Hello Dear Blog Reader

Today, a very big topic is 51 methods of attracting visitors to a website or blog.

There are many ways to drive traffic to your site. Someone prefers one way, someone else. It is natural to use everything at once, few people succeed.

Below I tried to put together all the ways to attract visitors to the site, which I used during my 10-year practice of making money on the Internet, and some I continue to use now.

From the article, which I have been writing for over a month, you will learn how to increase blog site traffic. Especially for my Readers.

At the end of the article, you can download a mental map with all the described methods for driving traffic to a website or blog.

1. Search engines

According to statistics, all the cream is removed by those who are in the top lines of search results. The first 3-5 sites account for 80% of visitors - that is why all site owners are so eager to be in search engines as high as possible.

You can promote your site in two ways:

1. Fast and not very reliable
2. Long, but almost guaranteed

Quickly - by ordering promotion by "black" methods. The site, perhaps, will get to the top quickly, but it will “fall out” just as quickly. Plus, there is a high probability of getting banned by search engines. Now it's not very effective.

For a long time - promotion by "white" methods. High-quality unique content, interesting to people, competent use, natural links. Of course, such a site will not get into the search results in a week, and even in a month it will not be there, but - when it reaches the first page of the search, then no "black" and "gray" optimizers will be able to move it from its positions.

2. Contextual advertising

One of the most effective paid methods attracting the target audience - contextual advertising. This type advertising works through major search engines (Yandex, Google), as well as through the Begun system.

Its essence is the appearance of an advertisement only when the user enters strictly defined search queries. Certainty in key query gives a guarantee of impressions only to the target audience, and here the main difficulty is to formulate the key phrases correctly.

There is information that Begun and Google are not very kind to MLM, therefore, be prepared to communicate with their technical support. But as for the Yandex.Direct service, you can be calm here - Yandex has nothing against the MLM business.

3. Communities in social networks

Social networks in modern world is a place where millions communicate. Since they are collected compactly, it is likely to quickly reach the target audience. Create a community, attract people with similar interests to it, keep your community alive and share information at the same time. A link to your site can be in the status, or you can just give announcements on new material your website/blog.

Here you need to keep in mind important point- never start an acquaintance with a link: this is a sure way to lose not only a potential client, but also a new acquaintance.

4. Links in social networks

No matter how much you would like to live without competition, you have competitors, and this is actually good. Study competitive communities, also study "parallel" communities - for information business, making money online, personal growth, and the like.

Become a part of these communities.

It is likely that in the course of some discussion it would be appropriate to provide a link to your blog. In addition, if you are an active member of the community, people will go to your page on the social network to learn more about you.

5. Newsletter to friends in social networks

When you become famous and recognizable in thematic communities, you will have your own circle of subscribers / friends. By means of social services, you can make a newsletter to your friends, informing them about updates on your blog.

6. Statuses in social networks

Change the status in your profile: come up with a short catchy phrase and add a link to this phrase.

7. Paid social media advertising

Of course, social networks have the possibility of submitting advertising. In general, in terms of efficiency, nothing compares to contextual advertising, but in social networks you can choose the group of users to whom your ad will be shown.

Selection options - information in the profile. That is, the city, age, gender, interests, and the like.

8. Advertising in communities in social networks

You can negotiate with the owners of active specialized communities to place an advertisement with them. It costs, as a rule, less than advertising on the service, but if you choose the right community, then the result will be higher.

9. Buying ads from Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter users

10. Blogging in the blogosphere

Blogs in blogospheres (LiveJournal, LiveInternet, Diary, etc.) are particularly good at:

• the ability to install a detailed post with photos and / or drawings, video accompaniment, etc. – what is impossible in social networks;
• more convenient than in social networks, a search system for like-minded people;
• more convenient commenting system;
• participation of the entry in the full-text search of Yandex, Google, etc.

11. Commenting in the blogosphere

Find like-minded people through the search by interests and participate in their discussions in blogs and communities. Write detailed comments, be polite. The result will not be long in coming: people will start coming to your blog, reading your posts, commenting and, of course, clicking on your links.

