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This document provides strategies and tools for generating website traffic, including: 1. UTM tracking with Google Analytics URL Builder to identify successful traffic sources. 2. Keyword research tools like KWFinder to find low competition keywords for content. 3. SimilarWeb to determine approximate traffic levels of websites to identify good sites for content promotion. 4. Alexa rankings on Ranktotraffic to assess website popularity and traffic trends over time.

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Free Traffic Secrets

This document provides strategies and tools for generating website traffic, including: 1. UTM tracking with Google Analytics URL Builder to identify successful traffic sources. 2. Keyword research tools like KWFinder to find low competition keywords for content. 3. SimilarWeb to determine approximate traffic levels of websites to identify good sites for content promotion. 4. Alexa rankings on Ranktotraffic to assess website popularity and traffic trends over time.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ................................................................ 4
RESEARCH ON CONTENT IDEAS ......................................... 5
How To Track what’s working and what’s Not (UTM
Tracking) ........................................................................ 5
How to find the approximate traffic levels for any
website. .......................................................................... 8
How to tell a website’s popularity using Alexa Ranking 10
How to find the most shared content in your market. ... 10
Finding the Right hashtags ........................................... 12
AUTOMATED TRAFFIC ..................................................... 13
Content Curation .......................................................... 13
Content Curation on Wordpress ....................................... 14
Content curation using Feedly ......................................... 14
How to submit your content to indexing services. ......... 16
How to automatically ping a dozen of sites. .................. 17
Submitting your blog to RSS Directories ....................... 17
TRAFFIC BOOSTERS ........................................................ 19
Repurposing Strategies................................................. 19
-Creating PDFs to be uploaded to e-book directories ........... 19
Reducing Bounce rate using Inline Related Posts Plugin......... 20
VIRAL TRAFFIC ............................................................... 21
Anatomy of viral traffic. ................................................ 21
Do’ and Don’ts of Viral Traffic .......................................... 21
Viral plugins ................................................................. 22
Social Locker for WordPress ............................................ 22

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Click to Tweet Plugin ...................................................... 22
Instant Articles for WordPress ......................................... 23
Buffer Platform ............................................................. 24
TRAFFIC PLUGINS ........................................................... 25
Using Shareaholic ......................................................... 25
Using Replayable on Wordpress .................................... 26
Using WordPress to buffer ............................................ 27
Autoposting to Triberr .................................................. 27
HIGH TRAFFIC NETWORKS .............................................. 28
How to get traffic and backlinks from Medium .............. 28
How to get traffic from Stumblupon .............................. 29
How to get traffic from Plurk ........................................ 29
How to get traffic from Quora ....................................... 29

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INTRODUCTION

In this Report, you are going to help you double your traffic in the
next couple of days. The reality is probably your traffic level is
quite low, say, less than a thousand people a day. This report will
hopefully help you to take that leap over the thousand day barrier
by applying this strategy that I am sharing in the report.
I have achieved around 4000 people a day consistently for a
brand new website yet I did not have any email list, no contacts
and without any paid advertising. It was niche that I had an
interest in but I did not have any stake in, it was basically a
brand new niche.

When it comes to traffic, you have two choices;

• Buy your way in- spend money on advertising, which


obviously is quite costly, and you may not see a good return
for your investment.
• Work your way in- this is what you are going to learn from
this report. The report has been …to get same kind of results
as you would if you would invest in hundreds of dollars in
advertising.

Before we start generating traffic, let us have our inner game


sorted out, because these traffic stuff can mess with your head
trying to get results for a long time and not see anything, then all
of a sudden things take off. We are going to learn why this
happens, take a look at the diagram below;

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Whenever you start a new project, you have to go through a
rollercoaster, what is important is that you ensure that you know
about the deep, so that it can shift you from giving up and
thinking that it is waste of time, to knowledge that it’s going to
take time and hard work, then commit to the process to ensure
that you push through to success.
Let’s do this! Welcome to entrepreneurship!

