{"id":98487,"date":"2012-09-26T14:37:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T18:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=98487"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:58:08","slug":"easily-track-your-social-media-success-with-wp-social-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/easily-track-your-social-media-success-with-wp-social-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Easily Track Your Social Media Success with WP Social Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve put in a lot of effort on your site. Your WordPress posts are ready to be visited by the visitors in the wilds. Your content is <em>perfect<\/em> for your target audience.<\/p>\n<p>Why, then, aren\u2019t you getting traffic?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all been there, and it is frustrating. Everyone wants to succeed, but sometimes, making the pieces all fall together is difficult. Fortunately, there <em>is<\/em> a way to increase traffic to your site, and it is surprisingly simple.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding where your traffic is coming from is important. Getting your content to go viral is a <em>must<\/em> if you want your WordPress site to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Enter WP Social Stats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98488 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WPSocialStats-IMG1.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"1150\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a simple and sleek design, WP Social Stats takes away the complexity of most analytic plugins and offers important information on the performance of each of your posts. Do you want to know why a post succeeds or fails?<\/p>\n<p>By comparing your posts in an easy-to-read list, you can determine what <em>types<\/em> of posts are reaching your audience. You will know a post is reaching your audience by the rate they are shared over popular social networks. If you want to go viral \u2013 and believe me, you <em>want<\/em> to go viral \u2013 you need to strike a chord with your audience.<\/p>\n<h2>Know your Networks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter<\/li>\n<li>Facebook<\/li>\n<li>Google+<\/li>\n<li>StumbleUpon<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn<\/li>\n<li>Pinterest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Love them or hate them, these are the social media networks that can make or break your WordPress site. Success can be tangibly measured by your performance on these sites. If you don\u2019t have an account with these networks, get one right away. Start connecting and networking with others. <em>These people are the ones who will help you make your posts go viral.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Reading between the Lines<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98489 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WPSocialStats-IMG2.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"1140\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When learning how to take advantage of the power of social media networks, you need to <strong>compare, consider,<\/strong> and <strong>act<\/strong> on what you\u2019ve learned.<\/p>\n<p>When you have a post that does well on Twitter, but it doesn\u2019t do well on Facebook, consider the reasons why. Did you <strong>promote<\/strong> your WordPress site on Twitter but not on Facebook? Did the post have enough time to be spread through the social networks?<\/p>\n<p>Did you <strong>reach<\/strong> your target audience?<\/p>\n<p>The above image is from September 2012. None of the three posts above were given the time needed to go viral. However, checking the stats of posts early can offer insight on whether it will do well with certain groups. Taking advantage of the networks a post does naturally well on is the first step in going viral and driving important and relevant visitors to your site.<\/p>\n<h2>So, how does it work?<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98490 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WPSocialStats-IMG3.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"1158\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you load the plugin in your WordPress, you can get to work analyzing your pages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show<\/strong> lets you choose between pages and posts. <strong>All Categories<\/strong> can be changed to specific categories within your WordPress. <strong>September 2012 <\/strong>is where you change the month. <strong>25 Items<\/strong> can be changed to show fewer or more posts per page.<\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve selected the types of pages or posts you want to look at, compare the numbers. This is the heart of WP Social Stats.<\/p>\n<h2>Sharing your Content<\/h2>\n<p>If your posts and pages don\u2019t seem to be getting out there, WP Social Stats can help!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98491 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WPSocialStats-IMG4.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"1094\" height=\"38\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This post hasn\u2019t been promoted. So, in order to fix that, I can click the image associated with each social network to submit it to the networks. Go ahead, dive in, and share your posts on each of the networks.<\/p>\n<p><em>You will need an account with each network to do this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The process is easy. If you want to share it on twitter, click tweet! +1\u2019ing the post on Google+ is done by clicking g +1. Promoting your posts is the first step toward social media success.<\/p>\n<h2>Understanding your Traffic Sources<\/h2>\n<p>A key advantage to using WP Social Stats is that it allows you to save time. While you want to know where your traffic is coming from, you don\u2019t want to be spending hours each day analyzing your traffic when your posts aren\u2019t being promoted and spread.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check<\/strong> your traffic sources <strong>after<\/strong> your posts start performing. Unlike other forms of free advertisements, you want your posts to be shared across the networks. <em>While search engine results and hit analytics are important, your goal is to be shared and drive traffic to your site from social networking sites.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>Being completely honest here, <em>checking stats is fun.<\/em> But, when you check them, keep your eye on the prize. You want to go viral, and in order to do that, you need shared from networking sites, which is exactly what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpsocialstats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WP Social Stats<\/a> helps you accomplish.<\/p>\n<h4>Related posts:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/pinterest-plugins-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">14 Awesome Pinterest Plugins for Your WordPress Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cut out the guesswork and easily track how well your posts do on the major social media networking sites\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132058,"featured_media":98492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[795,4467,2775,655,982,4549],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-98487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-community","tag-facebook","tag-pinterest","tag-linkedin","tag-pages","tag-social-media","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98487"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=98487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}