12. Advertising on blogs

Of course, blogs can be the same advertising platforms as social networks - find a blogger with a suitable target audience and order a post with a link to him. But there is an important point here - you should not place an order with very popular personalities, let the audience be smaller, but it will be precisely the target audience, and not idle citizens who will not pay attention to the link.

13. Forums

Another popular place for communication is forums. Forums are of two types:

• Thematic
• "About everything"

When choosing a landing site, you should pay attention to the topic of the forum - your MLM links on the forum, say, programmers, will be considered spam.

However, you can choose forums that have a dedicated section for advertising. Agree with the administration - and your link will not be deleted.

And never make an offer to join your MLM business on the forums!

14. Link in the profile on the forum

On most forums, you can put a link to your site in your profile. Such a link carries a double load:

• increases the link mass of the blog;
• advertises your resource.

15. Link in the signature on the forum

In addition to the profile, the forums have another field where you can put a link - "signature". A signature is a short status that appears after each of your posts. Think over the text - it should not be intrusive advertising.

Let's say the status "You can also find me here" will work better than "The best MLM company on the network"

Such recommendations will be appropriate strictly on thematic forums - where they discuss making money online, MLM and the like. However, you should not push the link anywhere: it is better to post it once, but in a relevant discussion, than ten times out of context.

17. Free bulletin boards (Avito.ru and the like)

There are many free message boards on the Internet, but there are not so many really valuable ones, and therefore you should not waste time on boards where few people go. It is better to spend time on a high-quality ad that attracts attention and place it in three or four places, but serious, with a high probability of conversion.

18. Paid and free directories

I would divide directories not into paid and free, but into serious and frivolous ones. Serious ones are, first of all, directories with search and statistical services (such as Yandex.Catalog, DMOZ, List.ru, LiveInternet and others). In the second - solid moderated resources.

Free unmoderated directories, which, in fact, are a chaotic collection of links, will rather hinder the promotion of the site than help it.

You may have come across suggestions for “directory crawling” to increase link mass. It's definitely not worth doing! At best, this action will bring meager results, at worst, a search engine ban.

19. Free mailing services

• the silver Subscribe mailing list gets into the main catalog of the service - this is the first time;
• the silver mailing list Subscribe for a week is located in the sections "Recently opened" and "Last 10 opened mailing lists";
• the silver mailing list Subscribe gets into the announcements of the "New mailing lists".

If these disadvantages seem significant, then you can subscribe through - here you can maintain your own subscription base.

However, if you are just getting started with subscribers, services like Subscribe will be the most effective.

20. Advertising in other people's mailing lists

Of course, a novice entrepreneur does not yet have a serious subscription base, moreover, there may not be one at all, but there is nowhere to get one, since his own site has not yet been promoted. In these cases, advertising in other people's mailing lists comes to the rescue. Naturally, the newsletter should be close thematically. And there are more than enough of them in MLM.

21. Advertising on other sites

Almost all sites place third-party ads on their pages. In many cases, the placement of an ad block on a site visited by the target audience, more effective than the use of contextual, banner and other types of advertising.

22. Communication on other sites with a link to your own

Many modern sites and blogs provide for the possibility of commenting on materials, and on a number of resources the user can specify the address of his site. If you decide to use this method, then it is worth considering one important nuance.

These sites and blogs are made by people just like you. And they, just like you, want to write in the comments on the topic and in detail. Most likely, comments like this:

• Cool site, come to me //your site
• And I have written about this //your site and the like

will be deleted by the resource owner.

Respect those whose blogs you comment on, write detailed comments, engage in polemics, discuss specific issues - and then your site address will not be deleted.

Another plus from this method is that readers of that resource will read your interesting comment, and will actually go to your resource.

23. Exchange links with other sites

You can agree to exchange links with blogs and related sites. Of course, here it is important to find resources of just such a subject, which, at the same time, are not direct competitors. For example, an MLM blog and a site about earning money through the Internet may well advertise each other, but the site of MLM company A is unlikely to advertise MLM company B. Recently this method with cross-references dies.

I hope this extensive article was helpful to you. I would be grateful if you appreciate my work, leaving a comment below.

Hello dear readers.

You all know that traffic when doing business on the Internet has paramount importance. Especially if you are doing affiliate programs or promoting their own projects.

