When building a WordPress website one of the big things that you will be thinking about is website traffic. Without traffic your blog or website can become a deserted platform in amongst this huge Internet jumble.
Not one person I can think of would build a website for no one to see. Therefore anyone that has a website or blog needs website traffic. It doesn’t matter what you are doing with the traffic, because that’s your problem, but we can agree that you need it.
I have been trying to get website traffic for years and have tried everything you can imagine. I followed all the amazing new traffic generation methods and in the end it all came down to some very simple ways.
#1. Awesome Content Equals Website Traffic
Many Webmasters overlook the fact that quality content does equal traffic. The problem is that everyone knows that quality content is needed to be in competition with all the other millions of websites. This is why content is taken for granted and the importance is never really bowed down to.
As Corbett Barr would say, it’s all about creating epic shit. That’s a simple solution for website traffic.
#2. Get Social
Social media has become a big part of search engine optimization and we do need some social proof on our websites. Not only that, but social media can bring your website traffic to you if people share your content. If you do not install social media buttons on your website or create social media foundations, you’ll be missing out on a steady regular amount of traffic.
The question would be, “why would you do this on purpose?” You clearly know that social media is important so why haven’t you set up that Facebook page, or why haven’t you got a Twitter account?
Social media will not make you rich but it is an important part of your ongoing website traffic. People will follow you and when you post your quality content to these social media sites they will visit to read more.
#3. What Is Your Blogs Thing?
You know, what is your blogs unique selling proposition? What is going to make your blog or website stand out from the thousands or millions of others in the same niche? That is the question.
Which articles get the most comments or interaction on your website? What should you be talking about? These are all questions that you need to ask yourself just so you can figure out your unique selling proposition.
When you figure out what your website is about, make sure you tell people, because then they will love your website even more. This means more website traffic because people will know that you specialize in the information that they are looking for.
This is what it’s all about, finding out what your website visitors want and giving it to them.
#4. Always Gather Ideas
Ideas are the basis for your quality content and you will need to constantly feed your passion for your topic with new ideas. You need to suck up everything that is said on the Internet about your niche and spit it out as your own interpretation.
You cannot create fantastic content unless you are well versed in the world is content. It is only then that you will know what is needed and what is not.
#5. Store Your Content Ideas
Sometimes you have gathered so many ideas that you could not possibly remember all of them. When you are hot you are hot and ideas are precious.
I like to have a Word document with a list of titles that I have come up with while gathering my ideas. Sometimes I write points under these titles and sometimes the articles are even half written because I’m so inspired. If I lose that inspiration, I walk away and choose another article that inspires me again.
Having the content ideas written down in the same place also inspires more and more ideas.
#6. Set Up An E-Mail List
I actually hate e-mail marketing because some people have ruined it for everyone. But you still need to set up an e-mail list and create a newsletter for your subscribers. The thing is, you need to do it in an honest and interesting way. The hard sell e-mails are never going to last and if you want to keep your subscribers signed up, you need to give them something of extreme value.
To set up an e-mail list I would highly recommend starting out with Aweber e-mail marketing service. I started out with Mailchimp and have regretted it ever since. Now I am having trouble moving all my lists over to Aweber. I do not know why, but after moving to Aweber my signups have increased 10x and I am also getting real replies to my emails asking for more! WTF? Subscribers asking for more?
All you have to do is start creating emails and set them up to send to your list at certain number of days apart. When you study the results, you can then split test your e-mails to improve them. All you have to do is create e-mails that your audience likes. This has the potential to make more sales for your website or just simply bring back your website traffic.
Setting up an e-mail list goes hand in hand with building a website. It is one of those things that you need to do straight from the start as you will regret all of the possible signups that you miss.
#7. Take Your Traffic Somewhere
So even if you steer your traffic towards making a connection with you, you will have another chance with this visitor. You might actually want to sell them something that they did not buy at the time, so steering them towards a connection is a great way to bring back your lost website traffic. Many Webmasters get website traffic that takes them nowhere. You need to steer your traffic to your goal or maybe two more content. Either way your website traffic needs direction to travel and also think about making a connection with them so you can bring them back.
