subject: How To Build Your Blog In 4 Easy To Follow Steps [print this page] If youre blogging frequently, one thing you have to learn is how to grow your blog. The fact of the matter is; it absolutely will not grow itself. If youre working hard to pump out fresh content every week you want to preserve your hard work by actually having people read it. Right?
After all, more readers = more leads = more income.
The four steps Im going to mention here are just a start. If you want your blog to be successful for years to come it really takes a lot of hard work over a period of time to get it where it needs to be, depending on your goals. When learning how to grow your blog this should be your first step; define your goals for the blog. For example, make enough money through affiliate commissions to pay your car payment every month, pay your debt off, or even establish a full time job quitting income. Whatever your goals may be, good luck my friend.
Step 1: Build a Social Media Following
The fastest way to build a social media following is give people an unbelievable amount of value and make your content damn good. Dont give them everything because then you wont be able to sell them anything. Just give them enough to say wow this person knows some stuff.
While youre learning how to grow your blog you should choose your core group of social media websites. For example, if you already have tons of Facebook friends this is an obvious start. A good core group to really connect with people is Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, and Linkedin. A good sub core group would be micro blogging sites like Tumblr and Blogger, as well as Stumbleupon, and Digg,
Start by connecting with 2-3 people per day per social media website. Avoid posting affiliate links and just over deliver good content. If your stuff is good theyll hit the buy button.
Step 2: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Discovering some simple SEO concepts is key if youre going to learn how to grow your blog. SEO breaks down into on-page SEO and off-page SEO. Sometimes learning on-page SEO is all you need to get a keyword ranked, especially if youre blogging with an authority blog like this one (Empower Network).
Here are some on-page SEO concepts to implement with your blog today. Make sure your keyword is in the following places within your post: title, headline, inside the url, first sentence of the post, sprinkled in every 100 words or so, one time in bold, italics, and underlined, in an h1, h2, and h3 tag, and add a picture and place the keyword in the alt tag.
How to grow your blog with off-page SEO: submit your blog posts to all your social media accounts (to get a link). Encourage other people to share your content and get the ball rolling. Submit your article to the major article directories like ezinearticles, ideamarketers, articlebase, and go articles. Comment on a few blog posts in your niche. Leave a good quality on topic comment and theyll give you a link back. You can read my post on how to do article marketing before attempting this is you dont know what it is.
I made the mistake of trying to learn everything about SEO when I got started and found out quickly it would takes at least 6-12 of studying to learn much. So stick with the basics and let the gurus worry about which update Google comes out with next.
Step 3: Posting Everyday is How to Grow Your blog
Many people say frequency works. What does that mean? Its always been said the search engines love fresh new content. Why not make it easy for them to like your stuff? A good rule of thumb for a new or newer blog is to post 1-3 times per day. This brings me into step 4.
Step 4: Getting Guest Authors
If you dont have time to at least post 1 time a day when your blog is new you may want to think about hiring a few guest authors. You can get a good guest author for as low as $5-$10 per blog post. Check out fiver.com for this. When done properly this can exponentially grow your blog. Which will get you results fast.
Learning how to grow your blog following these four simple steps will make sure your blog stands the test of time.
