Non-targeted traffic to the maximum. Targeted traffic. What is it and how to get it? Offline advertising with QR codes and discount coupons

You will learn:

  • What is the attraction of targeted traffic to the site.
  • In what ways is this possible.
  • How to drive targeted traffic to B2B.
  • Due to which it is possible to attract targeted traffic from social networks.
  • What methods of attracting targeted traffic are used by scammers.

What does it mean to attract targeted traffic to a website?

Attracting targeted traffic to the site is the way to high earnings for the owner of the web resource. Traffic is a flow of unique visitors who have visited your web resource within a certain period of time. It is important to understand: the more the total number of visitors to your site per day, the more your earnings. Attracting targeted traffic directly affects the increase in profits. In this case, profit can be obtained both from the sale of goods and services (direct benefit) and from advertising of other people's goods and services (indirect benefit).

The main task of specialists who are engaged in attracting targeted traffic is to increase traffic to your resource, because the success of website promotion on the Internet depends on this indicator.

Main traffic sources:

  • search engines;
  • social networks;
  • forums, blogs and other Internet sites;
  • direct visits to the resource (URL input, browser bookmarks).

The total traffic to a web resource is the total traffic, that is, attracted from all used and possible sources.

There is not only incoming traffic, but also outgoing traffic (for example, a resource visitor clicked on an external link located on your website page). Target and non-target traffic is also distinguished. If we talk about targeted traffic, then in this case the visitor comes to the resource with a specific purpose, which your site will help him realize. Non-targeted traffic consists of those visitors who came to your web resource by accident, for example, via an external link from another source (by clicking on an advertisement). The main goal of the owner of any website is to attract targeted traffic.

To organize the accounting of targeted and non-targeted traffic, you can install special counters. Here are the most popular statistics services today:

  • Yandex.Metrica;
  • Google Analytics;
  • LiveInternet.

So, targeted site traffic is a flow of visitors interested in goods, services and information posted on your resource. Such visitors perform some targeted actions (make a purchase, call the office, leave a request, and so on). Attracting targeted traffic is also called website promotion.

If the owner of the resource does not attract people to the site and does not begin to wonder what kind of visitors they are, what they are interested in, then sooner or later, even with high rates in statistics services, the overall result will be reduced to a minimum. It is important to understand that it is not enough just to increase traffic: it is also necessary that this traffic helps to solve the problems facing the site owner. It is the attraction of targeted traffic that is important, and in order to organize such an attraction, you must immediately look for an interested audience, and then the financial success of your Internet project is guaranteed.

Really working ways to attract targeted traffic on the Internet

  1. Blogs.

Search engines index information from blogs the fastest. In addition, popular blogs (both paid and free hosting) gather an audience interested in your proposal. To promote on blogs, you can use not only your own platform for publishing interesting materials, but also other people's resources. As part of this approach, partner bloggers simply host review posts with links to your site. Of course, this method of attracting targeted traffic is not free, but the costs in this case are much less than when using other methods of website promotion.

Closely related to blogging is podcasting, which can also draw attention to a resource by quickly delivering a message to the target audience.

  1. Thematic forums.

It is not enough to leave a message on the forum to attract people from there. It is necessary to establish good contact with forum visitors: share information useful to them and respond to messages from other members of the forum. You should not openly invite people to visit your site, this can lead to negative reactions and cause your ban. However, if you communicate correctly with members of the forum, you can earn their loyalty and arouse interest. This will ensure you attract targeted traffic: new interested visitors will come from the forum to your web resource.

  1. Social media.

In modern society, almost everyone uses social networks, and therefore the traffic from Facebook, VKontakte and other social media is often more than from ordinary search engines, and at the same time the audience is more targeted. There are several ways to promote a website through social networks. To attract targeted traffic, you can, for example:

  • create and promote an account;
  • create a community and / or group;
  • use targeted contextual advertising and so on.