#8. Give Them the Gift ASAP
You might get website traffic that will not sign up to your list and probably will not come back to your website, but if you give them a free gift as soon as they land on your page, there is another chance they will come back later. This is all in the master plan for getting website traffic. When people visit your website they really should leave with something to remind them of you.
Just say you gave away a free report like the ones I have on my homepage, you must make sure that there are links in their leading back to your website. It is even better that you have something that is tempting them to click on those links.
#9. Create Solid Traffic Bases
These kinds of things have been around for years and really started with article marketing. I guess all of this has transformed into guest blogging but the theory is the same. You put out a lot of content with links leading back to your website. People read this content and travel through these links for years to come, therefore providing website traffic almost permanently.
I sometimes have great traffic bases on forums where I have posted amazing information that keeps bringing website traffic over and over. Some of the things I have posted have been from years ago and I am shocked that they still work!
Guest posting is like that too! The links you create in your guest posts create awesome traffic bases.
#10. Listen and Take Action
Learning how to create a successful website that rocks is not hard because the information is everywhere on the Internet. On my website alone I tell all and sometimes I wonder why all of my readers are not successful like I am?
One of the reasons could be that people get the information but do not take action with it. I say create quality content but are you really doing that? Do you really understand what quality content is?
I have had people ask me to look at their websites because they are not successful but doing everything that I say to do. Most people are not actually listening to what I am saying. They interpret the meaning of quality content or website promotion in a different way. Even though I explain things very clearly people still think they are taking action when they are really not.
#11. Focusing On Bad Stuff = Less Traffic
People get stuck on the most stupid things and harp on about them forever. This is a waste of time. If you want website traffic then stop fluffing around and just go and write heaps of content and promote your site with a links back to it. How could I make it any simpler than that?
New Webmasters have a problem with some theme design or even choosing a WordPress website theme and waste time on deciding or customizing it. This is not going to generate traffic and make your website successful. Taking action is going to make you successful and bring you website traffic. I like to use minimalist WordPress themes that let your content shine.
#12. Write List Posts
You know all those articles that have 20 of the top performing or 10 of the best or five unknown tips, well these are very popular. Anyone that says these posts are out and over and done with must just be jealous. Seriously these articles that list the top 20 of something or 30 of something other most popular pieces of content on the Internet. People love to read these articles and I even love to read them.
These top 10,20,30 list articles are amazing website traffic generators. In fact Josh Dunlop from Income Diary got 20,293 hits on one top 30 blog post in one week. He still promotes this method as his number one website traffic method. So why aren’t you writing top 10 list articles?
#13. Plan Stuff
Creating website content on-the-fly is not always a great idea. Planning out your content or your strategies for promoting your website can really increase your website traffic. For example you could research keywords that you can use that people are actually searching for. This way you know that people will be interested in the content that you write.
You can also plan your goals and how you are going to provide what your readers want. My planning is in the form of checklists. I have a WordPress website checklist, a social media checklist, website maintenance checklist, a SEO checklist, and many many more. In fact you could say that I am checklist happy.
#14. Suck In Feedback
This is an amazing way to get more website traffic. Actually listen to the feedback that your readers give you. Some people e-mail you out of the blue and some people comment on your website, but make sure you are taking note of what they say. There are some amazing clues in amongst this feedback and it could sometimes be only from one person, but it still counts dramatically.
It is amazing what ordinary website visitors come up with. They can tell you the most obvious things and if you listen you will generate more website traffic guaranteed!
I have done this over and over again. In fact this is how my first website, Tips4pc became so popular. It was simple; I listened to what people were saying and make changes accordingly. If they asked for certain content I provided it. The funny thing is, that later I would find that there would be more than one person wanting the same content.
