wondering how to grow your blog from
zero views and several followers then
you're gonna be learning a lot
from this video and my personal
experience from growing my blog in the
last few years
i can say there's a lot of outdated
information that i followed that ended
up wasting my time
for example instagram pods and facebook
follow trains they were the thing
like a few years ago and i think they
still are now i'm not
totally up to date with it because i
stopped using it especially when i just
started blogging i really
thought the key to growing my blog was
to grow my social media accounts first
and i was so wrong i mean there are ways
to grow
your blog through social media but it
will take a lot of time
and the right strategy to really succeed
in it so today i'm going to be sharing
easy tips that will grow your blog
that doesn't require you to spend hours
on instagram or social media
liking people's posts commenting on
their posts or following them hoping
they'll follow you back
have you been there i've been there i'll
show you where to put your time and
energy and get the most return because
let's be real you don't have all the
time in the world and you just want to
hit the ground running already so keep
watching and make sure you stick to the
end because i've got a great resource
for a new blogger like you
hi i'm jojo labeouf and i help women
live their best and most authentic
lives through blogging let's get started
alright so i'm going to cover two main
topics today and that is growing your
traffic
meaning getting people to read your blog
and growing your following so that
overall your blog grows and you can
finally monetize it and make money once
you hit that 1000 mark
so first off and by foundation i mean
choosing your niche
defining your audience and building a
clean and easy to read website
and if you don't have this foundation
down it's gonna be really hard to grow
your blog so if you're not sure how to
go about that i've got a great
step-by-step checklist you can refer to
it looks like this so make sure you have
everything down before you start moving
into the next step
you can go to this link to download it
or you can click the link below in the
description box
now let's get into the juice of this
video
you're going to have to drive traffic to
your blog if you have zero views and you
have no followers on instagram
or facebook so what's your next best
option google
and pinterest so to start off you'll
first want to
seo means search engine optimization
this means writing your blog post in a
specific way to make it searchable via
google
or any other type of search engine like
bing yahoo
any of that stuff this would include
using certain keywords that people would
type
in a search bar to look for your blog
post this also includes formatting your
text
changing your meta description and even
making your images
searchable and you would do this by
including a description in your
alternative text
if that sounds like a lot and confusin
make it much more easier to digest in
this video right here
i go much more in depth about it and
it's actually much easier than you think
so make sure to check out that video
after this
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once you've written your seo friendly
blog post or you've seofied
a blog post that you wrote before the
next step is to create a pinterest
graphic
what is that so if you've seen any of my
blog posts you'll find that
all of them start with an image
featuring the title of the post
this is what you call a pinterest
graphic and you want every
blog post to have this graphic because
it's not only going to drive traffic
but also from pinterest that way you're
driving traffic from multiple sources
and all of your eggs aren't in one
basket when you design your graphic make
sure your title is easy to read
with large text kind of like this you
want to include your branding
some colors there make it really pretty
make sure it matches your brand
but most importantly you want to make
sure that people will be able to read it
as you're scrolling through pinterest on
their phones canva has got some great
pinterest templates if you feel like
graphic design isn't your strength
i use canva for my printer's graphics
and it makes life so much easier
just creating these graphics so i don't
have to start from scratch so pinterest
works as a visual search engine
which is why i create graphics for each
blog post to make sure that my blog
posts are not only searchable via
text through google but also through
images
on pinterest and google images so there
are two easy ways to upload your
pinterest graphic into pinterest
the first one is to upload it directly
into the pinterest website itself
so when you do that make sure to include
a keyword rich description of your blog
post along with the link of
said blog post the second option is the
pinterest extension for google chrome
and i believe they also have it for
firefox i love
this extension so instead of uploading
your pinterest graphic directly into the
pinterest website what you can do
is use the pinterest extension to hover
your mouse over your pinterest graphic
and click
save it and then from there you save it
into your pinterest board or multiple
pinterest boards because the more the
better and you can do this straight from
the blog post without having to go to
pinterest
it will automatically copy the title of
your blog post the link
