Traffic of visitor is very important because all the bloggers or Internet marketers definitely want the website known and can be a profitable business. Actually there are many ways that we can do to help for increasing the number of visitors to our site. There is a way to increase the traffic to our site is for free, but there is also paid traffic visitors.
What is most suitable strategies for your blog / website?
In this article, I will try to explain some of the potential ways to increase traffic to our website, whether it is free or paid manner. Although there are many ways that we can do, but not all the way match the type of blog / website that we have. We should be wise in choosing a source of traffic in order to maximize the results.
Free Ways to Increase Traffic Blog / Website
As I mentioned earlier, we can get traffic to the business website or blog for free. But it takes a sustained effort and in the right way so that the traffic is obtained in accordance with what we expect.
Here are some ways to increase visitors blog / website for free:
1. Blog walking
Blog walking is an activity from the blogger to visit the other blog or websites that similar with our blog then leave a comment on the blog / website. There are many blogs that provide us the columns to leave the URL of a website for people who comment on their site, these are to be utilized as well as possible. Never leave a comment SPAM on the blogs of others because it will only give a poor image on you as a blogger or internet marketer. Get used to reading articles written first before leaving a comment that you understand then give the comment that corresponds to the topic of the article. By giving good comment and leaving your blog URL in the field provided, then you will get a backlink to your site. In addition, the possibility of the other visitors in the blog will also visit your site when they see the comments that you provide. This process of blog walking will give us a lot of traffic, but it takes extra effort by commenting on other blogs first.
2. Social Bookmarking Sites
Social bookmarking sites originally created to help netter store their favorite website addresses, so it will be easier for them when they want to open the website at a later date. In its development, the social bookmarking site often used for SEO optimization and also to get traffic. Well, I wrote here is the direct traffic from its Social bookmarking, not the effect to SEO a website.
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We can save the URL of your blog / website or URL posting blog articles to social bookmarking, hoping the other users will be interested in the URL that we submit and visit our website with social media on social bookmarking. In addition, social bookmarking sites also often get traffic from search engines. So, I think that it is very potential for us to get more traffic by using social bookmarking
3. Social Media Site
Many people say, now it is the era of social media and it is very true. The growth of social media users in Indonesia has increased very significantly time by time. The other hand, the development of smartphones in Indonesia has been very rapid. Most smartphone users must have an account on social media sites, at least one of the social media sites. Well, this certainly is the potential traffic that is large enough for us as the owner of the blog / website.
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Popular social media certainly will not be difficult to get the attention of other social media users. That is why many businesses have increased their profits after optimizing social media for their business. Some social media are often used to get traffic is Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. Actually there are several social media that can be used, but based on my experience, 6 sites I have mentioned before it is the most popular social media.
4. Through the Forum Site
Site discussion forum often used by internet marketers as a medium to get traffic to the blog / website their business. There are many sites that allow link forum in thread or the signature of their members. Surely this must be used in the best maybe.
One thing we must note is keeping a good name in the forum, read the rules of the forum before acting further. Do not make useless thread or threads that can make your reputation tarnished. Benefit from the forum signature links as well as possible, take advantage of the facilities on the link in the forum thread reasonable. There are several forums that do not allow links in the thread, do not violate these rules.
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Some forums that I recommend to get traffic and backlinks are pengusaha.com, bersosial.com, forum.kompas.com, forum.detik.com, kaskus.co.id, and etc. There are still many forums that we can use to get referral traffic, but I suggest sign up to the forum as your focus on the most potential for your business.