Everything you do online is pretty much useless without traffic. You can have the best designed website or the best products for sale, but if you never get website traffic, you won’t have an online business.
You can pay for traffic to drive visitors to your website or you can use free website traffic strategies. Here are 10 ways you can increase the amount of free website traffic you get.
1. Know your keywords
Keywords are the words that a potential customer will type into a search engine when searching for products or services that are relevant to your online business. Make sure your website content includes these keywords. Search engines provide a potential customer with a list of websites that match their keyword search.
2. Create an email database
When you have an email database list of leads, you send emails to your list directing them to your website every time you post or upload something new to your website.
3. Email signature
Add your website address in your email signature. Ask your readers to share and visit it.
4. Guest Blog
Look up authority figures in your industry and ask if they will accept a guest post from you. If they agree to post something for you, produce original content for them and provide them with a nice image or photo to accompany the post. Include a short bio with a link to your website.
5. Access YouTube
YouTube is a fantastic free traffic generator. Videos are easier to make than you probably think! Include your website URL in your videos and in the description. Don’t forget to tell people to visit your website in your videos too.
6. Join a community of specialized blogs
Many specialized communities are free to join. But even if there is a small charge, consider joining one to drive traffic to your website.
7. Improve your search engine optimization
Learn all you can about search engine optimization. It is essential if you want to get more free website traffic.
8. Produce a sitemap
A sitemap is a list of pages on your website that you want search engines to index. If you use the WordPress platform to manage your website, you can get a plugin to help you create a sitemap.
9. Create a Facebook page
Create a Facebook page so you can showcase your blog posts and articles on Facebook. Use a “learn more” tab to link to your website.
10. Publish articles in popular magazines
Ezines are online newsletters and they are published in almost every niche you can think of. Take a look at the majors in your industry and offer to write relevant content for their newsletter in exchange for a link to your website.