Most recently, I received a letter in the mail with a complaint and a sad story from another victim of advertising mailings. A man, like hundreds of other people, like me at one time, was stupidly scammed for money.

The scammer took the payment, sent a letter to the database, and everything seemed to be fine as agreed, but only the traffic turned out to be cheated. Man just got empty transitions on his subscription page.

And it would be nice if all the troubles on a global scale were limited only to advertising mailings, but now mailings are by no means not an isolated case senseless waste of time and money to get traffic.

Many of the methods that a few years ago were considered basic and unshakable in terms of attracting visitors to sites have now lost their relevance or do not work at all.

I often look at various training courses on making money on the Internet and every time I grunt in annoyance when the authors begin to list these very methods, claiming that you will receive tons of traffic without straining.

Fucking theorists...

What methods won't work for you?

Some time ago this method was the most real gold mine among internet entrepreneurs. The databases were not crowded, the scammers had not yet spread like lice on their heads, and it was easy to get hundreds of targeted visitors and subscribers by sending just one letter to someone else's database.

What happened next?

What happened was that the way became too famous and popular.

There was an uproar around him. Everyone started ordering advertisements from each other, pumping in low-quality products and undermining the trust of subscribers, but what’s even worse, it multiplied great amount scammers with twisted dummy bases.

Remember: if you receive an email with an offer to place an advertising article in someone else's mailing list, never agree. Most likely, these are scammers who want to quickly throw you money.

And don't believe beautiful screenshots with high email open rates. Everything is faked. Normal owners of newsletters now advertise various products in them themselves, and do not ask for money in advance for posting articles.

Now, in general, many scammers began to act smarter than before. They do not immediately merge after receiving payment from you. To protect themselves from complaints and threats from you, they carefully send a small number of so-called bots(twisted, non-live visitors) or cheap traffic from boxes.

You won't get any conversions, of course. But scammers will be able to justify themselves, saying that everything was legitimate, the declared traffic was sent to you, and the fact that you could not monetize it is already your problem.

And to prove something will be daunting. To date, bastards have learned to deceive and wind up behavioral factors to such an extent that even with the help of such popular statistics services as Yandex-Metrika and Google Analytics, you can’t figure out what’s what.

But even if a person has a real subscription base collected sometime in an honest way, you will not recoup the cost of the release, especially by advertising affiliate products.

And it's all in the banal hackneyedness of its base. With each new advertising mailing, the loyalty of subscribers decreases. The author is no longer trusted, and you will not be subscribed to in the amount you need.

Smartresponder, and that one, already understood the full scale of the problem, and, finally, turned off the option to contact the authors of the newsletters in his directory. I'm even afraid to imagine how many complaints and reproaches they have collected during all this time.

True, it is not easy to get their consent even for money. For example, I always refuse when such proposals are sent to me. For me, reputation is more important than momentary profit.

Another popular way of bygone days.

Especially when it comes to placement. links in signatures to posts. Yes, the method is free. But how many diligent posts do you need to scribble so that your ad is noticed and clicked on?

Now due to spam, most forums do not allow anything to be placed in signatures or block links. And even if they do not block, people are afraid to go to other people's sites for fear of catching some kind of infection.

I confess I'm in my time tested hard this way in Burzhunute. I just did not see any other way of free advertising.

He posted seemingly useful messages on major forums, pretended to be an expert in solving all sorts of problems, and even received likes and thanks.

In theory, as all sorts of infobusiness gurus wrote about it, I should have drowned in free targeted traffic. But the reality turned out to be that traffic was not at all.

However, advertising on forums can be as effective as mailing lists, but only if you manage to negotiate with the administration about placing paid posts, and even preferably in a separate thread.

I remember that in past years there was a real boom with the placement of beautiful animated banners on popular blogs. I posted them myself, in particular on the blog of Alexander Borisov and other resources of famous authors.

I will not blame them for anything, they do not give any guarantees.

The main problem of banners in the wild discrepancy between the cost of advertising and the result which you get as output.

You expect to get a lot of visitors and subscribers, but in reality there is very little traffic, and it turns out that in addition to a small amount for each attracted subscriber, you overpay 3-4 times.

Secondly, many now have banner blocking plugins. The same Adblock. Accordingly, you initially lose a significant part of the potential audience.

