17 Proven Ways to Increase Your Website Traffic

Increasing website traffic is one of the most difficult things online marketers and bloggers face.

Right?

I’ve also gone through this phase and I know how frustrating it is.

But over the past few years, I’ve learned and applied some techniques that helped me to 10x my website traffic.

And today I’m going to share with you that.

In this article, I’m going to share with you 17 ways to grow your website traffic even if your website is new.

So let’s dive in.

1. Use Quora to Generate Massive targeted Traffic to Your Site

No quora is not just a popular question and answer site.

It’s a gold mine for driving targeted traffic to your website.

They have over 200 million active users monthly who are hungry for content that will solve their problems.

And that’s a big benefit for you.

If you use it correctly then you can not just drive a lot of traffic to your website but you can also establish yourself as an authority in your industry.

Here’s a snapshot of my quora profile.

As you can see in the screenshot I’ve generated a decent amount of views in my quora answers and also attracted a good amount of traffic from that.

Till now we’ve talked about the benefit of quora and how it helped me.

But now let’s see the whole process in action.

Here’s how you can use Quora to generate traffic to your website:

Head over to Quora and search for your targeted keyword.

For example:

I have searched for a keyword called “SEO”.

After that, you’ll see all the questions related to the keyword.

Just open any question which you can answer.

And then write an amazing answer and also link your website if you have written any blog post related to the answer. If anyone finds your answer helpful they will also visit your website.

2. Comment On Other Blogs Related To Your Niche

Blog commenting on related niche websites is a great way to attract new visitors. Besides traffic, you can also get backlinks to your site.

So, how you can do blog commenting which actually brings traffic to your site?

It’s super easy.

Here’s the step you need to follow to get traffic to your website for free from comments:

First, you need to find out blogs related to your niche. It cloud be your favorite blog or a blog you already know about.

Or you can also find out blogs in google related to your niche.

Here’s the search query you can use to find blogs for blog commenting:

“Your keyword” + “Add new comment”
“Your keyword” + “Leave a comment”
“Your Keyword” + “Leave a reply”
“Your Keyword” + “Write a comment”
“Your Keyword” + “Post a comment”
“Your keyword” + “Notify me of follow-up comments”

After that make a list of blogs where you want to comment and save them in an excel sheet.

Now, go to each of the sites and write an interesting comment.

Don’t just spam, always add some value to your comment. Like you can ask a question or suggest something.

In other words:

You have to give a reason to the admin of the website to approve your comment.

So, let’s move into the next technique.

3. Use Pinterest

Pinterest is a great social media site that can bring you instant website traffic.

It helps me to generate free traffic to my website and it’s also my third highest traffic source.

I personally know many of the bloggers who are generating more than 200k+ unique visitors per month just using Pinterest.

Massive right?

Here’s how you can also use Pinterest to generate traffic to your new website without SEO:

If you have an account on Pinterest that’s cool!

But, if you don’t simply head over to Pinterest and create an account.

After that, convert your personal account into a business account.

And, put your main keywords into your name and description.

Now, create awesome graphics and post it on Pinterest and add a link to your blog post or website.

But, remember you have to post consistently to get benefit from Pinterest and try to post as many as you can daily.

4. Guest Post On Other Website Related To Your Niche

Do you guest post on other websites related to your niche?

If not, You’re missing a big chance of getting traffic to your site.

Guest blogging is a really powerful way to generate targeted traffic to your site.

But, guest blogging is not at all an easy task.

You have to invest your time to get any guest blogging opportunity from other websites.

But, how do you find websites which accept guest post?

Here’s an easy trick you can use to find tons of guest blogging websites.

Use these search terms and search on Google:

• “Your keyword” + “Submit a guest post”
• “Your keyword” + “guest post”
• “Your keyword” + “Write for us”
• “Your keyword” + “Accept guest post”
• “Your keyword” + “guest post by”

For example:

I’m searching for the term “Health” + “Submit a guest post”.

And you can see in the screenshot below I’ve got tons of websites related to health niche that accepts guest posts.

After you find the websites that accept guest posts, pitch them an email about your guest post, and also send them an outline of your blog post.

