Last week I spoke to you about creativity and how to nurture it. I nurtured mine so much I ended up with two huge deadlines to meet which is why this is a little late…
So apologies for that but I’m packing it with even more invaluable resources and info so I hope you’ll forgive me!
Today we’re talking traffic and how to get it. Or, as I prefer to think of it, how to get the right people to see your stuff so they fall in love with it.
You’ll have seen all kinds of shiny promises offering you push-button traffic…which, if it even exists, is exactly what you don’t want.
What you do want is targeted traffic, i.e. people who are highly likely to be interested in what you have to offer before they get anywhere near it.
How do you get that?
In lots of different ways but here is a selection of methods that actually work:
https://ahrefs.com/blog/how-to-drive-traffic-to-your-website/
Expanding on those, let’s home in on two of them that I use and which you can easily use too – evergreen content and social media:
https://buffer.com/resources/increase-website-traffic/
With more on those (and other ideas) here:
https://www.shopify.com/in/blog/how-to-increase-website-traffic
Along with this on how to triple your traffic using search – or organic – methods:
And 15 ways to increase traffic using social media here:
https://blog.emb.global/drive-social-media-traffic-in-2024/
With more here:
As for driving traffic with content, there’s some excellent advice here including how longer pieces are shared more and loved more by the search engines:
https://backlinko.com/more-blog-traffic
Along with more ideas here:
Need even more tips? Of course you do and here are 6 great tips on being a successful entrepreneur in your TED talk this week:
