today I'm going to show you two ways to drive traffic to your blog or website
the traffic is targeted it does not take long to start working it's almost
instant the first traffic method produces shares and results like this
and the second has helped me get massive shares like what you can see here I'm
gonna walk you through both step by step in detail my name is Greg Kononenko you
might also know me as the caffeinated blogger and on this YouTube channel I
upload regular videos about getting traffic blogging and making money online
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my next tutorial alright let's get into the detail viral content B is a website
that you have to use if you want to drive more traffic to your website or
blog it lets you get tons of social shares and social media traffic in
minutes and best of all it's 100% free for example one of the users darada
received over 3,900 views in less than 24 hours
so his post went viral and even though I haven't received those thousands of
visitors from viral content B myself but this service definitely helped me get
sheer numbers similar to what you can see here 513 shares on this post 417 on
these 475 on these and 3:21 on this so let me show you in this video exactly
how you can start using viral content B to increase your social shares and
increase and drive traffic to your website so how does viral content B
actually work well it all works based on credits so to get more credits what you
need to do is share other people's content and that will in turn give you
credit so you will have extra credits credited to your account for every post
that you share from the other members on your social media profiles you can then
use those credits to add your own URLs and your own blog posts to be shared by
others in other words the more posts from other people you share the more
posts of your own will get shared let me show you step-by-step exactly how this
works as you can see we have four credits so what we
to do now is we need to go back to the dashboard and we need to share a few
posts in order to build up our credits to at least ten so that we can add at
least one more project there are a lot of different categories of posts that
you can filter by I'm going to go to blogging because that is my niche so I'm
gonna click on blogging tips now we need to go through the post here and filter
out which ones we don't want to share and which ones we want to share I'm not
interested in these first two posts how to store your blog images and how to get
your necess framework so I'm just gonna hit hide on both of them scrolling
further down I have found an article that fits within my niche and within the
topics that I normally share on my social media networks this one how to
write a good article for your blog each time with text optimizer that sounds
quite good so I'm going to share it so that I can earn some credits let's do
this I'm going to hit share on Pinterest this one here now Pinterest is asking me
which of the boards I would like to pin this to I'm going to share this on to my
blogging tips and tools board into the blogging tips and tools section so I'm
gonna click Save don't close the page yet you actually will need the URL of
this pin in the next step so I'm going to click see it now so that I can get
the URL of the pin on my board next I'm going to go back to the window and you
will see that there is a pop up here saying share this item even four credits
so it's asking me for pin URL that's exactly where I'm going to insert this
pin URL so going to paste that in and then I'm going to click Submit that's it
done as you can see it says you have earned four credits you can spend your
new credits on your new campaigns so I will go ahead and I will share one more
article pause this video and I will come back to the video once we've got enough
credits to actually submit our next project okay so I've just shared one
more article you can see it says I've earned four more credits so now in total
I will have as you will see twelve credits so we now have enough credits to
submit one of our own articles to be shared by others let's say I want to get
traffic to this article on my blog caponata blog drive traffic blog so what
I will need to do is I will need to come back to viral content B and click
the ad project button it will now give me an opportunity to add all of the
information about this post which I want other people to share so that I can
start getting the traffic to this post from there is other social media
networks the first thing that I'm being asked about is the URL of the page that
you want to promote so let's do this together I'm going to copy this and
paste this in here next I will need to include title for Twitter and it title
for Facebook so I'm going to type that
out okay so I've typed up the same
description for both Twitter and Facebook and it says learn how to drive
more traffic to your blog fast this works on any niche check out this post
let's see what else we need to do we now need to nominate the topics for this
post there are a ton of selections in virtually any niche I'm going to choose
the two that are most applicable for me which is affiliate marketing and
blogging tips next I'm being asked to nominate project budget in terms of
credits so I can nominate as many credits as I've got on here for this
project I'm going to nominate 12 because I've only got 12 credits the more
credits you nominate towards this the more traction you're likely to get so I
do recommend when you guys are using this tool yourselves to actually go and
share a lot of content from the viral content be don't go overboard but five
to ten a day is fine and then nominate as many credits as possible to get the
maximum results from this method so next we need to nominate which social media
networks we want to allow so I want to allow Twitter and I want to allow
Pinterest I'm not really interested in LinkedIn Tabler and mix but if you guys
are then you can by all means nominate those as well
next I'm being asked to attach images I highly recommend that you do this
because images on social media drive a lot more clicks several times more
clicks so you definitely should nominate the images so let's do this together so
first of all let's attach the Twitter image so I'm going to click attach image
and then I'm going to attach this image that I prepared earlier you can create
these images in canva com if you don't have a ready-made image
I recommend that it's a image in the size that Twitter actually likes and
understand the next thing you will need to do is if you want to share it on
Pinterest that you will need to insert the image URL for Pinterest note that it
actually needs to be a link to the image that is stored on your own website not a
link to an image on Pinterest so I've got that prepared here as well let me
just quickly copy and paste this is the URL of the Pinterest image on my blog
next you will need to choose any other options that you want LinkedIn Tumblr or
mix you can also click RIT MIT retweet me if you want other people to retweet
you so that you get more mentions on Twitter lastly you will need to click I
have read the quality guidelines and hit submit
that's it as you can see we now have 0 credits because we've just spent all of
the credits on promoting our most recent blog post once your submission called
project gets approved your post will come up for other people everyone who is
registered on this platform will start seeing this here on the front page and
other people will start sharing your content as well I hope you understand
how powerful this is because this is effectively a share for share swap
platform and you can tap into other people other bloggers with massive
followings that will share your content and you will can you will start
receiving all of the traffic to your content from the followings of other
people on Pinterest on Twitter and on various other social media networks so
please do not overlook this source it's completely free it can increase your