And if they accept your offer, your article will be published on that website.

5. Target Long-Tail Low Competitive Keywords

I think you’ll agree with me if I say:

It’s nearly impossible to rank for a competitive keyword if you don’t have an authority website.

If so then how can a small website drive organic traffic?

I have this answer.

Use long-tail keywords.

Using long-tail keywords you can drive a lot of traffic to your site organically.

But the big question is:

How to find those long-tail keywords that are easier to rank and will drive traffic to your website?

Let me show you.

I’ll show you two ways to do that.

Manually and using a tool.

At first, let’s see how to find long-tail keywords manually.

Head over to Google and put your main keyword at the search bar.

As an example, I’m searching for the keyword “How to lose weight”.

Once you’ve put the keyword then hit space in your keyword and Google will start giving you some related long term keyword suggestions.

But the downside of this method is you won’t get any data for those keywords.

Now let’s see how to use one of the favorite tools among bloggers and digital marketers SEMRush to find untapped long-tail keywords in a few minutes.

Head over to SEMRush and click on the keyword magic tool.

Then put your head keyword and click on search.

Now you’ll get a list of related keywords around the head keyword that you’ve put in.

But there’s one more step you have to follow for finding long-tail keywords.

Click on the “Advanced filter” option and put the minimum word count to 4 and click on apply filters.

Once you apply this filter then SEMRush will only show you keywords that are 4 words or longer.

Isn’t it so easy?

Pro tip: Along with targeting long-tail keywords, tracking your keyword ranking will help you to measure your performance and take a decision for your next move. I personally use Zutrix for tracking my keywords but you can use any keyword rank tracking tool you like.

6. Do Blogger Outreach And Tell Them To Share Your Content

Want to grow your website really fast?

Then you need to do blogger outreach.

Create a relationship with other bloggers in the industry.

It’s a great technique to get social traffic and quality backlink.

But, it’s that easy that you think.

Before asking for a share or link you need to add value.

Here’s how you can do it:

First, create a list of bloggers you want to target in your industry. Then build a relationship with them.

So, how you can build a relationship with them?

• Share their content on social media
• Mention them in your blog post
• Try to contact them in social media
• Email them (But don’t ask for share or link in the first email)

After you build a relationship with the bloggers you can ask them to share your content or for a backlink. If your content is share-worthy then they will definitely share your content.

7. Get Traffic From Facebook Groups

Are you a part of a Facebook group?

If not, you should definitely join a group right now because you’re missing out on a big traffic opportunity.

A Facebook group is definitely a better option instead of the Facebook page if you want to generate traffic to your website.

You’ll find a ton of Facebook group almost in every niche.

For example:

If your blog or website is about marketing then you need the Facebook groups that are related to the marketing niche.

Let’s say if you join a dog group and your website is about marketing then you’ll not gonna get any traffic.

So, while choosing a Facebook group always choose a group that is related to your niche.

After you find out the ideal groups that are related to your niche then join those groups one by one.

Some groups will be open where you can post anything without taking any approval and in some groups, you need to get approval to post anything.

If you’re into digital marketing and blogging niche then you can also join my private group.

8. Create Controversial or Viral Content

Have you ever saw an article with a controversial title on your feed?

I know you probably click on it and read it. Right?

Here’s the power of controversial content.

Many people don’t talk about it but creating controversial content is a really amazing way to attract more traffic.

By creating controversial or viral content you are building curiosity among people and if you build curiosity, more and more people will click into your link and read it.

And, the best thing about this technique is you don’t have to ask others for a link and share. people will naturally share it and link to it.

9. Leverage twitter

Twitter has over 330 million active users and it’s one of the top sources of my website traffic.

I’ve been using twitter for quite a long time but I have never thought that twitter will contribute to my website traffic.

For the last 2 years, I’ve been focusing more on twitter and getting some handful amount of traffic from there.

But you won’t get any traffic from twitter unless you know how to do it correctly.

Yes, I’m right.

Don’t just put your link there and hope you’ll get traffic.

That’s not possible at all.

If you want to get a good amount of traffic from twitter then you have to follow some techniques.