With any chosen method, an integrated approach and significant costs (especially labor) are required. Today, the level of SMM is quite high, so it may be more profitable to order a promotion service through social networks in a specialized company, relying on competent SMM specialists.

  1. Mailing lists.

The traditional way of attracting targeted traffic is sending by email. However, before choosing a provider for organizing such mailing, be sure to check how the system works correctly, whether the legal requirements are being observed. Such mailing not only ensures the attraction of targeted traffic, but also supplies you with a constant audience that will visit your resource regularly. Your site will be visited by target users who are really interested in the information posted on it.

  1. Videos / webinars.

Any form of video message in which you personally address your target audience (an interesting video on YouTube or a webinar) provides a good level of targeted traffic attraction. Moreover: a well-edited and interesting video may well turn viral and cause a constant increase in traffic.

  1. Press releases.

This is a traditional method of disseminating information, and it does not lose its relevance and effectiveness in the modern world. Today there are a large number of resources where you can write about your site or offer. The more visitors your chosen resource has, the more effective it will be to attract targeted traffic.

  1. Information support of conferences, seminars.

If you have a news site, you can try to become a partner of various thematic events: you publish news, and in exchange for this, a link to your resource appears on the official site of the event. In addition, you may be provided with additional opportunities: to place your information on advertising stands, include it in a newsletter by email, and so on.

  1. Offline advertising.

A good way to attract targeted traffic is to post information about your resource at metro stations, on TV and radio. The cost of such advertising can be significantly lower than you thought.

  1. Publishing articles on thematic sites and mailing lists.

Try to find as many resources and subscriptions with similar topics as possible. Talk to the resource owner about hosting your article. To get the green light, make your article useful and informative, without aggressive ads. Tell us about yourself and your web resource in the author's section, which will be below the main article. In the same block, you can specify a link to your site, an email address for feedback, and so on.

  1. Signature in the letter.

If you regularly communicate by e-mail and correspond frequently, be sure to add a small ad unit to your signature. Inform about the project, tell us about promotions and current contests, invite the interlocutor to go to your website.

  1. Viral content.

This method will allow you to attract targeted traffic for free. Users organize viral mailing voluntarily: they send messages to friends, post information on their website - in general, they distribute content in every possible way on the world wide web of their own free will. Video files, audio clips, presentations, interesting articles, images, advertising messages about a promotion or discount can become viral. In addition, you can use viral content from other authors with their permission.

  1. Your recommendations to friends and acquaintances.

This is a free way to attract targeted traffic, but, of course, you should not expect impressive dividends from it, because your friends are unlikely to buy goods from you regularly. But for the first sales, this option is quite suitable. Friends will also help form the backbone of your site's loyal and most loyal readers. So, this method should not be neglected. In addition, if in reality few people can boast of hundreds of friends, then in the online world this is a frequent occurrence. You may well attract a large number of acquaintances on social networks.

  1. Free bulletin boards.

The world wide web is rich in promoted services with free ads, where you can post information on a daily basis. Such resources are visited by a large number of people. All you need is to create a personal profile and regularly add ads, offering services or products from your own website. Try to design your posts in a bright and high-quality way: a good design will contribute well to attracting targeted traffic.

  1. Buying traffic.

Buying traffic means a special advertising campaign, within which broadcasts take place on popular, promoted sites for a certain amount of money. This will ensure the systematic attraction of targeted traffic to your resource. There are several formats that can form the basis of such an advertising campaign:

  • Banners - graphic blocks that are installed in separate places on the site. Banners are placed for money; you can buy space for them not only on promoted websites, but also on social networks.
  • contextual advertising - a text message that pops up in search engines and sites and corresponds to the subject of the user's request. This method of attracting targeted traffic is quite expensive. To order advertising, you need to use the services of popular search engines such as Yandex and Google.
  • Pop-up ads looks like an ad that appears at random in separate parts of a web page.
  • Teaser advertisement - small graphic blocks filled with interactive content and decorated as brightly as possible. Most often, the image is accompanied by attractive text that makes the user want to click on the ad.

