5 Content Strategies to Drive Traffic to Your Website
You want more traffic coming to your website, right? If you already create some type of content for your business, you should try these 5 content strategies to generate more qualified traffic to your site:
1. Target the Weekends
The weekends experience a slowdown in business marketing content. Take advantage of the decreased competition by publishing and promoting new, compelling content on the weekends. Make your voice heard in the social media and social networking sites you participate in.
2. Blog
If your company does not have a blog yet, what are you waiting for? A blog is a perfect platform for you to communicate your unique voice to your prospective customers. Everyone has unique knowledge. Let yours shine by sharing your insights with your site visitors. Don’t hold back. The web is full of information. Try to make your blog content interesting and compelling.
3. Twitter
Twitter gets more than 23 million monthly unique visitors. Needless to say, it’s very popular. Leverage it as one more channel for you to communicate with your audience. If you already produce web and blog content, the incremental effort to use Twitter is minimal.
4. Outreach
Each industry has its own set of leading websites and blogs. Identify the most credible sites and blogs that your target audience visits, and then conduct an outreach program offering to write unique, valuable articles for them.
5. Content Aggregators
If you are already spending the time publishing content on your blog or in your website, then for very little incremental effort you could leverage the online reach of content aggregators such as AllTop.com. To submit your site, go to: http://alltop.com/submission/. You can also participate in aggregator sites by setting up a profile and posting articles yourself at sites such as BusinessWeek’s Business Exchange and BizSugar.
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September 29th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Thanks for the informative post, Tom.
I am sure this will be a very helpful resource for online entrepreneurs (as well as business players who are thinking about setting up a website) all over the world.
Keep those articles coming!
September 30th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Thanks for posting this, I really find the part about targeting the weekend informative. All great tips, that can easily be implemented to boost traffic to your site.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:11 am
This is a great concise list for targeted outreach - thanks!
October 1st, 2009 at 10:34 am
The franchise business is something I’ve written quite a few articles about, but I was not aware of the Content Aggregators until I read about them here. I am going to look into all this
October 4th, 2009 at 8:16 am
For those that don’t have a blog then I can recommend wordpress, it drives laods of traffic to my site
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October 6th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Twitter is getting more and more spammers. It’s kinda annoying to delete those spammers every day.
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October 29th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Awesome tips. Thanks for sharing this nice post.
July 26th, 2010 at 11:33 am
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