Three Ways to Increase Your Website Traffic

Who doesn’t want to grow their website traffic?

Whether you are an entrepreneur launching a new business, a blogger starting a new blog, or you’ve been on the market for a while, your website traffic is among your top priorities.

It’s how people learn about you, how your tribe keeps up with your content, how you attract new eyeballs and potential clients.

But how do you make your website successful? How do you increase your website traffic?

The short answer is by investing in the right marketing strategies.

As an entrepreneur, you are first a marketer. When you build your business, when you build your personal brand, marketing has to be top of mind.

Invest in long-term marketing and brand-awareness strategies, rather than quick schemes.

It will help you build your reputation and, in the process, become a savvy marketer of your own business and personal brand.

Let’s look at some easy ways you can get your name out there and increase your website traffic, whether you are just starting out or have been in the game for a while.

Yahoo! Answers

Yahoo! May be losing the battle of the search engines right now, but they still dominate the Q&A industry.

People ask thousands of questions every single day through the platform.

Spend some time on the platform, go through the questions and answer those related to your expertise. Type in keywords related to your business to find new questions to answer to.

Make sure your profile is up to date and don’t forget to sign off with your company name at the end, so people know where to learn more about you.

This will help you get your name out there. It will expose your brand and website to thousands of potential new customers.

Quora is another Q&A site where you can help answer questions about your niche.

Spend some time on both sites and see which is more appealing to you, which has more content related to your expertise and help people out.

Social Bookmarking

Sites such as Digg, Reddit, and even Delicious are fantastic social bookmarking sites.

All you have to do is create content that people love.

When you do, it will become popular and in some instances, it may even go viral.

The main thing that you have to do here is put your website and content in front of people who are actually looking for it.

Start by bookmarking useful content. Other people will then find it and vote on how useful it is. You can then get a chunk of traffic as a result.

As long as you keep on creating content that people find useful, there is no reason why you shouldn’t keep reaping the rewards, time after time.

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Guest Blogging

Guest blogging is a fantastic way to get traffic to your website, free of charge. The only thing that you have to invest is your time.

Social media is great for connecting with some of the most popular bloggers and publications in your industry. Spend time reading their content, comment on their articles, share them on your social media channels. Spark a conversation with them.

When you find the ones that most resonate with you and your message, read their guest blogging guidelines and pitch them your topic ideas. Make sure your proposed topics speak to their audience and brings them value.

Once your content is published, make sure to share it on all your social channels, reach out to your community and ask them to share it too.

The more traffic you send to your articles on other blogs and online publications, the more interested the editors will be in having you back.

For each guest post you write, don’t forget to include in your bio a link to your website. If the site allows it, you can include in the body of the guest post a link to a relevant article on your own site.

This way you not only send people to your website, but you send them to content on your site that is interesting for them.

There are so many ways you can increase your website traffic.

We haven’t touched SEO for your content, or how to optimize your site for search engines. Those deserve an entire article or several. 🙂

The above tips will get you started. As your website grows, as you build your personal brand and establish your authority, you’ll want to polish these tactics, become better and better at them and add others into the mix.

The bottom line is this: don’t stop putting yourself out there, helping people, marketing your business and services. And above all don’t stop building your personal brand.

Your turn, now. How do you grow your website traffic? Share it in the comments down below.

Corina Manea is the Founder of NutsPR, a PR professional, social media strategist, content marketer, and blogger. She helps entrepreneurs build a community on social media and grow their personal brands online. Connect with her on Twitter: @corinamanea.

Originally published at www.nutspr.com.