Practitioner tells

How retargeting drives targeted traffic to your website

Roman Kumar Vias,

marketing Director, Qlean.ru

Retargeting allows you to focus on those who have already visited the site before. If a client visited your site, but did not take any action (did not look at prices, did not choose services, and so on), then they "catch up" with the help of banners and text ads. However, to understand exactly where this user left your site, you need to place a special code on the web resource.

This code can be obtained from the social network Facebook. To do this, go to the "Your advertising" tab, select the "Audience" item and click on the "Create audience" button. Then copy the code and paste it into the site page to record and collect information, and it will start working when the user takes any action.

For example, when a visitor visits the start page of a company's website, the code assigns cookies. If a visitor leaves the resource to another site, he recognizes cookies and shows thematic banners. Moreover, such advertising has its own peculiarity - it does not annoy the user, because this is not an annoying offer, but just a friendly reminder.

In our case, customers left for different reasons and at different stages of the funnel. We have developed a flexible return system.

Service selection.At this stage, there are three options for the reasons why the client left the resource, and our actions in accordance with these reasons:

  • if the visitor could not find the information he needed, we try to attract him with the help of banners demonstrating the advantages of our service, as well as with the help of useful articles about home cleaning;
  • if a visitor suddenly doubts the safety of our services and the decency of the staff, then we explain to him the complexity of the process of gradual selection of our employees, thanks to which we screen out about 97% of applicants;
  • showing clients funny pictures (picture 1)that are personalized (thanks to this they evoke a lot of positive emotions and are well remembered). Our target audience is mostly young people who love humor and adjust in a friendly way with its help.

Determination of the price.If the client leaves the site at this stage, it means that he did not like the service or the price for it. Such visitors can stay on our site thanks to discount banners. Product margin determines the final discount. In some cases, we provide a 10% discount, and sometimes - immediately 30% (Figure 2).

Thanks to retargeting, you can not just show the user single messages, but tell related stories. It becomes possible to link advertising messages together, showing them one after the other in sequence. For example, 10 days after the first visit of the client, you can demonstrate discounts, after 15 days - a list of services and benefits of the service, after 20 days - make a special offer.

For example, as part of one promotion, we placed a banner with a countdown that told the client “Hurry up to take advantage of the discount within 15 minutes”. This formulation subconsciously pushed our visitors to action. This allowed us to increase the conversion of conversions to orders by 40% (Figure 3).

As a result, we were able to return 15% of potential customers to the site and turn 8% of them into real ones.

Practitioner tells

An example of attracting targeted traffic using cycle rickshaws

Sergey Lapin,

first Deputy General Director of SPSR Express

If a company needs new clients in no time, then guerrilla marketing may be the right solution. The creative action will definitely be remembered, and the viral effect will give the speed of spreading information about the brand among consumers. Also, the partisan action allows you to save your advertising budget. That is why we have decided to run an unusual advertising campaign.

In the winter of 2015, we started cooperation with AliExpress, an online hypermarket of Chinese products. We were engaged in the delivery of goods to buyers. Six months later, we studied the partner's delivery data and noticed that his audience in Russia is residents of the regions. Already in September 2015, the share of sales of this hypermarket in the Moscow market was 30–40% of the sales in the regions. We concluded that the most solvent clients are located in Moscow. The representatives of this audience are mainly young people who follow fashion trends and are ready to order modern products from China.

This hypermarket known today was faced with the task of arousing the interest of young residents of the capital. Previously, such actions were not held, since the company at that time was not so long ago working on the Russian market. We decided to organize the attraction of targeted traffic to the store through guerrilla marketing, since interesting promotions are not particularly costly in terms of finance and at the same time are guaranteed to attract the attention of visitors.

We focused exclusively on young people. The find of our action was an unusual channel for delivering information and the ability to kindly joke about the difficulties of translating product descriptions from Chinese into Russian.

