So you have successfully launched your website and have some high-quality content already
published. You would expect that things would get pretty easy and quick in terms of your
website growth, right? But then you will notice that on a good day, you will only get 10-15
pageviews which is obviously not enough if you want to make a living off of your website.
What you need is website traffic—lots of it! Because if you don’t have people visiting
your website, then your hard work will all just go to waste.
Now, you have two choices here: you can either just sit back and wait for the day when people
will magically find your website, or you can follow these easy strategies that I will give
you in this video, to get traffic to your website fast!
Hi! I’m Anastasia, you can find me at anastasiablogger.com. And on this channel, I share what I learned
while building a business online, blogging and I also share my Pinterest marketing tips
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And in this videos today, I will give you easy and free strategies that will help you
get more organic free traffic to your website, and FAST!
1. Pinterest Marketing
I know this won’t come as a surprise that Pinterest Marketing is my first suggestion,
if you not new to my channel. But hear me out. Pinterest is every blogger’s holy grail
and it is no wonder why. You can get website link clicks and traffic to your site in just
a short period of time! If done right, of course. I would know this because about 85%
of my traffic currently comes from Pinterest. I'm getting consistently over 200,000/mo pageviews
to my site from Pinterest, in the best months I even had over 300,000/mo pageviews. And
it's not paid traffic, it's a completely free organic traffic source!
SCREENSHOT
Some people have this notion that Pinterest is just another social media platform but
they are wrong. Pinterest is actually a search engine just like Google and there are already
lots of bloggers and business owners who are using the platform to promote their businesses
and websites on Pinterest successfully!
To effectively promote your site on Pinterest, you would have to sign up or convert to a
business account (which is free) and then claim your domain, and start pinning! I have
tons of Pinterest Marketing tips and strategies on my channel that I am sure will give you
valuable information on some of the best practices on Pinterest.
But to give you a quick tip, you need to create pins that are vertical (at least 2:3 image
ratio) and have bright, pleasing images as Pinterest is a visual search engine after
all. Of course, don’t forget to have your website or article page linked to your pin.
And the most important part is that you need to use the focus keyword in your pin title
and description.
Using keywords is really important because that's how users will find your pin if they
search for something on Pinterest.
I have grown traffic to my new site with Pinterest up to 170,000/mo sessions by the end of the
first year blogging. But I am not the only lucky one in this. I made a short survey in
a large FB group for bloggers to see if there is anyone else who's got similar or even better
results with Pinterest free traffic.
Can you imagine my surprise when in less than 24 hours I had a list of 20 bloggers who left
their stories and comments on that FB thread, and many of them managed to get accepted to
Mediavine publisher network just within 3-4 months.
I mentioned Mediavine's minimum requirement is 25,000/mo sessions so you see how fast
was the growth. One blogger even managed to get over 300,000 monthly pageviews to her
site with Pinterest in less than in year since starting her blog.
I actually separated their blogs by niches so it gives you an idea of how different topics
and niches can perform on Pinterest and I’ll give you a link to the full list of bloggers
in the top right corner and in the description below this video.
What I said so far, barely scratched the surface on how Pinterest can help your blog or business
grow. Once you know the full strategy and understand how the Pinterest algorithm works,
your website traffic will explode. I have a lot more in-depth information about Pinterest
SEO (search engine optimization), the use of keywords, and understanding the Pinterest
algorithm on my Pinterest SEO Traffic Secrets course where I give you the most up-to-date
strategies and updates on Pinterest. I’ll give you a link to it in the top right corner
and in the description below this video.
One more thing that you might not even realize about growing your Pinterest organically is
that it can also help you with Google traffic. Simply put, you start getting a lot of people
from Pinterest on your site, Google sees this traffic and recognizes it’s a great content
so it starts ranking your pages better on Google as well. If you want to learn more
about how Pinterest can help you with Google traffic, check out THIS video on my channel
that covers all the aspects of this synergy between the two platforms in great detail.
The second way of growing traffic to your site is simply…
2. Write Click-worthy Titles and Headlines
People usually search on Google (or any search engine and social media) because they have
a question and they want to find the answer. But I want you to keep in mind that in most
cases, you have just about 3 seconds to grab someone’s attention, and this includes getting
someone to click on your link or page.
This is why you should create headlines that are click-worthy and attention-grabbing. It
also helps to write a headline that already answers what the users are searching for.
Some recommendations are topics or titles that start with “How To,” “Why It Is”,
“Where To”, a guide list, product reviews and recommendations, and DIY instructions.
Now, my Tip #3 is… 3. Creating YouTube Videos
It’s another great strategy of driving traffic to your website by making informative Youtube
videos. Did you know that Youtube is the second largest search engine in the world? So, take
advantage of the platform!
Create tutorials or informative videos that are within your expertise. For example, like
I do on this channel! I post Youtube videos about Pinterest strategies and I mention my
site in my videos, and I link my relevant page URLs in the description text under the
videos.
Funny enough, my videos often outrank in Google search results my own website and many of
my competitors with high domain authority, for the focus keywords which I tried to target
in my long-format detailed articles on the site.
You know how it happens… you follow all the best recommendations for Google search
engine optimization, you write a text over 4000 words long, you do internal linking to
help this page rank. In this particular case, for the keyword “Pinterest SEO”, I even
have a paid course focused on this exact topic. But whatever I tried, I wasn’t able to rank
for Pinterest SEO keyword on Google.
You can wait 3 months, 6 months, a year… and nothing happens. Your webpage is hanging
somewhere between top-15 and top-30 in Google search results and that means you are getting
almost no traffic at all.
