On the whole, the success of a website is usually determined by how much traffic that website generates – the more the better. However, the main ways to generate traffic are either usually long term, time consuming or costly. For this reason, there is definitely a need for website owners to find ways to generate more traffic without spending money or using up more of their valuable time. Well, fear not my friend. There are ways to generate more traffic with no budget and not much effort. Here are the main ways to do this listed below.

#1 Include an Image with Every Article

SEO works by making great high quality content that search engines will index and rank on their search results page for different keyword search phrases from the web user – SEO for images works, near enough, exactly the same but for image search engines. Therefore, to generate more traffic from an article, make sure you include an image in it with a title similar to that of your article’s.

Now I know you are probably thinking ‘well making sure you get a unique image for every article published, that is going to take a lot of editing and a lot of time!’ Well, it does not have to, my friend. The easiest way to create an image for an article is to turn the article into an image. You can do this by using a non-copyrighted image and taking a snippet of your article and pasting it on top of that image. A very simple way to create a contextual image that can be searched for by image search engines to generate traffic.

#2 Re-share Old Content on Social Media

There seems to be a norm on social media that you can only share and publicise content that you have just published onto your website – this is wrong! If you are doing SEO correctly, your content should be timeless – by this, the article is not tied down by a specific time so can be used for years to come. With these articles, you should reshare them in periodic time intervals to help rejuvenate the traffic going to that article. From past experiences, it is sometimes the second time round of sharing the article months later that gains the most traffic for that article!

#3 Include a Call to Action at the Bottom of Your Articles

A call to action is a great way to entice and get the web user to do something for you. It directly addresses the web user to perform an action (and from doing this, they are more likely to do it).

You could provide all the buttons for web users to share your article on social media. However, you will most likely find that most will not share the article: even if they found it useful. By including a call to action to share the article, the likelihood of your traffic sharing the article will increase dramatically. The more shares your article gets on social media, the more traffic it will get. Just try it for yourself!