Creating website traffic is not always about something technical. If you just stop thinking technical for a moment and think about action, you will have loads of website traffic flowing to your site.
#15. BackLinks On The Right Sites
Webmaster often consider any back link to be a good link for their website. This is not what I have found to be the case.
When I get a back link to my website from another website that is directly related to my niche, both my website traffic and my sales increase. This is an absolute known fact. I can stop link building right now, watch my sales go down, and then start link building again to watch them go up again. Trust me I have tested this.
Sometimes when you build links it does absolutely nothing to your website traffic all sales, but when you get the right links you will notice your website pumping with action.
#16. Guest Posting Has to be Mentioned
I have to mention guest posting because this is where I get the best back links from that bring in the best traffic. I know everyone knows that guest posting is a great thing to do but I do not see many people doing it?
Why are you sitting back and wondering where your website traffic is when you could be guest posting on sites where your customers are hanging out. For my computer tips website I guest post on other computer tips or tech websites. For my blogging niche website I look for similar sites to guest post on.
That is not the be all and end all of it either. You need to direct the traffic back to your website somehow. By testing your authors bio or away you leave the links in the articles, you will soon figure out the best way to get that website traffic too visit you.
#17. Regular Posting
I hate to say that regular posting on your blog or website does bring in more traffic. I have no argument there but I do have a problem with keeping up with that schedule. If I post an article on my computer tips website every day, the Alexa ranking drops bit by bit, without any outside promotion. So I can just continually post great content to my site and improve my rankings.
It is all about momentum and keeping it. If you want to post every two days, then do it. I think posting once a week is not enough and probably means you would have to do a hell of a lot more promotion to get the right website traffic to your door. If you can find that balance between publishing articles and promotion then you will notice your website traffic continually rising.
We must be careful though, as you can sacrifice reader engagement when your posts flow-through your blog too fast. You need to find the balance that is right for your website.
#18. Save Time on Traffic Generation
As I stated above, posting regularly can see you save time on traffic generation and still give you a decent amount of website visitors.
Another way to do this is to make sure that the content you are creating is content that people want. You can do this by researching what keywords are being searched for, seeing what is popular in your niche, or simply asking your readers what they want.
Providing the right content will definitely save you time on promotion. For example if you write an absolute awesome article and it gets virally shared through social media, your promotion is done for you.
This is the best way to generate traffic for your website. Basically if you can create content around keywords that you know people are searching for and it is awesome content, you will have 70% of your traffic generation job done for you.
#19. SEO is Still Cool
You should never presume that search engine optimization is dead just because of all the recent Google updates. Google is not out to kill SEO, Google is not the SEO God, it is out to simply provide the best results in the search engines. All they really want to do is provide what their customers want. How simple is that?
You still have to let the search engines what you have and a great way to do this is to read my article about SEO under the hood of your website. This digs deep and gets you thinking about what you really should be providing to get ranking in the search engines.
#20. Any Old Traffic Will NOT Do!
You can get thousands of website visitors to your website every day but get no sales from it. How does this happen? Well obviously this is the wrong traffic, or you are not doing the right things with your traffic.
If you are sure you have targeted traffic visiting your website then think about what you are doing with it? Don’t let that traffic go, grab them while you can in that once in a lifetime split second. Did you see my article called “Why more traffic does not equal more money“?
#21. Information in a Logical Order
You might be fantastic at creating the best content ever, but how do your website visitors find it? Also how do they read it?
Webmasters fail to think about how their website visitors are going to navigate their content and read it. Creating killer content involves formatting your content in an easy to read way. That is one way that people can understand your content better.
Then we need to think about how they actually find the content. They might have found one piece content through the search engines, but what about the rest of it, where is it?
If a person is reading about starting a website, for example, you would have the content linked in a logical order. First you would show them how to start a WordPress website from scratch, then customize the installation, and then maybe install the WordPress theme. You need your content to flow on all your website visitor will not know where to go.
