There are Many Ways to Bake a Cake. (Get Traffic)
What's up everybody?
Today, I want to discuss the idea of there being many different ways to bake a cake. Now, I'm not going to talk about baking cakes specifically, but rather about getting traffic.
Once you have your foundational building block in place (niche chosen, website built, foundational pages and structure on your website created), there are going to be many ways that you can scale and grow traffic. At the end of the day, your business' success will reflect the amount of relevant traffic you can get to it.
Key Takeaways:
- Importance of Traffic: Without traffic, which is people coming to your website or any business, you don't actually have a business. Just like a physical store needs customers, your online presence needs visitors to succeed.
- Core Training and Traffic Methods: Wealthy Affiliate’s core and foundational training will help you build a stable platform for success. From there, we focus on various traffic-driving methods to grow your business.
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO): SEO is a major traffic source. Despite evolving techniques, search engines still generate billions of clicks daily. Our training includes the latest SEO strategies and also covers user-generated content platforms like Reddit, Quora, Medium, and LinkedIn.
- Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Marketing: If you have a budget, PPC is a quick way to get results. Platforms like Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, and TikTok Ads offer significant traffic opportunities. Our training includes over 43 classes on PPC strategies.
- YouTube Marketing: YouTube is a massive platform with a huge audience. You can leverage it to drive traffic to your channel or website. We offer over 89 classes on YouTube marketing.
- Social Media and Email Marketing: Leveraging platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), and TikTok can drive substantial traffic to your business. Our training includes over 81 expert classes on social media marketing.
- Variety of Traffic Sources: There are more people online than ever and many ways to get traffic. Google isn’t the only source. Once you have a solid foundation, you can explore multiple traffic sources to grow your business.
Focus on leveraging various traffic methods to grow your business. Have a wonderful week ahead, and work towards getting more traffic to your website. Through time and effort, you will see great opportunities.
Please jump into the comments with any thoughts, feedback, or questions on this topic. Let’s get this discussion going and help each other find effective ways to drive traffic! :)
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Good thing you weren't talking about baking a cake—I'm horrible at it! 🤣
But I do appreciate you showing all the marvelous ways that we can get traffic. My lanes are not congested yet, but I am working toward that! So many things to do, but so many great classes on how to do them.
Thanks!
Karin
Haha, I am not the best either. I am sure I could figure it out though if I invested a bit more time and energy to it. :)
Work on getting those lanes congested, because when they are it will only yield a great deal of opportunity. And the beautiful part is there is opportunity to fill up your lanes in absolutely any niche. Lots of traffic opportunities out there!
Hello Kyle
Thank you for sharing. It's always great to back to the basics and I enjoyed this short refresher on traffic. I agree with you traffic is definitely one of the keys to success. The sky is the limit in the online world. Thank you again for sharing. All the best to your success.
Regards
Timothy
Hi Kyle, Happy Monday!
Yep, traffic, traffic, traffic. I dream about it. 😴
There are so many ways to get to it, but there is the danger of spreading yourself too thinly, I've found. So, for 3 months now, I've been focusing on my 4 websites and 2 SM platforms. It's amazing how much more you discover if you stay longer on SM and how your connections/audience grows. I've managed to get together a 500-member email list in 3 months on LinkedIn because I live there, participate in 47 groups and 3 communities, and run LIVE Events.
I love the idea of drilling deep to find a loyal audience, but not all SM platforms are suitable for everyone.
I also now realise the importance of offering value to get attention, so it's crucial to be able to create ebooks or lead magnets at the drop of a hat. Ebooks, especially LIVE ebooks (these can change and be expanded to offer broader perspectives or follow Events as tey unfold, etc.), have never been so popular.
Finally, I've learned that the more I can be myself, the more people I attract. This is liberating: I'm enough exactly as I am! People desperately need real people to interact with now, with the rise of AI and cyber relationships, which are the future.
I'm thoroughly enjoying being swept along on the Digital Revolution Bore Wave!!
See you for beer! 🍺
Thanks again Kyle, you kind of hit on what I was going to ask. I know people do their own things. My Q?Do you all have a list of say...Top5 "Traffic Getters"? I can have a tendency to spread my self to thin. Thanks again 👍
Hi there, it's not by b'day! Think you're confusing me with little Kyle. My b'day's in April - I love flowers and chocolates btw!! 😎
Absolutely, you are getting the flow here. Find a platform that you want to get traffic on, offer value there, build a base of followers and traffic.
This process can apply to any platforms, and there are many places that people hang out these days, whether that is linkedin, google, tiktok, youtube etc...where if you offer value, and you establish footing there.
This can happen anywhere, and there are so many sources of relevant traffic in any niche that you are going to be able to take advantage of.
See you Friday Linden! ;)
Sry Lindi, hit the wrong link How about early Early BD!😁🥳April I'll try to remember, my Bros month too!
Thank you, are you in California?They say that the problem could be, I need to put in a travel notice...
This might just be the seed I needed - great timing as usual, Kyle.
I have been working on my sites for the year I have been with WA. A mere 36 articles posted on the main site, but continuing to work on more weekly. Maybe it's time to utilize a different medium to drive traffic.
Excellent, sounds like you are really starting to build things up. Ideally you will posting content (for SEO purposes) with frequency. That will lead to more authority, rankings, and results in terms of SEO. Think of each article as a potential "traffic tentacle"...the more that you have out there, the more traffic reach you potentially have. ;)
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Hi Kyle:
Thank you for these pointers for the various ways to get traffic to our websites. There is a vast amount of training here in addition to the things we can do outside of the community to get results.
Google ads are expensive, but I have discovered that they can be beneficial if handled the right way. There is a learning curve for that.
Veron