Everything else will not bring the desired result.

God, why do so many idiots post their links in the comments under YouTube videos? I sometimes just bomb from this stupidity.

People read shit courses from Glopart about how you can easily get a bunch of free traffic from YouTube, and how zombies leave their stupid links in the comments, without even thinking about the fact that all their messages automatically go to spam and are not visible to anyone except themselves and the authors of the videos.

They mistakenly console themselves with the thought that by leaving an ad under a popular video, they will soon be able to get a lot of clicks on their affiliate link and make a lot of sales of someone else's course.

No, of course, a long time ago at the dawn of time, it might have worked. Until YouTube patched up the holes in the system.

The same goes for social networks. I still see diehard partners in many groups spamming and spamming under each other with colorful messages about miracle projects and courses. That was five years ago, and it's happening now. What incredible cretinism...

Tell me honestly, those of you who do this, do you really believe that you can at least make some money on this? Who cares about all your spam? The contact already blocks almost all affiliate links, but this does not stop you.

Hands would be torn off by those infobusinessmen who, in their unfinished courses, taught you this.

This method has gone through absolutely the same story as advertising mailings. As long as only a few knew about him, everything worked. The groups were of high quality, they managed to get a lot of traffic, advertising fully paid for itself.

As soon as everyone learned about the method, the bacchanalia began. Groups wound up by bots, concocted specifically for a quick cut of the dough, tons of garbage advertising, community members fed up with an endless stream of paid offers ...

In my practice, I have placed banners and paid messages in groups about a dozen times. Only twice I was lucky enough to recoup the costs and get a small plus. Although I tried. He conducted a long correspondence with the owners of the groups, studied statistics, advertised various projects (both services and goods).

You will certainly get traffic, but for the most part this traffic will dirty and inappropriate.

I remember about a year ago I was actively trying to recruit subscribers through teaser networks. To be honest, I have never had such a dead and useless base, and this despite the fact that I lured people into a perfectly tuned funnel with the most thoughtful offer for the info business.

In addition to the non-targeted motley audience, the problem of teaser advertising is also that there fierce competition. Hundreds of arbitrageurs promote the same CPA offers, place the same ready-made banners that everyone has long been fed up with.

I’m already silent about dozens of scam teaser networks that stupidly deceive both their advertisers, cheating them with left clicks, and webmasters without paying them commissions.

What methods work the other way around?

1. Own videos on YouTube

This is an ideal way for those who want to get a decent amount of targeted and free traffic on an ongoing basis.

The whole trick is to record and put on YouTube as more quality videos united by a common theme.

I will bring specific example from your practice. Back in late 2012 - early 2013, I recorded a series of video tutorials on Western Internet business, placing links in the description to my landing page.

And how much time has passed since then, and these videos have already gained thousands of views, but most importantly, they brought me to the database a huge number of the most targeted and interested subscribers. Yes, and now they consistently bring 10-15 people per day and on full autopilot.

I repeat. The key to success is quality video content and definitely a lot.

It has always worked and will continue to work. The only problem here is the inability to set it up, since the process is complex and routine. To become a Yandex.Direct professional, you need to study and practice a lot.

Fortunately, there are plenty of courses on this topic, if there is a desire.

From myself I can say this. If you are a beginner or if you are familiar with contest advertising at a basic level, as I am, then it is better not to advertise in large competitive niches such as business, health, etc.

Promote projects from narrow niches. For example, some time ago I conducted an experiment and advertised one of the voice development trainings through my affiliate program. The results were much better than my attempts to advertise my own infobusiness subscription page.

As practice shows, in narrow niches there is not only less competition, but also a better paying target audience.

3. Shares of mutual PR

Surprisingly, this method still works, although it would seem that the hype around it should have passed a long time ago. True, the effect of mutual PR is obtained only if they do not abuse.

The method is intended for those who build own subscription base. And it suits especially well if you don’t have your own base yet.

On a paid basis, you can ask for one of the upcoming events and, thanks to several similar promotions, you will gain the first couple of dozens or a hundred subscribers.

An ideal option at all if you yourself are organizer such an action of mutual PR. Then you won't have to pay anything.