RESEARCH ON CONTENT IDEAS

How To Track what’s working and what’s Not (UTM


Tracking)

UTM tracking will help identify the traffic sources that is working
for you. In this case, we are going to look at Google Analytics to
get the sources that are working for us.
So, we are going to look into UTM Builders. We shall build a
unique URL that shows where traffic is coming from and how it
fits into our overall marketing niche.

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An example of a UTM URL;
https:/example.com?utm_source=news4&utm_medium=email&ut
m_campaign=spring-summer
URLs can be created in two ways; by hand or a URL generator.
The three URL generators include:
-Google Analytics URL Builder; for generating URLs to websites
-Google Play URL Builder; for generating URLs on Google Play
Store
-iOS Campaign Tracking URL Builder; for generating URLs to apps
on Apple App Store
To buid a UTM URL, type in Google UTM builder on Google, then
campaign URL builder as shown below;

This tool allows you to easily add campaign parameters to URLs


so you can measure Custom Campaigns in Google Analytics. The
excerpt looks as follows;
Fill out all fields marked with an asterisk (*), and the campaign
URL will be generated for you.
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website URL *

The full website URL (e.g. https://www.example.com)


campaign ID

The ads campaign id.


campaign source *

The referrer (e.g. google, newsletter)


campaign medium *

Marketing medium (e.g. cpc, banner, email)


campaign name *

Product, promo code, or slogan (e.g. spring_sale) One of campaign name or campaign
id are required.
campaign term

campaign content

Google will generate a URL that you will use to promote your
content, which you can copy and paste it in the source that you’re
using for promotion. Google Analytics will retrieve the URL source
tag and use it to give you a more specific information in Google
Analytics.

How to find keywords and phrases that have a low


competition.
We are going to learn how to come up with keywords that
generate click-trough’s from search engines.
When you get your content indexed for these keywords and
phrases, you are almost guaranteed more traffic for free, because
they’re relatively easy to rank and less traffic as well.
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To achieve this, we are going to use KWFinder.com, a free to use
tool when you’re signed in. After opening the KWFinder site, type
in the keyword or key phrase that is relevant for your niche. This
will give you the keyword search difficulty out of a hundred, plus
the search volume for that particular key phrase.

So if you are crafting a piece of content, ensure that the headline


has an emotional-trigger power word or phrase in there.
Keyword research helps in creating good headlines as part of your
overall long term strategy, since it’s going to take a few months
for this stuff to pay off.
Using this you can getting your content at the top of Google, for
phrases and keywords that people are looking for, which will help
get good traffic to your website.
How to find the approximate traffic levels for any website.

This report will help you to determine if a given website is worth


promoting your content on. In this case, we are going to use

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SimilarWeb.com. This could be particularly useful if you’re looking
at Guest Blogs to post on, bookmarking websites, QA websites or
social media platforms to see if they have traffic levels that will
make dealing with them and promoting on them worthwhile for
you.

So for this, we are going to choose a bookmarking website, like


Tumblr, a site with quite a high traffic of approximately 150m
visits per month, which could be a good place to start promoting
your content on.
We are going to type any address on the SimilarWeb.com, which
brings back the approximate traffic for that particular site. In this
case, you will be able to choose the site to use to promote your
content depending on the traffic of a given site.
There are other sites which can do the similar task as
SimilarWeb.com, but I recommend SimilarWeb site that we can
use if you are checking competitors websites or guest posting
opportunities and to see if a website is worth your time.

