Easy Strategies to get traffic which is free of cost for your blog or website
there are easy strategies to make your blog or website visible and without spending any money on creating traffic to your site. You just need to spend your time only to adopt these strategies that are really worthy and help you in the long run of getting more free traffic to your blog or website. I have listed 10 simple strategies to drive free traffic to your blog or website as a beginner.
1. Send a post to your social media platforms
2. Giveaways
3. Guest Blogging
4. Groups, discussion boards, and Forums
5. Give honest answers on Quora or Yahoo answers
6. Give content freely on famous freebie websites
7. Use social bookmarking
8. Tell family, relatives, and friends about your website or blog
9. Writing testimonials
10. Send Emails to your list of contacts
1) Send a post to your social media platforms
If you have social media presence then if you post a description of the blog or website to your followers and public in general you may get traffic free of cost.
In your profile, if you add your blog post link that is easily visible to your readers that can attract more traffic.
You just need to post on regular basis with some eye-catching description and necessary hashtags if that social media permits and you can use tools to schedule your tweets or posts for a later time. Adding some fresh quotes or fact make your post really engaging with your readers.
Posting your content at the right time gives leverage to your free traffic where most of the social media users are active and if you look for the longevity of your post you need to post your content when there is little activity in social media. Since at active time your post would be a short-lived one
You need to retweet or repost your earlier content to catch new readers or followers though you had posted it earlier. It would be given free traffic to your blog or website and who knows you may get your right persons after your repost.
2) Giveaways
Giveaways are the perfect way to get new subscribers or people on your mailing list. You also see them share your post with other new readers. Giveaways are worthy and related to your topic of content and offer it for sharing your post on social media or subscribing to your list.
You can distinguish between people who visit your blog for a giveaway or actually they are interested in your content by simply offering a giveaway without signing up for your list. Otherwise, you end up having people only looking for freebie signed up to get the same. You cannot keep up with freebie loaders.
3) Guest Blogging
You may post your content as a guest to another one’s blog which operates the same niche as yours. You are bound to get some traffic from that blog in which you post content as a guest.
You should be selective while choosing a blog fit for guest blogging. As the saying goes quality is more important than quantity likewise if the blog has large content but with very fewer comments or engagement from readers you have to avoid where though the content quantity is more it lacks reader engagement like comments or likes.
On the other hand, if a blog is having a lot of comments or social shares or likes though it has less content but captivating the blog readers then you can choose this for guest blogging. Contacting the owners of the blog with lots of comments shares or likes and sharing your thought on posting in their blog as guests to get more visitors and it is a win-win situation for both. Some blogs offer dedicated pages for guest posts.
While doing guest posting in their blog include your blog link in the write-up and also in the author bio section. In some blog, you may find a note either at the top or bottom section of the posts that allow readers to know who is the author of the guest post with a link to the author’s blog.
4) Groups, discussion boards, and Forums
Face book is the right place where you can get feedback on the content or design of your blog if you are part of groups that share the same niche.
It also shows that your online presence to the members of the group and you are also a member of the group sharing some useful content.
Community forums and Reddit are suitable places if you share your post in the same niche or related one.
Always remember to embed your link to the profile or your signature in these online community sites. It is also a very important step to know that community guidelines and rules before posting your links. Normally you may not get suspended for promoting your own blog.
5) Give honest answers on Quora or Yahoo answers
It is always helpful to people who seek answers to their questions in Quora and Yahoo answers. If you answer the question honestly and help those people posted questions then you get more views. Here you can always post your old content relevant to the question and you get organic traffic month on month.
6) Give content freely on famous freebie websites
Please do some Google search on famous freebie websites related to your niche that allow free posting of your blog content. You get some audience from that website who is interested to click to see your blog and its contents. In some niches, certain famous websites post contents of other bloggers for free.
7) Use social bookmarking
If you are a beginner to blogging you can get some free traffic to your blog from online sites like the flip board, Stumble Upon, or Pinterest. Flip board is more of an RSS feed and it functions more or less like Pinterest. Both Flip board and Pinterest readers will read your content if they visit your blog unlike Stumble upon.
Stumble upon shows a random website for its users when they open new content. Either you may add pages free or you can be a paid member to add pages to get more traffic and hits. You get traffic fast and quick. Your headlines are everything in Stumble upon mobile version where your headlines will be read by mobile users well before your landing pages loads. If the headline is not a catchy one then users will move away fast from your page.
Pinterest provides massive traffic for bloggers. It covers most of the niches and all genders and it functions as a social bookmarking site rather than a social media with a search engine. The Pinterest algorithm is more SEO friendly than hashtags. If your blog is an SEO complaint then you get good free traffic on Pinterest.
8) Tell family, relatives, and friends about your website or blog
It is always easy and advisable to advertise your blog to your near and dear ones.
They are the ones who will help you to share your blog with their friends and families. You may ask them to share your content using social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook. You can get their emails to send updates on your post if they are willing. If yes, then you have one more subscriber to your mailing list.
9) Writing testimonials
If you are using certain services or products related to your niche regularly that has helped you to succeed. Then you can send a useful review or testimonial to the website of the company and with a link to your blog. If the website post that testimonial with your link to your blog then you may attract some audience to that website.
Last but not least one !!!
10) Send Emails to your list of contacts
Why I kept email marketing as the last strategy is because it requires a lot of patience and hard work to create your own mailing list.
It is one of the best available tools for your business. But creating a mailing list takes months or years of hard work with those who are loyal to you and your content. Once you have achieved in creating a viable mailing list you can always get free traffic on demand to your blog. You can promote your blog with a tap of a button to your mailing list.
You can make more sales and more commissions with this reliable email marketing technique.
Getting More Free Traffic as a beginner for blog or website
All the above strategies require a lot of hard work and time-consuming compared to paid traffic but if you do all the hard work as a beginner you will be able to scale up new heights in online business which you have never dreamt of in your life. Patience, commitment, hard work, and passion for your niche are all you require to be successful in online business and it will grow exponentially in the coming years. So start to build your own business now and be a part of the success story of online business
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