Who makes you think so, because there are many websites, which get a lot of traffic without any payed advertising.
You need better categories so the search index will pick them up. I browsed Kentucky and to be honest, I don't know what I was looking at. Mary Arthur offers education services...... I tried to find her in google, but education services was not specific enough. I am looking for a tutor, so that is why I clicked on her name. I would recommend being very specific in describing what those businesses actually do. At a glance it looks like a mock directory.
Hi There if you don't mind, can you share how did you eventually use the email marketing without make your email to be a spammer? which email hosting do you currently work with to send a newsletter?
The usual SEO where traffic comes to you organically but it will take you lots of time to get result. If you have budget, you can contact social media influencers on your niche with thousands of followers to promote your website. Would require you to spend $ but it's the easiest way plus it's targetted.
If it is business listing then it can be only get traffic when more people find your website for business listing
Hey, In addition to all the great answers of the folks above me regarding specific traffic sources, I would suggest to try to differentiate yourself from the competition. There are thousands of US listing sites, and you can't make yours suddenly better than all of the rest. Niching down to a specific state or city might reduce the number of possible businesses on your site, but it would also reduce your competiton considerably.
There are a lot of ways to generate traffic to a website. The most effective ways for me personally have been: 1. Social Media Promotion (Facebook ads) 2. PPC (Adwords and Bing Ads) 3. Buying Ad Space On Other Sites 4. SEO (Takes time) Hope It Can Help.
Advertise, get social, write cool headlines, pay attention to on-page SEO, target long-tail keywords, start guest blogging, link internally, don't neglect email marketing, examine your analytics data, get active on social media.
if you do not have a lot of money, you can start creating high quality content on your own and publish it on your website/blog. Then people will find you while searching for certain keywords. It is quite a hard way but it definitely works.
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Do proper SEO and make post regularly and share on social platforms. It's very great and cheapest way to promote your blog and get traffic. I analyse movies and songs niche sites easily get traffoc but it's not lifetime solution. So you need to go slowly as long time. Thanks.
You just need to focus on a niche market of U.S local market. Start from a particular region or state only.
In order to get more traffic, you need to be focused on the website content. User engagement is very important to generate traffic, it does not mean flush your website with a long piece of content, pot some engaging and informative content. Graphics and videos also play a crucial role in order to generate traffic. So try to publish some informative video or infographic once or twice per week on your website. You can also take help from other digital marketing brands to generate more traffic for your website.
write strong articls using keywords that relate to your business. and also you can post on social media too.