5 Best Social Media Platforms for Bloggers and Business

Social media pages for your blog are so important when it comes to marketing and promotion. Especially if you’re new to social media, you may not create your social media pages at all. However, you do not know how valuable social media is. Social media is regarded as one of the major traffic sources for several e-commerce platforms. You can drive tons of traffic to your blog and build your brand. Specifically, newbie websites have difficulty gaining traction in the early months, so it takes time for them to generate organic traffic from Google. Therefore, social media is the only way for visitors to find your website.

As of 2021, social media have over 3.96 billion active users, which makes it a great opportunity to leverage traffic. In order to make it easy and if you’re wondering what’s the best social media network. We have compiled a list of 5 social media platforms that are ideal and most suitable for bloggers. But before we get started, here are some basic questions and answers

How to Use Social Media for Blog?

There are some bloggers who just create social media accounts and share their articles there. That isn’t enough; you need to have a profile, create a blog introduction, and create descriptions.

• Make a unique name for your Facebook and Twitter accounts and organize them
• You should use the same username across all social media platforms. Thus, your audience will have an easier time connecting with you
• Encourage your audience to share your articles
• Your descriptions and visual content should be appealing
• Don’t be inactive, be consistent.
• Stay up-to-date on everything
• Respond to comments and engage with followers
• Please don’t be so spammy
• Schedule & consistency

List of Best 5 Social Media Platforms for Bloggers

1. Pinterest

Pinterest is the best social media platform for bloggers and entrepreneurs to promote the material. With 322 million monthly active users, Pinterest is a great social network to drive traffic to your blog since it is my biggest source of traffic for my blog. Pinterest is a little bit different when comparing to other social platforms. It is an image-pinning kind of social media where users can upload and save images known as Pins. If anyone likes your pin ( image ), they will pin it also called Re-pin which means in other words share.

Pinterest is a place where users can find new ideas and new things or information. You can easily get traffic on Pinterest if you do design pins ( images ) attractively. Mostly every Pinterest user recommends 2: 3 ratio ( 1000 x 1500 px ) PIN SIZE

Best Time: The best time you can publish pins on Pinterest is between 8 pm to 11 pm EST. ( More exposure on Saturdays and Sundays )

How to Create:  How to Create Pinterest Business Account 

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2. Facebook

As we all know, Facebook is the top social media platform with over 2.50 billion monthly active users which is really massive. You can easily create a Facebook account and create a page for your blog. 2.50 billion users are more than a third of the world’s population. You can drive traffic to your blog from Facebook if you have followers and audience. Creating an account is okay! But, how could you increase popularity? It’s not that easy to increase followers on Facebook. Either you can easily get followers by promoting ads to your page or need to be patient to achieve followers freely.

On Facebook, you can share posts, comment and like the posts including reactions. You can also create a brand new page for your blog where you can share your articles and promote your business. The best thing about Facebook is you have a lot of options to promote your brand. It is the best social network to easily connect with the audience and build relationships too.

Best Time: The best time you can publish posts on Facebook is between 10 am to 1 pm EST  ( more exposure on mon-wed)

How to Create:  How to Create Facebook Page and Manage it 

3. Twitter

Twitter is also one of the best social media platforms for business and all that kind of stuff. With more than 330 million monthly active users, Twitter is a place where politics, news, entertainment and sports are more discussed and shared. Most people use twitter to share information and news up-to-date.

You can tweet, reply and re-tweet which means Share on twitter and also you can use #hashtags and participate in trendings. Every day, you’ll see new hashtags in the trending box. You can also use @ to message or tweet to any person or celebrity. It’s more like a message. But it is visible to everyone. Twitter is mostly used by celebrities, politicians, and entrepreneurs to share real-time information. Though, it is also a great network to get a bunch of audience and followers for your blog.

Best Time: The best time you can publish tweets on Twitter is between 12 pm to 1 pm EST ( more exposure on Monday -Wednesday )

How to Create:  How to Create Twitter Page and Manage it 

4. Instagram

Instagram is a fast-growing social media platform and has become one of the top social media networks with more than 1 billion active users. Instagram is similar to Facebook where you can share images, videos and live videos. But, you can’t share a message form on Instagram. Gaining followers on Instagram is easy if you post attractive and useful images with # hashtags related to the content. Inserting # hashtags on posts is good practice since you’re a newbie to Instagram.

You can promote your articles and blog on Instagram in two ways.

1. Sharing your article link on the website column
2. Can Share link on stories ( swipe up )once you get 10k followers

You can’t post URLs on Instagram description and comments. Users can’t able to access them and either you too. Instagram doesn’t work that way. It is a bit difficult to post links on Instagram and but on the promoting side, it is the best social media network.

Best Time: The best time you can publish posts on Instagram is between 12 pm to 1 pm EST ( more exposure on Monday to Friday)

Read: 5 Legit Ways to Grow Organic Instagram Followers

5. Linkedin

Linkedin has become a professional social media network where you can search for job opportunities and searching for business platforms. It is now more ideal for entrepreneurs and business  marketing. You can share your expertise, content, professional profile and credentials. It is one of the best social networks to create a professional brand and build an audience for your blog.

You can create groups, build connections with people, and can do a lot of stuff to promote your business or blog.

Best Time: The best time you can publish posts on Linkedin is between 10 am and 11 am EST ( more exposure on Tuesday to Thursday )

How to Create:  How to Create Linkedin Page and Manage it 

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