Hey do you have a website or a blog up and running but not enough eyeballs on it. Well in this article i'll learn you seven of the most effective ways to drive traffic to your website and what do i mean by traffic. I mean thousands of unique visitors to your website every month.

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My name is Abdul Qayyum and I am from Pakistan and before we get started I just want to mention that this is not a one size fits all topic there are other aricles out there that claim to have the ultimate formula for driving traffic to your new website. But the reality is that what works for one website niche might not work as well for another so in this article i'm going to share all the best ways to drive traffic and provide realistic examples of what has worked for me and people that i know personally. But in reality you will have to try anywhere from five to ten different things and maybe one will work really. Well it's just how the game is played and there's no shortcut around it driving traffic involves a lot of effort and a lot of uncertainty in the beginning.

    What are different types of traffic?

    So let's get started first it's important to understand the different types of traffic that there are they include

    Organic traffic: Which is free traffic

    Paid traffic: Which is using paid advertising

    Owned organic traffic: Typically comes from social media or SEO.

    I’ll get more into these two shortly but if you're not sure what is SEO it stands for search engine optimization which basically means optimizing your website to appear in google search results.

    I have a whole article in urdu called what is SEO. Traffic typically comes from running paid ads or paying for shout outs on other websites blogs or social media accounts that already have high traffic and then you've got own traffic which is basically like building an email list.

    Then you have to drive traffic elsewhere in order to build that email list but now you own it and you can take it anywhere that you need to from business to business. So now that you know the types of traffic the most important thing to understand about getting and keeping traffic is that content is king and distribution is queen.

    Creating valuable content and how you market it and by that i mean what is the reason that someone would want to come to your site and stay to browse around the answer is your content whether you're teaching people informative content or providing an excellent service or product that solves a problem for people you need high valuable content to get new visitors to your site.

    What is valuable content?

    So what is valuable content it's writing the most informative and well-organized blog post about a topic it's making the most engaging Youtube video to teach a new skill it's giving the most realistic advice in your podcast and so on.

    Few examples

    Here's a few examples of different types of content that you can make you've got a blog post which is usually informative and educational and teaches some body about a topic you've got a youtube video which is also can be informative or it can just been tertaining and then you've got instagram posts reels and stories which is all short form content. You've also got TikTok videos and yes i'm serious tiktok actually works because it's all about virility and trends.

    You've also got LinkedIn which is a great source for business leads and connections

    You've also got Pinterest pins which on Pinterest this is where people are actually spending the most amount of money because they're seeing products all over the place. So having a Pinterest account can really help drive traffic.

    You've also got Facebook posts and before you get too over whelmed and try to put content on every social media plat form out there just know that your niche is probably going to live in one to two of these places.

    So if your niche is something like baking cookies for instance then this is probably going to be best on something like pinterest and may be instagram but not so much as youtube.

    If your niche is something like cars this might be best on instagram and youtube but maybe not pinterest so doing market research on google is going to be best for figuring out where your market lives and how you can cater to them.

    So now you know all the different types of content and you know that content is king well now we've got distribution is queen.

    7 most effective ways to drive traffic to your website

    So how can we actually distribute this content to get eyeballs on it so first you've got:

    1. Research keywords and target SEO

    Research keywords and target SEO making sure that the SEO on your website is perfectly targeted towards keywords within your niche is going to help you appear a lot higher in google search and get you a lot more organic traffic.

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    2. Social media and blog content

    After researching what content is best for your market start writing posts making youtube videos making pins on pinterest etc having valuable content on your website is crucial but sharing it on social media is an easy leg up to get more eyeballs over to your website. You can create pins and link to your blog posts or web pages on your website for example my brother has a pinterest account for her health and wellness website that he drives up to a hundred thousand visitors each month purely from creating pins and building a pinterest account in a specific niche. I also have a friend that runs a personal instagram account about photography and drives thousands of monthly visitors to his website.

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    This way and again it all started with one single post so it's going to take some time and attention to grow it there really is no overnight hack for driving quality traffic to your site think of it. This way social media is where millions and millions of eyeballs are constantly hanging out. But if you don't have a piece of content to show no one will see you so make content that not only gets you seen but is worth sharing number.

    3. Social media content collabs

    Collaborate with competitors in your niche to gain awareness from someone else's audience. How can you do this well be willing to offer your competitor valuable content for their social media account that their viewers will love and then put a link to your website in the content itself or in the description.

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    4. Guest posting on blogs (Back-linking)

    Similar to collaborating on social media you can ask other website and blog owners if you can write a post on their site that is helpful for their audience and in this post you can include links to your website also known as a backlink. A backlink is just any link from someone else's website to yours and this really helps your site authority grow on google search so that you can appear higher in google results.

    Guest posting on blogs (Back-linking)

    Back-linking is one of the highest ranking sources that google looks for so the more backlinks you have the higher that you will appear in google search results and you also will get traffic from that person's website that is back linking to yours so it's a win-win for both.

    5. Interviews

    You've got interviews so you can offer to answer questions and provide valuable information in interviews on other people's websites podcasts or youtube channels. 

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    6. Paid advertising

    If you have a budget to work with doing paid advertising is the fastest way that you can drive traffic to a new site. This includes google search ads display. Ads which appear on any site using google adsense to monetize their site you've got facebook and instagram ads, youtube ads and more. I recommend researching how your competition is running their ads.

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    For example: display ads may work better for you than an instagram ads. You might be asking well how do i see what they're posting as far as ads well a quick way that you can find out is to go over to their facebook page and then go down to page transparency. Here you can view their entire ad library to see what they currently have running and how long they've been running it to see.

    If it's effective or not this is a great way to get inspiration on ads that you could run and a great way to get an edge up on your competition lastly.

    7. Social media shout outs

    We've got social media shout outs you can pay social media influencers with lots of followers to shout out your website on their Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat. Your name it's really simple you just reach out either through a direct message or through an email if they provide one on their account and ask them how much they charge for various types of shout out posts. The key here is to reach out to influencers who may already be end or sing products or services that relate to your website niche. That way they're much more likely to say yes okay so to sum it up there are several different avenues that you can take to start driving traffic and what works for some may not work as well for others so pay attention to your competition be patient expect to fail a few times and my personal advice is to never stop creating valuable content on social media.

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    It is by far the most effective and reliable method that i've found it's also the slow method the fast method is to do paid advertising but it's unreliable. Because your ad may not convert well or maybe it does for a limited time and then fizzles out but writing valuable content on your website will give people a reason to stay and come back.

    Conclusion

    All right guys if you found this article helpful please drop me a comment below to let me know what method you're going to try first and feel free to subscribe for more articles. On how to build professional websites from home and how to make money with websites and check me out on TikTok and Instagram. For more quick tips website inspiration and behind the scenes fun alright guys thank you so much for reading my article.