In this video I will show you how to get Traffic to your website with its 12 Steps and get ready for a hack that will Help you get even more visitors and Engagements with your content the first Step is to establish a presence on Facebook oh and don't worry I will not Tell you to spam on social media we all Hate this but you can leverage your own Social media accounts so number one is Facebook obviously Facebook is the Biggest of all social media sites and Here you can create your own business Page as well as create your own Facebook Group To create your own page click on your Profile and then you will see here on The left the option to create a new page Here is my page for anastasiablogger.com Site I'm sharing links here to my YouTube videos and to my blog posts Hosting your own Facebook group can be Also very beneficial because as a group Owner you are the one who can share your Links and content freely and you can set The rules of the group so that the Members of the group don't spam in your Community you want to share your content On social media not only to get the Visitors to your site which of course is Great but also to give positive social Signals which will help your content Rank better in Google SEO as well number Two is LinkedIn if you think that
LinkedIn is only a place to keep your Portfolio and find jobs you're wrong for Many websites in business related niches Especially LinkedIn is a great platform For driving high quality traffic I can show you with this free Google Chrome extension from similar web you Can check how popular is each platform We're talking about today so LinkedIn Gets 1.6 billion monthly visits Worldwide of each of which about 30 Percent are users based in the United States so if you do get traffic from LinkedIn it's usually easier to monetize It with display ads with affiliate Products even with your own products so You can start a LinkedIn page associated With your website or your brand just Like on Facebook and you will be like on An additional blogging platform there You can share links to your content you Can add hashtags and people can follow Your company page or visit your website From here remember that on LinkedIn People can do a search and your content Can be found for example if someone used A filter posts something like this Usually the post that will show up over Here there in the long format articles Just click on this write article button And add here your text and images you Can write shorter versions of your Content already published on your site Or even just copy the full article from
Your site and I know you might be Worried about duplicate content but Really you shouldn't because you first Publish this content on your site and Google already indexed it and it knows It was this source of the content and it Won't affect the rankings of your Original post you want to publish on LinkedIn your text with lots of your Internal links that are going back to Your website that's the whole purpose Number three is Twitter I'm pretty sure You know what is Twitter and if you Don't have an account there you should Create it whenever you have a new post On your site you just go on here on Twitter and share a link to your post Make sure that you use some hashtags Relevant to the topic of your post and You can do just a quick research about Trending hashtags on Twitter for some Niches especially for Tech Twitter is a Great traffic source and think about in The about it this way as a beginner you Need to share your content as much as Possible on every platform because even If you get about 100 visitors from each Of these platforms multiplied by 12 Sources we're gonna cover today and it's Over a thousand website visitors which Is great for a brand new site so the Next one is called Tumblr if you don't Know about this platform let me show you It gets about 229 million monthly
Visitors and what's more important is Especially popular in the United States And Canada which means great RPM Revenue Per thousand of visitors to your site so You can amount ties it well with ads now Let me show show what happens here I Have like a Blog over here and you can Simply share your links and again use Hashtags like on all social media I Mostly share here links to my YouTube Channel and sometimes to my blog posts As well now remember I promise to show You a cool hack that can help you get More clicks and engagements with your Content on social media time to share it With you now you notice that when I Publish links on any of the social Networks an image associated with each Post will show up the problem is that You have to set this preview image for Every page on your site if you want These pages to be saved with an image For example I tried I tried to save on Twitter a post from this site and see What happens there is no image at all This kind of post will not get much Attention in the feed because there is Just text on the post title eCommerce Stores also face the same problem see I Tried to share a page from a t-shirt Store on LinkedIn and there's no image At all attached to this link this Happens more often than you can imagine Because as a website owner before you