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How to tell a website’s popularity using Alexa Ranking

We are going to look at a second way to identify a website’s


popularity, which might give you a bit more of a bigger picture of
any website that you choose to search.
This site is called Ranktotraffic.com, which pulls information from
around the web including the Alexa Traffic Ranking which is
fantastic for us, because Alexa are increasingly withdrawing the
amount of information they are making public about websites
that …I briefly mentioned life journal in the previous video so let
us a look at it. We shall see the traffic history of life journal in the
past 9 years. The Alexa rank history shows where the traffic is
coming from, i.e. from search, direct visits and referrals. Alexa
has its own algorithm on how it determines websites popularity,
not traffic levels.
Page view, history, session duration, advertising revenue website
is making per day, month or year. If you have a look at the
Wayback machine to look at how the website looks like
historically. You can have a look the Wayback machine if you
need to be inspired by how these big websites started so small,
just like your website, if you apply the exact steps offered in this
report.
Alexa offers a couple of tools that you can check on when it
comes to competitor analysis or deciding if a website is worth
dealing with.

How to find the most shared content in your market.

In this report, we are going to see the most popular stuff to


generate content ideas for you. If you’re looking for inspiration or

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content, or places to submit your guest posts to, then you ought
to read this report.
We are going to use Buzzsumo.com, which will help you to find a
whole heap of data about the type of data that works in your
niche. It contains free content which you don’t have to sign in to.
On the Buzzsumo site, when you type in a topic, for example,
digital marketing, it is going to bring back the most popular
content for digital marketing, how it works across different social
media platforms and the total number of engagements.

The Buzzsumo site also displays the top most influential names in
that particular topic-related industry. These are the people who
you can approach for interview, network with or share their
content, in order to get great content ideas for new blog posts,
interviews, guest blogs, mentions etc. and know what type of
content works in your market, the type of content people want to
consume or the type of content they enjoy sharing.

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Finding the Right hashtags

We are going to learn how to find the right hashtags to use to


promote your content because you’re creating content every day,
and promoting it on social media. So we need to put the right
hashtags in place so that people who are searching for those
specific hashtags can find your content and come to your website.
Remember that people are now using search tags just as much as
normal keywords and phrases, which is why we have to include it
into our marketing mix.
To achieve this, we are going to use All-Hashtags.com, then type
in a given keyword. It is going to generate 30 best hashtags for
that particular keyword. So you can copy these hashtags to a
clipboard, or you can also have a look to similar hashtags it
recommends, as well as keywords we might want to consider.
This is basically a good way to generate hashtags to use when
promoting content on social media.
Another site you might want to consider is Hashtagify.me, then
type your keyword. It brings back the popularity of the keyword,
recent popularity, month trend, week trend and the full analysis.
It also offers related hashtags top influencers(people we approach
on social media, interview, ask to guest post on, network with or
get on their radar) for that particular hashtag and the popularity
trend of the hashtag and finally telegraphic and data that we
might need.
These two websites will be very helpful to generate hashtags that
will drive enormous traffic to your website.

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AUTOMATED TRAFFIC

Content Curation

It is where we take a piece of other people’s content and use it on


our site, or as a standalone piece of content on our blog with a
link to the original. A good example of content curation is where a
site owner gets views on their site without writing a word by
themselves apart from adding a Read More link to the original
article.

This is the most basic form of content curation, however it is


encouraged that you add a paragraph or two of your own analysis
, insight or opinion, or at the very least, a unique headline, so
you are adding some kind of value to the piece of content. Also,
include a canonical tag, so that Google knows where to find the
original article.

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Content Curation on Wordpress

To do content curation, you can take a portion of a certain article


and paste it on to the WordPress dashboard, add link to the
original, then write a headline of your own, and add a new tab so
that people stay on your website. Lastly, include the pasted
content inside Blockquote, which tells Google that this content is
from another source, then have a link to that source. This is
basically content curation at the bare minimum.

