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Always make sure you\u2019ve got the big picture in mind, however complicated this may seem sometimes. While keeping this in mind, today’s post is going to offer you a series of tips that can boost your traffic, and don\u2019t interfere with your current strategies. This article will present you an extensive list of hacks that you can implement on your website to drive more traffic to your website – with minimal work and immediate results. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
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- Drop the Retargeting Pixel on Users Who Engage with Your Content<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Convert Unlinked Mentions into SEO Authority<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Use a Content Delivery Network to Promote Posts Based on Users\u2019 Locations<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Focus Your Efforts Only on Social Media Platforms that Work for Your Business<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Offer Deals to Universities to Get Listed on .edu Sites<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Use Schema Microdata to Facilitate Website Indexing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Check out Unexploited Social Media for a Reinvigorating Marketing Approach<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Debunk a Common Perspective in Your Niche and Prove It\u2019s a Myth<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Post Evergreen Content from Your Blog to LinkedIn Regularly<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Join Niched Twitter Lists to Spread Your Message to a Targeted Audience<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Repurpose Long Form Content into SlideShare Presentations<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Tag & Quote the People that Comment on Your site on Social Media<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Make a Creative Unboxing Youtube Video of Your Product<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Transcribe Your Video Content to Target a Broader Audience<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Use Alltop (or Other Blog Aggregators) to Get Listed as an Authoritative Source<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Reschedule Popular Tweets in Your Industry on Buffer<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Suggest Your Content on a Popular Scoop It Page to Get Colossal Targeted Exposure<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Self-Publish Kindle Books and Link to Your Site<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Upload a Screencast Product Demo on Your Website to Hook First-Time Visitors<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Use Tooltipster to Make Every Fragment of Text Easily Shareable<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Write Testimonials for Popular Products in Your Niche for Authority Links & Exposure<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Turn Your Infographics into In-depth Articles & Rank on More Keywords<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Use a PR Prank as a Link Building Tactic<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Optimize Your TTFB to Improve User Experience<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Create an Instagram Photo Contest to Exploit a 200 Million Users Network<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Pin Tweets that Address Your Reader\u2019s Needs, Not Your Marketing Strategy<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Address a Complementary Niche with Similar Interests to Your Read#ers<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Get Yourself Featured on Product Hunt for Expert Feedback<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Send Personal Webinar Registration Emails to Unengaged Prospects<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Use List Posts as Much as Possible \u2013 They\u2019re Easy to Read & Tweet<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Use LinkedIn Groups to Announce Improvements to Targeted Audiences<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Involve Readers in Your Content Marketing with a Crowd Sourced Post<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Rank for Video Content Posting Optimized Youtube Videos Regularly<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Make People Curious About You & Boost Your Traffic with a Funny Product or Landing Page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Feature Influencers in Your SlideShare Content to Get It Shared<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Tag Influencers on Twitter to Let Them Know You Mentioned Them<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Find a Unique Personal Tone that Nobody in the Niche Has Adopted Yet<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Marry Evergreen Content with Trending Posts to Boost Visibility<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Get a Column on an Industry Publication<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Find Partners in Your Industry<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Tell Your Brand Story Through an Honest Appeal to Emotion<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Pitch Your Business to Influencers on Hacker News<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Post Questions that Make People Use Their Pride\/Creativity\/Ego<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Have Social Media Buttons in Your Email Newsletter<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Grow your Email List on a Daily Basis<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
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<\/div>\n1. Drop the Retargeting Pixel on Users Who Engage with Your Content<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Retargeting can be used both very rightly and very wrongly, and the difference makes all the money (also literally). Whenever you drop pixels on users, try to make sure that you take the bounce rate into consideration. This way, your custom audience will be more targeted and your overall results will be better, after just one little change, as Claire Pelletreau<\/a><\/strong> did. It is as simple as adding code to your website.<\/p>\n