Save something on any platform you will Likely do your best to add a preview Image even if you have to do it manually Sometimes what really matters is how Easy it is for other users to share a Page from your site with a decent image You can solve this problem once and for Good thanks to the sponsor of today's Video Mark shotbot just go to Mugshotball.com and you will see some Examples this is how pages from the site Looked when shared before they used Mugshot board and here is after a large Image with light background that was Generated as a preview image and it Automatically added the title and the Description of the page which makes it Much easier to notice this post in your Facebook feed or on any other social Media site you can click here to get Started for free and try how this will Work on any page of your website insert Here the URL of your page and then the Tool will instantly add the title and Description and you're the main name to The preview image Here below you can choose one of the Templates that will Define how your Preview image might look for blogs like Mine I like the 2 up template because it Can either bring the image from the from The page or I can easily upload here Something like my profile photo or my Website logo and it will show up on
Every preview image now this team Template is the best for e-commerce Sites it shows the product photo and the Price you can also choose either the Light of or the dark color scheme and Actually the dark skin might make your Post stand out even more in the feeds in The social media and you can change the Color that's used for the accent border For the website name and background Better tint and there are some options That you can play with that will change The background pattern it's very subtle Difference but it's good to have some Options here right now the next step is To copy this code to your site to make This preview work every time any user Tries to save this page on any social Media you click here and you will get Several options on how to technically Add this to your site so the easiest way In my opinion is the second option it's When matured bot will host your images Saving your time by skipping any manual Downloads so you can copy the following Tags and paste them into the Hat section Of your HTML code and I have to mention That if you use one of the most popular SEO plugins on your WordPress site the Plugin will likely add a similar code And it would create a conflict with Max Shot however the problem with those SEO Plugins is that you have to manually Upload the preview image for every page
And often it means that you have to Create an image of the right size for Each platform uploaded to your media Library and then manually select that Image in the open graph settings in the SEO plugin for that particular page Again different for every platform it's A lot of manual actions which you can Totally skip if you use mugshotbot Pro Instead but in order for maxwellbot pro To generate image previews automatically You will need to make sure you disable Open graph in your SEO plugin settings For example this is how easily you can Do it in yoast SEO plugin so if you are A blogger or an online shop owner Markshortbot will help you easily add Dynamic link preview thumbnails to your Slides Pages this way when links to your Site are shared on the internet a nice On brand image with useful information Can be shown instead of a generic Picture all the steps that I've shown You so far you can do for free with Mugshot but it will work for one page at A time for any page that you added here If you'd like this to work dynamically And automatically on any page of your Site you might want to try the paid Version of Mac shortbot likely you can Use my exclusive code Anastasia to Access the paid features of the platform For free and for entire three months There is a forever free version of
Mugshot but but some templates are only Available if you upgrade to Pro which is Anyway rather cheap with nine dollars a Month or 89 a year again if you try the Pro version for the first three months You can use my coupon code Anastasia Check the link to the mugshotboard.com In the description below now step number Five start sharing your content on Pinterest now if you've been on my Channel more than once you probably know That I'm big on Pinterest when I started My blog it was the main traffic Source I Was getting about 93 of my traffic from Pinterest back then and even now after Five years of blogging when my the main Authority has grown and Google has Started ranking some of my content Better I still get about 50 of all my Traffic from Pinterest So if you never use Pinterest keep in Mind that this platform gets about 1 Billion monthly visitors and 41 of the Audience currently is in the United States you should know that the audience From the United States is the most Desired for all content creators because In terms of monetization you can get the Highest revenue per thousand of visitors RPM if you have a lot of US based Visitors so Pinterest is a rare platform That works as a combination of social Media and a visual search engine Every pin that you create can be linked
To a specific page on your website and This currently works for standard image Pins and for video pins but for idapen Links are not yet available on all Accounts this is still in better Unlimited number of accounts but I hear The rumors that Pinterest is going to Roll them out to all users so you first Will need a vertical image I will create Those really quickly in canva you can Start your forever free canva account Using my link anastasiablogger.com canva So you will find in canva lots of Templates just search for something like Pinterest pin and you will get a ton of Vertical image templates you just need To change your background and textively To feed something to your topic let's Say I have this image downloaded from Canva I'll just show you how it's fast To create a pin you will go here to Pinterest and click create now upload Your image and then you will just need To add your PIN title pin description And the destination URL you can copy all Of this from your post title from your Description your SEO description for the Post and the URL is over here so you see This is my account I get 10 million Monthly viewers Plus on Pinterest I get About 80 000 outbound clicks to my site Per month from Pinterest and if you're Not leveraging this platform now I don't Know what you're waiting for Pinterest
