Help! Creating traffic question

by thet
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What are the variables that makes a company do bad at getting traffic to their website?
What are things to look at to see where the biggest improvement can occur?
#creating #question #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author wavemaster
    I believe one of the biggest issues is relevancy. Targeting If you have a good product or service and you get that product in front of the correct people it doesn't take alot of traffic to make sales. One of the biggest mistake marketers make is just marketing their product. You have to market yourself. Your image your brand.
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  • Profile picture of the author auditt05
    worst things are as follows :
    1) Buying traffic. Stupid!
    2) Buying likes. Again stupid.
    3) buying spammy links, this kills their authority and gives them a hard time in bringing organic traffic one day!

    Hope these help
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    • Profile picture of the author raxum
      Originally Posted by auditt05 View Post

      worst things are as follows :
      1) Buying traffic. Stupid!
      2) Buying likes. Again stupid.
      3) buying spammy links, this kills their authority and gives them a hard time in bringing organic traffic one day!

      Hope these help
      Buying traffic is not bad as long as you target the right audience. Also buying links is a good way to increase traffic...
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      • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
        Originally Posted by raxum View Post

        Buying traffic is not bad as long as you target the right audience.
        And how do you plan to do that exactly? The kind of traffic that you can "buy" usually isn't the right audience for any given industry or website. Someone is incentivized to visit a website that he/she doesn't really want to go to, or it's just a bunch of bots. I guess it might work if you need to lie about your visitor stats.

        There's also this other practice that has the change of working. Guys that are in the biz call it "advertising".
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    These completely open-ended questions are hard to answer so that the answer is short enough, and delivers something useful. For some reason people just love them. See Quora if you don't believe me...

    Content creation is almost always hard. Writing and storytelling (or "storyselling") are pretty alien to most people. Time is a luxury that most of us don't have, so we want to cut corners and just get it over with. By comparison Neil Patel, a well-known blogger, said in his recent blog post that he plans to take up to six hours per single blog post when writing about a niche that he was unfamiliar with. (Just an example, don't listen to that guy if he's talking about SEO.)

    So make sure your content creators are up to the task. If you're using your own employees make sure they're reasonably comfortable with blogging, and have time to pull it off. Otherwise it'll show in the quality. If you've got the budget hiring a professional freelancer or even a proper PR agency might not be a bad idea.

    When you've got content don't just sit on it. You need to promote it in some manner. If you already have following in social media, newsletter readers or something like that, great! If not, be prepared to spend a few bucks to push your content.

    SEO-wise backlinks are immensely important. Tere's no approach that's suitable for everyone, or simple push button solution. Those helpful lists you see on these forums just lead to pointless busy work.

    I don't believe in silver bullets. Biggest improvements depend on where you are. For example:
    Someone might point out a huge problem with your site or publishing process.
    You may have a break through by finding your audience, and a good source of traffic.
    Maybe you're even able to get some piece go viral, but that's often at least partly an accident.
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    • Profile picture of the author delenyc
      Hi!

      It depend on what your site / offer is about. Some offers can't and should not wait for SEO. For example, if you're offering CPA / CPI offers to landing pages, you will need to use paid traffic. Not only that, you will have to do something about what happen when the visitors arrive and decide to leave. You will need to utilize those by redirecting them back to other parts of your site or sell them.

      Finally, your best improvement will come from your tracking. Where your visitor come from and on what platform i.e. mobile, country...will make all the difference regardless of how you get the traffic to your site.

      I hope that helps.
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