65 Best Effective Ways To Increase Your Website Traffic

Lack of website traffic is one of the most common challenges I hear from business owners. Many reports having lost a significant percentage of their search traffic over the past year or two, and are continuously looking for new ways to drive relevant traffic to their site or to increase website traffic.

As entrepreneurs, we can often feel like the deck is stacked against us when it comes to the digital world. We don’t have the same budgets as our massive competitors, nor do we have the army of marketers that they can employ.

So how can a small- or medium-sized business, against overwhelming odds, carve out its piece of the market?

This article is an attempt to give marketers and business owners a whole battery of straight-to-the-point, actionable tips to increase website traffic ( for getting traffic to your website or blog ).

While some of these strategies won’t be a quick fix, you may be surprised how quickly many of them start to generate results.

Ask a Marketer or Business owner what they’d like most in the world, and they’ll probably tell you “more customers.” What often comes after customers on a business’ wish list? More traffic to their site.

There are many ways you can increase traffic on your website, and in today’s post, we’re going to look at some of them.

The Best Ways To Increase Your Website Traffic

1. Make Sure Your Site is Responsive	The days when internet browsing was done exclusively on desktop PCs are long gone. Today, more people than ever before are using mobile devices to access the web, and if you force your visitors to pinch and scroll their way around your site, you’re basically telling them to go elsewhere. Ensure that your website is accessible and comfortably viewable across a range of devices, including smaller smartphones. If are running WordPress website and Confused with Themes then Check my another article about best SEO friendly WordPress themes and AdSense optimized WordPress themes.
2. Make Sure Your Site is Fast	Ever found yourself waiting thirty seconds for a webpage to load? Me neither. If your site takes forever to load, your bounce rate will be sky high. Make sure that your pages are as technically optimized as possible, including image file sizes, page structure and the functionality of third-party plugins. The faster your site loads, the better. If your Website is Still loading slow then you can try this method to speed up WordPress website 10x faster by W3 Total Cache + CloudFlare.
3. Focus on long-tail keywords	The days of focusing on a single keyword for each page are long gone. Make sure your posts include all the relevant terms and phrases related to your topic. For help with finding long-tail keywords, see my post How To Use Google Keyword Planner Tool For Keyword Research.
4. Pay Attention to On-Page SEO	Think SEO is dead? Think again. Optimizing your content for search engines is still a valuable and worthwhile practice. Are you making the most of image alt text? Are you creating internal links to new content? What about meta descriptions? Optimizing for on-page SEO doesn’t have to take ages, and it could help boost your organic traffic.
5. Optimize your site for SEO	Trying to manipulate the search engine rankings is a losing proposition at this point. Instead, what you should be concerned with is making your site look as good as possible for the search engine robots that will be crawling your website. Software like SEMrush can give you a complete SEO audit and show you what you should fix. Spending time on your site’s SEO optimization is always time well spent.
6. Spend 80 percent of your time on the ad's headline	Did you know that 8 out of 10 people will read a headline and not read the rest of your ad? If this is the case, you should be spending the majority of your time perfecting the headline to grab your audience’s attention – and driving them to your site. Whether you’re running ads on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or pay per click, make sure that your headlines are on fleek. (Yes, I went there.)
7. Write Irresistible Headlines	Headlines are one of the most important parts of your content. Without a compelling headline, even the most comprehensive blog post will go unread. Master the art of headline writing. For example, the writers at BuzzFeed and Upworthy often write upward of twenty different headlines before finally settling on the one that will drive the most traffic, so think carefully about your headline before you hit “publish.”
8. Start a forum on your website	An active forum can quickly begin ranking for long-tail keywords. They’re also great for decreasing your site’s bounce rate, increasing time-on-site, as well as building a community.
9. Build an email list	I just told you how you can use emails for social promotion, but they’re also an amazing tool for driving traffic through a newsletter. Make sure that you have a newsletter opt-in on your website. We personally use a great tool called Drip. It’s free and very easy to set up.
10. Exchange blog posts with other sites	Syndicating your blog on other sites is a great way to drive new audiences to your site. A great way to do this is to search for blogs that are in a similar industry as you and that are in a similar situation in terms of size and audience. Then, you reach out to their editor or site administrator and ask if they’d like to swap blog articles and you each take turns featuring each other’s blogs and linking back to the site. Special measures should be taken to avoid duplicate content, but this is a great way to drive new customers to your site.