Has a social and a search aspect to it And so you need to know how Pinterest SEO works I teach about it in my free Pinterest masterclass I'll give you a Link up there and in the description Below now step number six the next Platform is Instagram you probably know That you can only add links to Instagram Stories not to the post and stories they Last for only 24 hours but you could Also solve this problem if you use Smart Bio that's integrated with Tailwind Scheduler for example it's my social Media schedule that I use for Pinterest Mainly but it also is great for Instagram and Facebook and for Instagram It allows you to schedule a regular post On your account and make a note that Users should check the link in BIO and In the bio your link would go to smart Bio while Talent allows you to schedule An automatic update of the link to the Latest post in your smart bio and it Happens at the time when you post on Instagram goes live The next platform is Reddit and also Quora and Reddit and quora are these two Powerful social media sites that can be Used to drive free traffic to your Website Now Reddit is a site where people ask Questions they can share news and Discuss topics of their interest in an Online community community setting so on
Reddit what we need to do is create a Subreddit about the topic that you cover In your site for instance I created one Using my brand Anastasia blogger but if It was taken I would have to use Something that simply includes my main Focus keyword now you have a community Around your initial topic and other People can join what you can do now is Every time when you have a new post on Your site or a new YouTube video what You will do is just share a link to it On Reddit you will just choose your Subreddit and then posted what's nice About Reddit is that you also have an Internal search engine on Reddit so if Someone is searching for your topic for Your keyword they could find your Content right here so obviously I Recommend you to have your profile Picture added or or your brand logo so That your account looks legit and now The second step is to go and search for Subreddits or communities related to Your Niche say I wanted to find Something about blogging Related to my Niche you should search For something related to your topic and In case in my case I can find here Communities with tens of thousands Sometimes even with hundreds of Thousands of members so what you need to Do now is just start joining this Community so that you can start
Interacting with members inside this and Make your posts answer questions and Attract people to your website Indirectly and by the way Reddit gets 1.7 billion visitors per month and on Average people spend about nine minutes Per visit on this site so it's a very Engaged platform and people really spend Time on it and you can see here in the Country distribution really close to 50 Of Reddit audience is from the United States so it's a high quality traffic as Well and you can see then it goes to the United Kingdom Canada and Australia the Next platform is square.com let's open The site so quora is a question and Answer platform where users can ask Questions get answers from experienced Members of the community and learn more About various topics in quora your first Step is to create a quarter space it's Like a community inside the platform Here you can safely publish your own Articles post your links whatever you Wish because it's your space Here you will go to give a name to your Space again think of something that Includes the focus keyword or at least Your brand name and then you can add a Short description with some relevant Keywords again related to your Niche Then click create now we can keep Sending invites to your contents and we Will see that we have here like a page
Inside quarter you can add here your Brand logo a banner you you are the Admin of this page and by the way you Can also monetize pages on query if you Want but now you can start writing a Post on Quorum just take a short Description of something in your blog Post on your site and then add a link to The full post something like this So this is how you can get started with Traffic from your quarter space now the Next thing you will do in Quarry is Search for questions related to the Topic of your post so check something in My case I will search for something About Pinterest marketing And now you can check the posts that are Already doing well on quora so you can Get some content ideas for your own site But even more importantly you can open These links and add some value for Example I found this thread here and People already gave some responses but In my opinion the question was about Using some automation tools to make Binning on Pinterest easier and none of The answers suggested that so I gave This tip here and I also suggested that They could read my full article on the Topic now you can get traffic by Answering questions on Quarter Two the Next traffic Source you can use in is Your own email list if you're not Building an email list because you don't
