Ask a marketer or business owner what they’d like most in the world, and they’ll probably tell you “more customers.” What often comes after customers on a business’ wish list? More traffic to their site. There are many ways you can increase traffic on your website, and in today’s post, we’re going to look at some of them.
Follow these steps and you’ll be on your way to Improving More Traffic on your Web Site.
1. Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! might be losing the search engine market share battle but they still dominate in the Question and Answers arena. People ask thousands of questions every day in almost every niche and industry you can imagine.
A quick search for “Search Engine Optimization” shows over 1,300 questions that can be answered. The key to driving massive amounts of traffic from Yahoo! Answers is to give genuinely helpful answers.
Instead of trying to create a blatant advertisement for your website work on becoming an authority in your industry.
This technique has the potential to send you far more than 100 visitors.
When people use search engines to look for the questions they answered often a Yahoo! Answers result will appear near the top of the search results. This will give you and your website a ton of exposure if you answer commonly asked questions!
2. Social Bookmarking
If you create content that people enjoy it can easily become popular or even go viral. The important thing is to put your website and content in front of people that are looking for it, right?
Social bookmarking is a super-easy way to do just that. Social bookmarking sites allow users to bookmark their favorite websites that other people can publicly view and vote up or down.
If you bookmark useful content other people will find it, share it, and vote it up so others can enjoy it. Oh yeah, and it only takes about 30 seconds to bookmark your site.
3. Squidoo
Squidoo is a website full of 100% user-generated content that allows you to create what’s called a “lense.” A lense is a page about a specific topic that you choose to write about (usually something you’re knowledgeable in).
After creating your lense other people can find it by searching for terms and keywords related to your lense.
Let me just start by saying Squidoo is an absolute powerhouse in the search engines (by Lawrence moment). It’s very easy to rank Squidoo lenses for competitive terms that would prove to be a challenge for websites with lesser authority.
Creating a lense on Squidoo gives you 2 traffic opportunities:
- When people use search engines and search for keywords related to their lense it will sometimes show up in the top search results if it’s relevant enough to the search phrase.
- This means you can get drones of targeted traffic to your lense from search engines that you can funnel into your website.
- Squidoo has a huge community of active users that use Squidoo to find things they want to know more about. Squidoo currently gets over 9 million unique visitors a month and they’re still growing steadily.
4. Guest Blogging
Guest blogging is a great way to generate free traffic – all you have to invest in the time to write an article. Get in touch with the most popular blogs in your industry and ask if they’ll let you write a guest post.
Most website owners will have no objections to having other people write free content for them. (ask Michael how I know…wink, wink) If you’re having trouble finding blogs to guest post on check out www.myblogguest.com – they have a full community of bloggers that are ready and waiting for your content.
5. Forum Posting
There are community forums set up online for virtually every niche, industry, or topic you can imagine. The internet is a prime place for like-minded people to talk to each other.
9 times out of 10 you can find a forum for your industry just by typing in [your industry]forum.com or searching for “[Your Industry] Forum” on Google.
And the forums in your industry with the largest user base, start posting there and become an active community member. Most forums will allow you to leave a link to your website in your post signature, so the more you post the more traffic you get.
6. Twitter
Every time I write new content I post it to Twitter. If you use the right keywords and make your tweet interesting enough you can get a lot of clickthroughs just from people searching.
for example, if I write an article about SEO and Google I can tag the end of the tweet with #SEO #Google and anyone that searches for those keywords on Twitter can see my tweet about the post that I wrote.
Be sure to write creative headlines for your posts so people feel the urge to click on them.
7. Facebook
Creating a Facebook fan page takes about an entire 45 seconds and is almost a necessity at this point for every business owner. Considering that 1 in 13 people on EARTH has a Facebook account there’s no need to explain why you should be there.
Pro tip: make sure you create a fan page and not a group.
Group messages don’t show up in news feeds making it hard to get in touch with members. Making a fan page will give you a lot more exposure to not only the current members but members’ friends as well.
8. Blog Commenting
Commenting on blog posts written by industry experts with lots of followers can bring your website a lot of traffic.
When you post a comment (most) blogs allow you to leave a link back to your site for other readers to check out – as long as you leave an insightful comment you will traffic from your blog comments.
Make sure you comment as quickly as possible when new blog posts go up. The higher in the comments you are the more clicks you’ll get.
I have Google Reader set up to alert me when new blog posts are made on the industry blogs I follow and I comment immediately to lock in my first place spot.
9. Article Marketing
Promoting your websites by publishing articles to various article directories is by no means a new idea but still an extremely effective way to drive traffic.
If you write content and publish it to websites like Ezine Articles, Article Base, and Article Dashboard website owners will pick it up and post it.
This idea is similar to guest blogging except that you only have to write one piece of content that can end up on hundreds or even thousands of blogs and websites.
10. Linkbait
The idea of “linkbait” refers to creating content that is so extremely useful or entertaining it compels people to link to it.
Put yourself in the shoes of your target demographic and figure out what they would enjoy or what would help them the most. Is there a tool you can make to automate some tedious processes?
Can you find enough data to make an interesting infographic? Is there a checklist or cheat sheet that would prove handy to your audience? The possibilities are nearly endless – survey your visitors and see what is missing or lacking in your industry and fill in the gaps.
Conclusion: These are the ways you can use in your business to get more and more traffic. I hope this will work for your website to get links and more traffic. Let me know what method you are using to get traffic.
Also read: How to Become a Popular Blogger Using Guest Blogging
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