Right now I’m going to share with you a few of my tried techniques that I’ve been using to attract from twitter.

Here they are:

• Put your website link to your profile bio to get maximum exposure.
• Tweets multiples times a day. (I tweet almost 7 – 15  times a day)
•  Use relevant hashtags whenever you’re tweeting something.
• Try to add emojis into your tweets (I try to add emojis in every tweet possible).
• Share and retweet others content in your niche

These techniques worked like a charm for me and it will surely help you to increase your traffic from twitter.

But remember tweets have a very short lifespan.

So, you have to keep posting throughout the day to get the maximum benefit from that platform.

I know spending time on one platform throughout the day is not possible for most of us.

That’s why you can use a Twitter scheduling tool like Hootsuite to schedule your tweets for the whole day, week, or month.

It will help you to post consistently and save your time at the same time.

10. Use Linkedin

No LinkedIn is not only a job site anymore.

It’s changed into a content platform where 675 million of their active user’s hangout every month.

The beauty of LinkedIn is its organic reach.

If you look at Facebook, Instagram, and twitter they all have limited their organic reach.

But LinkedIn didn’t do that.

Using LinkedIn you can reach thousands of people without spending a dime on ads.

But you won’t get much reach by just sharing your website content.

You have to do it in a tricky way.

Let me tell you how to do that.

Repurpose your blog post into a short text format post and post it on LinkedIn.

Something like this.

Then share your link in the first comment of your post.

Don’t share the link directly into your post because a post with a link tends to reach fewer people than a post without a link.

11. Repurpose Your Content

If you want to reach more audiences and increase your traffic then repurposing your content is very crucial.

Let’s face the truth:

Creating content takes hell lot of time.

And if you want to save your time then repurposing your existing content is the best way.

In case if you don’t know what repurposing is then let me explain.

For example:

If you write a blog post around “How to lose weight” then you can convert that blog post into a YouTube video, Infographic, Carousel posts, text-based posts, and podcasts.

That means with just your one blog post you can create more than five kinds of content without any extra work.

Cool! Isn’t it?

12. Ask Your Readers To Share Your Content If They Found It Valuable

Do you want more social traffic on your website?

Then pay attention.

If you want more social traffic and social shares then one of the best ways is to ask your readers.

Most of people make mistake at this point. They just put social sharing buttons on their website and they think they’ll automatically get social shares.

But that’s a wrong practice.

If you want your readers to share your content then you have to ask them.

Whenever you publish any content on your website then at the end of the content ask your readers to share your content if they found it valuable and place your social sharing buttons right after that.

But remember that this method will only work If you’ve really provided value to your readers. If your content is thin and doesn’t provide any value to readers then they won’t share it doesn’t matter how many times you ask them.

That’s an easy but very powerful idea that doubled my social shares and social traffic.

Other than that you can also create a social sharing magnate that will encourage your readers to share your content.

But what is social sharing content?

Let me explain.

For example:

If you’ve published content around ” How to lose weight” then you provide a “Weight lose checklist” as a bonus gift in your content if they share your content.

If you’re running a WordPress website then you can use [social content locker plugin] to make this process easier for you.

13. Share With Your Email List

Here’s a really interesting fact:

Email marketing has $44 ROI for ever $1 spent.

Other than that it can drive an insane amount of traffic to your website whenever you want.

You just have to send an email to your email list and traffic will start floating on your website.

The best part is you can control your traffic.

But if you want to get these benefits then at first you have to build your email list.

One of the most efficient ways to build an email list is by creating a lead magnet.

What is a lead magnet?

A lead magnet is when you’re providing something for free (Ebook, mini-course, the checklist) in return for their email address.

Here’s an example of an eBook lead magnet that I’ve launched a few months back.

This ebook alone helped me to grow my email list very quickly.

Other than this method you can also use lead magnates like:

1. Giveaways
2. Webinars
3. Content upgrade

and many more…

Once you reach a good number of email subscribers then you can start promoting your content in your email list and grow your traffic massively.

14. Use FB Ads

You might have already known that we can use Facebook ads to quickly grow our traffic.