Here are some tips for presenting your content in a logical order
- Showcase categories or sections in a top menu bar. For example I have a SEO section above.
- Have your most popular content showing in the sidebar. This will show your website visitors what you can really provide.
- Create internal links to the next piece of content that follows or is related to the one the person is reading.
- Create content that has subheadings, bullet points and images.
All of these points make your content easy to find and easy to read. If you can please your website visitors and make it all easy for them, they will return and this will increase your website traffic.
Just remember that the information you are posting on the Internet has probably already been said and done before, therefore it is how you deliver it that makes the difference.
#22. Research Your Competitors
If there are websites in your niche that get a lot of traffic make it your business to research where that traffic is coming from. A great place to start is to visit Alexa.com as they have loads of valuable information available.
You can see what keywords are bringing in the most traffic, you can see where their traffic comes from, and you can see where their traffic is going to.
If you are researching websites that are in your niche and do you see that they are getting a lot of traffic for a certain topic, then you know that this is what your readers want.
#23. Solve Problems
People go to the search engines when they have a problem and want to find answers. If your website can solve these problems then people will know where the answers are and return again later.
If you promise to solve the problem by posting an article that says it has the answers and it doesn’t, you are not doing your website any favors. If your post title promises to solve the problem and you do solve the problem, you create trust.
Just remember that solving the problem is only part of the equation because if you upset the website visitor, even though you heard solve the problem, they might not trust you. For example you might have too much advertising for the website visitor to read the information freely. This will upset the reader and they will most likely search for another answer.
#24. Stand Out In the Crowd
But there is no doubt that standing out in the crowd can bring you amazing amounts of website traffic. There are crazy success stories where people have only been blogging for one year and are making a six-figure income, simply because they stood out. It usually is their content and what they give the people that stands out, but sometimes it is their personality as well.Generating regular website traffic can be as easy as standing out in the crowd. You know the bloggers that have just skyrocketed to the top, they did something that made them stand out in the crowd. Personally I did not use this method as I was too busy creating my websites and taking action in the background.
#25. Use Youtube
I have told people over and over, that Youtube is the best source of traffic I have. It is not only the best source of traffic; it also converts the best because it is extremely targeted. So why are there people that have not posted videos on Youtube?
I have heard all of the excuses in the world, but guess what, even I buy videos to post to my YouTube channel. The problem is I do not have the time to make videos and there are people that will do it for you. Some videos cost five dollars and others more. Surely you can spare five dollars for a video to post to Youtube?
Just think about it. People have searched in Youtube to solve a problem and they find your video. Your video is so good that they click the link under the video to see more information. These people are hungry for this information. If you give them more of what they want you will get what you want.
Conclusion
I know some people were probably looking for some amazing traffic tip that was not so obvious. Unfortunately all of these traffic getting methods are right at your disposal and are the most obvious to everyone. All you have to do is take action and stop fluffing around.
Why does everyone keep looking for the big answer to their website traffic problems when the “writing” is on the wall? Simply create great content to please your website visitors and the search engines will be happy to send the customers your way. If that’s not enough for you, get off your butt and promote that fab content. 
Hi,
Thick heavy informative post, thanks for it!
I did never try Youtube to bring traffic, does it actually work? I heard that you need to have a lot of luck and SEO Techniques to rank your video ? Its a bit hard?
Its better to follow your competitors and beat them, its fun too!
hi mitz
Nice post and Thanks for sharing these useful SEO tips with us. Media content like images and video are important part for gain traffic.thanks for sharing.
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Yes very true! I get a lot of traffic from Google images and also infographics. Totally forgot to mention them.
thanks for introducing me with these fantastic tips for getting the website traffic.., I think getting social is the best way to derive the targeted traffic.
BTW implementing all 24 tips is very hard but they surely lead to the success.. thanks for the same..:)
Gieaways are really beneficial to spice up your blog and get you to the steps of sucess very easily.
hello mitz
once again, a nice post from you. i think studying compitition is the essential thing for getting high rankings we should study their links and keywords. thanks for the post
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Hi mitz,
Nice topics to increase website traffic. All points are interesting, easy to read & understand, If followed properly it will lead to a successful blog. Blogging is always needed Creative, useful work for people in a easy way.
