In this post I’m going to show you how to get more traffic to your website using a simple 4-step formula.

You’ll also see real life examples of how I used this formula to take Backlinko to 119k unique visitors per month.

Let’s dive right in…

Unless you describe your target customers as “influential bloggers and journalists”, your target audience isn’t going to share your content.

And if they don’t share your content, you’re not going to increase traffic to your website.

There’s a simple reason for that:

Your target customers don’t run websites in your niche!

For example:

The content on my old nutrition site was aimed at people looking to lose weight.

My target audience? They loved it.

Unfortunately, the influencers in my niche — like health and fitness bloggers — thought my content was way too basic and “rapid fire”.

These influential people share in-depth articles.

That’s one of the reasons Steve Kamb at NerdFitness succeeded where I failed.

His in-depth, 3,000-word blog posts…

After you know exactly who the influencers in your space are, it’s time to figure out what they care about.

Because once you understand which topics push their buttons, you can create content that appeals to them.

Example:

A few years ago I created an infographic for a client in the investing niche.

Even though that niche is far from “interesting”, our infographic went viral. We’re talking thousands of targeted visits in the first two days.

In my experience, content largely succeeds or fails based on one factor:

Whether or not the content has Share Triggers.

What are Share Triggers?

They’re scientifically-backed psychological principles that — when embedded in your content — encourage people to share and link.

Also, Share Triggers give your content that “WOW!” factor that turns cold traffic into leads and customers.

A lot of these principles were first discovered by behavioral scientists like Dr. Jonah Berger, Dr. Katherine Milkman and Jure Leskovec.

Right now, I want you to do one thing:

Get started with this process.

Specifically, I want you to leave a comment that describes the influencers in your niche…and the topics they tend to talk about and share.

As you just learned, this is the first step to increasing traffic.

For example:

If you sell supplements for athletes, your comment might look like:

Influencers: Fitness blogs and journalists that cover nutrition research.

So leave a comment and let me know what you think.

@Anand Padhiar Those are truly activities that can besides improving one’s health would also raise one’s spirits – adding also to one’s peace and happiness.

Thanks Ananad for some of the tips, I enjoyed your tips because I am in some of them myself.

Very nice post, I learned a lot the tips you shared here.I always spend 30 minutes dancing to maintain my figure.I also spend 45 minutes walking at four hours interval classroom to classroom.

Yes, exercise is a fun if we do it daily as a routine habit in any park or ground. The best way to make exercise a habit is to start with an exercise that is so easy that you can do it even when you are running low on willpower and motivation. In the words of Leo Babauta, start with something that is so easy you can’t say no.

The typical approach to diet and exercise is to focus on results first. Most people start with some type of goal. “I want to lose 20 pounds in the next 4 months.” Or, “I want to squat 50 pounds more six months from now.”

I think this is the wrong approach. It’s better to focus on the system rather than the goal.

What matters most in the beginning is establishing a new normal and building a new routine that you will stick to; not the results that you get. In other words, in the first 6 months it is more important to not miss workouts than it is to make progress. Once you become the type of person who doesn’t miss workouts, then you can worry about making progress and improving.

Actually, after you take the cookies out of the oven, the chocolate chip softens and becomes a bit gooey. It goes back to semi-hard after cooling so that’s why you think it didn’t melt during baking 🙂 I do hope you can! I am not sure if they deliver worldwide because it is a UK/Irish grocery.