All we want to see our sites on Google, because this is probably one of the best ways to get traffic and make money. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy.
However there are different ways to get traffic. In this article, we’re going to discuss how to get more traffic while building our backlinks.
While we get links from other sites, we also get traffic from time to time. Some of our links can get us a lot of traffic; others not so much.
Below, I’m going to cover several tricks to get more traffic for our sites and blogs, while we build our SEO.
Before we start, you have to understand the way that kind traffic works. Here are the main ways that can get you traffic from other places:
- Ranking your links on Google - for example, articles, video, ebooks and other things (with your backlink of course) can be easily optimized to rank for long tail keywords on Google and other search engines.
- Ranking your links on sites’ internal ranking system - many sites have search bars where people type different keywords. And with a little bit of efforts you can appear in the first few positions for your keywords quickly and easily.
- Viral traffic – if you create an article, ebook or video that’s unique and interesting, people will start sharing it and it’ll get popular.
- Other
Now I’m going to present to you one of the most popular ways to get traffic from building backlinks.I personally have tested them all of them many times.
Video Sharing Sites
This is probably the best way to get traffic. Believe it or not, if you make and share videos the right way, you can get a lot of traffic for your site.
Don’t create only one video with a link back to you and then leave it. This is what most people do. Video traffic can be a goldmine for you, if you know how to make that. Just try to optimize your video a little bit, and you won’t be making a mistake.
The trick to getting traffic from your video is to rank your it on YouTube (that is if you use YouTube, which I would recommend).
Like Google, YouTube has a search bar that people use to search for different keywords, and believe me, YouTube ranking is a thousand times easier than Google ranking.
Another thing you can do is try to rank your video on Google. These days, Google loves to rank YouTube videos high in their search results.
Fortunately, YouTube ranking and Google ranking are affected by similar factors. In order to rank on those sites, you have to do several things.
The first thing you need to do is put your keywords in your video title, description and tags. Think about this like On-page optimization.
Don’t choose only one main keyword; choose at least one main keyword and a lot of long tail keywords. In my example, I have a site about surveys for money.
I created a video and I use this keyword in the title as my main keyword, but I’ve also chosen more long tail keywords which I use in my title, description and tags.
After several days my video was on the first page of Youtube for these keywords: “surveys for money” , “online surveys for money”, “get paid to take surveys” and started to drive me traffic almost immediately.
It will be almost impossible to get similar results if you try to rank sites on Google for these keywords.
YouTube is much less competitive than Google, believe me; in some cases, your On-page optimization will be almost enough to rank your video on YouTube on the first page in several days.
However, if this doesn’t work for you, here’s what else you can do. Other important YouTube ranking factors are view counts, ratings, and comments.
Just share your video on any social networking sites to try to get more views, ratings and comments. This will increase your ranking instantly. If you find that you still can’t rank, you can try to get some links for your videos.
Get these links the same way you get links to your site.
Just spend some time on optimizing your video and you should get traffic to your site easily and quickly.
Document Sharing Sites
Document sharing sites are becoming more popular in the SEO game these days because sharing documents is an easy way for SEO specialists to get backlinks from sites with high PR.
Document sharing sites can also send traffic to your sites. I tested it by creating and submitting an ebook to about 100 document sharing sites, and I was able to get about 300 site visits in the next week, just from sharing one ebook.
Most marketers will tell you to create a unique and interesting ebook which people will want to share. This is a good strategy, but what if you’re not such a great writer? There’s another thing—similar to my previous example—that you can do.
Like YouTube and Google, document sharing sites tend to have search bars. Fortunately, they get a lot of traffic from people searching for ebooks. What you can do is optimize your ebooks to rank high on those sites. How do you do that?
Well, we don’t know exactly how these sites ranks their ebooks, but what I can tell you is that it’s very similar to the way Google and YouTube work.
All these sites consider your title as one of the most important factors; that’s why you have to place your main keywords in your title.
Will it be easy to be number one on Google for “make money online”? Probably not. But being number one for that phrase on these sites will be very easy.
Just put your keywords in your title and you’ll see your ebook on the first page almost immediately.
Tip: Create catchy titles.
What I’ve found is that you can significantly increase your traffic if you create catchy titles. Let’s say you create a title like “How to make money online.” Well, you may think that this is interesting, but believe me, there are a millions titles like that one, and most people will considered it as a scam.
You need to create something better. Here’s an example of what I did: “How to make money online with legitimate paid surveys, starting today.” This one is much better because: first, it tells people how they’ll make money (with paid surveys), and second, it says “legitimate”—there are definitely a lot of people who think that most surveys are scams, so this word will help.
It also says “starting today,” which is helpful because people will read it and know that they can start making money today. As for the ranking: such a title will rank for “make money,” “make money online,” “paid surveys,” and so on. The best part is that these are search terms that people will definitely search for.
Blog Commenting
The last thing I want to discuss with you is how to get traffic from blog commenting. Most of you probably think that if you write quality comments, you’ll get traffic.
This will definitely help, but what traffic would you get if the blog where you comment has no traffic either? This is why you have to comment on popular blogs.
Here are several ways to find these popular blogs. First, find blogs that rank on Google for any keywords that has good traffic. There are a lot of blogs on Google in almost any niche. You can just go and post your comments on some of those.
Next, find popular blogs in your niche and start posting comments on their newest posts. This way, a lot of the blog’s regular readers will see your comments.
Believe me, if you do it the right way, blog commenting can not only give you a valuable backlinks that Google will love, but also a great amount of traffic.
In this article I presented you one of the best ways to get traffic from my backlinks that work for me. But you have to know that there are many more ways. All backlink is a potential traffic source. Just think and test.
