Getting targeted traffic to come to your website is important because the more people you can get to come to your website that wants what you offer, the more people who will sign up for your email list and the more people you’ll make sales to. This means your revenue will increase in a number of ways.
Most people like “free”. If you’re a website owner, you would probably love plenty of targeted, free traffic from Google and other search engines, rather than having to pay for it. Here are 21 ways to get more free traffic to your website.
FREE Checklist: Get More Free Website Traffic
How To Get Free Traffic To Your Website
1. Study Keywords
You need to understand as much as possible about keywords. It can make all the difference to not only how much traffic you get, but to whether they stick around to consume your content or not.
2. Start a Facebook Group
A free way to start a group is with Facebook Groups. Make it open to the public, share all your blog posts to it, plus ask questions, answer questions and comment on other people’s discussions.
3. Join Someone Else’s Facebook Group
Many groups cater to your ideal audience. Join them and become an important part of the community. Never promote without permission in someone else’s groups.
4. Start a LinkedIn Group
You can also start a free group on LinkedIn. If you take time to create a great description, people are more likely to join. Make sure to share content regularly that links back to your website.
5. Join Someone Else’s LinkedIn Group
Search for LinkedIn groups that interest your target audience. Join one or two at a time. Participate in the groups for a few weeks or months. Leave the groups that don’t suit your needs.
6. Build Your Email List
When you have your readers and website visitors on your email list, you can send them to your website whenever you post something new on it to bring them back to it.
7. Use Email Marketing
Use your email to market your website to others by adding the right email signature, plus ask them to share and visit.
8. Guest Blog
Find influential places that accept guest blog posts. Create a unique and original post for them with a good image. Include a topic related bio to help you build your reputation and get click-throughs.
9. Start a YouTube.com Channel
YouTube is a fabulous traffic generator if you edit your video to include your URL, and include it in the description and even as a linkable comment. (Note: include a verbal Call To Action as well).
10. Guest Appear on Someone Else’s YouTube
Many YouTubers, who are popular in your niche, often collaborate in joint projects with other YouTubers. If you can guest appear on one of these popular YouTubers accounts, you can generate more traffic.
11. Create Better Headlines
The headlines on your blog posts and the content on your website matter a great deal. Don’t use clickbait headlines, you’ll get the wrong type of traffic. Instead, make the headline as close to accurate about the inside content as possible using keywords that they’ll use to find the information.
12. Join a Professional Blogging Community
Many professional communities do charge a small fee, so in reality this isn’t always free. Some are free, but even if there is a small charge consider joining in order to get traffic to your website.
13. Link to Other Relevant Posts under Each New Post
Internal linking is an important traffic increasing strategy. It will also keep the traffic you get on your site longer, thus giving them more opportunity to know about your offerings.
14. Optimize SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) is essential to helping you get free traffic to your website. There is both on and off page SEO. Learn as much as you can about it to ensure that you’re doing it right.
15. Create a Site Map
A site map is really just a list of pages on your site that you want to be indexed by the search engines. If you use WordPress as your content management system, you can get a plugin to help you create a sitemap.
16. Use Google Webmaster Tools
Google webmaster tools has a lot of training, and information for website owners to help them succeed at getting more traffic. They literally tell you exactly what you should do.
17. Call out Influencers in Your Posts
When you write a blog post about a topic you read about somewhere else, such as on another blog or in a book, tag the source in the post you write. If the source comments on it, their audience may see and read it.
18. Check Your Metrics
Some people will say that the data doesn’t matter, that only engagement matters. Engagement is imperative, but studying the numbers matters a great deal. How can you know if what you’re doing is working if you don’t look?
19. Connect With Competitors
It might seem counterintuitive to connect with your competition but it works. You can both encourage and market each other via newsletters, blog posts and more.
20. Use The Right Keywords
It takes some understanding of how keywords work to understand which ones to use. It might seem like you should use the most obvious keywords but that would be wrong. Use low competition keywords that people are looking for. There are lots of resources online to help you with your keyword research.
21. Use Long-Tail Keywords
Three and four-word keywords are called “long-tail” keywords. They are also called keyword phrases. You can discover these simply by starting your keywords in Google Search.
Free Checklist: The Free Website Traffic Generation Guide
You can pay for more traffic or you can generate more website traffic for free. Paid traffic is a smart part of a serious online entrepreneur’s marketing plan. However, if you don’t know what you’re doing, it can cost you a lot of money and deliver little to no results.
Free methods to generate traffic require regular input by you. But since your financial outlay is zero, and the internet never sleeps, you can employ these free traffic methods anytime of the night or day, whenever you have a few minutes or hours of spare time. Download my free checklist, Free Website Traffic Guide and lower your reliance on potentially costly paid traffic sources.