How To Increase Your Blog Traffic
If you landed here, you want to increase your blog traffic. Whether you are stuck at a monthly amount of sessions or brand new to blogging, If I asked you the goals of blogging, I have no doubt you would tell me.
Growing your blog traffic isn’t rocket science, but sometimes the advice in groups is so wrong. Let’s look at the formula I use to grow blogs. It works when you do it consistently.
Blog Category
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Google is looking for you to be an expert. In general terms, that means they want to see a cluster of posts that fit into a category. A couple of things your blog category needs:
- Good search volume
- Lower Keyword difficulty
- 10-12 keywords that would fit into that category
Here’s an example:
If I am a quilting blog, my category would be Barn Quilts. I would then write 10-12 posts that cover this topic thoroughly. I am not going to add in another type of quilt or sewing machine review because that doesn’t cover the topic.
When I do a website audit, I give you 1-2 categories to focus on and 10 keywords to write posts on. This keeps you focused.
You don’t have to do your keyword research, you simply run a custom report in RankIQ and write your posts. You can even to the basis of the post using KoalaAI.
Blog Posts
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So you have your category, so now it’s time to find blog posts that will get traffic. I love using RankIQ because he gives you all the keywords to use, but I also love running custom reports.
I use Keysearch to find my keywords. Your blog posts should include:
- Search volume of 320 or more monthly
- Lower KD (keyword difficulty)
- Should answer the question they are searching for quickly. The days of long drawn-out blog posts are done.
- Your H2 and H3 should be strong keywords
Blog Traffic
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It takes Google months to send organic traffic to your well written blog post. You can help them send you more traffic using these tactics:
- Do a Google Web Story to help drive traffic
- Do a Pinterest pin with the Pinterest keyword that coordinates (this is different a lot of times)
- If budget permits, run a Pinterest ad or Facebook traffic ad to help get some traction for a week
- Post in forums like Reditt if it answers the question and people are searching on those forums
Email Marketing
Finally, from the very beginning create an email list. Your opt-in should be very specific and not a general subscribe.
I have a training that walks you through the steps to find your category, posts to write and digs deeper into traffic and email marketing. You can pick that up below.
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What’s included in the blog success roadmap:
- How to find your category for the month
- How to find keywords to write on that fit into your category
- How to drive traffic to your posts
- Email marketing overview