If you are still a participant in someone else's event, I advise you to participate on a paid basis and annoy your new subscribers as little as possible with another advertisement for free garbage.

The more and the more often you sell something to your database (even if it’s free, but useless products), the faster you lose trust in the eyes of subscribers.

By myself, I have noticed for a long time: with each new time, partner products in the database are sold worse and worse. So I try to advertise as little as possible.

4. Promotion through your blog and mailing list

The method, of course, is not easy and time-consuming, given that the blog itself needs to be initially promoted somehow and the subscriber base must be recruited. But by doing this, you will not be short of traffic to advertise paid products or services.

All top partners, who have ever won competitions in terms of the number of sales from infobusiness gurus, first of all use their own databases and only then all sorts of Yandex Direct, YouTube, etc.

But this method is already from the category new and fresh ideas. I don’t know how it is in Runet, but in the West I have repeatedly met discussions about promoting projects through android apps.

And apparently, the method is quite working.

The thing is that it is extremely problematic to earn a lot on free applications through built-in mobile advertising. And this despite the fact that by themselves free apps can be downloaded thousands of times and used by hundreds of people on a regular basis.

How to make the store popular with customers? You need a good location, competent sellers and thoughtful price policy. Such an important indicator as store traffic will give you an understanding of the demand for the outlet and will be the best indicator of its work.

Why does an entrepreneur need traffic data

– this is information about its attendance and the intensity of the flow of buyers for certain period time. Based on traffic data, entrepreneurs can calculate the conversion – that is, to identify the proportion of buyers from total number people who visited the store.

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As you know, store traffic varies depending on the location of the outlet. Therefore, many entrepreneurs are faced with such a problem that the traffic in the store is low for the simple reason that the outlet is located in an inconvenient place.

That is why the patency must be calculated even at the stage of choosing the premises for the store, since after the opening it will be too late to change anything. In order not to get lost, experts advise measuring and predicting such an important indicator as “store traffic” at the earliest stages.

Traffic generator: why stores are closing

Shop traffic count

Even at the planning stage, experienced businessmen and retail professionals pay special attention to the location of the store and it is the most significant indicator when choosing a location. – it's traffic.

Simply put, information about the number of people who pass by a trade enterprise for a specific amount of time – hour, day.

Many retailers are puzzled by the analysis of the point of sale only when the outlet is already functioning, but "something is going wrong." This is not true. It is necessary to analyze the patency of the outlet not only before its opening, but also periodically after the opening, assessing changes in traffic, analyzing the target audience.

It is easy to measure store traffic on your own:

1. observation method. It is carried out by visually counting people passing or passing by a store (future or already functioning) and manually entering the numbers;

1. Use gadgets. Approximate traffic and traffic in the store today can be calculated using applications for smartphones or, for example, using a regular pedometer;
2. Use a video recorder. To do this, it is convenient enough to park the car in front of the entrance to the store and leave the DVR to work during the day or turn on the recording every day at the same time.

When choosing the location of the future store, you must also consider:

• walking area this place;
• the potential of this place in terms of the location of nearby residential buildings, transport stops, parking lots, highways and highways;
• the number of competing stores or stores with an identical assortment.

How to measure store traffic

The most important indicator of the analysis of an outlet is its traffic, that is, the number of visitors. Each outlet will have different traffic.

Marketers and retailers say that store traffic can constantly change: it depends on seasonality, demand, it can “fluctuate” depending on the days of the week.

Many companies today provide retailers with their services in calculating store traffic or traffic, determining the conversion of purchases.

But for entrepreneurs who do not have enough money to hire specialists and calculate traffic, you can use other simple methods:

1. Buyer counters. Such devices are installed at the entrance to the store to record each incoming person.
2. Counting checks and analyzing the average check. Thanks to checks, an entrepreneur can easily calculate the number of shop customers served for different periods of time: per hour, day, week, month.
3. Installing a laser reader. Such a device is also installed on both sides of the entrance to the trade premises, on the one hand a laser is emitted, and on the other hand, a signal is received by a reader.
4. The simplest way – it is independent. This work can be entrusted to one of the employees of the store. It should record the gender of people, their average age, their income level, or even mark the assortment that this visitor is interested in.