social media following it can get you more traffic and it does not cost
anything to use you can start getting traffic virtually from day one even if
you have no website Authority and no huge social media following the second
way to drive more traffic to your blog is by using medium com
but in a very specific way so let me show you exactly what the strategy is so
the method itself only takes five minutes and you really should be doing
this on every post because it does not take a long time at all and what it will
let you do is it will let you reuse your blog post to get even more traffic so
you don't need to create any additional content you can simply
take an existing blog post that you have already published and use it on medium
that will let you tap into over 60 million monthly readers on medium.com
and also improve your blog's SEO so how do you actually do this well all you
need to do and I will show you step-by-step in just a second
is import your blog post into medium then after you have imported your blog
post over 60 million readers on medium will be able to discover your blog post
and they will be able to start reading your blog post and clicking the links in
it it is not duplicate content medium
actually uses what's called canonical URL so even though you effectively
import your blog content into medium this is not going to hurt your search
engine optimization let me show you something this is reference from medium
com Help Center and it actually has an article about SEO and duplicate content
and it does say that when posting content to multiple platforms at the
same time such as your website and medium it is important to make sure a
single source of that content is the ultimate authority now medium does that
automatically as you can see mediums publication and cross posting pathways
automatically add canonical links to protect the original content posted
off-site this means that medium can only boost not cannibalize your SEO so medium
use these canonical links to actually boost your SEO the last thing I want to
mention here is this bloggers can use this strong SEO to their benefit by
using mediums official import tools you can reap the benefits of high
discoverability on medium while still crediting all authority towards your own
blog using mediums canonical URL so you can actually benefit and pass on the
authority of medium to your own blog by simply importing your blog posts I hope
that you can see how powerful this actually is this is a technique that
only takes a couple of minutes up to 5 minutes per blog post and let me show
you step-by-step how to use it I'm going to use
my most recent blog post as an example this is the most recent blog post that I
published a few days ago called ten Pinterest tips for bloggers that
actually work the key phrase or the topic that I'm
targeting is Pinterest tips for bloggers that's what I want to get traffic based
on from Google and search engines and so on the first step is to create a
medium.com account if you don't have one yet you don't need to upgrade you will
see an option here to upgrade you can simply do this with a free medium calm
account after you have signed up the next thing you will need to do is click
on your icon and then go to stories and then click import a story after that
simply copy and paste the link to your latest blog post or the blog post that
you want to promote into this area here and click import you might get an error
message like this I've gotten that a couple of times where it says import
failed so you simply need to click try again as you can see now it succeeded
and after I click see your story I will be able to make final edits to the story
just to make sure that the formatting is correct so what you need to do is go
through this and remove any spaces from time to time extra spaces creep in so
basically just go through and make sure that everything looks okay I'm gonna
pause the video I'll come back once I've formatted my story okay now I have gone
through I've made sure that the content looks ok you will need to apply some
common sense and sort of make sure that everything here stacks up for example at
the bottom here where it says related that's a default thing from my theme so
I would simply put in a call to action into this latest part of the post for
example here is what I'm going to do here I'm going to add a heading that
says get my free traffic and blogging course then I'm going to put a link to
this opt-in page so that everyone can grab my free course if they're like and
if they read towards the end of this post so I'm going to paste that in and
there you go now anyone who reads this article can opt-in to my email list
likewise I recommend you put in additional links to various
blog posts on your own website throughout the body of the medium.com
article perhaps link to opt-in pages there are other places where you would
like to send the traffic to after you have done that you should go in and add
a few final things to the medium post before you submit it so the first thing
is tags tags are extremely important and this is how content is actually
discovered on medium so I recommend that you spend a lot of well just just you
know 30 seconds or 60 seconds but of quality time thinking about those tags
medium automatically picked up this my that my post is about Pinterest so I'm
gonna leave that in the other things that I will add is as soon as you start
typing me media will start suggesting there is text to you for example if I
start typing in blogging BL o gg you will see that it starts suggesting some
tags for me so it says blogger there are 28 K okay
if I put in blogging it says blogging there are 28 K and there is also 2.8 K
blogging tips so they are populate tags I'm going to include them blogging tips
as well then I'm going to add a tag about traffic and I'm going to stop at
these four you can include up to five tags just make sure that they extremely
relevant to the title of your post so here we go I'm gonna hit save the other
thing that I highly recommend that you do is to change the teacher image of the
post the way to do this medium will load the images from your article here
however that usually is not enough as you can see these default posts are
simply default images are simply the images from a blog post I want something
that looks good and grabs attention so I'm going to include this featured image
I recommend that you create a similar image for all of your blog posts as well
as medium posts the easiest way that I found to include it is to insert it into
the body of the article like this then choose this image and it will get
inserted into the body of your post and then simply go and choose change
featured image once and choose the image that you want in
this case it's this one here this is all that needed to be done now you can
publish this post just go through it make sure that everything looks okay and
when you're ready to publish hit publish now now your story is published and you
can share it to Twitter and Facebook which I recommend you do the more social
signals you give it the more you will be likely to get some traction on
medium.com as well as on your social media channels
there you go that's how simple and easy it was to import your blog post into
medium comm and publish it and like I said guys do not overlook this strategy
60 million monthly readers on medium.com will be able to discover your blog post
you will start getting referral traffic from medium.com onto your blog virtually
instantaneously and you will also get some excellent SEO benefits for long
term growth of your organic traffic to your blog or to your website
additionally you will also start getting medium followers over time and the more
followers on medium you get the more traction you will start getting on
medium so it will grow like a massive snowball after all it makes perfect
sense because you simply repurposing the content that you already have and it
only takes a couple of minutes per blog post to have it imported into medium
.com