Do you want to generate a sustainable amount of traffic each month?

It’s difficult when you have no knowledge, skills, and money. You keep reading about success stories and how people are killing it with their blogs.

With the right tools, you can make your blogging life much easier. SEO and social media marketing is the main source of traffic for most bloggers.

In this article, I’m going to share with you free tools to increase website traffic.

Google Search Console.

Google Search Console is a set of tools and resources that gives you detailed insights into your website’s performance on Google search result pages.

Formerly known as Google Webmaster Tools, Google Search Console helps SEO’s, content marketers, and website owners their top-performing keywords, mobile-friendliness, and site average position.

I use Google Search Console to figure out keywords people are typing to reach my pages. Also, you can use it to identify, search appearance, indexed pages, technical issues, new updates, and crawl data.

Don’t you need to check these elements on regular basic, but you can keep your eyes on the vital few that bring the most results like:

Track your content marketing efforts

• Spot web pages that need content updates.
• Detect technical issues.
• Get info about mobile usability.
• Site crawling and Google Analytics Indexation.

Google Analytics

How can you track your blog traffic? How do you know top-performing traffic channels?

Which traffic source are bringing the most clicks and sign-ups?

To do that you need an analysis tool. This where Google Analytics comes into play. Google Analytics is free, and it’s the most popular web analytics application. It’s used by the top marketers, bloggers, and content marketers.

According to W3techs, more than 50% of all websites on the internet use Google Analytics. Yes. It’s the dominant website analysis tool in the market besides Yandex metrics.

SEO and online marketers prefer Google Analytics because it’s Google, and it provides accurate data.

The dashboard is user-friendly and you can customize it according to your preferences. In the left tabs, you can track the:

• Number of visits
• Visit’s duration
• Traffic sources
• Visited pages

Based on the data, you can identify what source is bringing the most and less traffic, measure the results of individual campaigns, and compare the data to previous periods.

The data tell exactly whether your efforts are bringing results.

Google Analytics can show you data from various channels that directing visitors to your site like:

• Direct visits
• Organic search
• Social media
• Referrals
• PPC (Paid traffic)

Google Autocomplete

If you want to increase your organic traffic, you need to make Google your best friend. Google continues to dominate search engine use. According to Statista, In July 2020, Google had over 86% market share and still growing.

If keyword research sounds complicated, Google makes the process much easier even if you are a newbie.

Go to the search box on Google and type a broad search term.

When you do that, Google suggests a list of suggestions related to that keyword.

This feature is called Google autocomplete.

Google can predict search queries are typed related to each term you put on the search box.

The suggestions change when you type a new character after or before the term.

Google Related Searches

Google related searches are my favorite method for finding profitable keywords. This method is similar to Google Autocomplete.

While it seems not possible to define user intent, Google related search helps get closer to understanding it.

Google related searches appear at the bottom of Google’s search result page, and they will appear for any given search query.

Google usually gives 6-8 related searches. They aren’t necessarily the exact words people are typing, but they are more likely to make.

This feature is made for people to find better answers, and you can use it for your advantage.

Make sure to spend 10-30 minutes exploring new search terms and seel where it takes you.

You might have a great idea about questions your audience is asking. You will identify the user intent and the type of content that satisfy that intent.

Answer The Public

Answer The Public is one of the easiest tools to find keywords and topic ideas. A lot of bloggers and SEO are using ATP because of its simplicity and user-friendliness.

This tool is growing in popularity because it is powered by Google autocomplete and other sources. So Answer The Public scrap data from multiple places and put them in one place. All search terms are organized into subcategories including:

• Questions
• Prepositions
• Comparison
• Alphabetical

This tool is perfect for finding long-tail keywords. Not all keywords are worth your time because you need to set priorities. Before you select a keyword make sure it has

• Defined intent
• Decent search volume
• Less competition

Answer The Public is free but limited daily searches. The Pro Plan starts at 99$.

Install Yoast SEO

I’m a WordPress user and It’s the best content management for bloggers. It’s the perfect platform for those who want to use SEO as a marketing channel.

For new bloggers or lack of SEO experience, it’s not enough. Yoast SEO is a great WordPress plugin that tells how well your pages are optimized for SEO.

Yoast SEO has a free and paid plan. The free version is more than enough to get started.

Bother plans allow to:

• Adjust your SEO title, description, images, and Url Slug.
• Optimize your title and description for SEO
• Set your target keywords.
• Analyze keyword usage
• Check Internal and external linking.
• Check readability.

Yoast SEO made my blogging life simple, and I can’t work without it. You can download it here if you haven’t yet Yoast SEO.

Install The MozBar

Mozbar is a free browser extension available for Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. This free tool provides valuable metrics about a website for SEO purposes. Mozbar gained major popularity by bloggers, SEO, and content marketers.

I use Mozbar to check keyword difficulty and analyze the competition. This the toolbar is free, but you can get additional features of you to go Pro.

Mozbar displays the Domain Authority, Page Authority, and link profile. Also, you can dig into like types and meta tags.

Use Pingdom To Check Performance.

Your website performance is a big deal if your visitors to come back. How quickly your site loads affect user experience, search ranking, and conversion rate. How do you know all that?

Pingdom is a free tool that gives you instant insights into your site availability and performance.

This way you can beat your competition and provide a positive user experience. No technical knowledge is required.

Go Pingdom

Put your URL into the search box

Run the test.

It takes less than 60 seconds to provide results. The elements that Pingdom provides are :

Performance grade

• Page size
• load time
• The number of requests.

Gtmetrix

Gtmetrix is another tool that gives detailed insights about your site performance. It’s similar to Pingdom. It identifies elements that might cause your site to load slower. Files, images, or plugin that add unnecessary HTTP requests.

Use Canva To Create Images and Graphics.

Pinterest is an amazing traffic source for bloggers, e-commerce businesses, and content marketers.

You need to create visual elements that represent your posts or products.

If graphic design is not your thing, then Canva can do all the jobs for you. Canva allows bloggers and small businesses to create customizable graphs, prints and slides with professional layout, templates, and frames.

Canva is the most favorite tool for Pinterest marketers because you can create pin images within minutes.

It has ready-made templates, a text editor, and different font styles. Also, Canva has a library of free stock images, different frames, and drag and drop features. You can make professional images and graphics without the help of a graphic designer.

Canva is free but it has a Pro plan that starts at 9,99% per month. The free plan has all that you need to create professional images.

Tailwind

Tailwind is a popular scheduler for Pinterest and Instagram. It allows you to schedule your pins weeks ahead. Using Tailwind, you can upload images quickly schedule your posts at optimal times, and new wider audiences.

Many Pinterest bloggers noticed a significant traffic increase once they started joining tribes.

Tribes are similar to a group board where people post content on similar topics. Tribes have a big list of followers that allow expending your reach.

Tailwind offers a 30-day free trial and 5 tribes. Since you can schedule your pins, the tribes are free for life.

Sign up For Pingroupie

Pingroupie is a database for Pinterest group boards.

It’s hard to get big traffic when you are just getting started on Pinterest. Pinners with big followers.

The best way to reach a big audience is to join group boards with big followers. Pingroupie is a database for group boards. Not all group boards are good for traffic. Some are no longer accepting new contributors, while others have few followers.

Pingroupie displays the number of contributors and followers.

Final Word

I hope this article helped you find the best free tools to increase traffic. I gave you 12 tools and there is a lot more.

Tell me what do you think in the comment section below.