How do I drive more traffic to my blog?

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Any suggestions here? I have a personal finance blog (smartincometoday) that has not been getting any traffic. Would love to hear anyone's thought on how I can drive more traffic. Also, would appreciate any feedback on my website itself. Thanks!
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  • Advertise your existing content on Facebook...

    Then run a retargeting campaign to advertise the next post to the people you've pixeled, and use that data to create a lookalike audience so you can advertise to the right audience when you scale.

    But if you want free methods, and you're happy to put the work in, there are hundreds to choose from.

    Guest blogging is one of the best, if you're wiling to create outstanding content and give it away.

    No matter what you decide to do, you gotta build an email list from that traffic - that's going to become your most powerful traffic source in time.
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    • I also think the same thing. but when talking about advertisements don't forget Adword



    • Couldn't agree more. This is actually a great strategy. Get some interests that are related to your Blog, put each one in an adset and run a campaign for VC (view content).


      If your pixel is correctly set, then as Michael said, you can retarget them anytime. This can easily be done from your ad manager by creating custom audiences for people who already performed an action on your website (visiting a specific link or spending X time in X pages).
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      Get on Mikes Email List...everyday he gives great Free traffic tips. Feels like 100 times a day...just kidding.

      Art
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    • All great tips. Retargeting works great. I've done a little guest blogging with moderate success. My two best traffic sources are Bing PPC and email marketing. Your point about building an email list is absolutely spot on.
  • Since you're new you should read the rules. Promoting your website (by asking for comments on it) is a violation of the forum rules. Not making it an actual link is not an approved work-around.
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  • Ping your blog to Pingomatic.Com
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    • This looks cool, thanks! Will try it out

      Ah ok didn't know this. Will be careful going forward thanks!

      Thanks! This is a very comprehensive answer

      Thanks! Being patient is definitely the hard part!
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    • This brings no traffic at all, perhaps it helps with indexing..

      Marian
  • Free methods: SEO, Facebook groups, Reddit, Instagram, Pinterest, Forums...


    Paid methods: Facebook ads, AdWords, Bing ads...
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  • Simple method is to build links on different way.
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  • Hi,

    Quite a few ways you can do this. The fastest way to get traffic is to pay for it using Facebook or Google Ads.

    Seeing that I am a Facebook ads guy, I would recommend that you create a blog post, then create an ad campaign with traffic objective to promote your blog post.

    My advice is to also place the Facebook and Google pixel on your blog so that you can build audiences of people who have consumed your content.

    In terms of free traffic strategies there are loads but free traffic takes time to setup(unless you have large social media audiences or a big email list.

    However the most effective free traffic strategies are creating optimised Youtube Ads, posting in quora, forum posting and also hanging around in facebook Groups.

    Hope this helps!

    Grant
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  • Hi SIT,

    You *get* traffic through various forms of *giving* buddy, including:

    - commenting genuinely on finance blogs
    - promoting other finance bloggers via your blog and via social media
    - creating videos on FB and YT
    - broadcasting podcasts
    - solving specific problems geared toward your reader needs
    - always staying on topic with your blog

    Be patient and persistent; you traffic will rise bro.
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    • Posting articles from other sites, like this one from Quora.com, is highly discouraged. Please enlighten us with your original thoughts.
  • I see you only have a blog post published 4 days ago. It's not surprising you don't have traffic yet. Here are my pieces of advice:

    1. The fullscreen popup to grab my email is really annoying. Don't be that kind of annoying person. I would never visit your blog again if I were your visitor.
    2. Provide real value. 30+ articles on, and then you can consider doing external SEO. Right now, any traffic that it will come it will leave soon because there is no valuable content there.
    3. I think you should use a different word instead of resources. When I think about resources to make money, I don't expect to see web hosting and premium WordPress themes.

    I hope this helps.
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    • Thanks! This is exactly the kind of feedback I need Already removed my popup now having read your comment and trying to think more about your other two comments.
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  • Firstly, you need to create quality content and advertise them in your social sites. If your content can show its effectiveness properly, it will drive more traffic to your blog.
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  • To confirm, are you getting any traffic at all or just a low amount?

    I would start by optimizing for Seo and posting on social media. Is paid traffic an option? Ppc could work well.
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    • Would say no traffic at all. Paid is an option if there is a clear long-term value
  • Try tools like Link Assistant and Buzz Bundle to generate the traffic needed and wanted. They can help you find other people in your niche. It is important to not be spammy about stuff and start building relationships with them before asking to guest post.
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  • There are hundreds of different ways to drive traffic to your website.