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hello Mitz,
these are awesome points , regular posting and gathering new ideas help us to increase our websites traffic and we have to be social.
thanks for this post:-)
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Hello Mitz..
This is really a complete tutorial to get traffic from blog post.You mentioned everything and every aspects of blogging to getting traffic.Quality content,social activeness and SEO with back linking is the best strategy to get traffic.Thanks for nice sharing.
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Hi ,
Great tips , I think you have covered almost all the things one can do and one should do as a blogger.Few points i miss in myself but i ill take care of it from now.
Thank you for sharing the information.
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Thank you again Mitz. You have made some serious points: great content, commitment to backlinking right = traffic. I am learning. Hmmn! The value of a site is dependent on the volume of traffic it can garner after promotion.
Yes, it’s true Mitz that SEO still be a powerful way to increase traffic a blog. And I think visitors from social media such as Facebook is not the best visitors, because I think the best visitor only from organic search engine.
Thanks Mitz for your good tips.
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this post has really helped me out to plan a schedule to work upon to increase my blog traffic. i just want to ask if i need to pay to have newsletter on my blog or i can get it for free. please answer and thanks again for so many useful information.
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Hey Mitz !
Content is king, indeed. people wants to solve their problems not promoting our post. Moreover, really liked the idea of research your competitors. These tips would be fruitful, I am sure about it.
Thanks.
Matt Kennedy
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Great tips for getting website traffic. Yes content’s quality matters a lot. Youtube is the nice way for getting more and more visitors.
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Hi Mitz,
I must say that these are awesome tips to get traffic any body having website is require traffic to it and I am thinking on unique content will help me out but there are lots of things I should try as early as possible it’s just amazing to have everything at one place
Thanks…..
Youtube is definitely another ‘channel’ to reach out to your audience and can help you with getting – and keeping – people interested.
hello mitz
these are really some nice tips to get traffic. but i personally think that writing quality content and sharing it on different platforms like facebook, twitter and other websites is the best ways. building backlinks in essential as it can give you traffic as well as high rankings
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Researching on your competitor is vital as you can take his or give away your traffic all depends on your study about his activities.Several softwares and websites assist a great deal you can search for it
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Very comprehensive list, Mitz, and I can’t help but agree with the points you are making.
A couple of things that hit the chord with me:
1. Bring your traffic somewhere AND do it as quickly as possible when you are on a third party platform like Twitter, FB, etc.
2. Listen to feedback.
Why I don’t share that much content from other blogs? Because much of the content online sucks. Yet when I say that to people, they stop reading my blog.
I agree that some information sucks online because people have no experience about what they are writing about so they write what they presume is right?? Does that even make sense?
i like the way you think.thanks for sharing this nice useful content.SEO and writing good content is best method to drive huge amount of traffic.Also quality content can attract new visitors.Search engine like google loves new and fresh content..3 Simple steps which can boost your blog traffic
My Blog is Only 6-7 Months Old and AM Really Working On My Traffic.So these Tips can help me…Hope these Benefit Me.
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this is a superb article for n00b bloggers like me…currently mine website is getting 200-300 visitors daily from search engine..i hope this will work for me..Thanks you..
Getting traffic on a website makes the owner feel comfortable and one only can survive if the traffic is coming and making some income.You have given admirable tips to work on the traffic generation methods.
Hi Mitz,
It’s really great and awesome ways to get natural traffic. You have focused very sincerely on them.
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Thanks for the info Mitz! Nice ways to bring more traffic to blog. Tops Comments in sidebar is definitely a good gift for your readers
. Keep up the good work.
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Mitz, I love your idea of saving content ideas. I dream blog content and then forget it.
