Using social media to bring traffic to your website

When the internet (web 2.0) first started to get big, we created websites and people went to them to get information. It was simple. Now that the internet is less about information and more about communication (web 3.0) the struggle to get information out there amidst the communication phenom-on is becoming increasingly difficult. Websites that used to hold valuable information are slowly becoming age-old dinosaurs while social networks such as facebook are now the number one visited website surpassing even google. While this is not a huge problem to loose sleep over, one way you can bring people to your website is to tease them through social media channels such as facebook and twitter.

One thing I try to do on a daily basis is to post something from our youth website onto our facebook fan page by copying the link and writing a short description.  The facebook fan page then automatically sends that information to our twitter feed via the facebook/twitter link.  Doing this on a regular basis reminds the students and parents in our ministry that yes we do have a website and there is important/valuable information for them on there.