We were looking for an idea using the brainstorming method. Employees of the marketing department gathered and began to discuss which advertising channel would be able to attract potential customers and at the same time would not be very expensive. For example, placing billboards in the center of the capital would not bring us closer to the goal, since consumers rarely look at billboards. Therefore, we decided to place an advertisement on special posters that were attached to tricycles - cycle rickshaws. For a month our promoters rode these bicycles in Moscow.

The choice of this channel was due to two reasons:

  • cycle rickshaws all evoke associations with China, and since we were advertising a Chinese store, such a semantic connection bore fruit;
  • due to the fact that the cycle rickshaws moved throughout the city, we were able to reach a very large number of representatives of the target audience and thereby ensured the attraction of targeted traffic to the store.

Since our target audience within the advertising campaign was precisely the youth, we decided to use self-irony as the main advertising tool. That is why incorrect translation of product names from Chinese into Russian became a non-standard "highlight" of the action.

Due to incorrect translation through online services, product descriptions in Russian are reflected incorrectly, and very serious errors occur (picture 1).For example, instead of "dual-core phone" - "phone down the drain, two cores." This became the subject of user jokes, and there was a lot of resonance. We were not taken aback and used this factor, making it the basis of our advertising campaign. For this, two-sided banners were made with funny and even ridiculous translations of the names of goods from the online store. (Figure 2). Each banner had a QR code that anyone could scan using a smartphone. This allowed people to go straight to the AliExpress website and place an order for the item whose ad was scanned.

The action was attended by 11 cycle rickshaws that moved around Moscow during September 2015. We set three main tasks for our promoters. Rickshaw drivers had to:

  • distribute promotional materials with information about our company and our Chinese partner;
  • travel around the areas where young people gather (Center, Vorobyovy Gory, Gorky Park), from 11:00 to 20:00;
  • stop periodically for passersby to take pictures of posters, QR codes and pedicabs.

During the campaign, more than 60 thousand people turned to our promoters with additional questions about the Chinese hypermarket and express delivery options. We covered 3 million people. In September and October, more than 50 materials about our action were published in the media. Casual passers-by stopped to take pictures of the cycle rickshaws, shared posts on social networks, told about the Chinese store and our action to family and friends. The frequency of brand mentions on the Internet has increased significantly. We also succeeded in attracting targeted traffic to our resource - + 23%. The data for the AliExpress website was comparable to this figure. These are users who switched to an online resource using QR codes. The budget of the action was 1 million rubles, but all expenses were paid off in three months.

Attracting targeted traffic to b2b

  • "Signed" domain names (corporate, "product" and directly indicating the scope of your activity).
  • Industry sites, trading systems (b2b sites) and specialized sites. The most popular b2b platform is b2b-center. Allows to carry out 43 types of trade procedures - both for the purchase and sale of goods and services. The customer and the supplier in this system interact within the framework of the trading procedure. That is, the customer announces the beginning of the auction, then the participants automatically receive an invitation to this auction. At the same time, the supplier has the opportunity to independently find tenders of interest to him in the "Marketplace" section, using the search by the name of the customer company, the number of tenders or the classifier of the purchased products, and apply for participation in suitable procedures. The supplier can also announce its own tenders for the sale of its products.
  • Various kinds of ratings and catalogs. To get acquainted with all the diversity, you need to thoroughly explore the vastness of the Internet. There are many rating sites like b2b-expert.
  • Sites of thematic communities, Internet forums, conferences. Working here, you can get not only pleasure from pleasant communication, but also direct financial benefits. However, no self-promotion is allowed here. Otherwise, you will simply ruin your reputation.
  • Non-core sites your target audience visits. Check out blogs that have already written about other b2b products.
  • Mobile advertising.Basically it works according to the CPA model. This is a payment model for online advertising, in which only certain user actions on the advertiser's website are paid for. You need to register as an advertiser, determine the advertising budget, the type of targeted action (for which you will be charged) and the cost of this action. The most popular networks today are: Begun, Wapstart, Exelo, Everad, Admitad.
  • Content Marketing. An important component of this type of marketing is search traffic and its attraction. It is possible to adapt the home page of the site only for a certain (limited) number of search queries, however, competent content marketing (with an emphasis on SEO) will be able to attract targeted traffic for other key queries. To do this, you just need to select the necessary keywords and generate content around them.
  • Cross-promotion. Look for companies with a similar target audience, but not your direct competitors. Here are some more helpful ideas:

