How do I get traffic, subscribers, followers, without paying for ads?

Perfect reply. I am also trying to figure out what is the best paid ad. Facebook is saturated, adwords squeeze as much money as they can. Bing i think can be a good one. If any other please inform.

Facebook Automation tool is not good this is blocked my facebook ID

YouTube is a great way to drive traffic as is ezinearticles. You have to do the content creation but it builds up your authority.

I agree. If you want it free, it won't be fast. But you will get good traffic and a legitimate following if you follow the 4 tips above.

AND if you're doing social media, engagement is another thing you can do to build traffic faster and for free. People are more likely to follow you if you comment, like, and share other people's posts.

Steve,

I love this reply. One of the things I like most about it is that it's outside of the box and counter to most advice that just says to do more social media. It flat out makes sense. I love being creative, so this gets me inspired actually. Your advice is pure gold, as was your advice you gave me in a prior thread/question I made a while back. You are full of wisdom and excellent perspective. Thank you for sharing your ideas!

very nice reply, I like it, and it is true free marketing takes time. so be consistent in your work, and keep in touch with all forums, social sites, web directories, GP, and you'll soon fly.

Hi anayb, I just read your answer here. Would u like to tell me how to build bots?
Plz tell me loopholes of youtube and facebook.
I have blogs, website and youtube channel and want more trafic and subsribers.

Thanks

building bots still works?))

Thanks, great advice to follow the Google strategies.

Thanks, good idea to try a few other social platforms that are more off the beaten path just to see what happens. I'm kind of afraid of Reddit because I feel like my content will be stolen and shared without credit more than on other platforms, but maybe that's just due to all of the memes that have come out of there!

Would love to post daily on Youtube but I just don't know if I have the time to make it happen - at least not within the bounds of my current standards for the type and quality of content - the production and editing take time. But I'll see what I can do.

Great tips especially this one - The key with any of these ideas is to 'position' yourself as an authority.

I second that. Most folks, including me, aren't that consistent. As it turns out you can't be much consistent with IM because of its volatile nature. The method/system which worked yesterday may or may not work today. Its frustrating sometimes. Who the heck got so much time to reconfigure everything because of a sudden Google update? That's the reason I personally never considered IM would be my full time profession despite I have been doing it (learning mostly) for the last 5 years, and I have been enjoying it a lot. I have automated everything from blogs to videos, and its totally passive. My bots made me consistent. I refused to trade my time. If everything goes well, I have to work hard full-time for another year or so, then semi-retire at 34.

Punch line: consistency (real human involvement) isn't the key, but the automation. You cannot produce videos everyday for a straight four-year, but you can produce the same quantity of videos within the next four months, if you know how to automate everything like Silicon Valley style. Hope, it helps.

So what have you tried so far ? or you just asking for asking sake?

Have tried Solo ads, email marketing, Bing Ads, Google Adwords.

I don't know the answer to that question... but if I did I would be rich.

You can try Performance based SEO services where you can achieve the increase of converting your traffic into leads. You will only pay when you see an increase in conversion ratio.

Try facebook ads and set your budget to $10 daily. With Facebook ads you get high quality and targeted traffic.

Just curious, how's it going with these other things you've tried?

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I'm geniunly curious, seems you're trying something COMPLETELY new every week or so - and have been since you created this account.

There are 19 PAGES of threads you've created, MOST of which are just asking questions like the above.

Perhaps if we find out where you're failing, which seems to be everywhere, we can help you focus and not jump to the next idea 7 days later?

On a small budget, with a huge amount of converting traffic... i would have to say Youtube. If you're not too lazy to produce and market some Youtube videos, you can have your converting traffic all on a small budget.

What do you consider a huge amount?

It's possible but if your budget is small you should expect to put in lots of work.

Any great traffic advice I'm open to hearing about learning and implementing it.

I'm getting a good amount of free pinterest traffic that converts well (not huge traffic but a good amount for a free traffic source), so I'm guessing that paid pinterest would probably have similar results.

It sounds like you might have a limited budget, if so then why not get free traffic and sales then you can use your sales from the the free traffic to buy more traffic.

After all these years I've just realized that durableoil is literally this guys business lol

I kinda just thought it was a screen name, but that makes this a little easier...

I know you must be into cars. Like without a doubt you MUST be into cars.

What do car people like to watch a lot on a certain very popular site that contains videos...

Youtube!

This might seem like a lot of work, but bust out the camera, use your oil on video, pouring it into your own vehicle etc. Explain the common problems associated with it and make it about the stuff you love.

Since you mention having a small budget, i highly recommend using some software to create some lead / bridge pages for your site, focus on something like youtube or something else that doesn't require a budget at all (just your time).

Cheers, Jason.

(I won't be overlooking your advice above, Jason. What follows is for everyone.)

DURABLEOILCOM.

Mate, it looks like you're all over the place. My first piece of advice is the standard one that we throw around in such situations: stick to one thing and try to make it work. You have a 2012 WF start date. My advice: make 2018 the year you make something work.

So this is the topic:

I'll give you the broad strokes of a traffic plan. This is for yourself, of course, but mostly it's aimed at anyone looking to take action and start generating traffic on a budget.

I have very little to go on (in terms of what yourself or anyone else can do), plus I'm eager to throw some bacon into my mouth-hole, so what follows really will be quite broad.

Spoiler:

1. You'll make content for free.
2. You'll grow your exposure on free platforms.

That 1 and 2 combination is the surest way to answer the topic.

One Way.

You want traffic. You have a small budget. We can approach the problem in a thousand different ways. Since bacon is calling ("Tom, come eat me, you sexy beast!"), we'll look at one way.

The Free Audience.

You need to decide on the right type of audience.

- Free access to them.
- Big audience.
- Engaged audience.
- Easy to monetize.
- Long-term potential (evergreen).
- You know the audience.
- Audience wants free media.

An example audience: men who want dates, love, one-nighters, and marriage.

The impulse here (because TA has suggested it) is to immediately dive into the dating niche. Avoid the impulse. This is truly just an example to help me lay down the basic plan. (I make "You know the audience" bold for a reason; it's important.)

Find The Audience.

The type of audience described in my bullet-points will be located in what I like to call "free audience pools." Every few years, the key audience pools tend to change, since new popular platforms are born or die.

In 2018, 7 major pools will be where you'll find your audience:

1. YouTube.
2. Facebook.
3. Instagram.
4. Twitter.
5. Reddit.
6. Google-Plus.
7. Google.

I could offer up another 47 decent locations to that list of 7, but you need to focus on less platforms at this stage, and my list of 7 is therefore already a little too big. (I'm including the list of 7 so that you have the key locations for my basic traffic plan.)

Think About Money.

So this is what we know at this stage:

1. We know the type of audience we want.
2. We know where to find that audience.

Big question is, how do we earn our mullah?

At this stage, the only action you're taking is thinking and researching. Before you decide upon any developmental action (buying a domain, building a blog, whatever) you need to figure out the answer to money.

If you'r entirely new to the niche (or to online marketing) then the easiest way to answer this question is to look at what other people are doing - look at the competition. Simple question you need to answer: how are they monetizing their traffic?

Look at these:

- Websites.
- YouTube Channels.
- Social Pages.
- Social Groups.

Going back to our example (dating), you'll find that the competition is using 5 main forms of monetization:

1. PPL Affiliate Offers.
2. PPS Affiliate Offers.
3. White Label Sites (commission).
4. Click Bank Digital Books.
5. Endorsements (selling exposure).

Each niche has the potential to be different, of course. And just knowing even those basics above won't help you too much. You need to reverse-engineer their approach to monetization.

- Which offers do they push?
- Which affiliate networks do they use?
- How do they push their offers?
- Which monetized media gets most engagement?
- Which non-monetized media gets most engagement?

Before you decide on how you'll be monetising (initially, in our example, it would be PPL and PPS) you need to ensure the offers are held in high regard by the average consumer. Google them. Make sure people like them. You want to earn money more than once from your consumer; plus you want to sleep well at night.

Ride The Trends.

What you'll be doing is pushing out content to 6 of our 7 traffic locations. But not just content. The trick is to target trends and apply them (creatively where necessary) to your chosen niche.

These platforms will get your content:

1. YouTube.
2. Facebook.
3. Instagram.
4. Twitter.
5. Reddit.
6. Google-Plus.

These are the trends to be incorporated into your content:

1. Keyword Trends.

Search terms that are trending across platforms.

2. Classic Trends.

Topics that have been in fashion for years.

3. Power Trends.

Hugely popular trends that have a short shelf life.

4. Style Trends.

Trends in terms of how content is presented.

5. News Trends.

Items in the news that are trending.

Ensure that literally every piece of content you push out falls under the heading of one of those trends. If you have literally no traffic and you're just starting out, this is the best way to boost traffic very quickly.

Where You Get Money.

Primarily:

1. Affiliate Offers.
2. Your Own Products.
3. AdSense (YouTube; when you're in their Partner Program).
4. Merch'.
5. Sponsorship (example: Patreon.)
6. Endorsements.

Look at how your competition is sending traffic to their monetization platforms. Each niche can be different. You need to take the most common route because this will reduce audience resistance to taking action. (In other words: give them what they're used to doing to take action.)

If your competition are using direct links to Amazon Offers? Take that route. If they're sending them to Shopify product pages? That route. If they're hurling traffic at a squeeze (join the squeeze yourself) and monetizing inside e-books or free video courses? That's your route. And you'll likely find that you need to employ a collection of routes.

The Approach.

1. Produce media (infused with trending elements.)
2. Consistently produce the media.
3. Learn how to grow exposure to it.
4. Learn how to grow your platforms on which you publish.
5. Use the media to gain more exposure (viral marketing).
6. Use the media to grow your followings.
7. Use the media to grow traffic to monetizations.
8. Grow your platforms to help with 5, 6, and 7.

This is an influencer model (that anyone can use who has basic ability) wherein you attract attention with media and use that attention to grow your business. You give the public engaging media. They give you, in return, traffic and growth.

Less Than 1%.

At a guess, I would say less than 1% of anyone reading the above plan will take action (or even be able to take action).

First of all, I notice at least one person who delights in generating signature views by trying to make some of us look foolish (and only making himself look foolish, in actuality). This will turn some people away from the advice.

Second, the plan is not for everyone. It requires you to fill in the blanks (this is, after all, only a forum reply). Furthermore, it requires that you have certain basic skills: you can make videos, produce images, and so forth.

If you fall into the 1%?

Use that plan as a springboard. What you are essentially doing here is content marketing. You're producing media based on trends and using that media to get eyeballs on your media (so they share, generating more traffic, and so they follow you, growing the size of your collected audience) and also your monetized media.

It is actually a very hard plan for the average person (despite being very basic) but a very good plan for the 1%. It relies on your ability to produce quality media and, despite following trends, to avoid following the herd (and thereby offering the consumer a reason to tune in). Consistency and quality content is key, but understanding your audience is the biggest key.

If you know what you're doing, you'll make money on day 1. (That, BTW, is where our friendly neighbourhood troll will have a field day.) But chances are you won't know what you're doing. You'll have a hard slog ahead. And that slog could amount to months before you see any money whatsoever.

However . . .

You wanted to know this:

The plan above? It's one way of doing it. And a very good way.

Bacon Calls.

That's some quick advice. Hope it helps someone.

Cheers,

Tom

Forget all of the major complexity everyone likes to introduce into this topic. There's really only one answer: Google News.

Get included, start posting at least 5x daily, and watch your traffic sky rocket in a few months. When you're in Google News, you become a lot more visible to big publishers, eg you get links.

If you want to feel you're doing something while making little to no money, invest in social media.

You are going to have to do your research.

Depending on your niche/s you are in this will be trial and error. Test, test and more testing.

You can choose to use SEO services to see rapid results in gaining the 1st position in the organic search result on search engines.

You can also use pay per click advertising on various search engines.

You can also have your products available for sale in multiple online market places like clickbank and rapbank.

Advertise your products or services on forums relevant to your niche.

Use friendly names on twitter and follow twitter groups works for me.

connect your twitter page to your facebook page.

install twitter app on your smart phone so it is easy to send out tweets to your twitter account.

MOBILE PHONE TWITTER APP > TWITTER PAGE > FACEBOOK PAGE.

all with one tweet from your phone.


Use Google Trends to make sure there is a popular trending topic thats a popular search in google.

Never stop learning

Have a reputation for delivering the solution to a customer who has a problem.

