Driving traffic to your site is one of the most important skills you need to learn, if you are trying to make money online,
ignore these and all your effort will be wasted.
What is essence of building blog where nobody visits? = NO MONEY
Traffic is the life blood of every online business,
I can still remember the first time I manage to setup a blog,
I bought Domain and hosted and install wordpress, create my first post.
I believed everything I heard online, that they don’t give you the full picture, they just tell you to build a blog and people will start flooding to your blog and in two days you start making money,
I was sad to woke up in the morning after waiting with bated breath throughout the night planning what I going to do with money, that the next day I going to make money.
You know what happened...
I was disappointed.
Please pay attention to this, if you master one or two of this traffic source; you are going to make money from your blog.
Before I start please note; there is free traffic and paid traffic, let start …
1 1. SEO
If you don’t optimize your site with the relevant keywords, and you don’t have good domain authority and page authority it will difficult for your blog pages to rank high on google serp, that means no traffic.
Step
1. Do your keyword research; get relevant key phrases & words people are using to searching for niche information online
2. Incorporate these keywords into your content, write natural. Remember no keyword stuffing...
3. 1. Link to other content on your site and relevant site in niche
4. 2. Build backlinks
5. 3. Wait.. especially it a new blog
2. Social Media Traffic
One of great way to drive traffic to your blog, it popular these day. It can be use as great marketing platform where you to drive hug traffic to website...
There are different social website like; facebook.com, twitter.com Instagram.com, and LinkedIn.com etc. to promote their blog content.
If you have good follower on this platforms who are already connect to you with your posts in your niche.
3. Email marketing
You must have heard countless time online that,
“Money is in the list”.
It true if you have responsive list, that likes your content and information you share and hold you at high esteem.
This loyal subscriber will be waiting with baited breath to buy every product to you promote, because they believe and trust you.
What is Email Marketing?
It is way of marketing your products, affiliate product through the use of email address...
One thing about email marketing is that almost all people online have email address, since most social media platforms require email address to create an account on them...
Even most Smartphone now require one. It is huge opportunity to market to them.
4. Guest Posting
Just as the name sounds, guest posting is a way of posting article,
I mean well written article on another popular blog that has a good number of audience.
You do this by contacting the blogger to post article on their site,
if you can write article for them in return for a link back to you website.
Though some blog allow that, just check the blog if it has a link that says “Write for us” or something like that,
As I have said it, it must be a well written article, you can’t write crap and expect popular blog to allow that.
It a good way to increase your blog ranking on google when it comes to SEO.
5. Youtube or vlogging
Youtube has become most popular video site these days. With huge amount of traffic daily, it an opportunity for us to get our own share of this traffic.
And it free to post your video, in fact some people make significant income;
I mean huge amount of income monthly just on Youtube alone. There other video sites,
but ...
Youtube is the by far the most popular with massive traffic.
Create a video on a popular topic on your niche or market and post it on Youtube, and add a link back to you blog,
If you post good and informative information, you get a lot of view and viewer will likely click on your links to know more,
you can even link them directly to your Optin page to get their email address for further sales offer if you have your funnel setup.
6. Infographic
It a fast growing method for traffic, but unfortunately most blogger don’t know this traffic source.
It about converting your information into graphic, if you good at creating graphic, it will be another massive source of traffic for your site.
Even if you are not good at graphic and complete clueless,
There are now drag and drop site which enable you to create infographic online, very simple to use. eg.
www.canvas.com, free version is ok for you, don’t have to spend money.
Infographic Submission site
1. 1. www.visual.ly
2. 2. www.slideshare.com
3. 3. www.flickr.com
4. 4. www.reddit.com
5. 5. www.nerdgraph.com
7. PDF Sharing Site
Another fantastic way to drive traffic to you website and it also serve as backlinks to blog, how do you do this …
Create an article, or better if you an e-book on popular topic in your niche, convert it to PDF, you don’t have to spend money on any fancy software,
You do that free online.
Make sure you put your site url in the page, and add a caption that will motivate them to click on the links.
After converting to PDF, save it on your computer system...
Where to upload them;
· 1. www.issuu.com
· 2. www.scribd.com
· 3. www.slideshare.com
· 4. www.4shared.com
· 5. www.mediafire.com
8. Comment posting
Comment posting is unpopular traffic source for many bloggers,
but today I am here to tell you that commenting can be huge source of traffic to our blog...
There a lot of important benefits;
1. Show you as authority in our niche
2. It serve as backlink source
3. More traffic
There are wrong ways to do this, so pay more attention here…
Don’t just comment “good post” and expect people to click on your link to check you out for what you have to offer.
First the blog must be relevant to you niche, what I mean is that,
If you are into...
“make money online” niche, don’t go and be commenting on
“how to build kite blog”
you get what I mean…
You must read the post really well, and comment and give value and tips concerning the topic. This will drive traffic to you blog.
9. Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking sites are great way to drive a lot of traffic to your website,
google likes social bookmarking sites because it tells google that people like your post; that is way they are sharing it.
Well...
who will share content that they don’t like.
So it important to bookmark your post, if you create valuable article that is sharable,
people will bookmark it and share it with their freinds.
It also advisable to bookmark your new article, this will help google bot to quickly index your post.
Important of social bookmarking sites;
1. 1. It create more brand awareness
2. 2. It help you index your article fast
3. 3. It drive traffic to your blog
4. 4. It increases you domain authority
5. 5. Lead generation
6. 6. Generate high quality backlinks
7. 7. Build strong social signal
10. Advertise
Adverting great way to drive consistent traffic to your
site, this is like switch that can be switch on or off any time you want...
No time for waiting for search engine to index and rank your site high on google .
Make sure have plan in place, you done your home work fine first, if not you are going to burn your money very fast, example;
1. 1. Paid Search
2. 2. Social media advertising
3. 3. Display advertising
These are great way to drive traffic, they are not all. This is just most important ways I think you drive traffic to your site now. Make sure you keep in touch for more tips on how to make money online.
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