Youtube has emerged as one great source that audience would like, but trust me its new interface really sucks
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Wow great tips i really going to follow this with my blog!
Thanks for sharring Mitz!
Well. i should a passion for getting my blog traffic, and here i getting a lot of ways to get it
Thank you
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Killer Checklist ….
These tips are really helpful to generate targeted traffic … With regard to #5, smartphone apps made our lives much easier to store ideas that scratches our minds on the go !
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Hi,
This is a great list. A few things for me to apply.
Many are saying latetly that seo is not the way to drive traffic because of Google panda and pinguin. They push the paid traffic instead.
For me I do believe that seo traffic is the best.
Have a nice day
Rob
Yes I agree Rob,
SEO is the best!
There is no doubt that your post is one of the best in this competitive seo sector. Beginer can get lots of technique to get tons of traffics to their site. Getting traffic is really a tough job, so that this pos will help to generate ideas and get traffic. I always in favour of quality content and natural link building technique. I have selling and buying backlinks. Become a good commentator on niche high PR blogs is really awesome ideas to boost up PageRank, Traffics and high quality backlinks.
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When I deploy all of the above tactics and connect with others meaningfully on social networks, I always try to speak clearly from life experience, as well as speak from my heart, so ppl know I am genuine in my approach to them =)
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Social media has ended up being a huge part of web index tool enhancement and we do require some social verification on our web spaces. Not just that, however social media can carry your site movement to you if individuals impart your substance. In the event that you don’t establish social media catches on your homepage or make social media foundations, you’ll be lost out on a undaunted normal product of movement.
The inquiry could be, “why could you do this deliberately?” You plainly know that social media is vital so why haven’t you set up that Facebook page, or why haven’t you got a Twitter record?
Social media should not make you rich but its a significant part of your continuous homepage movement. Folks will take after you and when you present your value substance on these social media locales they will visit to peruse more.
This post is spot on. Provide your consumers with rich content and quality and SEO will still work. And not just quality as in well written content. This article perfectly dots out how you can provide a GLOBAL quality service. These tips are great of you want to get out of your panda/penguin slump.
Thanks for reading Sandro! Yeah all good quality content will keep you safe from any Google updates.
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Twitter is my best marketing tool for generating traffic to my websites. After Twitter I prefer linked in.
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Traffic generation has always been the hardest part of internet marketing. Thanks for posting this guide! It will surely help me gain more traffic for my site.
This are really great pointers which are helpful to make websites more quality sites and will hold the people’s interest. This will help to make a site worth visiting for and of course as it honed its credibility of their niche.
Yes, but I do not like giving away the traffic I mgid. I also think that the traffic you’re not so big. I think it works to do for some blogs.
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Awesome tips seriously, i enjoyed reading your article and have learned a lot of from it. The point you share is really good and this work is long term not a short term but give more traffic also give the high page rank. keep it up.
Great tips. I have bookmarked the page for future reference. I love the last one. I have never made a video. It has made me want to start my own channel.
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Hi
Great traffic is really amazing matter but how to get good & quality traffic thats a big tuff task, point of some people. I’m favor of “Write List Posts” because as long & strong list always attract Reader thats really amazing.
Yes your pic is looking very goood mtiz
really really nice post .thanks to you for posting such kind article.
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HI MITZ,
I agree with your idea whatever you have given in this article i wonder after following this tips surely going to help me.
i have return many post in website till date but i like this as many all time favorite. great points
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Those are really great tips. I think one of the most powerful ways to get traffic is from guest blogging on quality sites in your niche. Not only will you get some of the highest quality backlinks, but you will also get quality traffic from people who already trust you.
Hi Robert
Yes I love guest posting and this is the absolute best way to get traffic because it is real!
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Wow, those are solid pointers you made about website traffic! You provided a lot of things worth trying! I’ll get back to you when I’ve done it to my websites as well.
