building in the hope of getting better search engine rankings. The low-quality links will affect your site negatively.

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