grow your blog

  Building your blog and officially  launching your website  is only one part of the equation. What should you actually do once you’ve hit publish on your first few blog posts? How do you begin driving traffic to your blog so that you can accomplish all of your goals? This a question I hear time and time again from my readers and podcast listeners alike. And, it’s one that separates the successful blogs from those that are only read by your mother and a few spam bots. The truth is, you can have the best content in the world, but if you’re  looking to drive traffic  and build a successful business from your blog—you need to know how to promote your content, attract readers, and do that better than others in your industry. Over the past four years, I’ve grown  my blog  to more than 2 million yearly readers, over 52,000 email subscribers, and a podcast with nearly 20,000 monthly downloads. Consistently driving traffic is something I’ve perfected, and it’s...

    Make promotion part of your blogging process       There’s a lot more to promoting a blog post than publishing it to your social media accounts. When I first started blogging, I’d share to a few social networks and that was as far as it went. Then I found other promotional tactics and used those every so often, but I found it difficult to be consistent. Most of the other tactics would get missed out after a while. Aside from my poor memory,  the reason why this happened was that I didn’t have a documented process for promoting each post. Ever since I created my first blog promo checklist, I’ve driven more traffic to my content and saved loads of time that would have previously been spent trying to figure out where to promote each post. It’s time to create your own blog post promo checklist The exact tactics you include in yours may vary; after all, every niche is different. All you need is a spreadsheet to get started. You’ll need some basic inform...

    Have you ever felt like your blog’s audience wasn’t growing fast enough? You’re not alone. Every blogger has had that feeling. So what can you do to make it happen? It all starts with a strategy focused on putting your visitors first and I’m going to show you exactly how. But, there’s another hurdle to this audience growth thing. And that is ensuring that those readers keep coming back to your blog in the future. So in today’s post, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to grow your audience faster as well as how you can make sure that your readers keep coming back. Sound good? Let’s dive in and get started! Quick links This post is packed with lots of detail, so to make it easier to navigate, I’ve added quick links which you can use to instantly navigate to a particular section of the post: How to grow your blog’s audience faster: Start networking with other bloggers on a regular basis Contribute to the top blog’s in your niche Create your own tribe on Triberr...