How to Get and Increase Targeted Traffic to your Website

I can’t seem to stay away from the subject of Targeted Traffic.  I know what it is —  http://livethegoodlifewithsara.com/traffic/   I know why it is important  http://livethegoodlifewithsara.com/how-important-…ffic-really-is/

And now I have some great ideas to implement that will get me that Targeted Traffic.

The literature on Getting Targeted Traffic is immense. This post will provide a comprehensive  list of what the literature  has to say about how to get and increase Targeted Traffic. Subsequent posts will provide more detail on many of  these ideas for you to consider. Links to some great articles and posts that this summary comes from are provided at the end of this post if you want additional information.

So here’s the list. Try out some of these ideas and see how they work to get and increase targeted traffic to your website.

1. Advertise 
2. Mix up the blog posts
3. Write Irresistible headlines
4. Use SEO Strategie/ Make your blog content SEO Friendly
5. Target and focus on long tail key words
6. Post valuable content frequently 
7. Incorporate great design in your posts
8. Submit blog posts to a variety of places
9. Conduct key word research
10. Reference your posts and those of others
11. Invite others to guest blog/post on your site
12. Guest blog on others’ sites
13. Go after referral traffic
14. Implement schematic microdata
15. Interview industry thought leaders
16. Participate in Q and A sites
17. Make sure your site is responsive and fast
18. Foster a sense of community
19. Make yourself heard in comment sections
20. Pay attention to and examine your analytics data
21. Submit content to aggregator sites
22. Incorporate videos into content strategy
23. Research the competition
24. Host webinars/events
25. Attend conferences
26. Give away free content
27. Start a forum on your website
28. Start a Facebook group that drives traffic to your site
29. Promote your blog posts to your email list
30. Join a blogging community/ies and connect with them
31. Participate in the communities where your audience already gathers
32. Include links to other relevant posts on your blog
33. Become a columnist or contributor on a well-known website
34. Optimize your existing posts
35. Demote irrelevant Google sitelinks
36. Arrange an advertising swap
37. Make sure you have every relevant keyword you can think of on your site
38. Create a top 10 website post
39. Make the most of Facebook links
40. Get on YouTube
41. Add text to your blog post images and vice versa, add images, graphics and illustrations to your text
42. Become a member of industry Facebook and LinkedIn groups
43. Respond to blog comments especially on industry blogs
44. Answer questions in your blog, other people’s blogs, Facebook groups, etc.
45. Interview influencers in your niche
46. Publish articles around your keywords on as many sites as possible
47. Consider starting a ‘webzine
48. Distribute an E-book all over the Internet with your links in it
49. Have a Press Release
50. Survey your readers

Finally, be consistent and don’t give up!

More articles

Here are some links to articles and posts that helped me put the above list together.  The last one is a great article that will help you with blog content and  marketing ideas

• 101 tips on how to increase website traffic
• Increase traffic to my website
• Driving traffic to your website
• Techniques to Avoid
• Increase highly targeted leads on linkedin
• Importance of targeted traffic
• Increase Traffic
• How does SEO provde targeted traffic
• Get Targeted Traffic

Here is a great article, written by Jayson DeMers, contributor to Forbes Magazine that gives you 50 content marketing ideas for your website or blog. Check it out.

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