Can you think of any bloggers who don’t use social media?

I know one, but she is certainly the exception.

The norm is for anyone who wants to spread the word about their website, products, or business to use social media. Your growth depends on it.

Social media enables you to increase your connections with people off your blog.

Social media enables you to build credibility by allowing your readers to learn more about you away from your blog.

Social media enables you to increase your traffic by letting the users of the social media sites know about your blog.

According to SuccessPromotions, using social media even improves your blog’s chances of being found on search engines. Zac Grace, an SEO strategist, agrees that using social media will help your SEO.

If you are making an income from blogging, certainly social media will allow you to generate more income as a result of the trust and awareness that using social media brings you.

However, no one has time to focus your blog promotion at all these sites. One blogger wrote, “I do my thing, and socialize where I enjoy best, not trying to dance at every wedding (every social site) because there just isn’t enough time to do everything.”

Author Debby Kaye discusses the “madness of social media” and how she feels she is drowning in that sea.

In order to get a return on your time invested, Neil Patel recommends choosing two social media sites. Other bloggers recommend choosing three. How do you know which to pick?

CoSchedule explains you need a social media strategy. This post will enable you to make those choices based on a strategy.

This article contains a three-part action plan to save you time and enable you to get a greater return on your time invested at the sites you are currently using.

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