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We take a regular computer, connect any fiscal registrar and install the Business Ru Kassa application. As a result, we get an economical analogue of a POS-terminal as in a large store with all its functions. We start goods with prices in cloud service Business.Ru and start working. For everything about everything - a maximum of 1 hour and 15-20 thousand rubles. for the fiscal registrar.

Create a detailed customer base with the Business.Ru CRM system. Conduct a detailed analysis of your target audience, identify their exact needs, predict demand and thereby increase sales.

What to do with the received data

So, the entrepreneur receives data on the store traffic and its traffic. But what's next?

1. Merchandising. After the entrepreneur has information about the most “passing” and popular place in his retail store, he will be able to correctly lay out products that are profitable for sale.
2. Knowing the "peak" hours of work, the manager can change the work schedule of his employees.

1. By measuring traffic during seasonal or promotional/sales days, an entrepreneur can easily find out their effectiveness.
2. Store traffic increases after hours, before holidays, before weekends, in the evening, before the start of the school year .
3. Knowing the patency of the store and its traffic, the entrepreneur can influence it in a cunning way. For example, install store advertisements in crowded places on the nearest streets and public transport stops.
4. Truly essential data for the owner of any store – this is a conversion, that is, the number of store visitors who made a purchase out of their total number.
5. And the most important advice: a person will always make purchases where it is convenient for him, where he feels good, and that is why the main task of a retailer is to create convenient conditions for a potential buyer.

   So that a mother with a pram or a person in a wheelchair can get inside the store, so that it is convenient for car owners to leave their vehicles near the outlet, so that they can sit down and rest in the shade on a bench near the store.
   

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   The service will improve the efficiency of the store by reducing the loss of product balances, significantly speed up the process of revaluation, printing price tags / labels, strictly discipline the work of the cashier and limit his opportunities when working with discounts / sales at a free price.

The first months of life are the most difficult period for any project.

You have made a website for yourself, installed all kinds of plugins, add high-quality content almost daily, but there is no traffic.

Where to get free traffic to the site

For the first two months, you should not hope that visitors will actively come to the site from search engines. Even if the articles written by you under the LF are successful, they will not be able to immediately get into the TOP.

What then is left for you to do? The answer is simple: write even for a few random blog visitors and from other sources.

At an early stage in the development of a web resource, SMO methods are very useful.

plus this method promotion can be called an instant response to the actions taken.

For example, after publishing the announcement of an article in some social network, you can almost immediately observe an increase in visitors to the site.

Therefore, at the initial stage of the development of the site, you can get pretty decent traffic from SMO objects.

Then, after quite a few articles appear on the site and all of them are linked by successful linking, we can talk about their hitting the TOP for low-frequency queries. Then the main flow of traffic will come from search engines.

But until that happens, you'll have to make do with social media visitors. True, it is not easy to exist for a long time due to social media, since you need to be active a lot.

Therefore, in order to attract visitors from search engines (Yandex and Google), we continue to fill the blog with high-quality unique content, because this traffic will be stable and does not depend on your activity. It is also called passive.

Do not forget about external blog optimization - getting links to your resource.

How to drive traffic to your blog from thematic social networks

- this is very cool, but it would not hurt to get visitors from thematic social networks. To do this, you first need to register. After registration, it will be possible to add announcements of articles with links to your blog. In some in social networks links are open for indexing, but have a very low weight.

Another way to attract visitors is the Subscribe service. There you can become a member of a thematic group or create your own, and you can also create mailing list.

You can add announcements of articles in the social media of the bourgeoisie. Among the most effective:

• Delicious.com
• Digg.com
• reddit.com

They are so visited that when you get to the top of your news, the attracted traffic can reach several tens of thousands of visitors per day. But this applies more to English-language sites, because. the Russian-speaking audience of these services is not large.

Hi all. Today's article will be about free traffic to a website, blog, subscription page, or whatever you need. By the way, I restored my abandoned mailing list, and it is now quite warm and cozy there. To receive it - just

So, whatever you do, you definitely need traffic, that is, visits potential clients to your pages. Regardless of where you want to receive visits: social networks, blog, online store, Youtube channel, Telegram channel and the like. Any of these sources require outside visits. True, some of them have specifics. For example, the Telegram channel will not receive much traffic from search engines, since the content from it is not crawled by search engines. True, this is done by bots from directories, but there will be much less traffic there.

