Traffic can feel a bit like catch-22. You need people to share your posts but if you have no traffic … there’s no one to share…
At the start of 2014, I decided to prioritize my email list and grow my blog from a small side project to one of the top marketing blogs. In less than a year, traffic grew by more than 400%! Today, I want to show you 10 actionable strategies you can use to grow your own blog’s traffic each time you publish a new post.
1- Start Building And Prioritizing Your Email List
Growing your email list is an amazingly vicious cycle. You get subscribers, email them when an article goes live, they go read it and then share it with people. Then those people subscribe and the cycle delightfully continues.
But, to build an email list you have to ask for visitors email addresses. The easiest way to do that is to use plugins for your blog. I use the SumoMe plugin (built by AppSumo) and the apps List Builder and Scroll Box. The tools will help you start building an email list without any technical knowledge.
(Scroll Box is a great way to ask engaged readers to sign up towards the end of a post–you can set it to appear only after someone has read 50% or 75% of your post.)
How to Get More Traffic From Every Post (Plus How OkDork Grew Traffic 400% In 8 Months)