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You know Dimov, one thing I’m yet to get into is Video. Due to poor bandwidth in my country, it’s really difficult to do online video.
I’m planing to get into document sharing and thanks for posting this. It’s a boost to my effort.
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Thanks for your comment,
Document sharing sites are good for traffic.You should try them.
Very nice article Erik lots f good informations here do keep it up thanks for sharing
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These are all amazing tips. I will surely use this as my guide.
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I’m sure you will see fast effect soon…
Thanks
Hey great tips, Previously i was not much aware about abour Blog commenting. But now i am doing it from some time and i have seen the difference. Traffic of my blog has increased very rapidly. Thanks to you guys.
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I;m happy you have learnt something from me.Thanks for your comment here.
It seems Youtube can be a great weapon to generate more traffic. By uploading a video to youtube and put any keywords in it we can exceptionally get more traffic better than Google if we do it with the same keywords. And it can rank us faster than google, too. Vey useful posting. It is worth reading. Thank you for sharing.
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Yes, Youtube has been used from elite internet marketers for several years.Nowadays we see more people doing this, but still not as many as people who make SEO.
Interesting about YouTube Dimov – I had done some for a retail site but they did not help the rankings. Probably did not share it enough or get comments like you suggested. Thanks for the tips!
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More views, ratings, favorites, comments, backlinks, shares and you will see fast effect, believe me.
It seems youtube is more powerful than any other video sharing sites as YT more audience and users compared to other. Also, I never thought that by using keywords as the main title on YT has also a great impact on search engine. Well, I guess you nailed everything on this post! Thanks for the share!
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Yes, Youtube is the best, because Google love Youtube and rank videos easy.Try typing different keywords on Google and you will see so many Youtube videos at top 10.
Nice tips! I run a science blog but I don’t know what videos to post. I certainly don’t like copying and uploading other people’s videos. That’s just wrong.
Document sharing seems a good way. I’ll try that out.
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Research your keywords about science and choose the best for you.
My favorite method to build backlink is blog comment and submit guest post. It does not only help me to get traffic from big bloggers in my niche but also improve my relationship with them
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I agree with you.These are the best ways to get quality backlinks.
Dimov,
Thanks so much for this post. Love the meaty tips on gaining traffic. I particularly appreciate the insight into video as I need to learn more about how to use video in online marketing.
Take care,
Laura
To rank videos fast get more views, comments, ratings, favs, shares and backlinks.That is enough.
A good thoughtful tips for building traffic through links
Inspiring post, and thanks for pointing out it is not an easy process. All the points are excellent, but i will rank the last point, blog commenting #1. A long time ago when i read a post on problogger.net Darren Rowse said he makes comment on different blogs daily. Engaging in blog commenting will drive a lot of traffic to your blog with time. The result might not be immediate, but if you are patient enough, you will reap.
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I love this Dimov. Youtube is probably one thing I need to get on to and if I hadn’t come across your blog I might not have had the focus I now have! I will make some videos and try to get them ranked. Great idea and thank you for sharing
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Thanks for your comment, yes Youtube is great.I would suggest you to start with one video for test.
Thanks for the post! very helpful. I have just started my new blog and its funny cuz i thought you should write long posts to get people interested. So Thanks a lot!
Thanks for your comment here.
Thanks for the article, it was very informative. I especially liked the portion on using videos as a tool to get more traffic. I’ll be doing that strategy soon, I hope I get positive results.
Yes, videos are one of the best ways to get traffic.I’m sure you will see a fast effect…
Unfortunately, I don’t have any interesting video collection to upload to youtube. Uploading an attractive video must be great and generate immense traffic to my site.
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You can hire a freelancer to make a video for you for $10- to $30.That is what I do.
Very nice article Erik lots f good informations here do keep it up,,good job,,Thanks a lot,,!
Thanks for sharing! All great! I love the videos marketing because I that there thousand million click every month and there thousand Ads sell to customer as well.
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Yes, video marketing is a good strategy!
Absolutely, I think that! But now just working in process and I did not produce any video yet. Thanks responding, I bookmarked your blog url and will be back any there were new pose
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You’re welcome,
i’m glad , you’ve learnt something new from me
Yes you are right i work on my you tube channel that give me 300 unique viewers on my site thank for bossting me for my own work
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That’s great,
Believe me, if you work more you will get much more than 300 views.
Thanks
Another great way for building backlinks to your site or video is to create infographics and submit them to sites from this list – http://www.paddymoogan.com/2012/01/14/list-of-infographic-sites-for-link-building/. This way you’ll get pretty good targeted traffic.
Yes, it requires some more work but the results will be good.
Also, be very careful with link building and choose your sources carefully to avoid a penalty from Google like the case “Interflora”.
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Great share,
I haven’t heard of that way.I will definitely try with this.
Thanks
there is question for link if i paste image of other site in my bloger with html code that have link of those site which i taken that,s image build the Building Links to my Sites yes or not plz answer me
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Hello,
I think the answer is yes.
Thanks for your comment.
I’m having a website & I have been building link for long time but even traffic doesn’t increase. I don’t understand what wrong in my work why. Traffic doesn’t increase while link building.
There might be a lot of reasons for that.
Try with my tips.
Hey great tips, Previously i was not much aware about abour Blog commenting. But now i am doing it from some time and i have seen the difference. Thank you so much!
I’m so happy, you have learnt something new from me.
Thanks for your comemnt.
Hello Dimov,
Happy to hear about you. according to me, I prefer most video sharing, if your video has relevant and good presentation that definitely you will get better renspons.
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You’re right.You need a cool video.Cool videos can go viral …
I have never published YouTube video for my site. I need to work on it. But I tried all other techniques – Guest post, forum posting, comment on others site etc.
Thanks for share link building technique
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