But today I’ll show you how to do it properly to maximize your reach and with a very small budget.

I’ve divided this section into three simple steps.

Step 1 – Install Facebook pixel in your website

This is a very basic step that we all have to follow.

Facebook pixel is a code provided by Facebook that you have to install on your website to track who visited your website so that we can retarget them with our Facebook ad.

It will help to show our ads to the targeted people who visited your website.

Step 2 – Create a killer ad copy

It’s a very crucial step.

If you want to create a well-optimized Facebook ad campaign then creating a killer ad copy is very crucial.

See one Facebook user see hundreds of ads in a day and if you want to stand out in this crowd then your ad copy is very important.

So, whenever you’re creating your ad copy make sure the headline of your ad copy and ad creative is interesting enough to grab people’s attention.

A good ad copy not just increases your reach but also decreases your ad spend.

Step 3 – Targeting the right people

In the first step, we’ve learned how we can use Facebook pixels to target people through Facebook ads who have visited our website.

But if you have a new website and don’t have much traffic then pixel won’t help you much.

So what we can do?

Facebook ads also have an option to target people by their interest.

For example:

If you want to run an ad for a blog post “How to start a blog” then you can run ads by targeting people who have an interest in digital marketing, blogging, make money online, and more other similar terms.

That’s it.

Using these three simple steps you can easily drive targeted traffic to your time anytime you want.

15. Create Roundup Posts

Expert roundup posts are a great way to attract traffic to your site.

Here’s a thing:

If you just started your website then there’s a high chance then no one knows about you.

And here comes the main benefit of roundup posts.

When you create a roundup post you get a chance to hijack the audience of already established experts in your industry.

Let’s take an example that you’re invited to contribute to a roundup post.

When they’ll publish the post what’s the first thing you’ll do?

You’ll share it – right?

Similarly, when you’ll invite experts to contribute in your roundup post they will also share your content with their audience that will help you to gain traffic really quickly.

Other than that it will also help you to create trust among your audience.

But whenever you’re creating your roundup post one thing you have to keep in mind – “The topic of that post”.

Choose a topic that both contributors and audience would be interested in.

For example, whenever I create any roundup post I look for the biggest problem people are facing in our niche.

Then I took that problem or something similar to that problem as my topic.

That’s the easiest way to find a topic that people have an interest in.

16. Run Giveaway Contest

Do you want to increase your website traffic overnight?

Run a giveaway.

Giveaways are the best way to increase your website traffic without any hard work.

On the other hand, it also increases your email list and sales.

But why giveaway?

Because people love giveaways.

The human mind loves to get things for free.

That’s why almost most of the people enter for the giveaway and share it which eventually brings a lot of traffic to our site.

And the best part is you don’t have to put much time promoting that giveaway.

People will share it automatically.

If you’re a WordPress user then you can use the rafflepress plugin to run giveaways on your site very easily.

17. Hijack Your Competitor Organic Traffic

I often use this technique.

Using this technique you can hi-jack your competitor traffic and drive that traffic to your site.

But what do I mean by hi-jack?

I mean finding out your competitor’s top traffic driving keywords and then create content around that.

But how can we find out our competitor’s top traffic driving keywords?

I’ll tell you how to do that.

For this, we have to use SEMRush tool.

Head over to SEMRush and click on the domain overview.

Then put your competitor domain and hit search.

Then scroll down the page until you get a section called “Top organic keywords”.

Once you get this section then click on “view details”.

That’s it.

Now you’ll get a list of your competitor top-performing keywords along with their ranking position.

Conclusion

I know it takes time to get traffic on a brand new website. But, if you create really useful content and follow these techniques that I’ve shared with you then you’ll definitely get traffic on your website.

But as I said, the main thing which matters the most is your content quality. Before publishing any content make sure that the content is really useful and solve people’s problems.

If people love your content they will naturally gonna share it and you don’t have to worry about getting traffic.

So, before using these techniques make sure that your content is high quality.

Once you create content that is helpful then you can use these 17 proven methods to increase your website traffic and grow your business like never before.

Do you know any other method? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below.