Content curation using Feedly

An essential part of the traffic strategy that we are using in


marketing is that we shall take a small portion other people’s
content in an ethical way. A good way to find content in your
niche is to use an RSS or Feedly, which is free to use, all you
need to do is to sign up.
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To do this, you go to search and type in a topic, e.g marketing on
Feedly homepage and it will bring back a lot of websites about
marketing where you can choose to follow.
That is basically how you can add a website to Feedly and then
will have a daily list of the most popular content of all the sources
you have added. It basically pulls all the content from websites
that you put in to this system and displays the most recent
content as it is published.
This is how you can keep an eye on what’s going on in your
niche. You might visit a website that you’re interested in , take a
small piece of content, a paragraph of two, paste it into
Wordpress and curate the content and follow the method as
described in this report as this will help drive more traffic to your
site.

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How to submit your content to indexing services.

This is a very effective way to drive traffic into your website. For
this, we are going to use pingler.com, which will send your URL or
a link to your content to all of the available indexing services.
As soon as you click on the submit button, this will send your
content to the many available ping services.
So, we are going to copy and paste the URL of a given article or
your blog post, and paste it in Pingler then give a keyword. You
then choose the category for that from the available drop down
menu, now scroll down and give it a caption.
This will give you a countdown to start the ping process, and
bring back all the websites and lets you know that the ping
processing is complete. This is going to drive more traffic to your
website and indexing more search engines, it is quite an easy
way!

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How to automatically ping a dozen of sites.

We are going to learn how to automatically ping a whole heap of


services, to get your content indexed in multiple websites and
bring large volume of traffic to your website for free. So for this,
we are going to log into your WordPress dashboard, then settings
on the left hand side, and click on Writing.
Scroll down to update services, delete the text in the text box,
and then bring in the list of websites pinged from Feedly, paste
the several there and save changes. Every time you publish or
update a post, all these services are going to automatically
pinged so remember previously we did one post in pingler.com
for , but this is the way to do it automatically for every single new
post that you curate or every post that you update. You might
want to go through will be automatically sent to the dozens of
pinged services.

Note: When using these services, do not update multiple pages


at the same time, spread it out to a few hours or days, so that
you don’t spam these services. If you are publishing multiple
services every day, then do not use these services since it will
overload the system. These services are ideal if you are
publishing once a day or less.

Submitting your blog to RSS Directories

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a really effective way to get


traffic to your blog. To find your RSS feed that we submit to blog
directories, we need to go to your website, yoursite.com/feed,
and that will give you the URL to your RSS feed. This will give you
a list of blog directories and websites we can submit our RSS

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website to. Anytime you update your website, these blog
directories and RSS sites will receive a ink to that content. This is
fantastic for backlinks and for traffic.
One of the highest rated blog directories to use is called
Blogarama. We are going to use Blogarama to do the submission
process, which is practically the same no matter the website you
are using.
To use Blogarama, you have to sign up. So we are going to
Blogarama.com, scroll down and fill in the details, and save to
submit your blog. This will take a few minutes and you will
eventually your blog indexed in several websites. This is going to
be an amazing source of traffic and backlinks for your website.

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TRAFFIC BOOSTERS

Repurposing Strategies

You are going to learn a few strategies involving creating


Podcasts, videos and pdfs. Basically, this topic is about turning
your content into e-books, podcasts and videos if you want to.

-Turning content into a podcast.

If you have a piece of content that you want to convert to a


podcast, first, record yourself reading out the article and save it
as an mp3 or .wav file and upload it on Audacity.com, which a
free open source software for any operating system.
Another free tool that you can use if you don’t want to download
anything is PodBean, which has a free option which has limited
features and we also have Soundcloud, or Anchor.
The limitation of anchor is it doesn’t have the feature to embed
your podcast on your website.

Creating PDFs to be uploaded to e-book directories

This involves converting articles into pdfs and submit them to e-


book directories and get backlinks and traffic for free from these
websites. There are a couple ways that you can do this including;

Using printfriendly.com

To do this, pick the article that is to be converted to a pdf from


your website, copy its link and paste it on the printfriendly.com
website, and then click preview.

