Social media guidance

Design, content and SEO have always been at the core of any company’s web presence. However, it wasn’t until recently that social media marketing become a major source of traffic, especially for small businesses. While search engines have always leaned towards larger, more reputable brands with deeper pockets and teams of PR specialists and SEOs, social media has helped to level the playing field for small businesses.

What this means is that small businesses can be just as effective in their social media marketing as larger competitors. Whether you start your own blog or have us add a bespoke blog to your website, with the right content, message, image, hashtags and posting times, any blog has the potential to go viral.

Do-it-yourself bloggers and businesses writing a blog can gain advice on how to execute a killer social media marketing strategy, by taking a look at this incredibly useful social media marketing guide from StartABlog123.com.

StartABlog123.com have detailed everything you need to know about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest, including statistics by platform, best and worst times and days to update your accounts, the ideal number of updates per day, hashtag usage, engagement stats and image sizes for each site – all in an easy-to-read infographic.

Just beware that these figures are based on averages and case studies – your individual results may differ due to niche and/or readership. As always, use this infographic as a guide but test your own social media strategy to see what works best for your blog.

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