5 ways to steal traffic from a competitor

5 ways to steal traffic from a competitor

# 1 -Learn their keywords

Check your competitor in SEMrush, there you can see a list of keywords that are in TOP.

SEMRush will show you:

keywords;
keyword frequency;
landing page for each keyword.
This is valuable information if you want to take away some of the traffic from your competitors.

Select the most relevant keywords and create content for these keywords, taking into account reasonable competition.

Make sure that you create a better page than your competitor’s, focus on higher quality and provide more value to your readers. Begin to aggressively promote this page. It makes no sense to write excellent texts in the blog, if no one knows that you have them.

# 2 - Increase Domain Authority

Moz scans the Internet to collect site-related information and assigns its Domain Authority to each site. This indicator is based on a variety of factors that also have a definite value for Google when ranking content. Domain Authority indicators range from 0 to 100 and the higher, the more likely to be ranked in high positions.

You should strive to increase the Domain Authority indicator as much as possible, so take action to increase it. Just check your competitors to understand what's the difference when ranking you and competitors. To make it always convenient to recognize these indicators, you can download the free version of the plugin for Ghrome - Moz Toolbar from the official Moz website.

The best ways to increase credibility remained high-quality links, but taking into account the trust of the referring domains and their subjects.

# 3 - Your competitor’s high quality links

Backlinko’s Brian Deane report on how Google ranks content found that high-quality links from other sites are still extremely important to the search engine.

Use SEO tools such as Ahrefs to find sites that link to competitors' sites and try to get links from the same resources.

# 4 - Become a more reputable site

Creating / delivering high quality content / services / products is much cooler to attract attention to your site than all other tricks.

One of the ways to become the key authority of the industry is to create content that will show you as a leader in a certain segment. In addition, you need to build relationships with other key authorities in your industry. The high credibility of your site will help lure a significant part of the traffic from your competitor to you.

# 5 - Use paid promotion

Advertising on social media platforms such as Facebook, Linkedin, etc. Using paid ads is becoming increasingly important to reach the target audience and potential new customers.

On Facebook, you can target your ads based on a huge number of demographic characteristics, including age, location, and interests (about 85 targeting options). If your competitor is popular enough, it may be listed as an interest, so that you can target your advertisements to people who have subscribed to your competitors to reach people in your niche who have not heard about you.

The online world is a very competitive environment, so you must be competitive. Try some of these tactics and your traffic will increase.

Attraction of traffic to the site.

1. Search engines

2. Contextual advertising

3. Communities in social networks

4. Links in social networks

5. Newsletter to friends in social networks

6. Statuses in social networks

7. Paid advertising in social networks

8. Advertising in communities in social networks

9. Buying ads from users on Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter

10. Blogging in the blogosphere

11. Commenting in the blogosphere

12. Advertising on blogs

13. Forums

14. Link in the profile on the forum

15. Link in the signature on the forum

16. Communication on thematic forums with a recommendation to visit the site / blog

17. Free bulletin boards (Avito.ru and similar)

18. Paid and free directories

19. Free Mailing Services

20. Advertise in other ezines

21. Advertising on other sites

22. Communication on other sites with the installation of links to your

23. Exchange links with other sites

24. Block “recommend” on other sites

25. Buying guards

26. Order announcement / post / review

27. Guest Post

28. Banner advertising

29. Banner networks

30. Thematic portals

31. Purchase traffic

32. Affiliate Program

33. Script "tell a friend" on your site

34. Like buttons

35. Block of comments on the site with registration through social networks

36. Subscribe to updates on the site

37. QR code

38. Own competitions

39. Participation in contests organized by other

40. Viral advertising

41. Video Marketing

42. Video channel on YouTube (and other similar services)

43. Audio marketing

44. My free e-books

45. Advertising in electronic books on the exchange

46. ​​Advertising on infoproducts aggregators

47. News

48. Offline events

49. Custom article in print, advertising in print

50. Advertising on TV, radio

51. Spam, Doorway, Cloaking, and the like