You establish this reputation over time so it helps to have delivered outstanding service and product since day one.

The old adage of under promising and over delivering springs to mind.

It is much easier to reduce your marketing costs as a percentage of sales when you have established a solid reputation.

It is is even easier to not worry about reducing your marketing costs but increasing them when you have a solid reputation. This is the secret to exponential growth.

I learnt early on (when I was maybe 14) from my table tennis coach, who also happened to be a hard man debt collector, that it took time and many words to build a reputation and only one word to destroy it.

Invest time in building your reputation for whatever it is you want to be known for and do everything to uphold and honour your reputation and you won't have a traffic or conversion problem.

Best regards,

Ozi

Go to Solo Ads and reinvest the profits

The best way is to use Social Media and do it right. You can take the entire year to build up a targeted community on a site like Twitter and end up with a group of people that will give you traffic over and over again.

When done right, Social Media is a long term marketing strategy you can use to gain traffic without spending a ton of cash.

Benjamin Ehinger

Try to grow your accounts on Instagram/Pinterest, that will get you massive organic traffic when you need it.

Focus on creating a really good conversion process. Spend a little money on traffic and get those small amount of visitors to convert. Then keep putting your profits back into paid advertising so you can scale up.

Social Media can provide huge amount of traffic.

If you have a monthly budget of $200 - $300 what would be the best place to invest it? PPC?

There is only 1 answer to this question. You want to be covered by a journalist and be written up in tech crunch or the like.

You can develop your account in Facebook and Instagram there you can get a dramatic changes and you can use Facebook ads also..

Definitely ads. But even if you don't want to spend that much just interact with people and help them out with something, often they will return the favor. FB ads work well though. Good luck!

I've never really paid for traffic, but looked at the sensible ways in which to attract people towards what I have to offer them.

Things that are doing quite well with regards to traffic without having to worry about your budget are Quora. This is like Yahoo answers on steroids and a place if used correctly, can get you a continuous flow of traffic.

Another area I like and people might say is old-rope,but still works is video slideshows of your work via Windows Movie Maker and uploaded to You Tube.

Two places which I've been posting on every day and seem quite good a specific Facebook groups and Google communities relating to my niche.

Best of Luck

You Only Need to Follow Two Steps:

Step1: Create High Quality Articles (How to or Listicles for Best Results) - Outsource if you can not do it yourself...
Step2: Find Highly Traffic Blogs and offer a Guest Post...It will hard for them to resist...

Enjoy...

Are you, or have you done this advice? You've created something of so much value other people are talking about it?

We'd love to see some examples and even case studies, sort of proof of concept.

Have any?

GordonJ

Try adding Pinterest to your social media marketing.

Look for group boards in your niche and you should
get some targeted traffic. Posts to Pinterest last
longer than most other social media.

Put some time into this while Facebook is going
through its present difficulties.

Hi Goodzilla,

I have the same problems as you do when I first started online business. Anyway, if you want to attract good crowd without paying ads, may I suggest that you post good content in Google and FB groups who have the same interests as you do.

Slowly but surely once you build your rapport with your fans, they would visit your sites more often and then you invite them to your FB pages. Hope it helps.

Yes you are absolutely right. Without money, you can invest you time and effort to write on post in the same group interests in Google or FB pages. Each time you posted good content, they would naturally attract good readers and eventually become your fans.

dont forget twittter we took a 0 traffic site to $100 a day with twitter free techniques.

What do you mean by high resolution of content?

Good tips - creating content around trending topics though. There's quite a fine line between not appearing desperate ie piggybacking off some new trend and posting quality content. Good sugestions.

Thanks guys. Honestly TraffUp is totally new to me. I would be grateful if you could share the URL link so I can try it out.

You are absolutely right Neha. I totally agreed with you. However, consistency plays a very important part as well besides good content. I would like to suggest twice a week, every week. Once you have done that, you would be surprise the numbers of followers with you and most importantly stay with you and share with others too. That's where you find money. Hope it helps.

Hi, I think a better way to engage with free traffic is creating a facebook fanpage. So long you consistently posting good content and help people to solve their problems, I think they would stay with you and invite their friends. Overtime, you shall have a big group of followers. Hope it helps.