You have a website that does okay, but you want to increase traffic to your site and you want to start with  free traffic. Now you are wondering what you can do to achieve your goal.

There are many different things you can do. One of them is to build a community via a blog, an article, a web page, social media, or your own list.  

Increasing your website traffic can be done simply by answering questions that your community finds important. You must take the time to become the authority in your niche and involves reading all you can on the topic so you increase your expertise.

Have the community ask you questions. This will help you to provide useful, valuable, high quality content. That’s what search engines really care about. When you provide answers to questions asked by your community, your website should rank well for the keyword terms you use, but may not have come up with on your own. These keywords will show up in your answers to questions.  

You create loyalty among your community members and you rank well with Google at the same time. You could say that is a win-win! Now you have members in your community that are going to share and tell others about it, which will increase your traffic flow. That will multiply and continue to grow as more visitors show up and like what you have to offer.

In addition, Google will rank you well so you will place better in the search engines. Doing so means that more surfers will find you and come visit your page increasing the traffic to your site. If these people are happy with what they find they will invite others.  

So when you are looking for proven ways to increase traffic to your website make sure that you do not overlook the power of community – build a strong niche community and they will follow you.