Because I like to be honest, I'll tell you from the start that I've never been a fan of the "early" traffic brought by articles made specifically to catch the public and attract a mass of visitors, but rather, I liked to constantly offer quality content on all my sites (regardless of their domain of activation, the implicit niche of the articles) thus ensuring that I can create a community that will return to my blog daily.
As a small comparison, rather than 5000 unique visitors today and only 10-20 the next few days, better 200-300 visitors consistently. A small and well-knit community will always beat a "disintegrated" one. It's no use having 5000 people following you if only 100 listen to your advice and only share 20-30.
So, because I've deviated a bit from the initial topic of the article, below I've written some tips to keep in mind if you want to bring "early" traffic to your site, meaning people who come there to read a specific article and are unlikely to come back a second time, but at least you have traffic. 🙂
Attention-grabbing titles
Personally, I hate sites that use headlines that contain words like "Shock! Horror! You won't believe it! Impossible! Unbelievable" and so on, but I have to admit that these headlines resonate best with the public and even if there are a few thousand people like me who refuse to enter sites that use this method to bring traffic, there are another few hundred thousand who are not bothered by it but on the contrary, are attracted to it.
Interesting topics
Personal blogs are starting to become increasingly empty. People are no longer interested in finding out what's bothering you, what you did today and what you bought at the store. People are getting busier and their time for "free" browsing the net is decreasing day by day, so if you want to have traffic, offer them the most interesting content.
To repeat myself, in Romania, unfortunately, the most attractive topics are those related to the lives of celebrities. If you don't care about the quality of your content but only about making money, then you can use this to bring in readers. I personally prefer "more orthodox" methods for increasing traffic. 🙂
Creates controversy
Write articles on your site in a way that lets your readers (if you have enough of them) decide the conclusion. You can write in an interesting way or, more simply, at the end of the article insert a phrase like "Whose side are you on? Do you think X is right, or Y?" and if the topic is interesting enough you will manage to attract a few "argumentatives" out there who will pay you a visit.
Shares on Facebook
Facebook is the social network that, for now, dominates the Romanian market, so it is implicitly the largest traffic generator in this category of platforms and also the easiest source of bringing traffic to websites.
If you can't afford to invest in Facebook Ads (which anyway don't always give a return and not on every niche) then use the thousands of groups that are available to you to give shares. If you have a lot of articles to share, you can install certain tools that do this automatically. Be careful not to get banned by Facebook for spam.
