My website is a month old and I'm only getting visitors from one or two friends who registered their emails. What's not working?

With a brand new website, you need to actively drive traffic to it—it won’t happen organically at first. The essential first step is running a new website giveaway. Create a giveaway where people enter by providing their email address on a landing page. Then promote this giveaway heavily on social media, especially Instagram where you already have followers and decent engagement. The primary purpose of the giveaway is to convert your social media followers into an email list that you own and control—social platforms can change algorithms or disappear, but your email list is yours. As a secondary benefit, it also gets people visiting your website. Without active promotion and a compelling reason for followers to give you their email address (like a giveaway), a new website will have minimal traffic.

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Asked by an artist with a one-month-old website · Answered by Juan · Office Hours · 2026-03-31