If you’re looking to give your website the most significant boost possible in the shortest time, you’re looking for a growth hack. A growth hack is any technique that can provide a website an instant boost in terms of its visibility and traffic, and the best of these can help you to ‘skip’ a lot of the grinding that’s usually necessary for good SEO.

And what is by far one of the best growth hacks is influencer marketing. When done right, influencer marketing can help you to go from 0 weekly views to hundreds of thousands. Here’s how…

What is Influencer Marketing?

Influencer marketing essentially means that you are working with big ‘influencers.’ An influencer is anyone who has a large audience and will often tell someone on YouTube or Instagram who has managed to amass a large following. These people don’t only have an audience; they also have the trust of that audience and the ability to sway opinion.

Thus, if you can get them to recommend your website or to link to it, you can find that a large proportion of their audience heads over to your channel and gives you an instant and impressive hike in readership and sales.

Imagine if you could get a link from Tim Ferriss. Just one link from his website, along with his recommendation, would bring you hundreds of thousands of visitors a day, many of whom would probably subscribe on the spot. The SEO benefit would be huge, but that would pale compared to the gigantic surge in direct traffic and the shares that traffic would create.

How to Find and Work With Influencers

So how do you find these influencers and get them to post your links for you?
The answer is not to start too big. If you email Tim Ferriss, then chances are that you will not get a response. Likewise, you probably won’t get much of a reply if you email someone with a million subscribers or even 500,000 subscribers.

Instead, aim for someone who is just starting out but has already built something of an audience. These people will be more flattered by your interest and more likely to respond to you. When they share your link, you’ll see your subscribers go up by a few thousand, which puts you in a position to reach a slightly more significant influencer next time.

Better yet, though, you should think about creating relationships with people first. Spend some time familiarising yourself with the people you want to work with and, if you can, meet in person. This is one reason why networking events are so helpful for internet marketers. Another tip is to consider your existing contacts. Are any of the influencers who can get you started?

Finally, consider hiring the services of influencers – even just for a consultation. Once you do that, you’ll be sure to get an audience with them, making them more likely to read your subsequent emails!