How to get traffic on your website

When starting a website your traffic is zero. You have zero readers and zero customers. No one knows you even exist online. Leading traffic to your website is maybe not your primary focus at first, because you have more than enough to do setting your website up. All the small details you need to do. But you should pay attention. As I wrote in one of my first articles paying attention is important in daily practice for success. Your focus from the beginning with your website is to reach the right readers who are interested in your message and find it helpful to read your posts regularly. Today I am going to address how to get more traffic on your website and why you need to keep focus on this on a daily basis.

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Lately web traffic has increased with around 30% and people are more engaged online than ever before. This is a trend we will see throughout this decade. Online shopping is more popular than ever before and will be even more normal. All statistics is showing this. Social distancing will lead to more services and activities are being handled online in al sectors of our society. This will make a huge impact on the traffic online. So if you have been thinking about working from home and start a business online it is a good time to do so. (Image: Daily practice for Success)

Why do you need traffic on your website?

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The reason you want to get traffic on your website is normally to create a successful website people want to visit. And you want at the same time the same website to be a place of learning, service and a place you can generate income from. Am I right?

To do that you need to connect with your readers and serve your readers with helpful and useful information, solutions or products in your niche. If you do not pay attention to serving your niche you will notice it on your traffic. The earlier you start paying attention and focus on this, the more traffic you will see. You need to learn how to build traffic on your website. I have learned how to systematically build my website and traffic step by step through Wealthy Affiliate training.

Who is your readers and customers?

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As an affiliatemarketer, blogger, Solopreneur working from home, it is crucial to know who your readers and customers are and how and where to find them. How can you know if you have zero traffic? It can be challenging at first to know if you are reaching the right people at the right time on the right place. There are many tools to help you with this and I will mention the most important of them in this post.

What is website traffic?

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Do you know what website traffic really is and how it is measured? I am sure you have heard the word many times and have an idea about what it is. Before I tell you about the tools I want to explain what website traffic really is and how it is measured. Website traffic is web or mobile users who visits a website. When a user visits a website he or she sends and receive a lot of data through the internet. To measure how much traffic your website have, you can sign up to different analytic tools who read the data so you can get an idea of how many people actually visit your page on a daily basis, read your posts and what posts they read. You can get very useful statistics and get to know your readers better.

How much traffic is good?

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When I started out my own website I had no idea what was a good number of traffic or how to generate traffic to my website. What about you? Do you know how much traffic is good for an affiliatemarketer, blogger, solopreneur, small business owner and how your traffic is measured? Do you know what to do to generate traffic to your website?

Before you start reading the analytic it is wise to have an idea of what is good, what to look for and what it means. What is a good number of traffic, readers, page views etc. If you want to grow your website you need to measure your growth and read the analytic on a regular basis.

This is some stats you should look for:

Monthly visitors:

A good small business website have around 1000 unique visitors a month. If all these visitors are organic visitors it is even better. Organic visitors are considered as Quality traffic coming to your website.

Time per visit:

A good average time visit is 2-3 minutes per user. Normally a User use 10-20 seconds.

Returning visitors:

30% is good for returning visitors. If you have 50% or more you are doing great.

Page views a month:

When you have 2500 unique Page views a month it is good.

This is the general rule. If you just started out your website you should aim for the general numbers.

There are niches where this is considered very low. One example of this is the influencer industry.

Google is the website who rank as number 1 in regard to website traffic.

What is Organic, Direct, Targeted, Paid, Bot or Random traffic?

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Let us dig into this now. I am sure you maybe know this or have an idea about it but I will explain it to you just in case you are like I was. I had heard all these words many times without really understanding the difference. To me all was just traffic. Traffic is not just traffic. I have come to learn through my affiliatemarketing training that there are many types of traffic you can get to your website. I think it is useful and important to know the difference when I read my analytic. You will understand much more of your own traffic when you know this.

Organic traffic :You would want to have as much organic traffic as possible. Organic traffic is the traffic that comes when a web user search for a keyword or SEO. The user make specific goal when searching for a service, product or information.

When I wanted to start my own website I went to Google and made a search to find the best opportunity for me. I had a specific goal about my search. I Actually found the Wealthy Affiliate website doing a search on Pinterest. This was an interesting site for me so I clicked through and signed up to Wealthy affiliate. Organic traffic is much more likely to convert than other types of traffic. It will also benefit the ranking of your website. The more organic search you have the better will the search engines rank you as well. When you are new it can take up to 6 months before you get a good number of organic traffic. Organic traffic comes when you build up trust and credibility with search engines and your readers, users, customers.

Referrals : Referral traffic is traffic that is not coming from ads or search. These can be visitors coming from Google group posts, static pages on related Google sites and a various number of sources. In your analytics these visits will show up as a referral instead of organic.

 

 

Direct traffic is when someone has not been referred to your website from another website. When someone plots your URL into the search or click on a bookmarked link it will show up as direct traffic.

Targeted traffic is traffic coming from a pre – picked group of people through ads, registries, hashtags, landing pages, back links, emails and guest blogs just to mention some. To target a pre – picked group you need to know who they are. A pre – selected group can be your email list with interested readers. If you email to your list and they click on a link in that email that goes to your web page or a landing page you are generating targeted traffic.

Paid traffic comes from ads you have paid for. It can be sales campaigns, ads for webinars, ads for online courses, ads for coaching lessons, events etc. When a web user is clicking on your banners, video ads and pop up ads they send traffic data to your website as paid traffic.

Random traffic is people who visit your site accidentally while searching for something else.

Bot traffic/fake traffic: Traffic from non humans. Software automated tasks like link checkers and more.

10 Things you can do today to increase traffic to your website

1. Get Yaaxy Keyword search tool and write smashing titles – Get 30 searches for free here. A must have traffic power tool.

2. Sign up to Google Analytic.

3. Know your niche better.

4. Join Wealthy Affiliate boot camp for free and learn how to grow your traffic step by step.

5. Add and use your social sharing buttons.

6. Add new content to your website.

7. Email If you have an email list or get an email subscription form.

8. Add a contact form to your website.

9. Use Promo Republic to grow traffic on social media – an all in one social media traffic tool for all your social media accounts. This is one of my favorite power tools.
10. Add more content.

Final thoughts

Pay attention to your traffic on a regular basis. Make it a practice to check your stats. Learn how to use the traffic tools. If you are new to this I would recommend you to join the Free Affiliate boot camp to learn step by step how you can do this in a systematical and proven way. You might want to read my review to learn more.

I hope this is helpful to you and that you will be able to grow some real Traffic Packs.

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