How would you like to drive over 1,000 visitors to your e-commerce store, every day?

Here’s the good news: You can do this without needing to spend a single cent on acquiring traffic.

Now, that’s not to say PPC ads and Facebook ads aren’t both massively effective for your online business. But they require time, money, and effort. However, even if you’re a startup with $0 to spend on marketing, you can still drive traffic to your online store. How?

By using the most these 4 most effective free traffic sources:

1. Free traffic source: Your blog

Your blog is possibly the single most important website traffic sources in your arsenal. Here’s why:

Organic search traffic from search engines like Google is some of the highest-converting traffic you can possibly get. It's far better than banner ads or social media marketing. But there's one caveat...

Ranking your store on search engines requires backlinks from other websites.

And getting backlinks to product or category pages can be really hard. Or time consuming, if you're writing guest posts. Getting links to high-quality blog posts or infographics, however, is much easier.

Plus, even if you do rank your product pages on Google, you’re still limited to the keywords around your products. Once you rank for them, you hit a ceiling. Quality content can help drive even more free traffic and leads to your site. For example, if you had a leather shoe store, you could rank for something like “How to care for leather shoes” using your blog.

Now for the million dollar question: How do you create quality content?

Here are some great tips to get you started by Andrianes Pinantoan:

Tip #1: Use Buzzsumo

Input a topic or a website, and this tool will show you which are the best-performing articles according to social shares.

Let’s say your e-commerce store sells hair extensions and one of your competitors is Luxy Hair.

Simply go to Buzzsumo, search for luxyhair.com, and you’ll be able to see which content on their website has been shared widely.