Blogging Tool of the Week

Unless you are a Blogging machine you probably find that a lot of your Social Media activity consists of sharing 3^rd party articles and opinions. This is a great way to associate yourself and your business with quality content on the web and reinforce yourself as the “go to” guy in your industry.

I can drive traffic to my blog when sharing great 3rd party content.

However, what if you could share quality 3^rd party content on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter etc. and drive traffic to your blog posts at the same time?

That would be a amazing right? Well great news- There is a tool to do just that and it can be used for FREE. Check out Snip.ly (affiliate link).

The brilliant Snip.ly allows you to create a customised banner on the bottom left hand side of the page with your Image, your chosen text and a call to action button which directs the reader to your chosen url.

Once you have set up your message and banner Snip.ly will generate a unique link that you can cut and paste into your Tweet, Facebook update etc.

How to create your Snip.ly url

There is also a cool plugin on Chrome and Firefox that will allow you to generate “Snips” directly from your browser.

Click on the plugin to instantly create a Snip.ly url

Okay, what is the catch? Is it really FREE? You can use free for up to 1,000 clicks monthly. This in a nutshell means that you can generate 1,000 clicks to sites or articles. These are the 3^rd party sites which will have your snip.ly banner displayed on them. So if 10% of readers convert to your site your Free account will drive an additional 100 visitors/visits to your blog. Like any blogging tool I would suggest that you try it out on some rather than all your Social Media updates first and measure your success first.

Oh and did I mention Snip.ly also gives you analytics so you can monitor and track your clicks and conversions.