
Suggested ways to drive people to my guitar lessons site?
I just recently monetized the site via. a donation button, 2 eBooks that I wrote, and a "course" that I sell for $47. In March I made a total of $120 from the site...not too bad I guess, but not great either.
Here are my thoughts on all of the obvious traffic sources:
Email List
I just incorporated a mailing list into my site this week...I have 9 people on it already. I should have started this sooner...but oh well, better late then never right?
YouTube
Every video that I have on my site is also available on YouTube...I have little enticements to get people to click on the link in the description such as "related lessons" or "video cliffs available when viewed from my website"....but I don't think that YouTube is really the best traffic source to my site. People on YouTube generally want to stay on YouTube.
Posting in subreddits will result in spikes in traffic for like 1 - 3 days, but once the post moves down to the 2nd page...then my traffic goes down to the normal 40 - 50 sessions per day.
I've been considering using Instagram and making short 60-second versions of all my lesson videos, but they don't allow clickable links in the description. Sure, I could maybe build up a following on Instagram, but I don't feel that it will lead to a lot of traffic to my site since most people probably won't go through the hassle of clicking through to my profile, then clicking on my site's homepage, then searching for the "full" lesson of the 60-second sample that they found on Instagram. People are lazy...I feel they will likely watch the 60-second "sample", and then continue browsing on IG.
Facebook seems to now be mainly a paid traffic source. I'm not quite sure how I'd go about building a following on Facebook without paying to have "boosted" posts...I really don't have much experience with using Facebook for blog traffic building purposes. My only real experience with Facebook is just personal use. I had a friend who used to go around commenting on random peoples' statuses in order to somehow build a following (and he managed to build a MASSIVE following by doing so)...but that was many years ago. I'm not sure if that method would still work today?
I have yet to learn how to use Twitter. Maybe I'll make an account today.
Forums
I need to start posting on forums more. This is extremely time-consuming, and I'm not sure if the amount of time involved is worth it. I could be wrong though.
What would you guys suggest?
Thanks!
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