1. Attention grabbing headlines

With so many internet users’ attention spans lasting only seconds before they click away from content that does not wow them, using attention grabbing headlines is the most effective way to get them to read your content and share widely. Concentrate on numbered headlines and use content tools that help you to create shareable headlines such as BuzzSumo

2. Make extensive use of lists

Lists continue to be extremely popular, especially if they contain content that many people can relate to. Use them extensively to attract your website.

3. Aesthetically pleasing posts

Beauty continues to be a major crowd pleaser as far as viral content is concerned, especially if it deals with scenic environments, travel, gardening and other topics dealing with nature.

4. Appealing visuals

High quality images will appeal to everyone across the board, so it is worth investing in beautiful and unusual images that will bring your message across properly and prompt people to share your content.

5. Informative posts

Research based posts providing information on popular topics such as health, beauty, longevity, travel and others are more likely to be shared than empty content that does not supply the information needed.

6. Quizzes

Using quizzes is another way to make your content go viral. Ensure your quizzes are fun, easy to take and provide accurate results if you want people to share them widely.

7. How to content

Content that shows people how to do things or make their lives easier tends to be shared more.

8. Promoted content

Paying for targeted ads on social media sites like Facebook is another great way to ensure that your content goes viral and brings the traffic you need to your website.

9. Use influencers

People who influence others opinions such as celebrities and others are a great resource in helping your content go viral. Ensure to inform them every time you want to share content and ask them to share widely in order to achieve the results you want.

10. The element of surprise

Avoid overused headlines and topics and strive to come up with content that is completely unique, in order to grab people’s attention and prompt them to share your content.

Creating viral content while challenging, is not entirely impossible. Using a few effective strategies, you can create content that appeals to the vast majority of people, and get them to share it widely across their networks.

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Using cookies, your IP address, referrer information, data mining and other methods, search engines like Google and others are able to obtain information about you including your browsing habits, location, your contacts and other important personal information. Fortunately, the rise of search engines like duck duck go is ensuring that users’ information is protected, and that they can browse safely without fear of tracking.

Duck Duck Go is the brainchild of former ‘Names Database’ owner Gabriel Weinberg. Launched in 2008, the search engine was created to offer an alternative to larger search engines. While Duck Duck Go had a slow rise in the initial years, Edward Snowden’s revelation about ‘big brother’ spying led to an increase in the number of the search engine’s users and today, over 10 million people use it as their preferred search engine. There are several reasons for Duck Duck Go’s popularity:

1. Privacy: Apart from Google & Other Search Engines, Duck Duck Go does not gather and save personal information about you. In addition, the search engine does not store your search history in order to tailor results or use cookies unless you change your settings.
2. Advanced features: Duck Duck Go offers advanced features to improve user experience e.g. some features allow you to search directly on selected sites so that you can find what you are looking for quickly.
3. Same results across the board: since the search engine does not use your browsing history to tailor search results, you can be sure that you will get the same results as everyone else who is searching for information on a certain topic.

Duck Duck Go’s popularity is poised to skyrocket especially with people who value their privacy and are not comfortable with search engines holding so much personal information about them. If browsing anonymously is important to you, you should definitely consider using Duck Duck Go.

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1. Bring People Together

People are increasingly finding themselves isolated behind computer screens and lacking in interpersonal interaction. Creating content that attracts the right users is great but if you want to create loyal visitors to your site, consider launching events where your site visitors can meet with you and interact with others for an even better experience.

2. Storytelling is Key

Human beings respond better to content that is presented in a way they can relate with. This is where stories come in and you will find that your content marketing efforts will yield better results if you hire a team of storytellers that is able to tell the story of your brand in a way that attracts and engages visitors to your site.

3. Become a Content Authority

Visitors looking for a certain type of information will usually revisit a reputable site multiple times to get what they need. Conducting research and publishing results will usually set you apart as an authority on a certain subject and keep driving the type of traffic you need to your website.

4. Promote your Content

Give your best content a boost by promoting it via paid media in order to reach even greater numbers of people.

5. Quality over Quantity

Filling your webpage with a lot of irrelevant content is unlikely to improve your content marketing efforts. Instead, concentrate on providing valuable content, preferably from cited sources or well known contributors in order to drive traffic to your site.