    The secret is to focus on one or two traffic strategies until you've mastered them.
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  • Do guest posts on your niche related websites having decent traffic. Rank more and high searched keywords that will bring you traffic.
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  • I think SEO is the solution to your problem. Good luck.
  • create some videos or post some interesting in your social media
  • SEO is the basis, use webmaster tools, sitemap.xml, etc. and of course social network
  • It is broad way to gain traffic and not that easy. initially write pure, relevant content for blog and do proper internal linking. content is king than start backlinks for blog. content attracts the traffic.
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  • Youtube ads is good place for that niche.
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  • Do some keyword research and Post relevent content related to your business and optimize every niche of your website according to the keywords. Share it on social media. Guest posting is a great way to drive traffic only if you are successful in getting a body link.
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  • Relevant Facebook groups is very effective
  • Be careful when you want to promote your website throught paid traffic as it needs to be very qualityyy to get your purpose of people buying from your website ,paid traffic can get you visitors easy but if no conversion i dont see the point of using it .Free traffic methods you have a lot under my post
  • Free traffic
    1. SEO
    2. Social media

    Paid traffic
    1. Adwords
    2. FB ads
  • try Pinterest in works for me
  • Quickest traffic for your blog I think is facebook. As long as you put quality contents on your blog, it will draw more eyeballs
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  • Syndicate your blog out to as many social media platforms as you can.
    Build a simple video based around your blog and post that on youtube
    Try and focus your blog around keywords that you can see are popular, relevant to your website focus, will get you special attention on google
    Look for related areas to your website focus and write blog content that appeals to those areas that will attract traffic back to your website.
    Visit relevant forums and comment to again make contacts and attract interest.
    You need to add more content to your site.
    Keep on grafting and you will make it.
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  • I think you should involve yourself in discussion forums, i don't know what your blog is all about but go to some relevant forums and write some short contents or answer few questions and add a back-link to your blog, even if you get a no-follow back-link still it will drive huge traffic to your blog.
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  • You can try the following free platforms:

    1. Reddit
    2. Medium
    3. Quora
    4. Pinterest
    5. Guest Blogging.
    6. Blog Commenting.
    7. Facebook posting.
    8. LinkedIn.
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  • Get traffic from social media like Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn. Do Social bookmarking for your blogs. You can promote your blog with paid media as well.
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  • Social media is one of the best source of traffic. Get engaged with people who have same interest or have interest on your niche. Join groups share links, thoughts, participate in other chats. Forums also a best to get more traffic for your business
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  • Use social media to maximum and moreover trust on your content.
  • Make sure you have a great landing page, then start to make SEO.
    Good luck with success.
  • A good tip is to check out Google Trends and try to use something that's trending in the headline of your post.
    That should drive extra traffic to your site. You could also different traffic sources such as instagram, pinterest or facebook and grow and link those platforms to your blog to get more visitors.

    Good luck. Hope this helps.
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    • What are google trends?
      Where can I read about them?
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  • You could give free stuff or services, like ebook or give free services (small favour) related to financial (advise or something else).
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  • At the end of the day, ask yourself why would one visit your blog? It's gotta be for the content. Therefore, keep writing. And then promote your content. Over time, your traffic will arrive to your site organically. That's how I did it. I wrote and kept on writing.
  • One of the free methods besides YouTube video is Quora.

    The most important thing is not to engage in spam. Give real answers to questions. The first week just to answer the questions and then insert the different links to your site. It brings traffic. Just do not be limited to 1 account. The more accounts, the more traffic.
  • For this your blog should be well- written. To drive more traffic you can post it on social networking sites.According to your requirement you can also choose to do free or paid promotion.
  • Regarding the Instagram page, there you can also promote your account and make traffic with the help of services and applications. Instafollowfast.com can add the number of real subscribers, Minway can add the number of views. Thus, if you have enough quality content, then you will get your audience.
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  • you should make and ranking Plan:

    First: find profitable keyword which is rank able as well.
    Second: Make On page checklist and apply them properly
    Third: Make a link building and must build mix of links and will give you best chance of rank!

    After certain time enjoy the huge traffic as you are looking for!
  • Hi smartincometoday!
    There is a lot of options for you online!

    1. Social media - Facebook, Instagram (you can find the original way how to combine finance in real life images)
    2. Quora - help people and answer to related questions.
    3. Guest posting.
    4. Communities - the more you will put yourself out there in your field and share the information than more it will come back.
    5. Forums like this.
    6. Make sure your blog has some decent SEO, you can find all info online how to do it.
    7. Make your blog good looking.

    And more important you have to make more articles, if I`m right you have only 2 articles.
    If you want your blog to succeed you have to make at minimum 2 good articles per month in beginning and share them in social media.
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    • I will give you a very powerful tested method that was very successful for my
      It depends on facebook groups :
      1_Join about 30 facebook group relevant to your niche or likely to be interested in your stuff
      2_ stack a powerful text and link about your product or article
      3_ comment on those facebook groups , choose 5 best posts for each group then comment them
      4_ you commented 20X5= 100 comment for each facebook account , most likely to get about 500 visitor to your Blog
      5_ you have the choice to make it manually or auto , for me I use a very fantastic tool called Botchrome and I am not sure it there is alternative or not !
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  • yes! here are some way to do that!

    SEO
    SMM

    I believe that these are the best ways to do that and most of us not able to do that properly !