11. Facebook Remarketing	Facebook is a great promotion tool whether you’re in the B2B or B2C industry. But did you know you can set up remarketing audiences on Facebook? By installing a Facebook tracking pixel on your site you can continue to market to customers who have visited your site. This is a great way to create return traffic to your business blog or website. And you can start remarketing to audiences as small as 100 visitors.
12. Facebook email custom audiences	Staying with Facebook, you can also give that email list of yours a second life. Instead of just using it to blast emails to your customers once in a while, you can upload that list into Facebook and capture the social accounts of anyone that has their email address attached to it. This is a HUGE benefit since it will allow you to market to those users on their mobile devices.
13. Start a Facebook group that drives traffic to your site	Start a niche-specific group where members can ask questions and get support (and don’t forget to point them back to your site’s content where relevant).
14. Submit your blog posts to StumbleUpon	It works! Check out our previous article How to Increase Blog Traffic Using StumbleUpon.
15. Link Internally	The strength of your link profile isn’t solely determined by how many sites link back to you – it can also be affected by your internal linking structure. When creating and publishing content, be sure to keep an eye out for opportunities for internal links. This not only helps with SEO but also results in a better, more useful experience for the user – the cornerstone of increasing traffic to your website.
16. Promote your blog posts to your email list	This doesn’t have to be the main focus of all your emails, but including a link or two back to your blog posts can considerably increase traffic, leads, and sales.
17. Answer a HARO query	Answering a pitch only take a few minutes, and can result in great PR, high-quality inbound links and referral traffic to your site.
18. Work on your headlines	Your headlines are what will get people in the door, particularly when you share your blog posts via social media; make sure they pique interest and clearly articulate the benefit to your readers.
19. Join a blogging community like ProBlogger or CopyBlogger	This is a great way to network with other bloggers and to cross-promote each other’s content.
20. Include links to other relevant posts on your blog	When you write a post, always be sure to mention other posts your readers may find helpful; this is great for SEO as well as for increasing time-on-site, conversion rates, and referral traffic.
21. Guest post on relevant blogs	There’s not much point guest blogging on a site in an unrelated niche; make sure you only contribute to highly-relevant, high-quality sites in your niche.
22. Become a columnist or contributor on a well-known website	If you can become a guest contributor on an authority site like Huffington Post or Forbes, you not only drive targeted traffic to your site but establish yourself as an expert in your field. Contributing to other websites is a great way to drive traffic to your site. I myself write for about a dozen major media site, and while it may not result in immediate customers, the benefits are definitely felt throughout the organization. And our referral traffic from these sites is a huge boon. To become a contributor you need to start small and work your way up. Also, you need to hone your craft when it comes to writing. To do this you need to be writing every single day. The more you write, the better you’ll have come and the better your chances will be at becoming a contributor.
23. Get Social	It’s not enough to produce great content and hope that people find it – you have to be proactive. One of the best ways to increase traffic to your website is to use social media channels to promote your content. Twitter is ideal for short, snappy (and tempting) links, whereas Google+ promotion can help your site show up in personalized search results and seems especially effective in B2B niches. If you’re a B2C product company, you might find great traction with image-heavy social sites like Pinterest and Instagram.
24. Twitter Remarketing	Twitter remarketing works in almost the exact same way as Facebook remarketing. Simply install the pixel and you can now target your site's visitors on Twitter. The main difference is that Twitter will require a higher minimum audience count before you can start advertising towards them, 500 people to be exact.
25. Twitter custom audiences	Just like Facebook, you can target Twitter users on their mobile devices by uploading their emails into Twitter. However, if you cannot get at least 500 users into your custom audience through an email upload, then you won’t have the required minimum to advertise towards them.
26. Twitter Cards	Twitter Cards is a great tool to drive traffic to your site. They are larger tweets that incorporate images and allow you to have buttons built into the tweet. They allow you to have engaging calls to action, attractive images right in the stream, and you can even give them special functionality like having downloads attached directly to the tweet. Tweets with images get 18 percent more clicks than its text counterparts, so make sure you’re using Twitter Cards.