And then I get really frustrated with Google and recreate my best Pinterest SEO tips in
the video format and within a month or so it takes some VIP spots on the first page
of Google search results… just because it’s a Youtube video, and Google gives priority
to videos on its own platform.
As a side note here, I don’t have anything against youtubers who document every second
of their lives or do makeup in front of the camera – it’s their way of making a living
and there is an audience for everyone. I just wanted to mention that it will be a lot harder
to get traffic to your website using this kind of video content, the audience has no
reason to click-through to your site – they came to observe your life through your camera
lense.
Since my channel is pretty niched down and focused on specific topics, for me Youtube
works great as a traffic generator. It became the third traffic source for my site by volume
after Pinterest and Google organic traffic. It's not just a free traffic source, it's
also a source of a warm audience, people like you who already have seen me on video.
When you are reading a text on a website and already have seen the person who wrote it,
at least once on a video, you generally feel a better connection with the author, it's
not some kind of anonymous username on the Internet, you know who exactly is behind the
website.
So if you have anything at all to sell on your site – like any products or services
you might offer on your website, driving traffic from Youtube can be not only a fast way, but
can also bring you warm audience, and high-converting visitors.
I’ll give you a link to my video where I showed how to build your Youtube channel from
scratch. You’ll find the link in the top right corner and in the description below
this video.
By the way, speaking of growing my Youtube channel, if you find the information I shared
with you so far useful, then give me thumb on this video and you know what I’ll say
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And another way you can let me know if I’m doing well sharing all these tips here, is
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Ok, let’s move on to my tip #4 – it’s
4. Join Blogging Facebook groups
There are tons of benefits you can get by joining groups that are made for bloggers
and engagement. First, you are meeting fellow bloggers and have a chance to learn from them
if they are a few steps ahead of you on this journey, you will receive tons of advice about
blogging, managing your website, tips about getting traffic, and a lot more!
Some blogging Facebook groups also have daily or weekly threads where you can post your
blog link for engagements such as views, feedback, and comments. If you are interested, I actually
have my own Facebook group called "Grow your Blog / Website Traffic & Make Money Online!"
that you can easily join and I frequently answer your questions about online business
in general and about Pinterest marketing there.
You’ll find a link to my Facebook group in the top right corner and in the description
below this video.
My next tip is
5. Email Marketing
Starting an email list is definitely something you should do the moment you create your website.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t send out emails right away. Start as early as you can
because you wouldn’t want to miss any user who first visited your website and was interested
in what you are offering.
By sending emails, you remind your readers and subscribers that you have a new post,
a new offer or service. And that itself will urge them to go visit your website to look
at your product or read your new blog post.
An effective strategy to have people sign up for your mailing list is by giving them
something from the start. It can be a free printable, a free short course, or anything
that you believe will be a valuable piece of information for them.
The next strategy I want to recommend you today is
6. Writing guest posts
It’s another great way to attract traffic to your blog and achieve faster rankings.
Guest posting basically means contributing an article to another website or blog. In
exchange for your article, the owner of the blog or website will credit you by adding
your short author bio along with your social media channels and a link back to your blog.
If you are lucky to get a guest post on a popular site, you will be able to reach a
wider audience! Just make sure that you guest post on websites that are related to your
niche so that you can actually get an audience that is already interested in what you have
to offer.
Bloggers usually have a page on their site called something like “Contribute” or
“Write for us” or even simply Guest Posts - this is where you can learn the requirements
they have for the guest posts, and how to submit your articles. Or you can always find
an email address of the website owner in the Contact section and ask them if they accept
guest posts at all.
The next great and FREE strategy of growing traffic to your site is
7. Linking Internally
When you are making a post, don’t forget to link back to your other related articles.
This not only helps with Google SEO, but it also helps the users see your other content
and urges them to visit more of your pages and explore your website.
This will prevent them from leaving your site after checking one page, which will improve
your bounce rate metric in Google Analytics.
Another method can be placing a section, usually it's at the end of each page, where you can
put Related Articles. This keep your audience on your site longer, and this will also help
with your Google rankings as it indicates the quality of your content. Usually if your
site is built on Wordpress platform, you can easily find free plugins to add related posts
section to your blog pages.
Now moving to the next method, I want to say it’s something most of us don’t even think
about!
8. Updating your old content!
So don’t forget about your old pages! Actually, your old page are most likely to be the first
ones to rank well on Google and you have to keep them up-to-date.
When users find your content, it shouldn't look like it's 2-3 years old, keep the information
on your site updated.
You can add new ideas, new paragraphs, or headings to your articles. Change the title
if you have a year written on it. For example, “How To Boost Traffic To Your Website Fast
in 2020”, and then the next year, you change the title to 2021. It is also a good idea
to look over your old post and see if you can link back to your more recent posts!
When users see in the Google search results an article that has a current year in the
title, they will more likely click on your page than on another page that has the previous
year in the title.
And my next tip is
9. Answering Questions on Quora
Quora is a great platform where you can promote your website. When you type in a question
on Google, there is almost always Quora on the top page, right?
And you will notice that the answers on Quora are from business owners, bloggers, and various
professionals. So yes, even can also answer questions there as long as it is your area
of expertise or if you know what you are talking about. When you do this on Quora, you can
link back to some related articles or posts on your site to help users get more in-depth
information that helps them with their question.
I know there are a lot more ways to drive traffic to your website but these are the
ones that have worked really great and quickly in my case. But if you have other strategies
that work for you and I haven’t mentioned in this video, please let us know in the comments
below!
Let's share the knowledge and help each other to grow online faster!
That’s it for today! I hand-picked a few videos on my channels which will also help
you with driving free traffic to your site, you can click here and there to watch them.
And I’ll see you in the next videos!