Let's agree that all the tools for getting traffic can be divided into two large groups — paid traffic and free traffic. Moreover, one type of traffic does not exclude the second at all. That is, if, for example, you buy advertising on social networks and search engines, this does not mean at all that you do not need to work on free channels. Since this article is all about free traffic, let's get started and discuss the main sources for getting free traffic. For convenience, in the article I will only mention the site as a target for traffic, but in your mind substitute your goal where you want to receive visitors. Also, regardless of where you plan to send traffic, I strongly recommend creating your own blog or some kind of page where you will collect email newsletter subscriptions. Why? Email marketing is the most highly effective way to turn visitors into money. Regardless of what you are doing - selling advertising, selling affiliate products, your products - if you do not collect a base of subscribers and do not establish contact with them - this is the same as if you sell crude oil. If you already have a visited resource and you are not collecting your subscription list, close this article right now and immediately go to install the subscription collection form. In subsequent articles, I will definitely tell you how to do it correctly and what to do next with the collected databases.

What are the ways to get free traffic?

REGULAR posting of UNIQUE content on your blog/website

This is the so-called way SEO promotion. You look for popular queries in search engines and write articles on these topics, publishing them on the site and achieving indexing by search engines. If this is done regularly, correctly and for a long time, then a visit to your site can easily exceed 1000 in a year. unique visitors. Of course, it all depends on the chosen topic and your perseverance, but practice shows that this is far from the limit. As an example, Dmitry Ivanetsku's blog KtoNaNovenkogo.ru which easily receives 20,000 - 30,000 visitors a day. In addition, for the proper promotion of the site in search engines, you do not need to have any special skills and abilities. All the basic information on promotion is easily found in the search, and the technology itself is quite straightforward, so that it is available even to a beginner on the Internet. In addition, your own visited blog is one of the most stable sources of traffic. At one time, I was engaged in my old blog for only some 2-3 months, bringing it to attendance of 150-200 people per day. Then he dropped it. That was enough to get traffic to the site for another two years ... So, probably not better way receive stable and delayed traffic as the development of your blog filled with unique content. On this topic, I highly recommend reading the book “Platform: How to Become Famous on the Internet”, it was under its influence that I started maintaining and promoting my blog. This is an entire industry and a whole world, but very pleasant and warm. Since blogging is done only on the topic that really interests the author. Therefore, all the bloggers with whom I have dealt are incredibly pleasant and responsive people.

The second most powerful tool for getting free traffic is a Youtube channel.

Why is that? Youtube is the second most popular search system in the world. In addition, Youtube itself actively promotes interesting and viewed videos. The approach here is the same as with a blog - the more often and more interesting the content - the more visited your channel. If you stop publishing new videos, the channel automatically sinks into search results and stop getting new views. This happened to my channel, which I also abandoned a couple of years ago. New videos almost do not gain views, but those that were added earlier and managed to gain a certain number of views - to this day receive several thousand views a month. For example, a video about where to download free books published back in 2014, but until today it quietly receives 2-3 thousand views every month. If I continued to publish one good video per month, then this figure would be ten times higher. For example, one of my clients Timur Tazhetdinov has video clip , which was published in 2015 and until today receives more than 2000 unique views per day. Thus - Youtube is one of the most best tools for generating traffic. Do not forget to give a link to your site in the caption for each video, and also call for a transition in tooltips. And even more effective is to give a link directly to the email newsletter subscription form by offering some free material.

Make publications in collective blogging services, sites with high traffic and low bandwidth.

What are these platforms? Surely, your niche will have its own platforms, but I will list those that I used myself or used them jointly in client projects.