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A preview will be generated whereby you can edit and delete
unwanted parts on the pdf to make it easy-to-read. There are
options like email, save as pdf or print it. So we are going to pick
the Save as PDF option and your pdf will be generated. This is
what you can upload to an e-book website, and we can link it to
your website and it will drive more traffic to your blog or website.

Using Plugins

By installing the browser extension on the prinfiendly.com


homepage. It gives you a choice of the browser you are using.
Once you have the extension installed, you shall go to the
website Scribd.com, sign up for an account, or sign in if you
already have one, then drag in the pdf that you made, give it a
decent title and description. Finally, you can make it available in
public domain, make it downloadable or copy-paste possible and
hit done.
Your pdf will be ready, you can copy the URL link and share it or
embed it on websites, containing link to the websites that you
want to promote.
Reducing Bounce rate using Inline Related Posts Plugin
If your theme isn’t able to put related posts inside the actual
body of your articles, then you ought to read this. If you have
people on our website we want to make them stick around as
long as possible. This is achieved through related posts, usually
on the sidebar or the bottom of the article. The chances of
visitors visiting and seeing those related posts are slim but we do
know that they are engaged to that particular post, and that will
increase the chance that they will click through, read that post,
and continue the journey through your website. Companies like
BBC, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Financial times, and
lots of massive websites use this technology called Inline Related

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Posts. If you want people to hang around on your website longer
and reduce Bounce rate, check this out.

VIRAL TRAFFIC

Anatomy of viral traffic.


There are a few things that you need to pay attention to in order
to get viral traffic for your content;
ü Title of your post
ü Compelling image
ü Content that backs up the title

Do’ and Don’ts of Viral Traffic

Do’s
ü Use a pattern interrupt
ü Emotional trigger to inflict upon your audience
ü Interact with your audience
ü Make a follow up to the initial viral hit
ü Have a call to action to promote products or get people to
share your content

Don’ts
ü Do not expect it to go viral immediately, they take time to
get traction.
ü Don’t spend too much on advertising
ü Don’t be boring, make people feel excited
ü Do not mislead people using click bait

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Viral plugins

Social Locker for WordPress

We are going to look at Social Locker for WordPress plugin that


will help drive social traffic to your website. This works by hiding
content behind a lock, so people have to share it if they want to
access that type of content. Before the plugin, the content is
visible, but after the plugin is applied, the content is locked. This
is a very powerful social media strategy.

Click to Tweet Plugin

This encourages your visitors to share your content on twitter.


When your website starts getting a big traction, many people will
start sharing it on twitter, so this is a really nice way to increase
traffic on social media. The plugin is free since it’s on WordPress.

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Instant Articles for WordPress

These include Facebook solutions for delivering high quality fast


loading content. These articles are 10 times faster than standard
mobile web articles, 20% more instant articles read on average in
and 70% less likely to abandon the article. This is why we need to
pay attention to drive traffic from Facebook.

If you’re getting traffic from Facebook, you got to be aware


ensure that your website is compatible with these type of instant
articles. To do this, we go to Plugins on WordPress, then search
for Instant Articles on WP, then install it. That will give you
everything you need to turn your existing or future content into
Instant articles for Facebook that load faster, increase
engagement and generally get more exposure to your website
through Facebook.

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Buffer Platform

This platform allows you to schedule social media posts. You can
have five or six posts ahead of time and have those scheduled to
post across your social media platforms over the next few days.
This is available on Buffer.com, they’ve a free and a premium
version so you can test it out for free to see if you find useful.
Instead of just posting your content once, you can post the same
post multiple times in the course of the month. In that way, you
are maximizing the amount of traffic that will come to that single
post. This is because the first time you post that content, not
everyone is going to see it.
That means you have to repeatedly post the same piece of
content to maximize the number of people that are going to see
that particular post. This is a good option for scheduling your
social media updates.

