Top 9 Free Traffic Sources To Your Website

You can get targeted visitors to the site not only from paid advertising. There are also freeways. In this article, we will tell you everything we know about free traffic sources.

1. Thematic forums

A huge proportion of the target audience is concentrated on such sites. The main thing is to choose the right forum and not to miss the topic (read “with the audience”). For example, if you sell auto products, a forum where car enthusiasts gather is suitable for you. If you provide nail extension services, pay attention to women's resources or forums for moms.

To get such traffic to your site, post in the trading sections of the forums, or engage in hidden advertising through comments on relevant topics.

2. Guest blogging

There are web resources where you can publish articles without registration and moderation. Most often these are blogs created on free platforms, but there are also media.

Search for such sites so that they match the theme of your site. Make a list of those of them where it is allowed to place texts on free terms. Write an article that is useful to readers. It should not be overly promotional.

Then publish the content in the found blogs with a link to your resource. So you get an influx of additional traffic for free.

3. YouTube channel

A successful YouTube channel can bring a lot of visitors to your site. To start getting traffic from this source, create a channel, optimize it for YouTube and search engines (write tags, give the correct video titles, don't forget about descriptions with keywords), fill it with videos.

In order not to lose subscribers, but rather increase their number, publish videos once or twice a week or more often. Write links to your web resource in the description, in the comments, in tips, and in any other places where it would be appropriate.

It is useful on behalf of the channel to comment on similar videos by other authors. If the comment touches the hearts of the fans of a competitive channel, they will start discussing, going to your page, watching videos, and clicking on the link to the site.

4. Q&A Resources

Pretty good source of traffic. Users publish their questions on resources such as Answers Mail.ru or Yandex. Connoisseurs. Experts in relevant topics answer these questions. You can join their number, not just give answers, but reinforce them with links to your site.

Of course, it should look natural. If a person asks about which video card to buy for a particular motherboard, then you do not need to write about a toaster and throw a URL to buy it.

This will be regarded not only as obvious spam but also as outright stupidity. Leave comments that answer the user's question and help solve their problem.

5. Yandex Zen

This is a platform where articles are published for free for Yandex's multi-million audience. With the right approach, you can attract a lot of visitors to your site and even make a profit from advertising.

First, create a Zen channel. Post some good articles there that will be of interest to your target audience. Then post interesting content several times a week. To do this, use the built-in editor or connect the RSS feed of your resource. Then all the content posted on the site will be automatically posted on Yandex Zen.

6. Social media

One of the most effective sources of free traffic.

Launch your own groups and pages on Instagram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki, and VKontakte. Post unique and useful content there. Organize competitions, promotions, broadcasts. Motivate subscribers to engage in debate, follow a link to your site, participate in surveys, etc.

Try to additionally leave comments in the promoted thematic communities where your target audience lives. It is not necessary to leave a link, it is enough to comment on the post on behalf of the group or public page. Interested users will go first to your community, and then to the site. The more activity you show, the higher the attendance of the resource will be.

7. Google My Business and Yandex Directory

The Google service allows you to register the websites of companies, including those that do not have a physical address. Why is this needed? For example, to increase the visibility of a web resource in local search results and to indicate your presence on Google Maps.

As for the Yandex Directory, registering in it provides similar benefits, and also adds contact details and opening hours to the snippet.

The site becomes available for searching in the mobile applications of Navigator and the search engine.

8. E-mail newsletters

Let's make it clear right away that we are not talking about email spam. It is permissible to send letters only to your own base of subscribers who have expressed their consent to receive content.

If you have such a base, do not let it stale. Make interesting materials that will be useful to your target audience. Make them properly and do not forget to include a link to the site in the letter.

The more you interest the recipients of such letters, the more clicks will be on the site.

9. Web resource ratings

Some sites publish ratings of various services or stores. To find the “topic” that suits you, enter the desired query into the Yandex or Google search. For example, "Rating of online stores of household appliances in Russia."

The results will display links to reviews and collections where different stores are compared, their advantages and disadvantages are described.