How to generate traffic to your website

During your process to learn how to make money online and how to work from home, you have learned that having a website is essential and very important for you to start making that money! You may have started your website by now and have it online. So how to generate traffic to your website.

You have started to show Ads on your website and you are promoting your Facebook page, Youtube channel, and your online store there. Now, what you shall do next?

Right! You need to generate and drive traffic to your website.

How to make money online driving traffic to your website

There are different ways to drive traffic to your website. Some of them are free and others are paid. In this article we will focus on how to generate traffic to your website for free.

Main Business plan: How to make money online

How to generate traffic to your website – checklist

1- Seach Engine Optimization ( SEO )

SEO is the process of driving traffic to your website for free through search engines. Everyone goes to search engines like Google when searching for something.

Before diving into details about SEO, you should know that SEO is all about keywords. You will build your website on keywords and it’s the keywords that will drive you that free traffic.

The real fact that all clicks that websites get from search engines go to the first three ranked websites for a specific word. What does that mean to you? You need to know your competitors and understand if you have any chance to beat them in the ranks.

Let’s be real about this and use common sense.

As a website recently built and published, you almost have no chance to beat any other website that’s been online for years but that’s exactly what you should try to avoid: Competing with high Domain Authority websites.

Shall that stop you from fixing your website SEO? No.

The trick here is to choose the right keyword and try to compete on that specific keyword! what’s the secret here? Long-tail Keywords.

Yes, long-tail keywords do have much fewer search volumes, but they are very much less competitive and with good SEO, you can reach page one on search engines with those keywords.

Think of it like this, your chances to get traffic from a keyword with 500,000 search volume is none, while you have a chance to get some traffic from a keyword with search volumes of 5000. what shall you choose? little is better than nothing, right?

2- Social Media

Let’s start with the numbers! how many people there are on social media platforms? 3.8 Billion!
How much of that number is really active people on those platforms? 2.8 Billion.

You can’t ignore those numbers and your content should be shared on social media to reach more people.
Remember, when it comes to social media, you should provide value first, then traffic will follow.

Remember the most important rule when it comes to sharing your content on social media: Never Spam.
Actually, You should add the social media buttons on your website and get help from your visitors sharing your content.

I recommend ShareThis to get the job done.

Remember, it’s a loop! if you manage to get visitors to your website through search engines. how do you make those visitors always come back? You need a way or another to contact them. that’s why you shall add a newsletter or direct them to your social media channels.

Promote your valuable content in online communities.

• Reddit
• Twitter
• Forums
• LinkedIn
• Pinterest

Work to read: How to make money online from Facebook

3- Guest Blogging – Write Guest posts

There are many sites that accept guest posts. That means they will publish your post on their website and they will allow you to link back to your site within the post.

how do you find such websites? Google!
Run a search on Google with your niche and ‘Write for us’ like a search for: Health ‘Write for us’ and you will find plenty of blogs/websites that accept guest posts.

what are the benefits?
1- More traffic
2- More backlinks ( very important for your ranking and will make you more visible on search engines. )

I have two tips for you when it comes to Guest posting.

• When you are looking for such websites, don’t pick the ones that are completely new, you will not get the desired traffic compared to the effort you will put. And, either go for the very old reputable ones with domain authority above 70, it will be very hard for your post to get accepted there due to competition. You need to find the ones in between with domain authority of 20 to 50, those are the juicy ones you need to target.
• Always post relevant topics to your niche, so when you refer to your website in that post it is most likely that people will click on your link.

4 – How to generate traffic to your website from Quora

Quora is a popular question and answer website, where anyone can ask any questions and also answer them.

Is Quora a good place to drive traffic to your website? Yes, of course it is.

Go to Quora, find questions related to your niche, and answer them. Be creative and valuable when answering any questions related to your niche. add a link to your website in your answer in a creative way and you will start getting traffic quora.

5- Make videos and publish on Youtube

Youtube is big and it’s a very good resource to drive traffic to your website. Create useful tutorials and upload them to Youtube and don’t forget to link back to your website in the title or the description.

Remember! You can also make money off those videos by monetizing your channel on Youtube. So it’s a win-win situation.

Read more: How to make money online from Youtube

6- How to generate traffic to your website Writing on Medium.com

Medium is a great platform for marketing any content and will surely drive you a good amount of traffic if your post were valuable and relevant.

What you also get? Backlinks on an authority website.

7- Email Marketing

Build an email list and you will find that it’s a great way to drive traffic to your website. Always send updates to your email list about your new posts/products. and you will get tons of returning visitors.

Never spam. try to send no much than 2-3 emails per week. And, the reults will be amazing.

8 – SlideShare presentations

You can always use a platform like SlideShare to deliver powerful PowerPoint presentations that are Google-friendly, helping you to increase your visibility. If you are doing it right, and your presentations go viral, which they easily can on this platform, which presentation links to your site, you’ll drive an outsized amount of traffic for free.

9- Optimize your site to be Mobile user friendly

When it comes to Google today, the mobile version of your website comes first. Make sure your site is easy to use on mobile before going online. Google has launched a new free tool you can use to check how friendly your website is to mobile users.

Check it here: The Mobile-Friendly Test

Also Read: How to turn your website into an app

10- Promote on Quuu

Quuu is a platform where you can post your content, make sure it’s your best content and they will ask influencers to share it. They will share it on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and many more.

Just before you decide to submit your content on Quuu, make sure that content is useful and has a lot of value.

I will be updating this list periodically as there are still many other free ways to drive traffic to your website. The goal is to reach 30 unique, easy, and useful tips.

Of course, when writing about traffic there’s no way to ignore the paid traffic. Yes it costs money and sometimes a lot of it but you still need to know about it.

Also read: How to make money online from a website

How to generate traffic to your website – Paid Ads

If you have a good budget, there’s no harm to run campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google and pay per click for each visitor to your site. Even there are sites that claim to drive organic traffic to your site for a specific amount of money and that’s a whole another topic that we will be talking about in future posts.

How to run a successful Ads campaign for your website.
Those sites that claim to offer you traffic are worth it? Scam or legit? useful or harmful? This will also be covered in a later post.

Extended ways to make money online: Worth to read

Summary

As we have mentioned above, there are many ways to generate or drive traffic to your website and we will be listing more. but there are two keywords you need to always keep in your mind regarding this topic: Time and Patience.

Ranking your website or creating stable traffic to your website requires a lot of time and a lot of patience. You don’t expect to see results overnight, even if you are doing everything just perfectly.

Thanks for reading
Brainfood+ team