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TRAFFIC PLUGINS

Using Shareaholic

Shareaholic is a very useful WordPress plugin that is important


when you are considering creating viral content to drive traffic for
free. Shareaholic is the world’s leading suite of social, analytics,
monetization and share button tools. Shareaholic plugin makes it
easier for websites to engage and grow their traffic, market their
content, gain insight and monetize their audience.
Shareaholic plugin is built on lightweight JavaScript, therefore, its
functionality do not hurt the page load speed and is highly
customizable.

Shareaholic is a free plugin and it makes it easier for your


audience to share articles, images, products and activities from
your websites to their social networks. There are three templates
of social media share buttons; in page share buttons, share
buttons for images and floated share buttons.

In page share buttons allows you to add social media share


buttons anywhere in your website. Share buttons for images
allows you to add smart share buttons to your images on your
websites making them easy to share. Floated share buttons are
social media share buttons that hover on the side of the page
rather than in the page content.

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Using Replayable on Wordpress

Replayable is a WordPress plugin that enable you to re-engage


previous visitors and people who have interacted with your
website. Replayable lets your users subscribe to comments
without fear and allows you to reply to comments by email.
Replayable makes it easier to manage comments and improve
conversation between you and your audience. Replayable can be
added on WordPress website as shown below.

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Using WordPress to buffer

WordPress to buffers is a plugin for WordPress that sends


updates to your buffer (buffer.com) account for schedule
publishing to social networks such as tweeter, Facebook, google
+ and LinkedIn , when you update your WordPress pages.
WordPress to buffer helps save you time of updating your social
networks anytime you update your website because it automates
the process of updating your social networks.
You can get WordPress to buffer plugin from WordPress plugin
repository or you go to the plugin section on your dashboard and
search for WordPress to buffer plugin and install it.

Autoposting to Triberr

Triberr is an all in one for members of triber.com. Triberr.com


helps you amplify your content and social media reach for free.
Triberr is a powerful plugin to get traffic to your website and grow
your audience. It allows you to get access to very influential
people for free. Signup for Triberr before you install your Triberr
plugin in your WordPress.

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Once you have installed Triberr to your WordPress site, connect it
to your Triberr account and start posting your content and get
automatic shares of your posts.

HIGH TRAFFIC NETWORK

How to get traffic and backlinks from Medium


This is a very popular website and articles that are posted can go
viral. To do this, go to Medium.com, create your account and go
to stories. It will give you an option to either Import a Story or
Write a Story. Select Import a Story and paste in the URL of your
piece of content and hit import.
You might be worried about duplicate content, but great thing
about Medium is that it has canonical tags. This basically tells
Google and other search engines that your version on your blog is

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the original. So that one should get the credit and listed higher on
the search engines.

How to get traffic from Stumblupon

To get traffic from Stumblupon, you hit on the Stumble button on


the Stumblupon website. It will generate a random article from
the internet, which you can like it, share or dislike.
To get your content for people to like or see your content, you go
to My Profile, Add Page, then paste in the piece of content, check
Yes on ‘’Is it Safe for work?’’ question and hit save, and your
piece of content is published on Stumblupon.

How to get traffic from Plurk

This is a bookmarking website where you can promote your


content on in order to get backlinks and to drive traffic into your
website. To do this, you can paste the URL link on Plurk.com with
hashtags, for example, https://www.youtube.com/... website
traffic source #blogging #marketing. This is a great way of
bookmarking, getting backlinks and to drive traffic to your
website.
How to get traffic from Quora

Quora is a question and answers website just like Yahoo answers


that yoy can get really targeted traffic from. To get traffic from
Quora, simply create an account on Quora.com, answer questions
that are relevant to your market.
If you answer questions on regular basis, people will start
requesting your answers for specific questions.

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To start off, go to the search feature and type in the niche that
you are involved with, for example, digital marketing, and you
can see how much followers there are in the topic. You can take a
look through some of the questions and try to answer them while
providing or pasting a link to your website or article.

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