How to increase referral traffic

Well, you've posted in the SEO forum so you could start by asking an SEO question.

Try to build up the quality backlinks from the social network pages with high social signal. In this way you can increase your website referral traffic.

Try to create some good backlink on your website and share your website/keyword article on social media site. Have a nice day.

Start Social Media Marketing for your targeted website so that you can get more real referral traffic.

If you want other websites to be referring their visitors to your website, then there are several strategies you can engage in.

1) LINK EXCHANGE: contact webmasters and product developers and negotiate on how to display a link on their website so that clients can click and move to your website.

2) PAID ADVERTS: pay for ads on sites like "Google Adsense" to be displaced on the google network

3) CLASSIFIED ADS...

The list is unlimited...

Referral traffic can be acquired from various source like social media, Forums, QnA website so it depends on you where you want to invest time or money.
Like you can invest into paid advertisements over facebook, Pinterest and receive traffic from it.

Hi AMorrisonP,

The formula for getting referral traffic is simple:

1. Write or currate content with high utility value
2. Promote your useful content to centers of influence

People who act as centers of influence will refer traffic to the content they find as useful to themselves and people they know, or follow their advice.

The easiest method to more sharing of your content, is to simply ask. I use a Authors box at the end of all of my content.. I ask for the share. I also ensure that my social SHARE buttons are in there as well.

I am a BIG fan of creating content in PDF format. To include my weekly emails to my mailing lists. At the bottom of each page I say "This content is ok to share" or "Sharing is caring" and I have working icons to share the PDF on social sites.

A couple of my sites I have actually created "Media" pages where I have banners and such in different sizes. Also have the code snippets for each.

Bottom line.. if you are not ASKING you shall never receive. And by removing the friction to share by actually having the share buttons right where you ask for the share is really helpful.

Another added.. I personally don't use it, but see it all the time, those mid content twitter share boxes, I am sure have got to work.

Try these methods:

Business listing on top authority sites.
Do guest blogging on good industry sites.
Social Bookmarking on top channels like Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Reddit etc.
Submit your business on relevant niche submission sites.

Back-linking is the best option for referral traffic and you can also get help from social sites do this..

Thre are a lot of ways- free and paid. You may experiment with social media marketing, SEO, or paid ads like solo ads or Google/Bing ads. Make sure that you also offer good and quality content, especially with your landing page. The key is to experiment and conduct a lot of tests.

Guest Blogging

Blog Commenting

Use question/Answer Site Like Quora.com and Yahoo

Leverage Your Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest

You can Also Do Email Marketing And Newsletter

Try this one:

Find blogs with substantial topical trust flow in your niche. You can use Alltop(dot)com to find prominent blog post for a topic. Use Serpstat's "Top Pages" to find pages with the best visibility for a keyword (also a great method when you do your content research, as usually these page have the best content, and thus you can research each of your keywords)

Reach them and propose to do guest-blogging for them.

Promoting your best pieces of content will also increase your site's visibility.

social network and forum are recommend. I like social media because it interaction fast
Or you can refer some sorfware for pull traffic

Hi,
Referral Traffic :- Referral traffic is Google's method of reporting visits that came to your site from sources outside of its search engine. These sources can be other blogs, social media sites, forums etc.


Use Quora :- Quora is a question and answer website that can help you a lot with your referral traffic. All you need to do is find questions related to your industry and answer excellently. And yes, don’t forget to add the link to your site or blog page.

Social Media :- Social Media can help a lot to get you the much needed referral traffic. But before promoting your content on Social Media make sure that your content is up to the mark. Choose the right platform to promote your content, if you are into B2B business, use LinkedIn.

Link Building :- Any Digital Marketer will know the importance of building backlinks, but the important part over here is to build quality links. If you have a backlink from a popular website, then it becomes obvious that most of the people visiting their website will visit yours as well which shall increase your traffic.


Create and Add Infographics :- If an ordinary image is equivalent to thousand words, then an infographic is equivalent to 10 thousand words. Infographics are shareable, linkable and evergreen asset.


Guest Blogging :- This again is a time consuming process but the results through this are definite provided you take up guest blogging for the reputed websites. Try searching for the bloggers in your industry and offer them help. We are sure, that they won’t say a no if you are an expert in your field.

Blog Commenting :- Commenting on blogs by others will not only help you build a healthy relationship and backlinks but will also garner you a lot of referral traffic. But this can be achieved only when it is done in a right way.

No matter how big digital and outdoor advertising gets, word of mouth is always going to be one of the best performing networks for any business size.
I would suggest some tips which will help in referral marketing.

1. Understand your customer base that can drive referrals- Explore your email list and social media.
2.Segment these customers and decide the marketing channels you need to use.
3.Analyse and optimize for better conversions -
To optimize properly, you should follow these steps

-Note the important numbers with every campaign like referrals sent, referrals converted, email subject lines that worked, difference between different segments for targeting.
-Tweak your marketing messaging and create A/B tests to check different subject lines, targeting options, time of launch and color scheme with social media.
-Understand what works and what doesn’t. Use these insights to formulate the future campaigns and avoid the non-performing strategies.
-The goal should be to maximise referrals at a minimum cost.

Hope you find this helpful!

Cheers,
Shivankit Arora

Referral traffic is valuable in online marketing because it sends interested readers and qualified potential customers to your site from new domains. It also provides added SEO benefits, since by definition referral traffic is driven either by an inbound link or social activity, both of which send positive signals to the search engines about your site.

Guest Posts

Guest posts are a great way to build up referral traffic. Especially in light of the Penguin update, it’s best to focus your guest posting efforts on sites that are related to your business, which means your content will be in front of a relevant audience providing top-notch referral traffic. If you can set up a regular guest posting schedule, all the better, because that allows you to keep your referral traffic from those sources steady over time and increase traffic to your website.

Social Networks: Facebook, Linked In, and Google+

Social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+ are also natural contenders for bringing in referral traffic. Just remember your platform—Facebook and Google+ tend to promote a more casual, friendly atmosphere while LinkedIn is more professional.
Share your latest blog posts, events, or even favorite blog comments. It’s fine to share a link to a page that simply needs a bump in traffic now and again, but be aware these attempts can sometimes appear spammy – your followers’ tolerance may vary.

Press Releases

Press releases are a quick and easy way to get a wave of fresh referral traffic. It’s a great idea to do a press release for an event you’ll be hosting or to announce milestones like executive changes, earnings releases, acquisitions, and product launches. But to be honest, if you are paying for a press release, you can write about pretty much anything and pretend it’s newsworthy. Some businesses even send out press releases whenever they get a new client.

Back-linking is the best option for referral traffic and Guest Bloggin Blog Commenting Use question/Answer Site Like Quora.com and Yahoo Leverage Your Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest You can Also Do Email Marketing And Newslette.
Regards
SEOserviceusa

Best way is to do this is use social media sites as good as possible. also use book marking sites as good as possible. it will really gives you very good traffic.

Link exchange and SMM is the best way to increase referral traffic.

Try to build up the quality backlinks from the social network pages with the high social signal. In this way you can improve your website referral traffic.

It's a good question. Nowadays everyone wants to increase their referral traffic for business growth. Online advertising is the best way to get more referral traffic without any hassle. I think you should go for free online advertising for getting more referral traffic.

A few ways that I often used, it is very efficient.
Send email to readers.
Create a fapage with the same content in facebook and share more in other social networking sites.
Website optimized for SEO, link all the related articles.
Or if you have costs should buy traffic from Google Adwords, traffic will come very quickly, but this way you should weight lifting.