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What are the traffic sources for your startup?

Which traffic sources, like organic search or social media, drive users to your startup? I'm interested in learning about your successful strategies.

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Marketing
on April 18, 2023
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    My target audience is a South Asian country. I tried a lot of paid sources. Facebook ads are the cheapest paid source, so more than 75% time I use Facebook ads.

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    Hi there! It really depends on the type of startup and the target audience, but I've found that a combination of organic search and social media can be very effective. For organic search, optimizing your website for relevant keywords can help bring in traffic. And for social media, identifying the platforms where your target audience is most active and creating engaging content can help drive users to your site.

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    -Valuable blog posts on our Website
    -Impressive content on our Social Media (Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram)
    -Launching Websites (Product Hunt, Betalist, BetaPage, etc.)

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    • Listing in a few AI directories has really helped us gain traction. These referring websites is playing a major role in driving traffic.
    • Branded keyword search is another source.
      As we are just getting started with the launch of AI design generation, Sivi.ai, we are yet to put a lot of effort into SEO. Suggest ideas, if any
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    My successful strategies based on 50% - 50%
    50% from Google
    50% to target audience (leads)
    Google recognized more my website when I rewrite old blogs and by doing technical seo...
    On the other hand, focussed on the target audience which makes them to become my subscriber..
    My website: https://bit.ly/41GQfKw

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    Hey, I pitched my idea on the Intch networking app and found a bunch of early adopters there ) Maybe it will help you too

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    best way to gain traffic is deliver the great value in social media, most of people and in my starting I do the same mistake is, I try to focus on almost every social media, so choose best 3 social media platform and start delivering the best value possible.

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    For my Startup most of the traffic from Google , Direct Traffic ,Affiliate and then Social Media .Here is the Link of that project : https://writeme.ai/

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    For my current project Gemoo.com:
    50% Direct
    20% Organic
    10% Referral
    10% Social
    10% Other

    Still working to get more traffic from organic search, as my old project has over 70% organic traffic, which keeps bringing stable visits.

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    70% from Google
    10% from couple of affiliate websites related to my niche (AI)
    10% Direct (no idea why, but seems like someone posted a few Youtube and TikTok videos where they mentioned my app, so people started going directly to my site
    10% other sources.

    Still planning to increase my social media presence, but there always seem to be something more urgent/important to work on.

    Regarding organic search, my product/feature landing pages are attracting most visits (email writer, product description generator, social media post generator, etc. Blog posts not so much, but I believe it's still early as I rarely create new posts.

    There was a post from some influencer who mentioned my app, and that particular event brought more revenue than anything else, so I'd always swap any source for a few decent shout outs 😂

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      Can I know the name of your app?

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      70% from Google

      • I'm assuming this is organic search?
      • Did you do anything special in terms of SEO or did you just put down what you think makes sense?
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        Yes, it's organic search.

        I did optimize pages in terms of SEO:

        • good structure
        • internal linking
        • titles, subtitles, url, images
        • mobile friendly
        • fast loading
        • optimised for conversions and low bounce rate
        • gave my best to address user search intent
        • etc

        On the other hand, I did almost nothing in terms of gaining links to my site (they started coming naturally). Also zero effort in keyword research, I just created pages around what my app is about.

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