Ask any website owner about their goals, and they’ll all tell you the same thing. They want more traffic, and more customers. Unfortunately, it’s one of the trickiest things to do on the web. If it were easy, we’d all be millionaires!
Getting web traffic in the millions is particularly difficult. However, there are a few small tweaks you can make right now that will double your web traffic.
It’s all about utilizing what you’ve got. And we’re excluding advertising in order to focus on natural, organic growth (and keep the budget in check!)
Social media
It’s no secret that social media is incredibly effective when it comes to driving traffic. If you can share your website and content with thousands of followers, you’ll boost visitors. There’s a direct correlation between social numbers and website visitors.
Your social sites give you a bigger platform to send traffic to your site. With that in mind, make social media growth your priority in 2016.
Your web traffic will grow naturally as a result. If you haven’t got the time, take a look at social media management services pricing. Perhaps you can afford to pay an agency to take care of this side of the business.
SEO
You’ve probably seen this acronym floating around the marketing blogs before. It stands for search engine optimization, and it’s incredibly powerful. Just think how many visitors your site would get if it was on the first page of Google.
Did you know that 70% of Google users never even go past the first page? It’s time step up your SEO efforts, and optimize your site for Google. With the right techniques, you’ll quickly double your search engine referral stats.
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Guest posting
One of the easiest ways to drive new visitors to your site is by guest posting on another blog. You quickly tap into their existing audience, and use carefully placed links to send them back to your website.
Instant traffic! It’s also fantastic for SEO, as Google measures the number of links back to your website. The more links, the better your authority. Start by reaching out to similar blogs in your niche. Strike up a connection, and ask to submit a post.
Produce better content
If your numbers are plateauing or drying up, perhaps your content needs a kick! Compelling content should help you reach new visitors, and drive them back to your site. But, perhaps your existing blogs and videos are failing to hit the mark.
Take the time to craft informative, intelligent, and exciting content. Create something that people have to click on. Give extra thought to your headlines and titles too.
Submit your content to influencers
Once you’ve created your awesome piece of content, put more effort into promoting it. Find out where your audience is gathering, and share it with them.
For some industries, that might be Reddit or Digg. Try submitting it to other blogs for coverage, or ask a social media influencer to share it with their followers.
Put these techniques into practice, and you’ll quickly double your traffic this year.
Hi Erik ,
The technique you have mentioned is what i consider is good for getting traffic.You are right if this technique put to use then anyone can double their traffic.
Hi Erik,
Interesting piece, far better than those long long articles which in the end leave with information overload thus clueless!
What has worked for me over the years is 1. Quality Content 2. Relationship Marketing 3. Social Media Marketing 4. offering something valuable absolutely for free!
If you write quality content, that can take at least a week or two to write because quality comes by hard work and more time second step along the way is to engage with influencers, engage with them slowly, enage with them where they have lesser following, like for instance if an ifluencer is on twitter with 10 k followers and on gplus with 2k followers, you should engage with him/her on gplus instead of twitter because its a lot more easy to get noticed in lesser crowd!
Doing all this, keep sharing yours and theirs content on different social media accounts, some people have like too many social media accounts and that makes things esp. thoughtful engagement really tough so its better if you have like 3 to 4 social media accounts like on facebook, twitter, gplus, linkedin!
Lastly along all of this offer something valuable totally free, you can ask for a do follow link in the process, makes sure its necessary to get the free stuff, natural links will build up over time, free offers could be anything, it is just your imagination but make sure it is something valuable!
Hi there Erik,
I embrace and give a lot of attention to SEO and social media a lot as these have really showed me impressive results when it comes to results. Reaching out to influencers is something that I would really advise to anyone who is looking for some high quality traffic. Thanks a lot for sharing these tips.
Cindy
These all are essential, mostly SEO without SEO it’s impossible to get good rank and better results. Social medias are better to drive more traffic.
But SEO, Backlinks and Contents all are major kings 🙂
Thanks for sharing such an amazing article.
Hi Erik,
Thanks for valuable information like guest post & Seo and all that is essential thing for starting blogging if one left any of these then google will rank our blog down somewhere.
A good web design also need to have a good marketing strategy to have people see the website.
Content plays a big role since it is the fuel of Guest Posting and Social Media. The struggle is to formulate a new and relative content for it to attract readers. This is very helpful and informative. Thank you for sharing this!
Having a Youtube Channel that links to your blog is a good way to build links and to increase web traffic at same as being a content.
Impressive Erik… Your analysis of the seo marketing strategies was insightful…