6. Purposeful Content

The type of content you have on your site should reflect your organisation’s purpose and reason so that everyone can easily understand exactly what it is that you are trying to get across about your brand.

7. Test your Content

Conduct tests to find out which content is consistently driving traffic to your website, and concentrate your efforts on providing this type of content on a regular basis.

Content marketing will continue to be an important part of many people and organization’s marketing mix in 2017. By following a few simple strategies, you should be able to vastly improve your efforts and get the results you want quickly and efficiently.

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The next 10 years we should see growth in the NEW Tech of Virtual Reality (VR) Technology to Augmented Reality (AU). This is a where the future of leading search engines should also follow.

So you must be thinking now? What’s this got to do with the topic of growing traffic in 2017.

ANSWER: To market your business and become a successful brand starting this year, this is the best time for you to think forward into the future of your business.“THINKING AHEAD” will inspire you to innovate new ideas to marketing to dominate your industry.
Now let’s dive into some key factors you can use in 2017 to grow traffic for your website:

1. SWITCH TO MOBILE

Google has shifted into “Mobile Indexing”. Which means, Google is now favouring the search results that appear on your mobile as your desktop search results. One important keynote should be to ensure you get a mobile friendly website that is fully optimised for mobile. Take the Google Mobile Friendly Test to check if your website is considered Mobile friendly.

According to Statista.com, by 2017, more than a third of the world population should own a smartphone. Almost 2.6 billion of the earth’s population, this really is a key measure for your website as most visitors search from a mobile device for products and services.
Number of Smartphone Users worldwide from 2014 to 2020 (in billions)

Image Credit: Statista.com

2. BE ORIGINAL & AUTHENTIC

As Google continues to evolve their systems and algorithms continue to become highly sophisticated, this means that you must be original in your marketing and promotion efforts, do not copy or buy sponsored links from providers who will potentially try to sell you their links that can potentially cause your site to be penalised and removed from the search engine. Use genuine helpful information that represents your business branding. Work on quality, offering valuable high quality content to your audience and your business will start seeing results online.

3. CONTENT WRITING

Have you ever heard about Content being the King! Well it’s seriously true as we all search the internet to find valuable quality information in a few seconds. A key focus you can implement to really boost your digital marketing success online in 2017 is to focus on producing ongoing quality content to help attract visitors to your website. You must offer valuable information about your industry products and services within your content, for example;if you are a real estate industry you can write a content article on “10 Tips to finding the best real estate agent”.

Writing informative quality and helpful content for your audience will enable them to see you as a trust able provider of your brand, this will increase your chances for your visitors to turn into your next potential customers.

4. INFORMATION & CONTACT

If you have a fancy website that has too many images or not enough relevant information, most visitors will leave your site and go to the next one, To improve your chances to generate leads from your website, I suggest you to implement a couple of these simple tips below to your website:

(a) PHONE NUMBER – Have you ever visited a site that has no phone number or email address, how frustrating does that become for you? Solve this problem for someone else and have your contact number and email displayed throughout your website this is usually towards the top on every page but depending on a good website design this can be altered.

(b) ENQUIRY FORM – Another way you can generate leads quickly is to implement an enquiry form on your website. I would suggest you to ask your web developer to place the enquiry form where it can easily seen by your visitors, this is generally on the main homepage, top section of your website, This is the area a visitor will see first when your website is displayed.

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Make a list of your amazing skills. Everyone is good at something better than somebody else.

Ask yourself what are you good at? What is something you can do better than anyone else.

If you are limitless of your options. Think about your interest and something you enjoy the most and that you can potentially turn into a business for yourself.

2. Research Your Niche

Now that you found your idea your thinking now what can I do next? Well it will take some work but its pretty simple, you need to plan and research your idea. Best place is to start is using Google.com, research about the products or services you plan to provide to your customers, check and go through different websites. Every industry has competitors, search within your market and interest, find out what they are doing and how you can act to do something better.

3. Action Plan

Every business requires planning on how to get started, Benjamin Franklin supposedly once said, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” If you do not plan on what you want to achieve or how you plan to operate and run your next big idea, you are setting up yourself to fail. Therefore, business planning is the crucial part to starting any kind of business.

Now you must be thinking, how do I prepare a great business plan? They are thousands of business plan templates that you can find online. I recommend to use a business plan template by Intuit QuickBooks It’s FREE to Download, you can use this template to plan out your business more in detail.