and if you included a keyword bridge
description into the alternative text
of your pinterest graphic which again
you can learn how to do it from this
video here
pinterest will save that description too
now sit back and let your traffic grow
of course
it's going to take at least three months
to start seeing study traffic into each
blog post that you publish
so while you're waiting continue to
create content every week
google and pinterest love fresh and new
content and it lets them know that your
blog isn't stagnant it's something that
you're continually adding value
in and they really love that i also
recommend to optimize your printers
account to represent your blog
you can look at my pinterest account
here for example i'm not saying my
account is the best one out there you
should follow it but
it's pretty good and it's a good example
for you to start off from
i also recommend going back to your old
blog posts and making them
seo friendly with the tips that i just
shared with you and now you know how to
drive traffic to your blog with zero
views and zero subscribers
and without using instagram and facebook
i've seen that happen to too many people
who spend hours increasing their likes
and their following on social media
because they think it's gonna grow their
blog but it doesn't
next thing they know they're wondering
why they spent so many hours doing this
thing with little return
and they're looking at the impressions
the likes the people who are following
the people who even unfollowed them and
it's really not worth the stress
and to be honest the number of likes and
followers you have
is too tiny of a problem to think about
they should occupy themselves with
problems like
how can i better serve my audience or
how can i further grow my email list
speaking of email lists
now that you know how to drive traffic
to your blog you'll want to make sure
you're not letting that traffic go to
so what do you do with them you turn
them into followers
aside from growing your following on
instagram or facebook i recommend that
the first platform you should be growing
your followers on
is a platform that you own that doesn't
come with a darn
algorithm that these days has become a
pay-to-play algorithm
you know what i'm talking about you can
easily create an email list from the
email service provider like convertkit
which by the way
is free for you to use up until you
reach the 1000 subscriber mark
create a signup form with them and copy
and paste that form
all over your blog like your header your
sidebar
your about page your blog posts just
anywhere where there's space because
sometimes it takes people multiple times
to see the same thing
enough for them to take action and sign
up for it
make sure to include a call to action to
move your readers to do something
after they finish reading your blog post
you can include something like
sign up for my email list and never miss
the latest tips or if you want to see
behind the scenes of my blog check out
my instagram over here
that way you can grow your email list
and your social media profiles
and later promote your blog post through
them each time you post
that way you're not just getting traffic
from your readers but you're also
driving traffic from followers that we
can
keep them coming back to your blog every
time you post
so how else can i get people to sign up
for your email list
you create a free download or a freebie
because sometimes a simple
sign up for my newsletter isn't enough
of a reason for people to subscribe to
your blog if you're a new blogger
so you'll need a freebie as an incentive
it can be something that's easy for you
to make that you think will also add
value to your audience
this could be anything from a worksheet
to a template to a checklist
just anything and you can easily create
these with kanban 2.
they also have templates for that next
set up your signup form to automatically
send new subscribers this freebie and as
traffic starts trickling into your blog
with steady growth your email list will
also grow steadily too
will take at least three months to see
results again so continue to create
content every week
google and pinterest love it and then
once you hit 1 000 subscribers you can
already start selling your product
your service or even start approaching
brands that way you can promote
their products in exchange for money
whoa didn't think it'd be impossible
that soon huh
it is i know by the way if you're
wondering how to start a blog or you're
not sure if your blog has the foundation
to grow it i've got an online
course called the bold blogger academy
that i made specifically for new
bloggers
i go over the info i just shared with
you today plus i show you how to
actually do it with tech tutorials
video walkthroughs and all that juicy
stuff enrollment opens in a couple of
weeks so if you're interested in hearing
more about it you can get on the
waitlist here in this link by getting on
the waitlist you'll also get to download
my free checklist too
my students who are taking the course
right now really love it because they
get to have this
one-on-one coaching with me and i think
you'll love it too i really believe that
so that's it from today's video i hope
you got a lot of value from it and i
hope your blog grows after this
let me know if you have any questions
about anything i've said in the comments
below
and i'll answer you straight away so
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