How To Generate Traffic and Kickstart Content Marketing For a Brand New Website by @Think_Traffic
The internet is full of tips about how to improve your website, grow your traffic, and how to earn links (and hence rankings) by writing great content. Thats great and everything, but its also pretty infuriating if you have a brand new website and no traffic yet.
If this sounds like you, you may well be asking:
Its a vicious cycle, and the truth is that one of the hardest aspects of SEO and internet marketing is making a start and getting the ball rolling.
But the good news is even brand new websites can leverage content marketing to start earning links and building traffic. The aim of this post isnt to make you an SEO expert, it is to help you to do (arguably) the most important three tasks that befall any brand new website on the modern web:
There are plenty of advanced SEO strategies you can use later, but while you dont have any traffic, many of these things will make a negligible difference. The risk is focusing on the minutiae will take away from time spent doing something more useful and effective.
Your very first goal should be to get your website in order. It doesnt need to be perfect, but it needs to look good. Dont worry about getting indexed or whatever, just worry about what your first visitors will think when they arrive.
This means that your first few goals should include:
Numbers2 and 5 in particular will be ongoing tasks, so while these steps are important, dontget bogged down in the on-page SEO at the expense of starting to actually drive some traffic. Try to make good habits now and keep your alt tags in order and your titles and descriptions the right lengths.
As soon as your site looks presentable and lived in, you need to start driving some traffic to it. Without traffic, no one will find your content and you certainly wont earn links. So where should you start? There are plenty of options, but here are fourwhich I have found to be particularly effective:
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How To Generate Traffic and Kickstart Content Marketing For a Brand New Website by @Think_Traffic