6 Proven methods in driving traffic to your site

Each point of the following is a topic by itself. I tried to make it short as usual. However, don’t hesitate asking if any is not clear. I personally tested them and I’m writing about these points or factors for driving traffic to your site from my own personal experience.

1- Enhance your ranking on search engines

• Your sitemap should be always up to date and being submitted to search engines periodically. WordPress.com takes care of this for you.
• Try to have good SEO structure on your site.
• Make sure that your site is fast loading – check it yourself on GTmetrix. I might write later how my site scores 100% on homepage and above 95% on most other pages/sections.
• Try to buy or exchange do-Follow Links with others. A lot of scammers are hunting in this market; so take your time before stepping further here…
• Increase your domain authority wisely without becoming obsessed about this point. That’s, don’t waste much time and money on it.
• Try to make visitors spend more time on your site. For example, refer to previous posts or other pages from your site often.

Related readings: Blog’s Statistics & Performance and Why I host with WordPress.com.

2- Engage with others

Likes, replies, comments, … Other bloggers usually pay the favor back and do the same to you. Just be careful of committing spam here. Please refer to WordPress – Ethical Dilemma.

3- Guest posts

Write blog posts on others’ blogs and offer others to do same on your blog. For me, I’m offering this too; you may visit “Be My Guest” for details.

4- Social Media

• Join Facebook Groups that relate to “promote website/blog”.
• Follow Twitter accounts that offer retweets service.
• Join Pinterest and Reddit groups (reddit might be strict in sharing links).
• Search for posts titled “Promote Your Blog or Your Latest Post” on WordPress.com.

5- Driving traffic to your site by advertising

If it’s affordable, advertise on social media such as Facebook, Twitter (read this first), .. and advertise on search engines (Google, Microsoft, …). Personally, I prefer advertising with bloggers themselves – you can read this very clear in my Cash Giveaway post.

Advertise with other bloggers

I got very good results from advertising this way. Please refer to my post Do you display ads on your blog?

6- Submit your site to MK Blog Directory

Finally, submit your website/blog to MK Blog Directory. It’s one of the easiest way in driving traffic to your site and to have it discovered by other bloggers (100% free).