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Free top Actionable Tips to Grow your web traffic!

Hi,

My name is Musadiq, I've been working as a Marketing Manager for almost 5 years now. This lockdown, I've thought of reviewing few websites that you may share, and I'll provide you top relevant tips to help you grow your traffic and increase conversion.

So, share with me your Product/Business website, I will review it and reply with top actionable items that you may leverage to increase traffic.

Design Agencies can also participate, as I have a knack for finding side-projects to build a brand and generate traffic.

Looking forward to your response.

Note: Please, expect a delay in my response, as I didn't expect these many requests.

on May 6, 2020
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      Hi,

      Please, improve your landing page. You need to find a better way to explain your product and reduce cognitive load. Just by looking at the hero section, the user should understand what you're trying to offer.

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      Hi,

      Try introducing a content filter on the top. It's hard to navigate through the entire content. You may categorize it by Career, Startup, etc, so that users may discover what they love most. While scrolling down to discover content, introduce Cards related to Mentors, Featured Stories, etc), that way your Homepage may have a bit more diversity and you can promote other areas of your offering that is possible right now only through Top navigation.

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      I really like how the look and the messaging of the website. +1 user :) the only thing that I would change a bit, maybe utilize left and right white space more by reducing the gaps, so I would not scroll more for reading the stories.

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    Hi, I'd appreciate it :)
    https://seodity.com

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      How about investing some time to build a side-project that will generate traffic for you and from their start converting them? Maybe start with a Free Keyword Search tool. How about making Uptime Monitoring a standalone free tool? Just a suggestion, you can, however, explore other ways to generate traffic.

      Another simple Growthhacking technique that you can experiment with is offering a Free Startup plan with bundle of premium features, but they have to install a Badge on Footer to use your Startup plan. Startups like Mixpanel, started with the same growth technique to gain initial users.

      Let me know if any of these techniques work for you. All the best

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        That's actually pretty nice idea! Making side-project would take some time, but I think that I could manage to make it not spending many man hours. That's something our competition is doing too. Definitely will try it.

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    I really appreciate your offer, but I need some advice regarding internet marketing and search engine optimization.

    First of all, I want to know either web 2.0 blogs like WordPress and Google sites etc. work on indexing desired keywords? Also, what are the benefits of posting blog posts on high traffic community sites? Do you think such things help to improve online ranking?

    Secondly, I would like to know your views about traffic generators. I am not referring the traffic bots, but I am demonstrating the services like this https://www.simpletraffic.co/. If they are using the combination of social media marketing and some SEO tactics, then don't you think their services are much cheaper than the others? If you have some idea of how they are working at the backend, then you can share your thoughts.

    Moreover, I also need your views about my site http://peektimes.com/. Actually, I created this site to share articles about survival and other topics, but due to lack of time, I did write a lot for this. Then I got some Google redirect links for this. Before this order, I asked Neil Patel at his YouTube channel about the redirect links, and he said they magically change the site states in terms of DR etc., but the ratio should be low. I proceed with this offer, but after a few weeks DR again decreased, and I am facing a spam rate issues as well. Maybe few pages are blank here, and I am not posting very often is the reason for its high spam score. Though I also have disavowed spammy backlinks to Google that were mentioned by Moz but I didn't see any change in the score. It would be great if you share your thoughts on it.

    I know I am asking some crucial question but I hope you wouldn't mind them and try to answer them as well :)

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    Hi,
    https://charttt.com -
    It's image charts intended to embed in emails, blogs, chat bots, etc

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      Hi @Danbars, Please work on your Landing page. Your product is great, as most of the marketers and business owners struggle while embedding charts into emails, articles, etc. Simplify your landing page and also add an Examples section to your top navigation for letting users quickly understand what they may achieve with your tool.

      Check my portfolio, maybe you may find something interesting to inspire your redesign strategy: dribbbble.com/musadiq

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      Please, be clear with your features. I can also see some dummy posts doing rounds. Have proper navigation to include additional items, like FAQs, Features, Examples, to make easy for first-time users to understand your product.

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    https://finsharing.com - A community for Stock Market discussions, ideas and investment strategies.

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      Please, improve your UI and organize your content better. The left section has some issues. Also, it's hard to navigate through content. There is also no description of what your tool does.

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      You have a nice concept. I would only suggest introducing Freebies so that you get some traffic. Also, you may create some content for your Social Media introducing top places

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    Hiya,
    I have just created a webshop to sell coffee. Please could you take a look. Maidabeans.com happy to send you some coffee in exchange.
    Thanks
    Yasmeen

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      Great idea

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    https://www.solfej.io/

    Thank you in advance ✌️

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    hey Musadiq what do you think about https://starkflow.co

    thank you!