• Answers mail.ru- you can both answer questions and ask questions on the topic of your blog or articles that you have published. Of course, with links to articles. This should be done carefully enough, and as much as possible in the subject, so that something is not suspected. But regular visits to this resource and active participation in discussions can bring you several hundred visits per month on a regular basis. Of course, if you select the most active discussions.
• Toaster a similar service to mail.ru answers, but on the topic of technology, development and about programming areas. Child project of Habr. The principle of publishing is similar, only the effect is much more stable, provided that the subject of your blog matches the theme of the site.
• Habr- suitable for resources focused on the IT segment and about programming topics. After registration, sandbox publications are available, but if you manage to write a quality article in the sandbox, then it will be noticed and pulled out into the light, where it will receive significant coverage. Which, of course, will give an increase in visiting the blog. Before publishing an article, analyze which publications are gaining the most views and comments. And keep track of the so-called - hours of silence - on which days / hours there is the least top articles. This is the time to post yours.
• peek-a-boo- a specific youth (although, I'm probably too old already) service, where they discuss everything that is horrible. Basically, there are funny, vital and controversial posts. With minimal skill and ingenuity, you can display posts in the top using sharp topics and unusual interpretations. On this resource, the main thing is not to be afraid to be ridiculed, since your task is to evoke ANY emotions and initiate discussions.
• d3.ru- an old, kind resource, which, in my opinion, is living out its last days, but can still be used to get visits to the site. The principle of bringing to the top is similar, as in Peekaboo - the funnier, more interesting, controversial and sharper the post, the more likely it is to be noticed. The only problem is that registration on the site is by invitation only, or is completely closed ... If you do not have an account there, you are out of luck, but you can try.
• vc.ru a serious portal, which today is visited by several million people a day. The principle is similar to habr - we write a sharp, useful, controversial article in the sandbox - we connect all our resources to create traffic, you can send a newsletter to your base, be sure to make posts in all possible groups, on your pages. You can write several comments from fake accounts (don't forget about TOR browser) and hope that someone will notice the article and take it to the main page. If you succeed, it will give a powerful enough boost to your brand. I plan to try to do this for my blog soon, although I have experience in creating and promoting similar articles for client projects. Believe me, it's worth it and pays for all the effort expended.
• - Another fairly popular resource about everything in the world. The best articles come on the topic modern technologies, Internet resources, start-ups and politics... True, the cost of publishing opportunities costs 75 rubles a month, but if you manage to shoot with a topic, naturally, they will pay off.
• Spark is the perfect platform for publishing about startups, online services, marketing tools, and other online business topics. Not as visited resource as the previous ones, but it has a very narrow target audience - a small business that is represented on the Internet.
• cossa- Internet publication about Internet marketing. You can send your articles, which the editors can publish on their resource, or keep your own blog there (less profitable). Here information about posting an article on the site >>>
  • • I also found several articles on the topic of posting articles:

Publication of an article in the media / electronic media.

Many people think that in order to publish an article in the media, you need to pay for advertising or have strong acquaintances. But, sometimes, it is enough to have some expertise and access to journalists who are looking for an article on the topic you need. We did such a thing in one client project using the service: https://pressfeed.ru . The technology is quite simple - in the service, journalists publish requests on what topics they need articles on, and you, in turn, submit a request to write such an article. It is enough to get a few approvals and publications in the media in order to gain a certain level of trust on the service and start publishing articles containing "guerrilla marketing". That is, the mention of some keywords or products that can only be found on the site you need ... Or, often just mentioning your name as the author and expert who wrote the article is enough. Also, several similar services can be found in the articles on the links that I gave to the previous paragraph. Dare!

Auxiliary ways to promote a blog.

• Friendship with about thematic blogs. Find 20 highly visited blogs that post on a topic that resonates with your blog. Start helping the authors of these blogs. In the comments, help create expertise for the author of the blog, share his posts on social networks, make a publication on your blog in support of one of his articles, help with some advice or professional help. Your task is to do everything to be noticed and accepted as a very useful visitor, commentator, and then a blog partner. After the goal is achieved, various forms of cooperation can be offered: interviews with mutual publications and cross-links to blogs, a guest article on the blog, useful mutual comments with links to their publications, etc.
• Thematic comments on visited resources. You can leave a link to your site directly in the comments if there is information that complements the author's article well. Naturally, there is a high probability of deleting such a comment ... To prevent this from happening, do everything that is described in the previous paragraph. And, of course, collect Google file Docs links to several dozen similar sites to monitor them from time to time and leave comments.
• Publication of announcements or articles in thematic groups in social networks. Good, high-quality articles are taken away even by official publics and groups with a multi-million audience. Here is just one example of my article