How to Get Your First 1,000 Visitors: Your first 1,000 visitors are the most crucial.Everyone says when you start up a website,it’s easy to get your first few visitors.And that’s true.But it’s difficult to get your first 1,000 visitors. Heck, it’s actually harder to get your first 1,000 visitors than it is to get your first 10,000 visitors.The first thing that you need to dois identify your target audience.Where are people who you want to target?Where do they hang out?What kind of content do they read?What are their interests?What are their fears?What are their goals, their motivation?What’s their typical age?What social media channel to they engage with the most? Is there a particular genderthat is most dominant in your niche?
This will help you.because the last thing you want to dois create marketing campaignsand content around the wrong audience. The second thing you want to dois identify what your ideal audience wants.Now that you know them, I want you to go to Amazon, find books within your niche,that people are writing aboutand look at the two and three-star reviews.The reason you’ll look at the twoand three-star reviews, is peopleare usually complaining about what that book is missing. People only will leave a comment and share thatand rate it terribly if they truly feelthat something’s missing that’s important. That helps you figure outwhat people really want within your space.You can also go to Quora and do the same thing.What are the questions within the space?You know whether there’s dog trainingor marketing; it doesn’t really matter.Take notes on all the questionsand the answers to thembecause that’ll also give you more insights.And look at the ones that are the most voted.The ones that are the most voted be the ones that do well.You also want to go to Reddit.Check out the subreddits.What is popular within those subredditsin your space?Look at the top, right?Reddit usually uploads the posts they like the best. Because if people are uploading somethingand Reddit community’s picky,that means people in your niche like it.Once you figure out what’s popular Reddit,you want to take notes on that.You want to take notes on everything.That’ll give you ideas on the contentthat will work really well in your space. The third step.Create the most epic, mind-blowing resourceon one of these topics.Create a bullet list point, right?Every single idea that you got from your researchas it relates, you want to create a listand figure out, all right this is what I will cover into this topic.This is what everyone wants to know.Then, go to Ubersuggestand look at the content ideas report.When you’re in Ubersuggest,you’re putting those keywords in within your space. It shows you what’s popular, what’s not. The reason this is important is, what’s popular is based on social charts, back links, and search traffic. The last thing you want to do is pick somethingthat isn’t popular in all of those categories. You can’t just rely on SEO traffic.You got to now look at referral traffic and social. That’s why you have to look at all of that.You want to bullet out all the ideas.Go through what are these pieces missingthat they haven’t covered?How can I make something better?Go read the comments on these blog posts.What are people complaining about?What are people recommending?This is your opportunity to create somethingbetter, more thoroughbecause you have all this data at your fingertips for free. Then, I want you to write 25 headlines.You have to.The reason being is eight out of 10 peoplewill read your headline,but only two out of 10 will click through and read the rest. Now, of course, you will not use 25 headlines. The reason you have 25 is, you want to eliminate 20 that you think are shitty or mediocre. You want to make the best fiveand then cross source your headlines.So you go to your favorite Facebook group in your niche, you do a poll; you ask everyone,hey, which headline do you think is the most appealing? Get their opinions.Pick the one that has the highest votes.Now if you have a better way of changing it, do that.But usually, you got your winnerif that’s what everyone tells you, that that’s a winner. If they all suck, people will tell you in the Facebook poll. They’ll even give you suggestionson how you can make it better.Now, you’ve created your content,you’ve gotten your headline,you’ve published it.You want to then create a gated content upgrade.That’ll get you hundreds of social shares.That’s the next step.When you create the gated contentto get you the social shares,you do this by offering a PDF, a ebook,a crash course, complimentary resource,and if you’re on Word Press,you can use OnePress Social Locker.That way, if people want that free ebook or guide,they have to share your content to get it.You will get a ton of shares because people want access to that.That’ll get you more traffic. Then the next step, use your epic contentas a promotion opportunity.See, when you write this content,you may get ideas from other places,other people’s blogs.Link out to them.Let them know that you linked out to themand ask them to share your content.Ask them to link back to you.When you do this, you’ll get more traffic.If they respond saying sure, sounds good,you know, that’s great.If they say no or they ignore you,follow up with another email with a different headline, different ask, and then go from there. Typically, if you ask for a share,it’s easier and you’ll get a higher take rate than if you ask for a link back.Link back helps you with referral trafficand search rankings in the long run.Social shares typically give youthat quicker instantaneous boostand we believe most people to do that at least. The sixth step that guarantees long-term trafficis to have push notifications enabled on your site. That way, when people opt-in through the push notification and you create a new blog post,you can send a blast out to all of themand get those people back. You can do the same thing with Mobile Monkey for Facebook Messenger.You can do the same thing for Hello Barfor email capture.When you’re doing all of this,make sure you’re also pixeling those peopleusing Google AdWords and Facebook.That way you can re-market to those peopleand continue marketing to get them backto buy your products and services.If you follow all of those tips,you’ll get your first 1,000 visitors for freewithout spending a single dollar.