Have anything to sell you're still Living a ton of money on the table Because you could be getting returning Visitors to your site for example I like This food blog called wholesome young I Signed up for her list to get more Recipes she sends me animals almost Every day I won't remember to visit her site daily But since she sends me a reminder when I Want to cook something I get to the Emails and I get some new recipes I Recipe ideas here now I'll also go to my Own convertkit account it's the email Provider that I use and these are my Broadcasts and see here I often get Hundreds here you go on average about 500 clicks from one email and these are 500 visitors which wouldn't have gone to My site this month have I not studied my Email list and let's make the mess Together I send at least four Newsletters a month and if we only count Those emails it's about 500 by 4 it's About 2 000 visitors to my site per Month just from the weekly emails but I Also have several email sequences where People can get an automated series of Emails for me and of course every email Has links to my blog post and to my Videos on YouTube in my case I use Convertkit it gives you very high open Rates compared to say something like MailChimp and you can create Advanced
Automations and email sequences in Convertkit you can start your free Account I'll give you a link to Convertkit in the description below step Number nine is SEO with Google Now Google SEO on or search engine Optimization is definitely one of the Most advanced ways to get traffic to Your site but luckily these days we have Lots of tools that help you do keyword Research and even write or even optimize The content for us or with us better to Say for keyword research you can use Browser extension something like Keywords everywhere and it will show you Search volume for anything that you Searched on Google and it will show you A bunch of related keywords and search Volume for them too and this is a good Start for creating your content plan or To outline your article but then you can Also use one of the famous this and Popular AI SEO tools some tools like Jasperi will help you write the content Other tools like rank IQ or server SEO Could give you suggestions on the Keywords missing in your article and They will give you ideas on subheadings In the post as well and I personally Tried and used all these tools that I Mentioned and they are great but Eventually I decided to stick with one Called neuron writer which is a Combination of these two functionalities
It helps you optimize with keywords and It also has an integrated AI writer and It's very affordable to compare it to Other AI SEO tools So currently I use Neuron writer you can get a link to it In the description below and actually to Anything else that I mentioned so far in This video number 10 is YouTube for me YouTube is also a great traffic source To my website I think YouTube audience Should be considered as a more warm Audience if you compare it to say Google Or Pinterest traffic because people who Have seen some of your content on YouTube well like you for example Watching my videos don't you feel that You're already know me a little bit Better than if you just clicked on a Random Link in Google search and found My blog post there But if you came from YouTube You're the Prime audience and even though the Volume of my YouTube traffic is not as Big as from Pinterest or Google the Quality of this visit is much higher you Can even see here the bounce rate is a Lot lower for my YouTube traffic and the Time that users spend on the site is Four times higher than for my Google and Pinterest traffic and of course on Google or on Pinterest people just click On the link to the image and they Instantly land on your site but on YouTube people first will watch some of
Your videos so it's harder to get people To click from YouTube to your web or to Your website but you know that I always Give additional links to the tools and Resources in the descriptions below my Videos so that's how you can get traffic From YouTube and you should also Remember that YouTube belongs to Google So for many keywords that are hard for You to rank Um with your website especially if it's New you could try to rank for them with YouTube video and then people could go From your YouTube wherever you want to Send them be it your website or some Affiliate products that you promote and With YouTube you can basically get Premium positions on the top of Google Search results page and this is free Traffic another traffic Source you Probably didn't think about is your own Website yes you definitely should Leverage The Power of interlinking on Your website one way that many beginners Online ignore is adding links to Relevant articles right into the text You can do it manually but I like to use A free plugin called link whisper that Finds all the best opportunities for Internal links in my existing content And it helps me add the links with just A few clicks it automatically finds the Text to link from in the post and I just Approve it and it already has the URL of
The destination page I just need to Click paste and Link is inserted the Next way of getting traffic is guest Posting it means simply publishing your Articles on other people's websites so Many sites will allow you to post an Article for free and you can just get High quality backlinks and free traffic But you need to invest your time and Effort into writing very high quality Articles so that they see that you are Providing real value to Their audience So how do you find the sites that can Accept guest posts well just follow me Here I will open Google and I will type Write for us and then the focus keyword For your Niche now we have a list of Sites that accept guest posts in the Business Niche just go ahead and check What are their requirements and send Them over your guest boats so here you Go this is your plan to grow traffic to Your website for free you noticed I'm Getting a ton of Pinterest traffic if You want to know what works in the Pinterest algorithm this year open that Video up there and I'll see you there
