Syndicate Your Blog To The Top 6 Trafficked Social Media Sites Online

Benefits of  blog syndication  

Some time ago I  wrote the following posts that rationalized a blueprint for blog syndication based on data provided by Alexa:  

• Case Study: The Top EIGHT RSS Aggregators Form A Mighty Link Wheel In The Planet
• How To Design A Simple Feed Distribution Channel
• Results Of The Simple Feed Distribution Via EIGHT Top Aggregators 
• Click Each Banner To Submit Blog RSS Feed URL

I have subsequently experienced the following benefits of that simple link wheel:

• this blog has over two thousand subscribers on Feedcat at the time of writing.
• backlinks to the RSS aggregators have been indexed in the search engines.
  

I'm writing this introduction to inspire you and to celebrate the success of  my blog promotion strategies, which are, by the way, born out of inspiriation from Heaven.

This follows in to my next project, (partially implemented) for a social media syndication network. Note that there are many sites (such as IFTTT) and software that offer these services. However, it is important, in my opinion, to target and work the most busy sites.

You Need A Blog Traffic Management Plan

Quantcast (2015), has ranked the top 100 most trafficed sites in the United States based on  a  Quantcast asynchronous tag on each web site. This immediately imposes some limitations on the data, but it is very valuable since the top sites can be crossed matched as accurate eleswhere. 

 

 Quantcast ranking of The Top 6 Social Sites
 

      Table 1  

     Top 6 Trafficked US Sites Rated By Quantcast

My Rank	Quantcast Rank	Site	Monthly Visits
1	3	twitter.com	197,659,136
2	4	facebook.com	129,306,760
3	10	buzzfeed.com	66,386,984
4	13	Pinterest.com	57,728,852
5	70	Linkedin.com	39,305,596
6	87	Instagram.com	39,305,596

 

NB: Google.com is ranked as number 1 traffiked site by both Alexa and Quantcast with 220,398,144 monthly visits. You should register for  Blogger/Blogspot and sync to Google plus because it is the easiest way to be indexed online.

Top 6 Quantcast social media sites compared with their Alexa worldwide ranking 

When the global and US ranking for these top 6 social media platforms are compared, we see that only Facebook and Instagram metrics are consistent across the board. We can ignore that and focus on the fact that these sites show up in these metrics in basically the same order. 

More importantly, we need to examine where the traffic comes from as this tells us how to structure the syndication network.  

                                  Table 2 

Comparison between Alexa And Quantcast Ranking

Site	Alexa (Global Rank)		Quantcast (USA rank)
	Global Rank	US Rank	Rank	Monthly Visits
Facebook.com	1	2	4	129,306,760
Twitter.com	9	8	3	197,659,136
Linkedin.com	14	16	70	39,305,596
Instagram.com	25	25	37	39,305,596
Pinterest.com	30	13	87	57,728,852
Buzzfeed.com	128	41	10	66,386,984

 

Main source of site traffic

Use the data below to construct your  syndication pattern or wheel (I know some marketers hate that word, but the data shows a wheel).   

• Twitter feed 
• IFTTT recipes
• Jetpack and other similar WordPress plugins. 

For example, one could syndicate from the blog to:

• Google plus
• videos to You Tube 
• sync youtube to twitter
• sync twitter to facebook fan page
• post from fan page to relevant groups (at least 1 and engage there) 
• sync images to pinterest and instagram then 
• pinterest and to twitter which will automatically sync to facebook
• instagram can be synced to other image sites
  

       Table 3 Main sources of site traffic

Site	Where visitors came from
Facebook.com	Google, youtube, yahoo, twitter, amazon.com
Twitter.com	Google. Facebook, youtube,  Instagram, t.co
Linkedin.com	Google, facebook, yahoo, twitter, google.co.in
Instagram.com	Google.com, facebook, t.co, twitter, youtube
Pinterest.com	Amazon.com, yahoo, baidu, Ebay, yahoo.co.uk
Buzzfeed.com	Facebook, google, pinterest, youtube, t.co