30 Proven Tricks To Drive Traffic To Your Website

These days, it’s no longer advisable to build your website and leave it alone. If you want people to visit your site, then promote it.

There are a thousand and one things you can do even if you don’t have so much money.

To help you, Prime Business Africa is handing you 30 tactics to help you get traffic to your site especially if you are an SME. Here:

1. Start a blog
2. Create useful, valuable and shareable content
3. Use keyword in your content titles
4. Blog often
5. Comment on other blogs relevant to your industry
6. Don’t post content from your website to your social media, verbatim.
7. Place sponsored ads on a regular basis
8. Vary your content –timeless and trending posts
9. Make sure the reader takes something home in all your content
10. Have very active social media pages
11. Include your URL in all your social media accounts but not in every post
12. Encourage your families, friends, contacts and staff to SHARE your updates with their personal network
13. Add social media sharing buttons to your blog
14. Educate, entertain and inform your audience. Don’t sell to them
15. At any opportunity, tell people about your website
16. Ensure your website is mobile friendly and interactive
17. Pay attention to what your competitors are doing
18. Make social media posts short and punchy. 20% text and 80% graphics is the rule
19. Optimise your webpages for SEO especial your services or products page
20. Don’t use too many images
21. Be in Google My Business
22. Use longtail keywords more
23. Join relevant online discussions… Great way to hand out your link
24. Go ‘sensational’ with your headlines –elaborate adjectives usage is it!
25. Engage internal linking
26. Improve your website speed
27. Use Call To Action in your posts
28. Be consistent with all your content
29. Write conversationally and not journalistically
30. Don’t come across as desperate in your search engine marketing

These 30 tricks should get you off to a great start. Good luck.

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