27. Optimize your existing posts	Comb through your old posts to make sure they have unique and relevant title tags, URLs and meta descriptions.
28 Demote irrelevant Google sitelinks	While Google site links are automatically generated, you can demote URLs you don’t want to show; this may increase the chances that the URLS you do want listed show up. You can do this from within Google Webmaster Tools.
29. Arrange an advertising swap	Trade banner ads with a complimentary site in your niche.
30. Post more frequently	Neil Patel of QuickSprout found that by posting high-quality posts 6x per week (as opposed to 5), blog traffic increased by 18.6%. Find your magic number and commit to seeing it through. Remember that in many cases, the traffic increases you see from blogging are scalable.
31. Submit your posts to Reddit	Yes, this also still works.
32. Mention influencers in your tweets	When you cite, quote or mention someone in a blog post, be sure to @ mention them in your tweet when you promote your post.
33. Focus your energy on strategies that are working	You don’t have to do what everyone else is doing. Study your analytics to see your main traffic drivers, and focus on your energy on these areas.
34. Build connections with others in your niche	I know this sounds cliché, but building personal relationships with other bloggers in your niche will often result in organic inbound links and referral traffic to your site.
35. Make sure you have every relevant keyword you can think of on your site	I’m not talking old-school keyword spamming here. I’m talking about focusing on topical content; and making sure you at least have the chance of being found for all your relevant keywords, no matter how obscure they may be.
36. Create a top 10 website post	Select the top 10 blogs in your niche, and write a post about them. You may also want to create a simple badge or banner those sites can embed to show off their award.
37. Create a quiz	Quizzes are fun pieces of content that work really well at driving engagement with your visitors. Plus, they’re a cinch to promote on social media using the techniques presented earlier in this article. Sites like Quizzr allow you to create free quizzes to then post on your blog and drive traffic to your site.
38. Make the most of Facebook links	Be sure to include links back to your site in your About page, in your photo descriptions, in the comments of your posts (where relevant), and in your milestones.
39. Get on YouTube	YouTube drives the most engaged traffic out of all social media sites, with an average of 2.99 pages per visit.
40. Add text to your blog post images	Try including your post title and URL in your blog post images for optimal effect when pinned or shared.
41. Host a webinar or webcast	Regardless of your industry, I can guarantee there’s a topic you have enough expertise on that your customers would come to listen to you speak. The trick is to identify this topic and then to create a fun and engaging presentation.
42. Post Content to LinkedIn	LinkedIn has become much more than a means of finding another job. The world’s largest professional social network is now a valuable publishing platform in its own right, which means you should be posting content to LinkedIn on a regular basis. Doing so can boost traffic to your site, as well as increase your profile within your industry – especially if you have a moderate to large following.
43. Become a member of industry Facebook and LinkedIn groups	Offer valuable advice and info to build relationships and drive traffic to your site.
44. Connect with bloggers who are already sending you traffic	If someone has already linked to your site, they obviously like what you have to say. Contact them to see if there are other ways they could help promote your content (and vice versa).
45. Implement Schema Microdata	Implementing schema (or another microdata format) won’t necessarily increase traffic to your website on its own, but it will make it easier for search engine bots to find and index your pages.  Another benefit of using schema for SEO is that it can result in better rich site snippets, which can improve click-through rates.
46. Ask a well-known blogger to guest post on your site	They’ll likely share the post with their audience, driving traffic to your site.
47. Respond to blog comments	Respond thoughtfully to all comments on your blog. This is great for building relationships, as well as for driving commenters back to your site.
48. Add your blog to Alltop	As an aggregate for all kinds of web content, submitting your blog increases your chances of getting found by people looking for content in your niche.
49. Answer Questions	Visit sites like Yahoo Answers or Quora and answer questions relevant to your niche.
50. Write a Response Post	Respond to a controversial post in your niche and then let the original poster know about it. Chances are good they won’t be able to resist responding to it on their blog.
51. Contact influential bloggers	When you write a groundbreaking or newsworthy post, notify influencers in your field. You may be surprised at how many link back to your post.
52. Make proper use of categories	If you haven’t already organized your content into relevant categories, now’s the time. Categories are great not only for SEO but for helping your readers find relevant content.
53. Write landmark posts	Create at least a few long-form, authoritative posts that will organically garner links and attention over the long haul.