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Outstaning list, so many useful tips! Thanks. I think tip #24 (stand out in the crowd) might be the most important one – because if you don’t know what makes your site different from your competitors your user definitely won’t know. Making something that nobody does (or at least not in your niche) is what attract people and creates buzz.
Yes I agree janina
Standing out in some way is a great way to be unique and that will make us all special. I think that showing your personality is a big part of standing out..after all we are all naturally unique.
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Thanks for raising these points, there are times when I find myself complicating the process of lead generation by looking up products that promise to do the same in a shorter span of time but believe me when I say that none of these offers really work. It would still be best to stick to tried and tested methods such as coming up with killer content and leveraging social media platforms.
Yes there is no secret to traffic..it is amazingly simple.
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Mapping out my content development strategies to keep my readers hooked is the area I’m currently focused on, it’s easy to neglect the quality of content we provide when we are driven by lead generation alone. I appreciate this highly informative share!
Hi Kristine
Yes I know what you mean. I try to create quality and then implement the rest after the fact. Everything revolves around the content first for me.
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another awesome post mitz, thank you for sharing these awesome post, i agree with all of points you mentioned in this post. thank you
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Thanks for sharing these excellent points–consistency really helps in sustaining the attention of our regular readers and soliciting the attention of newly generated leads. Updating our content regularly and keeping our readers engaged and interested is definitely a must.
Yes I agree that updating your content is a big one.. I have done many experiments with this and fresh content always wins.
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I have to admit that you shared a lot in this post. Once I have created a mind map for my friend to tell him how to increase traffic on his blog and I have kept it as a secret till now
But this post has stimulated me to publish it on my SEO blog. I will do it soon, thanks for this information packed post
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Nowadays there are various traffic exchange networks which can also be used to get additional traffic. Although majority of such networks aren’t good but some exceptions (like Scribol and MGID for example) are definitely there and those networks are both adsense safe and source of quality traffic.
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Yes but I do not like giving away the traffic I get to MGID. I also think that the traffic you get back is not that great. I guess it works for some blogs though.
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i enjoyed reading your article and have learned a lot of from it now i am thinking of giving a gift to my readers.
i have just completed reading your book and have learned from it and from this article also just loving your blog it is making me too much learned i was not knowing too much of getting traffic from YouTube and from now i will surely try it..!!
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awesome tips seriously, i enjoyed reading your article and have learned a lot of from it now i am thinking of giving a gift to my readers.
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Yep, a lot of work and sweat is needed now to get a successful blog!
It’s a great list, sometimes we get lost in so many things to do, going back to the basics makes a good fundation for traffic
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yes I have tried them all trying to make things easier but they all fizz out in the end.. There are only the basics that stand the test of time.
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Wow! That’s a pretty comprehensive list. All of them look actionable. I think I’m going to start with Youtube.
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Awesome Post. Really nice points mentioned. Will follow them for sure to get more traffic.
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Hi Mitz, thanks for the tips you shared here. I just recently start building my email list, because I thought that email list was just for IM people. But reading your article made me even more convinced that I should definitely have one even though my site is a tech related site.
I would also like to add, never buy services that promise to get you high traffic specially if they are offering a very low price. Your site might even get banned by Google!
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Yes I have a tech related list, a saving money related list, and more…It is very targeted for each site.
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Hi,
Nice work you have done, the point you share is really good and this work is long term not a short term but give more traffic also give the high page rank. keep it up.
Thank
Kamran
Email lists always seem so annoying but they work so great for me. I really get a lot of leads that way and I have customers that love the updates and special offers we send out. There’s a few on here I have to try though, thanks for the article!
Brilliant pointers here, great advice for the 3 most effective ways to get traffic to your site. Something a lot seem to miss for some reason.
I think some of them are usable. But the hardest thing is to attract unique site visitors ( that will stay afterwards). Youtube and getting more social will help the most(if we are talking about blogs ofcourse.
Mitz list is great. To be successful in blogging takes a lot of time and work. It is not a post and then money right away. It is like show business that you need to build credibility and make a lot of marketing to reach your peak.
