Can Social Media Still Bring You ANY Website Traffic in 2020

The social web is huge, from Facebook to Pinterest, when you combine them all, it's over billions of eyeballs per year. But, if you've been doing business on the social web for a while you've probably watched things become harder and harder every single day. I ran a study and pulled 483 companies who all are leveraging Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. And today I'm going to show you whether or not businesses are actually getting any traffic from social. Today I'm going to break down can social media still bring you any website traffic in 2020?

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There's always a big debate as to whether or not social media is worth it for your business in terms of traffic. This study is conducted to help paint a better picture of how useful social media really is for your business.

Important disclaimer, this study focused solely on organic traffic and not paid.

Right, from a paid acquisition standpoint social media is really simple. You spend a dollar, you should make more than a dollar. That is super effective even to this day. If it wasn't, Facebook wouldn't be worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Snapchat, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn, they're all worth billions of dollars because paid ads on social media are still effective. Sure, it's harder and harder each year, but it's still effective.

Now let's go over social media organic traffic over time. Let's start by looking at this chart of social media traffic over time.

In 2015 you can generate roughly three visitors per month for every 100 followers. However, now that number's just roughly two visitors per month. That's a 38.6% drop in organic traffic.

Now when you look at traffic by social channel, let's first start off by looking at which channels drive the most traffic per 100 followers. Facebook and Instagram are somewhat of the lowest in the chart. Instagram really isn't a shocker because you can't really add links to your posts.

What is a surprise though, is Pinterest was the winner by far, followed by LinkedIn and YouTube. So if you want to get the most traffic start off with Pinterest first and then LinkedIn.

I often get asked, how often should I post content? Well, this chart may help. In general, posting more should drive you more traffic. However, the study shows that after eight posts a month you'll start seeing a diminishing return.

Now, this is due to the way the algorithms are set up. The more that people engage with your content, the more of them that'll see your future content as you post it.

This is why it's important to only post high-quality content and not mediocre content.

If you can produce five amazing pieces of high-quality content a week, then do five. If you can only 10 a month, then only do 10 a month, but limit your number based on the quality of the content that you're producing.

Now let's look at social channels and which ones prefer videos. So you're probably wondering, hey, which networks prefer videos? Well, it's easy to see that Instagram produces the most amount of views by far, followed by LinkedIn and YouTube.

Even on Facebook, as you scroll in your feed, you'll see videos automatically playing without sign-on, same with Instagram. YouTube is not like that, so a view on YouTube is really a view, while a view on Instagram and Facebook isn't really necessarily a view.

Now while it's important to post video content on all channels, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube should be your top focus.

Now let's look at how well live videos perform on each channel. The results are similar, with Instagram and YouTube leading the pack. The big takeaway here is live videos don't generate as many views as regular videos and the main reason is, and this is likely that non-live videos can be optimized for SEO much more than let's say live videos.

The next thing I want to look at, how much revenue is generated from social traffic. So here's a percentage of revenue that each business has generated from organic social media traffic over the past five years.

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