Once you have built, designed and launched a beautiful new website for your blog or business, you are going to want people to visit it. Often times, attracting visitors can be one of the most difficult parts of blogging or having a website for your business. If you’re having trouble gaining traffic or not sure where to start, here are 20 ways to get more traffic to your blog or website.
- Create content on a regular basis.
- Link your website to all your social media accounts.
- Use your social media accounts to promote different blogs, images, or products from your website on a regular basis.
- Fill out yourGoogle+ page and update it with content.
- Comment on other blogs or social media sites.
- Guest blog or be featured on another site.
- Invite others to blog or be featured on your site.
- Use Pinterest and pin images from your website to your boards.
- Include your website link in your email signature.
- Interlink your blog posts, link to old ones from new ones and edit old posts to link to more recent ones.
- Use relevant keywords for your image file names.
- Make sure your basic on-page SEO is covered, such as meta-tags.
- Build an email list and use email marketing to promote your content, products and services.
- Include quotable phrases in your content and use Clicktotweet to encourage sharing on Twitter.
- Encourage engagement on your website or blog by ending content with a question or a call to action.
- Make sure site is optimized for mobile.
- Include a search function on your site.
- Do a giveaway or a special contest and allow people to enter on your site (great for the holiday season!).
- Create videos to put on your website and upload them to YouTube or Vimeo and make sure a link to your site is in the description and in the video.
- Use social media advertising or Google Adwords.
What are your best tips for attracting traffic to your website? Share in the comments!