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Otherwise, you\u2019ll be spending a lot of energy on people who had no interest in your content in the first place. So maybe you should wait for a few seconds before dropping the pixel to generate the retargeting process. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n2. Convert Unlinked Mentions into SEO Authority<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Most traffic generation strategies focus heavily on creating new content or cold outreach. However, one of the most underutilized, high-converting growth hacks already exists: people actively discussing your business online without linking to your website. Converting these existing organic references into active backlinks and referral traffic delivers the highest ROI in modern digital marketing.<\/p>\n
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Instead of chasing cold leads, you are simply reclaiming the digital equity you’ve already earned. To automate the discovery of these hidden link-building opportunities, use the BrandMentions platform ecosystem<\/strong><\/a>, a top AI visibility app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Built as an industry-leading social listening tool, BrandMentions transforms how you acquire search authority and traffic. Rather than hunting for prospects blindly, the platform monitors the web 24\/7, alerting you the exact second your brand, product, or competitor is named anywhere online.<\/p>\n
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Real-Time Data Extraction:<\/b> High-speed, accurate tracking instantly separates valuable outreach targets from background internet noise.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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Instant Outreach Opportunities:<\/b> Turn scattered online discussions into immediate, high-intent traffic drivers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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Competitor Intel:<\/b> Monitor rival narratives in real-time to capitalize on their unlinked coverage and redirect high-intent audiences back to your domain.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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There are numerous benefits to be technical. In this context, they\u2019re mostly blocking SQL injections and malicious bots. However, there\u2019s a marketing advantage to this as well. Brian Jackson<\/a><\/strong> offers more<\/a> <\/strong>than these two reasons. Its\u00a0main marketing purpose is being able to live to the expectations of your never-settling customers. He said that when delivered\u00a0quality content based on location, he experienced increased website traffic thanks to the improvement in responsiveness, which is an evergreen technique.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Your website will be more optimized and it will work faster, contributing significantly to the overall user experience which, as we can all agree, is something to aim for. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s a place and a time for everything. So the question remains: what do you do if you\u2019ve done everything possible by the book to promote your page and it still doesn\u2019t work? You kill it. Copyblogger did it with their Facebook page. After all, it\u2019s not strategically appropriate to invest a huge amount of time and resources into something that refuses to comply with the rules of ROI.<\/p>\n
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In her article<\/a>, Erika Napoletano<\/a><\/strong> said something I can only agree with: fan numbers don\u2019t mean anything if they\u2019re not accompanied by engagement. So focus on what works, instead. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Authority links and brand mentions contribute a great deal to a business\u2019 reputation and visibility. It\u2019s a lot easier to get notoriety when you\u2019re featured on reputable websites. And universities are a great networking source at the same time, the links from an educational website have a very powerful authority. From young, creative minds who deserve an internship to associate lecturers full of academic insight, universities are the place to be.<\/p>\n
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Here, the possibilities are endless. How you choose to materialize this tip depends both on your business model and financial possibilities. The easiest way is asking the university you graduated from\u00a0to mention you<\/a><\/strong> as a successful alumnus, now active in the entrepreneurial field.<\/p>\n
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Not everyone is going to be able to give away scholarships (we\u2019re not all Google), but most of us could easily create a course for students who would like to learn about case studies in your niche. <\/span>The academic mediation between the theoretical field and your practical experience works best together when it comes to the educational experience. \u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n6. Use Schema Microdata to Facilitate Website Indexing<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Schema is a type of microdata that helps search engines parse and interpret the info on your website in a more effective and contextual manner, helping both you and the potential customers\/readers who perform search queries. Using schema microdata<\/a><\/strong> can help you appear in the knowledge graph, gain beta releases and having advantages in AMP, Google News, etc. and help Google to show contextual results from your website. And as a result to all that, it increases the traffic to your site.<\/p>\n
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The practice helps the search engines crawl more efficiently and your visibility can register a boost after introducing it. One very honest white-hat strategy, this hack works best for the long term of your business, just like in the example below from Dan Shewan<\/a><\/strong>. <\/span> This way, the information on your website is better parsed and interpreted by the search engines, and you are most likely to see a boost in the overall visibility of your website. \u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n7. Check out Unexploited Social Media for a Reinvigorating Marketing Approach<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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StumbleUpon, Taboola, Launchbit, and Outbrain, Pinterest – they\u2019re all great ideas for content promotion. These social media websites may not be as popular as Twitter and Facebook, and maybe this is why they work so great when it comes to marketing objectives – because you can address more specific niches, with a higher informational intent and which\u00a0are more prone to be convinced that your business is worth giving a try.<\/p>\n
