The lack of website traffic is one of the most common complaints online business owners have and they are always looking for new ways to drive appropriate traffic to their sites.
To help achieve the goal of getting more traffic, this article lists a bunch of achievable ideas for getting more eyes on your website or blog. Some are easy and quick, some take a bit more effort, but if you stick with it, you’ll be surprised how quickly you’ll see results.
- Start a Facebook Group Page To Send Traffic To Your Site: Start a Facebook page that is relevant to your site’s content. People can ask can ask questions, get support and be redirected back to your site.
- Post Frequently: Post new content at least 6 times per week. Blog traffic increases drastically with more content posted regularly.
- Use Your Subscriber List To Market Your Site: Send out a few emails a week to inform your readers about new posts, opportunities or events on your site. Include links back to your blog to increase traffic, leads, and sales.
- Organize Your Content Into Categories: Categories are great for SEO and for helping your readers find relevant content.
- Improve Your Headlines – Headlines are what capture people’s attention, especially when you share your blog posts on social media. Make sure they generate interest and clearly explain the benefit to your readers will receive.
- Join A Blogging Community: Communities like ProBlogger are great ways to interact with other bloggers and to promote each other’s content.
- Use Long Tail Keywords: Single word keyword do not get as much SEO traction as do long tail keywords. Make sure your posts include all the relevant terms and phrases related to your topic.
- Guest Post On Applicable Blogs: When you guest blog, do it for a site that is realted to what you do. Only contribute to highly relevant, high quality sites in your niche.
- Become Regular Contributor On A Well Known Website: If you can become a regular contributor on an authority sites such as Huffington Post or Forbes, you will gain a reputation as an expert in your field and receive targeted traffic as well.
- Post Your Content To StumbleUpon: It’s free and it will get people to check out your site.
- Optimize Your Posts: Make sure all your old posts have unique and relevant title tags, URLS and meta descriptions.
- Demote Extraneous Google Site Links: With Google Webmaster Tools, you can demote URLS you don’t want to show up in the search engine, thereby increasing the chances for URLS that you do want listed to show up.
- Advertising Swaps: Trade banner ad space with a complementary website.
- Include Internal Links To Other Posts On Your Blog: When creating a post, always be sure to add links to other posts on your site that your readers may find helpful. This is great for SEO as well as for increasing time-on-site, conversion rates, and referral traffic.
- Post Your Content To Reddit: It’s free and it will get people to check out your site.
- Mention Influencers In Your Tweets: When you name, quote or reference someone in a blog post, be sure you @ mention them in your tweet when you promote your post.
- Focus Your Energy On Strategies That Work For You: You’re not a sheep, don’t follow the herd! Study your analytics to see your main traffic drivers, and focus on your energy on these areas.
- Build Relationships With Others In Your Niche: Building relationships with other bloggers typically results in organic inbound links and referral traffic to your site.
- Use Every Relevant Keyword You Can: Have your keywords focusing on what your content is saying, no matter how obscure. This will give you every chance of being found.
- Make A Top 10 Website Post: Choose the top 10 blogs in your niche, and write a post about them. You can also create a badge or banner that those sites can embed to show off their award.
- Use All Of Your Facebook Links: Include links back to your site in your ‘About’ page, photo descriptions, the comments of your posts and in your milestones.
- Get on YouTube – YouTube drives the most engaged traffic out of all social media sites, with an average of 2.99 pages per visit.
- Answer HARO Queries – Share you expertise and potentially receive PR and referral traffic to your site.
- Start A Forum On Your Site: A lively forum can generate rankings for long tail keywords. Forums also help build your community, repeat site viewers and increases the time people stay on your site.
- Add Text To The Images On Your Blog Posts: Adding items like your post title, site URL and sign up pages URL can make a big difference when your post are viewed, Pinned or shared.
- Join Facebook and LinkedIn Groups: Offer valued advice and information to create relationships and drive traffic back to your site.
- Associate With Bloggers Who Are Sending Traffic Your Way: If someone has already linked to your site, they obviously like what you have to say. Contact them to see if there are other ways they could help promote your content (and vice versa).
- Get A Followed Blogger To Guest Post For Your Site: They’ll likely share the post with their audience, driving traffic to your site.
- Respond To Comments Left On Your Blog: Respond thoughtfully to all comments on your blog. This will build relationships, as well encourage commenters to go back to your site.
- Submit Your Blog To Alltop: Alltop is aggregate site for all sorts of web content. Posting your blog there elevates your chances of getting found by people looking for content in your niche.
- Answer Questions: Look for sites like Yahoo Answers or Quora and answer questions relevant to your niche.
- Write a Response Post: Respond to a controversial post in your niche and then let the original poster know about it. They likely won’t be able to resist responding to it on their blog. Be respectful when you do this, you don’t want a war, but you do want an audience that will check out your blog to see who you are.
- Contact Influential Bloggers: When you publish a newsworthy post, let influencers in your field know about it. You may be astonished at how many link back to your post.
- Comment On Industry Blogs: Become a consistent commenter on a popular blog in your niche in order to help drive referral traffic and to establish relationships with other bloggers.
- Interview The Big Names In Your Niche: They will certainly post the interview for their audience to read.
- Change Things Up: Change up the length and format of your content to make it as appealing as possible to a wide range of readers
- Be Consistent: The difference between those who succeed and those who don’t is consistency. Don’t implement these strategies for a week or two and stop if you don’t see results immediately. Think long term and believe in the process.