The simple fact though, is that it does cost some money to blog, and you’ll likely have some of your own budget constraints. Depending upon your situation, you may need to choose from only the cheapest hosting plans, budget-conscious shared hosting options, or even free hosting plans that come with some restrictions on the speed front. If so, then that’s ok. Blogging is a long race, so you can afford to upgrade your hosting later on down the line after your site begins generating revenue.
Your ultimate goal is to eventually get your pages and posts to load lighting fast—ideally in less than two seconds (or faster).
10. Promote your content
When you’re new to blogging, you can feel like you have so much catching up to do with your blog’s content.
You just want to write, write, write… and write some more. But if your blogging goals include wanting more traffic and improving your domain authority…
You should be spending 20% of your time writing and the other 80% promoting your content.
As a blogger, content promotion will make or break you. Spend 20% of your time writing and 80% of your time promoting.
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Here’s how to promote your blog content in order to achieve maximum blog SEO results:
Writing guest blog posts: Getting published on someone else’s blog gives you a chance to get a link back (aka backlink) to your blog. When someone else vouches for your work, it shows Google you must be providing quality argentina phone number library and rewards you with better search rankings.
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Networking with other bloggers: If you’ve been smart and learned to pick a niche to blog about where you have some expertise (or connections), other bloggers can be your best friends when it comes to helping spread the word! Employ intelligent blogger outreach practices to send them an email about being a guest their podcast, accepting a Q&A style article from you, or joining forces to do a joint YouTube video series together. Better yet, start a podcast of your own and use it as a tool to network—just be sure to grab the right podcast hosting for your budget.
Sharing new content on social media: People aren’t going to be checking your site daily to see if there’s updated content. Make everyone’s life easier by sharing and promoting posts on social media. You never know, you might luck out and go viral.
Continuing to promote older posts: You don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time. Take what you have, update it, improve it, and re-share it with a few different titles to see what gets more social media attention.
Promoting content via your email list: Your newsletters and welcome-series emails are incredible opportunities to not only practice your blog email marketing chops but to link to relevant content your readers don’t know about, miss, or forget. Your email list will be particularly important when it comes to promoting freebies (like an eBook you wrote) and content that’s designed to monetize your audience (like my Bluehost reviews compilation, for example).
Pinning blog posts on Pinterest: Pinterest is an excellent supplement to Google, especially while you wait for more organic search engine traffic. You may find that Pinterest traffic isn’t as reliable as Google’s, but because Pinterest’s algorithm isn’t as sophisticated, it’s still a whole lot easier when first starting out to rank and drive tons of traffic to your site. I’ll be using Pinterest to promote the content on both my new side blog, VeganTable—and as I help over on my girlfriend’s blog, Vegan Anj—so stay tuned on the lessons I’ll learn with that tactic.
While each of these actions is important and contributes to getting the traffic you crave, don’t overwhelm yourself by thinking you have to do everything, every day, or else you’re not going to get the blog SEO results you crave—take your time to thoughtfully create a blog business plan that leans on your own strengths & experiences, consider posting to a blogging job site if you need to hire some help, do your research by reading relevant blogging books, consider taking blogging courses to further your knowledge and commit to continual learning.
Pick two things to focus in the month (or even the quarter).
The simple fact though, is that it does
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