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Getting traffic on a website makes the owner feel comfortable and one only can survive if the traffic is coming and making some income.You have given admirable tips to work on the traffic generation methods.
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Great article! I am currently thinking about a transformation story. I’m not sure it will work for me but the thought is there and that is the purpose. The key would be the contrast. The distance between the before and after
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Thanks for the wounderful tips,its helped me lot as i am new blogging.Its sounds very good every word of your article as you represent
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The problem with some of these is that I am not exactly sure how to make a video about a few things. I’m just not sure.. will a slideshow of price comparisons for refurbished computers or a slideshow of recipes set to a popular song be enough? It seems like it’s the only way to tie in videos with some of the things I do. II will take the rest of the article into account, so thank you!
Yes slide shows work and you can also use powerpoint slideshows… I have videos like this and it just depends on the content of the sides..Is it worth watching or not?
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Although it is admitted fact that SEO is very useful to bring organic traffic to the site but SEO will only be successful when a site has quality contents and that quality contents are published if you have brainstorming habits and power of thinking positively.
Great post Mitz. Thiese are really solid ways for one to get traffic to one’s site especially: writing quality posts, getting social and building backlinks. These three are very crucial
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Hey Mitz, I’m on the quest to get more traffic as well. I’ll take a look at my analytics and analyze it further.
Consistency is probably the most important part of driving traffic. Hopefully I can be consistent in the coming weeks.
Should I create a FB page?
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There are lots of way to attract traffic for your site/blog but in that you should give first priority to social network because this option will work more better than other ways to attract organic traffic.
You have to know what want to accomplish and create a plan of action to accomplish your goals.
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Yes,yes…
I have many of posts about to get more and more traffic,But it think this post have got my attention so much then other.
Here are all the tips but one point made me chuckle that is SEO still cool.I mean will it not?
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Its an article having worth more than one can think Mitz.I wonder if one will follow all these points in just a one go then how much traffic he is going to increase and in how much time. Socializing is the best thing one can do to get referral traffic to the site.
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Hello Mitz
If a site has quality contents, all other points are valid as reader will only come on your site if there is quality on your site.Second step is the promotion of the site on the behalf of these contents. This step demands media and tools.
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I was so turned off by Aweber stalking me with google ads everywhere all the time that I went with mailchimp but now I’m in doubt about that decision again. Will have to rethink it. Thnx for the excellent read.
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Great article , and very usefull information. i agree with heather youtube is a great way to create audience..
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Thanks for this helpful post about blogging.
A lot of people that I talk to seem to think that the only thing they need to do is just sit down and write, but there’s really so much more to it than that. You did a really good job covering a lot of different aspects of taking on the job of being a blogger and what it takes to succeed.
Youtube is definitely another ‘channel’ to reach out to your audience and can help you with getting – and keeping – people interested.
Thanks again for your helpful post and keep up the good work!
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Hi Heather
Thanks for drooping by. You are right, there is more to just great content.
Youtube is great for highly targeted traffic! Love it!
Hi Mitz, this is really a great compilation of ideas to get yourself thinking outside the box. I can personally attest to youtube as it does really bring in very targeted specific traffic.
Not sure what my “thing” is,…but maybe more time and traffic will be able to figure that out for me.
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These are all such fantastic tips – and who wouldn’t love the pictures you included?!
#3 is speaking to me most today – figuring out your “thing.” I always think of it like a long-running TV series. When it first starts, the characters are a little stiff and usually don’t come across very strongly. However, as audience and critical feedback starts coming in, the producers can adjust the characters’ personas based on what people like the most. Sometimes, a show (or a blog) may start out looking one way, and end up focused more on what was once just a sub-plot – or take on a whole new flavor entirely. It’s all about keeping your finger on the pulse of your intended audience. Thanks for this!
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The pictures were actually taken by my friend for another website we do together…
I love these pictures!
Yep the audience is the one we want to please..:)
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