Free traffic is mostly generated through social media or search engine optimization. That is generating organic traffic through optimizing your blog, content or website for search engines. Free traffic can also be generated through social media by linking your site to social media platforms and building great profiles.
Some Proven Free Traffic Methods:
1. From Facebook Page/ Groups & other Social Media Sites:
You can get free traffic from Facebook Groups and other social media sites by sharing quality contents. Once your website is ready and you are looking for getting some free traffic than Social Media would play a great role to get traffic. You can get traffic from facebook groups, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Google Plus etc.
For Example, suppose you are selling T-shirt through your website and your target people are females who are living in USA/UK. Now you need to join some facebook groups which is related to female and share your website link there. But remember do not spam or market your products directly. First, share some female related articles (not from your website) and try to build relationship with group members. After then you can market your products to them.
You also can use Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn to drive traffic to your website. But remember your contents should be unique, interesting and valuable for your visitors.
Special Tips: Try to reach influencers of your niche. Tag them to your posts and there’s a huge chance they will share your contents on their wall. For example, Ms. X is a beauty expert and she has 100k followers on social media. You can mention Ms. X on your post in positive way and she may share your post on here pages/profiles. By this way you can get huge traffic for free.
Note: You may not get expected traffic by sharing on Google Plus but this will help you on Google search page ranking.
2. Get Traffic from Quora:
Quora is a Q &A platform where anyone can post a question and get answers from experts in the community. To get traffic from Quora firstly you need to set up your profile and provide relevant information in your bio and then answer every question which is matched with your qualifications or business. If you can provide relevant answer to questions which is helpful for others they will upvote your answer and your answer will be shown on top of the page.
For Example, You are a Graphics Designer and selling Graphics Design related training through your websites. In quora someone asked a Graphics Design related question and you answer the question very clearly. This will create a positive impact to reader mind and they will feel that you are expert on Graphics Design and as you added your website URL in your profile so they can visit your website and may purchase your training programs.
By same way You can get traffic from Yahoo Answer, Reddit etc.
3. Use viral content:
Free products and services are great for getting free traffic to your site and one of the best varieties in this aspect is viral content. Viral content is called so because it distributes like a virus – i.e. when users like your content, they send it to their friends, post it on various sites, and promote it for free in many different ways. Viral content distributes on its own and your only task is to create it and submit it to a couple of popular sites. After that users pick it and distribute it for you. Viral content can be a hot video or a presentation but it can also be a good old article or an image.
4. Sign up with a business directory:
Create your business account on some business directories so that whenever visitors search on the directory your business profile will be shown. For example, You are providing cleaning service in USA market and you have listed your business on Yelp, YellowPages, Google my Business etc. When a person who needs cleaning service will search on Yelp or YP then your business name will appear along with others.
Different directories are helpful for different types of business. Google My Business, for example, is particularly useful for local businesses. It also allows you to post images and show customer reviews. Yell, is useful for local and online businesses. They do offer a free account, too.
Note: Just make sure you choose a reputable directory, preferably one which is established in your niche. Avoid joining lots of different directories just to generate a lot of backlinks – this is what search engines don’t like.
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