How can I drive digital traffic to my site immediately?

It really depends on what your definition of fast is? You can pump ads and get hits by the end of the day, but you’d still need to create/test them on ad service platforms.

I’ll just give you a list of 50 ways to generate traffic, from there pick and choose your battles:

#1. Optimize Your Website for Search

#2. Experiment with Content Freshness

#3. Spy on Your Competitors and emulate their style

#4. Master YouTube Marketing / video ads

#5. Drive Website Traffic with Facebook / fb ads

#6. Try Instagram Marketing

#7. Increase Website Traffic with Email Marketing / get a list

#8. Increase Website Traffic with LinkedIn / post on LI

#9. Maximize Twitter Marketing (try twitter chats!)

#10. Check Out Pinterest

#11. Promote Your Store on Snapchat

#12. Submit Your Site to Search Engines

#13. Host a Reddit Ask Me Anything

#14. Reach Out to Affiliates

#15. Try Out Influencer marketing

#16. Answer Questions on Quora

#17. Leave Comments on Yahoo Answers

#18. Advertise via Ad Networks

#19. Collaborate with Other Brands

#20. Optimize for Long-Tail Keywords

#21. Build Out Your Backlinks

#22. Hook People In With a Catchy Title

#22. Become a Guest Blogger on Niche Blogs

#23. Invite Niche Bloggers to Write on Your Blog

#24. Add Internal Links to Increase Pageviews

#25. Include Influencers in Blog Posts

#26. Add a Forum to Your Website

#27. Leave Comments in Niche Forums

#28. Add New Products or Content to Your Website Daily to Give People a Reason to Come Back

#29. Post on Social Media Frequently

#30. Reach Out to Reporters on Help A Reporter Out (HARO)

#31. Submit a Press Release to PR Newswire or other popular newswire websites

#34. Create a Free Course Hosted on Your Website

#35. Develop SlideShare Presentations

#36. Post on Product Hunt

#37. Create Retargeting Ads to Win Back Visitors

#38. Create Quizzes with Share Results Features

#39. Add Social Share Buttons

#40. Host Webinars

#41. Start A Podcast

#42. Have Regular Giveaways on Your Website

#43. Create Contests

#44. Write on Medium with Links Back to Your Website

#45. Find Out Your Best Traffic Source. Then Optimize It To Get More Out of It.

#46. Market via a Social Bookmarking Website

#47. Host Exclusive Content on Your Website

#48. Direct Traffic to Your Website from In-Person Events

#49. Get Featured in Niche Influencer Round-up Articles

#50. Promote Your Website Via Apps

You can pay for social media ads or Google ads to have more impression on your website. However, even if you did so, if the website content is irrelevant to your target customers, it’s still not gonna convert into any other goals you have (ex. sales etc).

This means that driving traffic to your website is a process that requires continuous effort. There are three main directions: SEO/ content marketing/ Social Media.

SEO:

Here is the SEO checklist:

1. Optimising titles and meta description
2. Identify and fix broken links
3. Compress your images for fast-loading
4. Use Alt-Text for Images to describe the image
5. Do Keyword Research for your specific industry and business model
6. Set Up Google Analytics to learn about user behaviour
7. Build up backlinks that link into your website
8. Link internally well
9. Optimise your website for mobile
10. Standardize your URL structures
11. Set up Google Search Console and upload your sitemap on it

Content Marketing:

How to create a content marketing strategy?

1. Define a clear goal
2. Know your target customers
3. Brainstorming content ideas
4. Deciding on the format
5. Measuring the performance of your content
6. Creating a content calendar
7. Producing more content through your old content

Social Media Marketing:

• Utilising conversational marketing.

For example, Facebook Messenger chatbot. Chatbots allow your brand to reach your audience directly, customize messages based on their unique needs, saving time and money on customer care, and nurturing your customer-to-business relationship.

‍This is a new opportunity, with the field wide open for D2C, B2C, and even B2B businesses to tap into this.‍

• Utilising stories

In-the-moment content will win over highly-produced content because customers now value authenticity.

• Incorporating podcast

As more and more people begin to embrace the concept of voice-first, brands could start to strategize the marketing plan around it as well.

• Collaborating with micro-influencers

Micro-influencers are social influencers that have an audience of about 10,000 to 100,000 followers. These influencers hit the sweet-spot between mass-market and affordability.

• Utilising live videos

According to Facebook, the engagement on live videos is now over 3X higher than on previously recorded videos.

1. Go with Google ad words PPC campaign!
2. Facebook Paid Campaign.
3. Use hashtags and engage with Twitter and Instagram in peak hours
4. Send Email Campaigns to targeted data
5. Write blogs with targeted keywords and rank it fast using platforms like medium. WordPress, etc
6. There are tons of forums relevant to your topic, choose those forums and engage with the audience by answering them in time