We all want more social shares, but creating    qualitycontent, hitting the submit button, and hoping for    the best just isnt enough. With over 1.3 billion users on    Facebook and another few hundred million spread across    LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, and other platforms, you simply    cant afford not to pay attentionsocial media.  
    Everyone talks about the importance of social media and    engaging with your audience, but only a very small percentage    of sites and brands are actually doing it right.  
    In this post I amgoing to take a look at seven different    examples of whats working right now when it comes    togettingyour audience to share more content on your site. After    reading this post, you should have the tools you need to    open theflood gates, potentially sending you thousands of    quality visitors for the amazing cost of nothing but your time    and expertise!  
    There are many different ways to build content of quality     but the most effective way is always goingto be creating    something of value thatyour blog readers can put into    action right away. Over the years Ive written a lot of    tutorials, and these types of posts have always been the most    time-consuming, but theyve also been most rewarding. A    good rule of thumb when creating content is to always try to do    it better than your competition. If someone is doing    text only, you need to do videoif they are doing text and    video, do a better video!  
    A perfect example of this can be seen through a series of posts    offered by Brian Dean over at Backlinko.com, which details his    process for ranking for any keyword. It starts with a    simple blog post and a video, which then captures the users    email to deliver them the rest of the content. In this example,    Brian collects email, but he could actually be using social    buttons to unlock the content as well.  
    Long story short, its a ton of great information that offers    value and provides them with exactly what they are looking for.    The result is thousands of new visitors to his site, backlinks    galore from reliable sources (like this one!), and, of course,    social networking shares as well.  
    Infographic creation can take a lot of time and if you arent a    designer you might think you need to shell out a lot of money    in the process. While this is usually the case if you are    outsourcing, another option is touse thevarious    applications and tools on the internet that make the process of    creating an infographic simply a matter of plugging in data and    using different templates and images. It takes time, but    infographics are one of the best ways to get social sharing    across your site. When going live with an infographic on your    site, be sure to also include a good amount of text to help    your site rank in the search results as well.  
    Last year Blogging.org launched their best free web hosting infographic, which    went on to get a few hundredsocial shares, as well as    mentions on some of the top web hosting and design resource    sites on the internet. This was very beneficial to their sites    content strategy, as their target market isnew bloggers.    This infographic was the perfect way for Blogging.org to    provide value while reaching their target audience.  
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