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How To Double Your Blog’s Traffic In 1 Month

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It is the question that every blogger has. Bloggers want to see their traffic rise exponentially, but most bloggers do not know how to make that happen. For some bloggers, doubling monthly traffic will be easier in some months than on other months. Doubling 100 views in 1 month is easier than doubling 1000 views in 1 month. However, both of those numbers can be doubled within 1 month.

After several months of consistently doubling my blog’s traffic, my blog went from 500 monthly views to over 10,000 monthly views. The rise of this traffic was because I was getting more targeted followers at a faster rate. My traffic doubled yet again when I decided to tweet every 30 minutes instead of tweeting once every hour. Now, I am going to try and double my blog’s traffic again. My goal is to get my blog to surpass 25,000 views in May. It is going to be a challenging task to implement, but at the rate I am moving in, it is possible.

My goal is to schedule pins every day of the month, continue growing my Twitter presence, and boosting my blog’s SEO. Something helpful to know is that a blog’s SEO rises as traffic from social networks rises. I calculated that I should be able to get over 6,000 extra monthly views just from this, so I am halfway there.

The big thing to know that social networks and how frequently you post on those social networks is critical to your blog’s success. I have not tried this yet, but now with HootSuite Pro, I may be scheduling some posts to go up on my Facebook Page. That can give my blog an extra 100 views every month. In addition, getting traffic from the Facebook page will boost my blog’s SEO.

If you want your blog’s traffic to double, look at your social networks. If you are tweeting every two hours, bring the rate up to one tweet every hour. Then, bring that rate to one tweet every 30 minutes. If you are not using a social network effectively, build a presence on that social network. When I started to use Pinterest, I was getting no traffic to my blog from that social network. Over 10,000 targeted followers later, people are regularly repinning my pins and visiting my blog.

It’s all in your social media presence. Your SEO improves as your presence on your social networks build.

 

How To Write A Persuasive Blog Post

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Power of Persuasion

When you come out with a new product or want sales for an old product, you would want to write a persuasive blog post that encourages people to buy your product. Writing a blog post that describes your product with a Buy Now button at the bottom is not a persuasive blog post, and most of those kinds of blog posts rarely work for your own products.

If you master writing persuasive blog posts, most of your readers will be enticed to buy your product. The first thing you would want to do is tell people your story of creating your product. How did you come up with the idea? How many months of hard work did it take to create your product? How many hours straight did you work on your product? At the end of that paragraph, say, “After several hours, weeks, and months combined, I have finally created my product [name of product].”

After you tell people the name of your product, tell people why your product is special and is not like the others. The mistake many people make is rushing straight to what the product includes. That is the wrong approach. You first need to identify the problems people in your niche face. Then, you need to tell people in your next paragraphs how your product solves the problem. Throwing in a week long discount for the first week is also very helpful.

The persuasive blog post is not another way to say “Buy Me Product.” The persuasive blog post is a way to give people a strong reason why they would want to buy your product. Your sales page will do the job of listing all of the features of your product. Your blog post is just a way to give people a good idea of what your product is, the story behind it, and how this product can solve problems your potential customers face.

 

The Day I Forgot To Schedule Tweets

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Loud Tweeting

I will never forget the day that I forgot to schedule tweets. It started out as a typical day. Before going to school, I always check my statistics. I look at how many Twitter followers I gain, how many eBook sales I make, and my blog’s statistics as well. I happened to notice on one day that my blog only got 50 views at 7:30 am.

Since my blog tends to have more than 100 views at this time, I looked through my statistics to see if I could identify the problem. The problem was that I was not getting nearly as many visitors from Twitter as I normally got. I decided to look at my tweets thinking that I somehow forgot the link to my blog posts in those tweets or something along those lines. However, I quickly realized that I had not scheduled any tweets for the day. For the first time in several months (or maybe even a year), I had no scheduled tweets on HootSuite.

Here come the lessons. The first thing I took advantage of was HootSuite Pro. As a member, I knew the ropes well enough to schedule 24 tweets in 1 minute. Although I could not schedule any tweets in the morning, I had all of my tweets lined up from the afternoon and on.

This experience allowed me to deeply understand how important Twitter, and social media in general, is for my strategy. On that day, my blog got over 350 views because Twitter was able to kick in and save the day. However, I was able to get an idea of what traffic would look like without my social networks. Search engine traffic also contributed towards my blog’s increase in traffic, but the reason I get a lot of traffic from search engines is because of my social networks in the first place.

The big lesson is to never forget about your social networks. Although there may be some days when you do not feel like scheduling tweets or putting that pin up on Pinterest, continuing to use social networks will ultimately grow your presence in a big and powerful way. I was putting in the same amount of hours on Twitter back when I had 2,000 followers (also because I needed more time to learn and utilize cool tools) as I do now (now I gain more than 2,000 followers every 4 days).

Never forget your social networks. They have the power to put you on the map and get people to talk about you.

 

How To Jump Start Your Blog

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Jumpstarting Blog Statistics

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.

 

Why You Need To Take A Part In The Squidoo Challenge

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Squidoo Logo

I have been on Squidoo for several years and have been able to make several thousand dollars on the platform. Squidoo is a great way to meet new people, build strong connections with potential customers, and learn a lot about writing quality content. Many of the lessons I have learned about writing quality content for this blog and my eBooks came from Squidoo’s writers.

Squidoo encountered an unexpected decline in traffic and went from 1 million daily visitors to 250,000 daily visitors. A contributing factor towards Squidoo’s decline were new changes, some writers leaving Squidoo, and the 1% who used Squidoo to promote spam. However, Squidoo is on the rise. The revenue per page on Squidoo is going to grow dramatically in the next year, and taking advantage of Squidoo’s future revival and further success is not time-consuming.

In my Squidoo Challenge, I mention how easy it is for Squidoo to rebound from its current 250,000 daily visitors to 1 million daily visitors. In fact, Squidoo could even go back to 2 million users and some pages on Squidoo would end up making a guaranteed $100 every month. The people who help bring Squidoo back to where it was are going to benefit the most when Squidoo gets back to where it was.

Squidoo has a great community of writers who enjoy sharing each other’s content and advising new writers as well. By becoming a part of that community, you will be able to learn more about writing quality content and build more connections while making money at the same time! If you do not have a Squidoo account, then what are you waiting for? Join us.

 

7 Ways To Get More People To Share Your Blog Posts

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The reason why most blogs do not take off is because they do not get shared on social networks often. Getting your blog shared on social networks is the best way to get more traffic to your blog. My blog’s traffic rises in direct relation to the number of tweets I send out in a given day and when I gain more targeted followers. In order to get your blog posts shared more often, follow these 7 tips:

  1. Include social sharing buttons either at the top or bottom of all of your blog posts. By including social sharing buttons, you are giving your readers an easier way to share your blog posts. Your readers will be less inclined to share a blog post if that involves copying the link, going to the social network, pasting the link, and writing some text. Make it as easy as possible for people to share your blog posts.
  2. Grow targeted followings on one or multiple social networks. Targeted followings are critical to the growth of your blog. Targeted followers are more likely to reshare your posts and engage with you in a conversation.
  3. Write a strong title. Many times, people share a blog post based on the title. Few people who share blog posts take the time to read the entire blog posts. Most people just skim through parts of a blog post.
  4. Write quality content. Although most people skim through blog posts, it is still important to write quality content. If someone reads through enough of your blog post to determine that it is a quality blog post, that person will share the blog post. If someone comes back and share two more blog posts because of quality content, that person will be sharing your blog posts on a daily basis since they know you provide quality content. By writing quality content, you will be creating blog posts that are worth sharing.
  5. Write blog posts consistently and frequently. If you write one blog post every day, your blog posts are more likely to get shared on social networks. In addition, you should post all of your blog posts at the same time of the day. If everyone knows when you publish your blog posts, they will all visit your blog at that time to read the new content.
  6. Share your blog posts on your own social networks. Having the targeted followers will not be as valuable if you do not share your blog posts via your social networks. If you want other people to share your blog posts, you will have to share them as well. This will enforce the importance of writing content on your blog that you would be proud to share.
  7. Boost the SEO. If your blog is SEO equipped, your blog will get targeted visitors. When your blog gets targeted visitors, those visitors will be more likely to share your blog posts than non-targeted visitors. Boosting your SEO will allow you to get more visitors from Google who search phrases related to your blog’s content.

These are the seven ways to get more people to share your blog posts. By implementing these tactics consistently, people will share your blog posts at an exponential rate. What are your thoughts about the list, and do you have any additional tips you would like to recommend?