Whether your blog is about gardening or food, you can easily jump start that blog. As you continue writing blog posts, your blog will eventually see a dramatic rise in traffic. That’s what plenty of the experts say, but there is a shortcut. Although this shortcut requires more work on your part, it will allow your blog to become successful at a much faster rate. In order to jump start your blog, you need to build a targeted following on your social networks.
The numbers game no longer works. Tools like TwitterAudit are being used every day to find out who has the real followers and who has extra cash in their pockets to buy fake followers. Building a targeted following is the only option we have left to be successful on social media. The blogs that we all know about were created by a blogger who now has a big presence on a social network.
Having a targeted following on a social network guarantees that your followers like the content that you post. In addition, these followers are eager to click on your links and read your blog posts. The reason this blog experienced exponential growth over a span of several months is because I got targeted followers at a much faster rate. Although the exponential growth has sizzled down, I will expect to see more exponential growth in the summer. That’s what happened last year, and this year should be a repeat.
The moment it becomes much easier (and free) to schedule pins, my traffic will be able to exponentially increase. The reason is that I have over 10,000 targeted followers on Pinterest. In addition, I gain hundred of targeted followers on Twitter every day.
Ever since I started to focus on gaining targeted followers, I have seen a noticeable increase in my blog traffic. In August 2013, I got 587 views. Less than 6 months later, to start off 2014, my blog got 11,709 views for the month. That is what exponential traffic looks like, and in order to get that exponential traffic, you need to grow a targeted following on your social networks.
Social media has played a big role in this blog’s success, and social media will continue playing a big part in this blog’s success. My prediction is that once my blog starts to gain traffic exponentially again (last year, this started in the fall), my blog could reach 100,000 monthly views by the end of 2014. If you want to give your blog a big jump start, do not focus on the search engines. Focus on growing a targeted following on your social networks. In fact, building a strong presence on a social network improves your SEO.
Thank you for this piece, it helped me to realise what I kind of knew anyway, growing my blog the right way is going to be a much more sustainable way forward. Thank you.
My pleasure Julie. It is always good to gain re-affirmation that what you are doing is worthwhile, especially when the journey gets tough.
Thanks for the insight and sharing your experience. I have a blog on survival and prepping and I’m trying to write for value but it has been slow. I write on the weekends (full time job + family) but I’ll take a leaf out of your experience and put them into practice. Thanks again and congratulations on your success.
My pleasure Michael. Blogging does require that you find time when most people would take a break, but blogging is a means of doing what you love and producing great work for the entire world to see.
When I first started doing my blog in 2014, it got off to a fairly slow start. That was because I only wrote blogs on weekends, but now I’m writing blogs almost regularly. Just last month, my blog was viewed by various people 128 times in a single month.
Writing blog posts more frequently helps out with SEO. That’s probably why you saw an increase in traffic. Social media is huge for generating traffic, and it brings in most of this blog’s traffic.
Quite impressive at any age! I will be following you and reading your content daily as well as retweeting and using you as an example. I hope you don’t mind. ~Shell
Thank you Shell! I don’t mind at all 🙂
This is fantastic stuff Marc. I have begun my ‘attack’ on Twitter and Facecook. I have been busy for a week now after not doing much at all for years. I’m enjoying it but have a lot to learn about where to put my energy while connecting and ‘socialising’. I will gradually begin to mention that the blog is coming and then use that to promote the business of providing 1:1 coaching, workshops and retreats. Will consider other income streams as well. Big change for me after a 30 year teaching career.
Your work is wonderful. I am learning soooo much from you. Thanks for your generous sharing.
Let me know how I can return the favour and promote you on my Facebook and Twitter and ‘coming’ blog.
Take care
Greg Kiernan