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Take the example above of an\u00a0article published on StumbleUpon. If you\u2019ve got catchy\u00a0articles and high-quality pictures, Taboola and Outbrain are the ones you should use. They are not like any other social media website, they offer behavioral targeting to help publishers make their content noticed. They can be used very easily to syndicate your content. If you decide to use this technique, the platforms will share the organic content on other websites and it might appear in different sections such as sponsored content or recommended content.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Some things we take for granted. We\u2019re so used to hearing them that not only won\u2019t we try to contradict people who state them, but we\u2019re starting to slowly accept them as truths. And the reader does the same. That\u2019s a great start for a traffic idea, right? When everyone\u2019s started to accept something as being true, the voice of those that don’t believe it will soon stand out. Some time ago, we documented on the topic regarding the SEO industry being dead. Everybody has been talking along the years about it, and even some authoritative sources were starting to drift away.<\/p>\n
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We wrote an article to publicly state the opposite.\u00a0<\/span>Of course, you should keep a neutral voice in order to be reliable as a source, and moderation is the key to any long-term feasible approach. But, the article wasn\u2019t just shared across social media, it also had almost 40 comments. This proves once more, that conflicting opinions bring visibility and creates viral content.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n9. Post Evergreen Content from Your Blog to LinkedIn Regularly<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Dorie Clark<\/a> <\/strong>admitted being a big fan of this tip in a roundup post<\/a><\/strong>. If you think of it, LinkedIn is a pretty natural environment for evergreen content, such as in the example below.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s the place where people will always look for specific information. And evergreen content can be a constant source of traffic. That happens because the articles have a better value than your generic blog post you find on the web, being directly related to the professionals who documented them. Making yourself visible on a website where everybody has the same goal and getting in touch with relevant people in the industry, means a lot when it comes to your future targeted traffic. So start small, and make changes that will echo in terms of visibility even years from now.<\/p>\n
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<\/span> Posting evergreen articles on LinkedIn increases your website traffic because it connects organically the content you published with the professionals behind the ideas. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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There are few things that can motivate us more than being in the right place at the right time. However, most of the times, for us marketers, this is not something that luck is responsible for. We have to make it happen. And one of the places where things happen with a vicarious rhythm are Twitter lists. Being a part of them allows you to see what happens in your niche and to share (relevant!) content with a highly niched audience, who\u00a0will probably take interest in your cause.<\/p>\n
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Kevan Lee<\/a><\/strong> told the story<\/a><\/strong> of Twitter listing and all the amazing results you can achieve when you take all the variables into account. For instance, there\u2019s this Social Media list from,\u00a0Adweek<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with millions of members and fans. <\/span> Imagine you have the possibility to share content with 2, 3 or 5 million people interested in your niche, just because you\u2019ve created one powerful connection with the person who put you on that list. How great of an opportunity is that?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n11. Repurpose Long Form Content into SlideShare Presentations<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Another great example of traffic generators is repurposing long-form content into presentations<\/a><\/strong>. According to Lena Prickett<\/strong><\/a>, an idea turned in 15 ways around the interests of the readers is as valuable as 15 ideas, assuming you\u2019re doing the promotion responsibly. SlideShare has a huge audience and less than 1 percent of marketers manage to address their\u00a0audience, which makes it all the more available as a source when it comes to spreading your content. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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The original article had 170 social shares. However, the SlideShare presentation brought another 100.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s almost always appropriate to repurpose website content, and it makes working on an in-depth piece more profitable, as it gives you the chance to actually get substantial and relevant traffic for the time you\u2019ve spent documenting your posts.<\/p>\n
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<\/span> The time difference of repurposing content is small enough to make it worth every minute, as it doesn\u2019t even come close to the amount of time it takes to create new content that appeals. Of course, this means that maybe it\u2019s time you started thinking of your topics as ideas that have to fit into more than just one universal presentation form. \u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n12. Tag & Quote the People that Comment on Your Site on Social Media<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Tagging people that commented on your site on social media brings you easy traffic. Think of it. People who\u2019ve commented have spent enough time on your blog as to have a few unanswered questions. It means they\u2019re already engaged. They know about your brand, are interested in the content you\u2019re providing, and they\u2019re always striving to be documented on what\u2019s happening in the niche. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Kevin Duncan<\/strong><\/a> calls this the \u2018howdy, neighbor<\/a><\/strong>\u2019 technique, and it basically means that you should be friendly with you acquaintances online. Just like people from the small towns that welcomed a new neighbor.\u00a0It doesn\u2019t involve more than saying thanks once in a while and welcoming people properly. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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The results from his experiment were astonishing in terms of engagement.<\/p>\n
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