Exchange blog posts with partners (guest posts);

Place banners of each other on your resources;

Host joint webinars;

  • Podcasts. In modern society, time has long become the most important value. Many web resource owners simply do not have time to write an article or make a video to attract targeted traffic. Podcasts (audio recordings) can help you make your life easier. Just cut and post them on your website (PodFM, Podster).

Methods that promise to easily attract targeted traffic, but in fact turn out to be a waste of money and time

It is not always that managers independently ensure the attraction of targeted traffic to the company's website. Quite often you have to hire outside specialists. How can you find a reliable contractor so as not to harm your wallet and website?

To choose the best option for attracting targeted traffic to your web resource, you need to know the options for "black" and "gray" schemes for cheating visitors and understand all the consequences of the frequent arrival of "left" users to your resource.

What could be the problem in principle? For example, you ordered to attract targeted traffic to your site and are ready to pay a commission for this to partners, and they take and “dilute traffic”, taking your money without providing real buyers.

Arbitration schemes are divided into legal and illegal. The basis for this division is the source of attracting targeted traffic.

Legal (white) traffic - these are all types of traffic that are not prohibited by the community and the state (this does not always coincide).

Simply put, with these methods of attracting targeted traffic, real visitors come to your site, which you expected. They are interested in the content of the site and make real purchases, which means that they generate reliable statistics and bring you profit.

Illegal (black) traffic - these are methods in which users (and sometimes just bots) come to sites, knowingly not interested in a targeted action that is useful to you. In other words, you pay for them, but they don't pay off in any way. At the same time, there are various movements on the site, but there is no conversion.

Affiliates are making a pretty good profit from using cheap illegal traffic. It is simply served under the guise of a stream of “hot” target customers who should be interested in the offer and who you are waiting for on your website.

Here are the main schemes that are common among dishonest affiliates:

Each visitor who wants to earn at least a little is invited to make a transition to a certain web resource (possibly yours), for an action on this resource (registration in the game, forming an application, like, and so on) you can get the promised couple of kopecks.

The result is an imitation of activity on the site, but the owner does not gain anything, since it is impossible to monetize such a visitor in the future.

To avoid such an unpleasant situation, regularly communicate with webmasters and advertisers, watch for suspicious statistics. If in Yandex.Metrica you see a large number of refusals when switching from certain resources, this is the first sign of deception.

Be sure to track user returns. If visitors from some resource constantly register, but no longer return to your site, then this is a fraudulent scheme of pseudo-professionals.

2. Fake call center.

In this case, for the implementation of the scheme, a huge number of virtual numbers and SIM-cards are recruited, through which order applications are confirmed. It seems to you that targeted traffic is being attracted to your site and there is a conversion into sales, but in fact there are no characters confirming the purchase at all. In addition, you waste time and money on sending the order, but it is returned back, since there is simply no specified addressee.

To avoid this kind of deception, use a delay in payments (hold). The fact is that in "black" call centers the numbers are most often active only for 15-30 minutes. Of course, giving feedback to the client immediately and calling back instantly is a good tone for a store site. However, this is exactly what the scammers are counting on. Therefore, if in doubt, then you should make a test call after a few hours or days. If you nevertheless attacked scammers, then the number will no longer be available.

In the case of sending physical goods, pay commission only after receiving payment from the client.

3. Cheat using iframe.

This method is considered to be relatively new and overrides the cookies of webmasters. In this case, cookies are hung on all site visitors, without exception, and the conversion takes the form of 1: 10000.

To do this, use the following HTML code: