How to
increase your blog traffic
we are talking
about how you can get free traffic to your site a little disclaimer I've never paid for traffic but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it I just know that a lot of my students come as bloggers on a budget you know we're all trying to get our blog up and running and we don't quite have consistent revenue yet so we're not ready to pay for Facebook ads or Pinterest ads or you know whatever else is out there we don't want to put any money into it but we want the free traffic to come to us so I've got just a few quick tips to get you started the first thing I recommend you doing and something that I didn't do for the longest time was to ensure that all of your blog posts and your blog pages and everything else that you put out there on the Internet is SEO friendly using the right keywords can really help boost your appearance and search results so if you've got the proper keyword and somebody goes and looks for it and you're one of the most popular sites you're more likely to appear up at the top because how many of us really go look at the second page of their Google results I don't the quickest way to find the right keywords for your blog post is just to use
Google's
keyword
planner it's really easy to use it doesn't cost you anything and it'll kind of give you insight into what people are searching for and how you can help boost your blog posts in search results tip number two I definitely recommend hosting some webinars are so scary I get it I get it I get it when I started doing webinars I was really nervous I was overwhelmed by the idea of having to be live and people seeing me and having all these people counting on me but here's the deal blogging has changed a lot in the past couple you know five 10years I would say certainly and we are slowly moving our way towards building a closer relationship with our readers through something other than a typical blog post webinars don't have to be really long the only thing they have to be is jam-packed with useful information if you've got a product knock your socks off go ahead and sell it but the whole purpose of webinars is to really connect with your readers on a deeper level that you can't do in a blog post I sit behind a computer I write outa blog post and I schedule it I'm not actually sitting down at the same time with everyone answering questions live when you do that people get to know you a little bit better and it helps them remember you in the sea of thousands and thousands of bloggers out there it helps you know show your authority on a certain subject and it also helps you gain their trust by you know teaching them a few things and then also getting to know them on a deeper level
planner it's really easy to use it doesn't cost you anything and it'll kind of give you insight into what people are searching for and how you can help boost your blog posts in search results tip number two I definitely recommend hosting some webinars are so scary I get it I get it I get it when I started doing webinars I was really nervous I was overwhelmed by the idea of having to be live and people seeing me and having all these people counting on me but here's the deal blogging has changed a lot in the past couple you know five 10years I would say certainly and we are slowly moving our way towards building a closer relationship with our readers through something other than a typical blog post webinars don't have to be really long the only thing they have to be is jam-packed with useful information if you've got a product knock your socks off go ahead and sell it but the whole purpose of webinars is to really connect with your readers on a deeper level that you can't do in a blog post I sit behind a computer I write outa blog post and I schedule it I'm not actually sitting down at the same time with everyone answering questions live when you do that people get to know you a little bit better and it helps them remember you in the sea of thousands and thousands of bloggers out there it helps you know show your authority on a certain subject and it also helps you gain their trust by you know teaching them a few things and then also getting to know them on a deeper level
Tip
number three
I recommend guest posting for someone in a similar niche raise your hand if you made the mistake of guest posting for somebody who is in a niche that had nothing to do with yours totally that was me absolutely not only did I guess pose once or twice or three times but like we're talking to handful times it was really bad and I wasn't thinking clearly I just kept thinking oh everybody's telling me I got a guest post I got to get out there and guest post but that wasn't good enough I needed to guest post for somebody who's in a similar niche and had a similar audience if you don't do this what happens is this new audience read your blog posts maybe thinks you're great I hope and then pops on over to your site but they're not necessarily interested in your category they were interested in the original category of you know whatever blog they were reading it can be a lot harder to convert them into your new fans if you know maybe they're not interested in your subject tip number four and the final tip in this video is to routinely post on social media I made the mistake in the past and I've seen a lot of bloggers do it where we get so excited so pumped we post posts and then we get burned out so quickly and we just stop posting on social media this isn't a good thing it doesn't make you look good to post a lot and then disappear for a while take my word for it what I recommend doing and what I wish I had done a long time ago is just choosing one or two social media platforms and then rocking it like a boss
I recommend guest posting for someone in a similar niche raise your hand if you made the mistake of guest posting for somebody who is in a niche that had nothing to do with yours totally that was me absolutely not only did I guess pose once or twice or three times but like we're talking to handful times it was really bad and I wasn't thinking clearly I just kept thinking oh everybody's telling me I got a guest post I got to get out there and guest post but that wasn't good enough I needed to guest post for somebody who's in a similar niche and had a similar audience if you don't do this what happens is this new audience read your blog posts maybe thinks you're great I hope and then pops on over to your site but they're not necessarily interested in your category they were interested in the original category of you know whatever blog they were reading it can be a lot harder to convert them into your new fans if you know maybe they're not interested in your subject tip number four and the final tip in this video is to routinely post on social media I made the mistake in the past and I've seen a lot of bloggers do it where we get so excited so pumped we post posts and then we get burned out so quickly and we just stop posting on social media this isn't a good thing it doesn't make you look good to post a lot and then disappear for a while take my word for it what I recommend doing and what I wish I had done a long time ago is just choosing one or two social media platforms and then rocking it like a boss
you
can use a social media scheduling platform like buffer or Hoot Suite they have
a couple of free plans and that's always great because it can you know free up
a little bit of your time you can schedule in advance maybe on a Sunday evening
and then just plan out for the rest of the week and you don't have to panic
about being there live here's a quick tip that I love and I will leave a link
down below to the blog post where I talk about this but I love using board
boosters pin sourcing feature now quick disclaimer board booster is not free so
it's definitely something you want to plan for in the future and it's
exclusively used with Pinterest but oh my goodness
If you can harness
the power of getting traffic through Pinterest group boards then you're definitely going to find a lot of you know great new readers and basically a goldmine of traffic okay group words are great because a lot of bloggers get together and they post their stuff on one particular board and whoever is following that board will be able to see your pins now if they're not following you no problem they're following the board that you're pinning to so just look for a couple of group boards or find a blogger in a similar niche hop on over to their Pinterest profile and see if they're part of any group boards and then see if you can join any of those once you have just a little more room in your budget I definitely recommend investing in board boosters pin sourcing feature now everybody will tell you how important it is to pin consistently throughout the day throughout the week but that's hard like we don't have time to get on Pinterest all day every day and pin sourcing is the perfect solution for that I include a step-by-step tutorial in the blog posts that I will link to and it's great because it'll walk you through every single step but essentially what board booster does is it finds the proper pins for you and then it pins them so that you don't have to be their lot live pinning of the entire day board booster finds the proper pins according to your specifications and then pins them for you it's perfect that wraps it up for this thank you so much be sure to email me or tweet Meany ask question and I would love to add them to my list
the power of getting traffic through Pinterest group boards then you're definitely going to find a lot of you know great new readers and basically a goldmine of traffic okay group words are great because a lot of bloggers get together and they post their stuff on one particular board and whoever is following that board will be able to see your pins now if they're not following you no problem they're following the board that you're pinning to so just look for a couple of group boards or find a blogger in a similar niche hop on over to their Pinterest profile and see if they're part of any group boards and then see if you can join any of those once you have just a little more room in your budget I definitely recommend investing in board boosters pin sourcing feature now everybody will tell you how important it is to pin consistently throughout the day throughout the week but that's hard like we don't have time to get on Pinterest all day every day and pin sourcing is the perfect solution for that I include a step-by-step tutorial in the blog posts that I will link to and it's great because it'll walk you through every single step but essentially what board booster does is it finds the proper pins for you and then it pins them so that you don't have to be their lot live pinning of the entire day board booster finds the proper pins according to your specifications and then pins them for you it's perfect that wraps it up for this thank you so much be sure to email me or tweet Meany ask question and I would love to add them to my list
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