Have you been able to use Twitter and Facebook to effectively drive traffic to your forum?

I'll be attempting to drive traffic to the site with google + soon. Any tips?
I see Red Dead Redemption, so I'm going to assume that you're a gamer. And I see that you own a RDR site, too.

So. You want to advertise on Google+

You need to think about making a google+ page, and brand that page after your site. Reddead Us. With or without the dot. Doesn't matter, your choice. Now, once you've done this, think about which thread you want to "promote" because it's very important. Here's what I said at AdminTalk:
My suggestion is to like or tweet most of your threads. And I don't mean your members' threads. I mean threads you made, from your own fingers. Why? Because your tweets has to reflect your website's brand and/or your brand. Your website's brand is your brand and then vice versa. You need to get people to trust your posts, your threads, your tweets, and your likes. Because if your twitter followers don't like a thread created by a member of your forum, then it reflects your entire site's brand, which in turn hurts your brand. This is true of any website. ANY.

The only time that I would tweet or like a members' thread is when the site has become strong. You don't need to worry about branding after a website has established it's presence. So, if your friend comes over your site and makes a thread about his youtube video, tweet that. And then put in your marketing speech. Make it relevant to that thread.
Source: Carlos' Admin Talk post.

And since Facebook has a word or paragraph limit, Google banked on that and extended that limitation a little bigger. So, you can more or less treat your Google+ like a mini-magazine. Treat each post as a marketing speak, if you want examples, here's MW3Blog's Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/106492284376956564796/

Oh, want more? Here's CODForums: https://plus.google.com/115551712196444223073/
 
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