54. Comment on industry blogs	Become a regular commenter on a popular blog in your niche to help drive referral traffic and to establish relationships with other bloggers.
55. Interview influencers in your niche	They will be very likely to promote the interview to their audience.
56. Share your blog posts regularly on Facebook	Post a short excerpt from your posts to entice them to click through.
57. Share your posts on Triberr	Meet other bloggers and share each other’s content.
58. Create an eBook	Well, eBook can Grow your Website Traffic While Using Social Email Marketing.
59. Automate your emails	Shockingly, marketing automation has only been adopted by 3 to 5 percent of all businesses. Yes, this number is higher if you only look at larger companies but this list is trying to help smaller companies compete with their bigger brethren. So, why aren’t you using marketing automation? It may have been that the costs were too prohibitive or that it seemed too daunting, but there’s help with that. There are new lower cost marketing automation platforms like Autopilot and Hatchbuck that are great for small businesses. But if you still have your heart set on HubSpot or a similar product, then look for a certified partner, like my firm, that can help onboard you and can even waive the kickoff fees that can cost several thousand dollars. Now that you have your software set up, you need to ensure you have email campaigns set up for everything. There should be an automated email campaign when someone fills out a form, downloads some content or signs up for the newsletter. By staying in front of your customers through the email you’ll continue to drive relevant traffic to your site.
60. Create a podcast	If you’re worried you can’t present to a live audience or develop the right message, then instead consider a podcast. Podcasts are great ways of distributing your expertise and are a surefire way of driving traffic to your site -- but you need to be consistent and promote it. When you first start off, it will seem like you’re talking into a black hole and no one is listening to you. But if you stay persistent and promote your podcast on social media, your audience will grow and your future episodes will gain more and more listeners. Another great trick to getting a boost in your podcast audience is to invite a guest that has a large social following and asking them to help you promote it. You’d be surprised who would say yes to joining your podcast if you only ask them.
61. Find partners in your industry	There are usually dozens of partnership opportunities for any business out there. The trick is to find those partners and establish a working relationship. To give an example of this, we signed up as a partner for Unbounce. They’re a landing page creation software that helps companies optimize their marketing campaigns. It was free to sign up as a partner and they then featured us in their partner section and allowed us to do a little write up on our firm. Before you knew it we were getting leads from their site and it’s been a great source of traffic for us.
62. Advertise	This one is so obvious, we’re going to look at it first. Paid search, social media advertising, and display advertising are all excellent ways of attracting visitors, building your brand and getting your site in front of people. Adjust your paid strategies to suit your goals – do you just want more traffic, or are you looking to increase conversions, too? Each paid channel has its pros and cons, so think carefully about your objectives before you reach for your credit card. If you’re hoping that more traffic to your site will also result in more sales, you’ll need to target high commercial intent keywords as part of your paid search strategies. Yes, competition for these search terms can be fierce (and expensive), but the payoffs can be worth it.
63. Foster a Sense of Community	People want to speak their minds and weigh in on subjects they feel passionately about, so building a community into your site is a great way to start a conversation and increase traffic to your website. Implement a robust commenting system through third-party solutions such as Facebook comments or Disqus, or create a dedicated forum where visitors can ask questions. Don’t forget to manage your community to ensure that minimum standards of decorum are met, however.
64. Make Yourself Heard in Comment Sections	You probably visit at least a few sites that are relevant to your business on a regular basis, so why not join the conversation? Commenting doesn’t necessarily provide an immediate boost to referral traffic right away, but making a name for yourself by providing insightful, thought-provoking comments on industry blogs and sites is a great way to get your name out there – which can subsequently result in driving more traffic to your own site. Just remember that, as with guest posting, quality and relevance are key – you should be engaging with other people in your niche, not dropping spam links on unrelated websites.
65. Examine Your Analytics Data	Google Analytics is an invaluable source of data on just about every conceivable aspect of your site, from your most popular pages to visitor demographics. Keep a close eye on your Analytics data, and use this information to inform your promotional and content strategies. Pay attention to what posts and pages are proving the most popular. Inspect visitor data to see how, where and when your site traffic is coming from.

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