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      Hey @narekg, what an awesome website. If I may ask, did you create that SVG on the landing page yourself ? It's beautiful. Best of Luck !

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        Thanks @pranaysingh, our designer did all those images.

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          Any chance they'd be available for some work for us ?

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            He is our in house designer, depends on the amount of work. you can share the details narek@starkflow.co, I'll check the availability.

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    Ask a compelling question on Hacker News (ask HN) with your link tied into the question or show Hacker News (show HN) your product. Be sure it is interesting content and title.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/

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    Amazing! Thanks for helping: https://obie.ai

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    Hi Musadiq

    inboxes.com, it's aimed at US consumers mainly for fashion and beauty online shoppers. Would love to hear your ideas. Thx!

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      Nice I like this. I would work on making search better. For example "h&m" doesn't work etc.

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      Hi,

      Try introducing Filter option on the Top, so that users can discover content they may find useful. As of now, there is no such filter. Also, for every page you have stored, give them label/tag, so that you can have a wide directory of resources. Like someone from the Filter can select Pricing to get posts only relevant to pricing.

      I hope this makes sense.

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      Have you checked out VisaBug.com ?

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    Hello
    This is my website : https://rockupapp.com
    I'm looking to target developers and indie app owners

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    Hey 👋

    I'm working on validating an a new idea of mine. Would really appreciate it if you could take a look: https://talktomeabout.xyz

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    Targeting realtors has been a bit tricky so would love to get your thoughts. Facebook ads haven't worked too much yet either so would love to hear what you think.

    https://realoop.com/

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      Create some free tools to generate relevant traffic like Calculators, etc. Else work with few Ghostwriters to prepare insightful reports and share it with relevant users. I believe with very limited budget you can prepare multiple research reports and offer them for free. If you're lucky, who knows top websites may cite your reports and help you with traffic and backlinks.

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      Had I been at your place, I would have surely given a try for building my own SAAS product, given the experience you have with development field :)

      Anyways, try to build free side-projects to enhance your personal brand, that way you not only get traffic but also clients.

      Be active on LinkedIn, keep adding CEO/Founders and top positions to your list. You never know when they may need a leg-up for their next project.

      If you're good with Ghost, try creating themes and sell them on your site along with what you've been doing.

      All the best, Josh. Let me know if any of these suggestions may work with you.

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        These suggestions are helpful! Thank you.

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      Hi,

      I'm sorry, not sure whether I can help with this. This looks quite a niche to me, perhaps promoting it in relevant forums and groups may help. As audience is very limited.

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    needremote.com
    I'm still looking for possibility to create there remote job board (without coding).

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      I believe you already have a job board on your homepage. Please, elucidate it further

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        It's only RSS feed, so you can't post a job there.

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    Hey! Thank you, my website: https://brabble.fm

    I am going todo a big rewrite/redesign soon so any feedback is welcome!

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      Thanks for your response. Your landing page is nice, however I feel while redesigning you can think of modifying/adding following things:

      1. Date Filter dropdown is not visible at all. You may need to change the color of the dropdown to make it work. https://prnt.sc/sbsyto
      2. You may add additional items to Filter Section like Filter by category to let users discover the content to their preferences. There is a Category option on the right, but it really takes a while to discover it.
      3. You can also make use of Cards to properly organize your content. Also, I would suggest using a carousel on the Hero section to showcase featured/sponsored content. Well, that's for your redesign provided you're looking for multiple monetization strategies.
      4. Also, add a FAQ section to answer a few of the common questions users may have while first time coming to your website.
      5. Moreover, you may also let users filter content based on Top rating or Most Viewed. Etc

      Let me know whether anything aligns with your objectives.

      Thank you

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    Hi musadiq. I'm working on https://digester.app and I'd be very interested in hearing from you how I can drive more traffic to it. Thanks :)

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      Hi,

      Thanks for your response. I strongly feel you need to work a little extra on your landing page to make it look better. Also, spend some time on Dribbble to understand how companies organize their content on Landing Page, as I can see you have mostly put paragraphs to explain your value proposition, maybe you need to break it into small chunks with nice icons for better reading.

      Even How It Works can be made better. You may also record a quick 2-minute video to explain what Digester does.

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        Thanks for the hints! Ironically, I read somewhere else on indiehacker that videos (or was it anymations?) are not worthwhile, but I think I'll try to create one then..

        With regards to the copy, this is definitely the most difficult task for me. All my life I spent working in terminals and never had to care about "first impressions" etc :)

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