Quick Tips for Increasing Referral Traffic

Referral traffic is traffic that comes from other sources to your website rather than direct sources. It’s the traffic that comes from your efforts to widen your audience. Here are a few tips to help you get more referral traffic.

Guest Blogging

Guest blogging is a great way to attract new people to your site. This is where you write a blog and submit it to another blog. They post it on their site and their readers get a taste of your content offerings, and then click your link to find out more.
In the past, marketers obsessed over page rank, trying to publish their blog posts on blogs with high readership. Of course, playing the numbers game means there’s a higher chance of traffic to your site. But also look for kindred spirit blogs, where like-minded people spend time. A small audience that’s highly targeted to your offering will bring great results as well (plus it’s easier to get your content published on a guest blog).

Tools to Help You Get a Leg up

There are many tools out there that help you get more leverage out of your online content. One useful tool is Triberr, a blog amplification and sharing platform. You upload your blog to its feed and Triberr shares it with other bloggers, and vice versa. JustRetweet and Viral Content Buzz are two similar services that help you leverage social media shares in a similar way.

Social Media and Social Bookmarking

Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and social bookmarking sites like Reddit are great ways to get referral traffic. They can get your content to a much wider audience. The important thing when it comes to anything social is to keep content focused on readers and their interests, and avoid anything self-promotional or that could be taken as spam. Also remember to share, comment and engage with other people’s content as well.

Don’t Promote

Content for referral traffic should never be promotional. No one cares about the deals you offer before they know who you are. Save that for your advertising. Instead, make the content informative and helpful. Think of it as a way to give new people a taste of the quality you offer. Build a relationship with them and then start making offers.

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