    I prefer Social media marketing:

    Create facebook page and build audience and being them on your website. Thanks
  • Hi, smartincometoday :

    Go for Paid Marketing and also free marketing
    • 1. Social media - Facebook, Instagram (you can find the original way how to combine finance in real life images)
    • 2. Quora - help people and answer to related questions.
    • 3. Guest posting.
    • 4. Communities - the more you will put yourself out there in your field and share the information than more it will come back.
    • 5. Forums like this.
    • 6. Make sure your blog has some decent SEO, you can find all info online how to do it.
    • 7. Make your blog good looking.
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    • These are all really good tips. Blogging is getting harder and harder to succeed, I believe, because of the constantly changing Google alogrithims and millions of blogs competing for the same keywords. No matter your blog's age, reputation or size, you definitely want to master paid advertising.That way you are in control of your traffic and don't have all your eggs in one basket.
  • Ever heard of viral traffic or refferral traffic? I think they are the best strategies right now. And it is even better if you have a good traffic source like email traffic/ solo ads.

    Combing both can increase your traffic to your blog. Of course, this assumes you must have a following first, therefore always build a list!
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  • Content marketing needs money, time and effort. You need to advertise your blogs on facebook, twitter and linkedin. Once you have enough contacts you can start remarketing ads for new content. Keep a subscribe option on your blog and encourage visitors to subscribe. Send your new blog post directly into visitors inbox. Build a loyal audience and use social media to drive traffic on your blog posts.
  • I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest buying some ads.

    It's an awesome feeling to actually have control of the type and amount of traffic you want.

    That being said, the hard part is finding the right fit for your business and budget. There are a lot of outright scam "traffic" sellers. It can cost you some money to find the quality but if you stay in for the long run, it is a good investment.

    Brent
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  • I get 70 visitors a day from a safelist and get sign-ups daily. It really works but you have to upgrade in order to see the perks. There's brilliant marketing in the works. I don't have to click on ads since I'm rejoicing the perks as a "gold member".
  • Try to post a content from your blog to Facebook groups. Find and join a lot of Facebook finance niche groups, post your contect there, answner to people questions and etc.
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  • There are a lot of ways you can get more traffic. Free ways are -
    1. Commenting blog post/Forums
    2. Provide great value to the quora users and drive them back to your site

    Paid -
    1. Facebook Ads - Neil Patel does it the best
    2. Google and Bing Ads

    You can use youtube, intagram stories and other social medias as well. But you get provide great value to the people.

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  • To drive more traffic to your blog,you should write a good content so that people are interested in it.
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  • 1. use social media and make them attractive
    2. hire a great copywriter
    3. write better titles and descriptions
    4. add images and videos
    5. SEO and keyword link-building strategies
    6. social sharing button
    7. retweet older posts and reshare old memories
    8. invite guest contributions and engage in a link for a link activities
    9. cross-promote mailing list
    10. invest in promotion
    11. hos give-away events



  • Try facebook ads or guest posting on other blogs.
  • Blogs require a lot of patience to get going.

    Focus on SEO optimization with a plugin like Yoast SEO.

    Also, comment on the newest posts of huge blogs in your niche.

    Hope this helps!
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  • You have a number of options. For paid traffic you can buy ads through Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Bing.

    You can do SEO to rank your blog for keywords that you choose.

    For social media, you can post on FB groups.

    Guest posting on other blogs. You must write really good content.

    Posting comments on other blogs.

    Answering questions on Quora. Help people with their questions and link back.
  • Hello...... You should social media of your website content on daily basis. Write blogs and publishing it good domain authority sites which derives more traffic. Links building is most factor to rank the website. Social media is promoting the website content among the public. promote the website through Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn. It is most important to build links for the website.
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  • Get social..! No matter who your target audience is, they will be on a social network, somewhere. While there are ways you can find them through paid services (more on that later), creating content surrounding your industry or your products and services will draw followers in. Even if your market is niche, you will find a following with consistency and unique, quality content. Customer service and engagement can all be done from social media, and this does nothing but help cultivate your community. Grow and groom it, and they'll give you some love in return.
    Best of luck
  • As my own experience, I think, From my listed way you can drive a lot of targeted visitors to your blog
    1. Niche related Facebook group
    2. Topic related twitter comment
    3. Q/A sites will help you to get more traffic. I really work quora and get more traffic (All link are no-follow, you do not get search engine juice)
    4. Blog commenting (I like this but not more)
    5. Pinterest
  • Don't ignore Slideshare - but make sure to upload a lot of good quality presentations instead of just doing 4 or 5 slides. A good Slideshare presentation that is featured on the front page can end up getting thousands and thousands of views and the Slideshare website gets a lot of traffic.


    Make your presentation visually attractive and add bite-sized bits of information in each slide so that it is easy to digest.


    Also, don't just do one and hope for the best. Do a couple a week and you will start to get traction, especially if your presentations are easy to read and contain useful information.


    Sally
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  • Hello,
    Forgetting the traffic on your blog, you can share it on various platforms or social networking sites such as Facebook, Pinterest, Google plus etc. so that you can get the backlinks from those sites on your blogs easily and can gain the more traffic on your blogs.
  • hi, can anyone suggest me some best forum sites for backlink creating...
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