4. Selling Products & Services

If you are selling any kind of products or providing a service it will be good to plan out where you will purchase these products or services?
If you are starting a business that plans to sell products online via your own ecommerce website and you want to know how you can find low and cheap products that you can sell online you do not know where is a good place to start, I would recommend sites like Ali Baba. If you are unsure about Alibaba I recommend you read this article on how to safely source products from the World’s Biggest Supplier Directory.

Alibaba is a great source to find a list of suppliers from overseas where you can find cheap wholesale products to sell online on your website.

If you are planning to start a business that will provide services to its customers, e.g. a mobile app, software subscription. You must plan how will you provide this service to your customers in your business plan, If you plan to sell online software or coaching service, that will carry a monthly fee. Think about who will build and support your product? Have you got a team who will deliver customer service? These are some great areas of focus you can work on before considering further.

5. Register a Domain Name

Now that you have got your business planned out, you must be ready to hit the GREEN button towards the next stage, you will have to register the name that you can use for your website address, www.mywebsite.com this will represent your brand online, Choose something easy and simple that you and your customers can remember as this will be an ideal brand for your business. If you are not sure visit 10 Tips for Choosing the Perfect Domain Name by GoDaddy.

If you are based in Australia .com.au is a preferred option as it will give you a trusted appearance on the google search results and people can also identify if you are an Australian business by using .com.au in your domain name. Whichever country you plan to develop your business it will be a great idea to use the countries domain extension.

You can register your domain name from sites like www.godaddy.com.au, www.hostgator.com these sites can offer some good options that are cheap for registering a domain name for your business.

6. Start Your Online Website

You must have heard that everything is online, we are interconnected to the world by the internet, daily thousands of searches happen online from Google to eBay from customers looking to buying products or searching for services, to researching information.All the attention of the world is online, so your business must have a representation online. Having an online website is the most useful resource for your customers, it can easily be available 24/7, it’s a place that never sleeps!

Now depending on your technical level and expertise you may be able to create a website yourself. I will explain more in the next section, but you can start thinking about building a website. We need to consider setting up Hosting service this is additional add-on to getting your website domain name as stated above, getting a hosting account is not really that expensive if you are starting out your business but also can be expensive depending on the nature of your business. You can visit If you are a beginner you may not know about hosting, basically the easiest way to understand without getting into to much technical web jargon, a hosting is storage space for your website, when your website is built it requires to be stored on a computer or server so it can be accessed when someone goes to your domain name e.g www.mywebsite.com. Godaddy is a great hosting provider to host your website and you can get a hosting for low as $3.99 a month with Godaddy they also 24 hours service incase you need help with your website basic issues and problems.

7. Building your website

Building a website can be easy to difficult depending on your technical expertise, everyone is different though if you are new and unsure on how you can build a website, you can search on Google to finding a reliable website development company in your area, when you hire someone it may incur you some starting costs so you really need to plan carefully about your budget and cost. You may also visit YouTube to learn on how you can build you own website.

8. Get Connected on Social Media

In order to connect your website and build a presence online you will need to setup different social profiles, this is because people use various sites for social media and having your business there can be ideal for you, a good place would be to start building the following:

Facebook Business Page

Twitter Page

Pin Interest

Google + Profile

9. Lets Go Viral & Build Website Traffic

You got your business planned. You got your products/services ready. You have a team support in place. You have got your website online. You have created social profiles now Its time to GO VIRAL with your marketing.

A website that is on the internet and does not promote itself to build a online audience is like a land without people. To be successful in your business you need to work hard at promoting it so your website can drive more traffic. How can the online audience know you exist if your business brand does not SHOUT OUT LOUD to the world. You need to start engaging with your customers on social media. Start writing a blog. Here is a great article on 6 Best ways to build an online traffic

10. Take ACTION& NEVER GIVE UP

According to Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months. A whopping 80% crash and burn. This statistics is staggering on how many business can easily fail. We all have a big idea or dream we may wish to achieve but we have to remain persistence and never give up. In order to be successful online you must live and breathe your business. I have seen many businesses fail because they do not simply take action, nothing is perfect but I can truly say if you stay committed every single day and never give up. You will truly reach new heights.

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