How do you actually get more traffic to a new website?
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Launched a small e-commerce site a couple months back selling handmade candles, based out here in Canada, and the thing barely gets any visitors even though the product photos and descriptions took forever to get right. Google Ads ate through my budget in about a week with barely anything to show for it, so throwing more money at that isn't really an option right now. There's got to be other ways to get real traffic moving without burning through a budget every single day. What actually works for a brand new site like this?
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Paid ads burn through cash fast when the site's too new for the algorithm to know who to target yet, so that math rarely works out early on. SEO takes months before it does anything meaningful, so it helps to pair it with something that gets eyes on the site while the rankings slowly build. Social media posting can work too, but it takes consistent effort every single day to see any real movement, and most people give up before it pays off.
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A lot of people also overlook how much a low bounce rate and repeat visits matter for search rankings, on top of just getting raw numbers up. Traffic exchange tools solve part of that by getting your site in front of other site owners who are actively browsing similar pages, which tends to bring in more relevant visitors than random ad clicks. You can read up on how it works here: https://surfi.site/blog.php . There's a rundown of the whole system there along with a breakdown of how the credits work for getting more visits going. Worth pairing it with the SEO work already in progress rather than treating it as a standalone fix.
