THE ROAD TO 1000 MONTHLY VIEWERS (Mirrored)

Mirrored from LetsCEO.com

CONTENT IS KING

• Write eye catching headlines
• Right away you should look to state what your article is about and to demonstrate value to your reader
• Plan your posts
• Be sure to have a content strategy in place in order to deliver the right conent to the right audience
• Do your research
• Research your posts, studies show that blog posts that are at least 1500 words receive nearly 200% more views
• Use outlines
• Use outlines for quick consistent posts that can be used on a large scale optimized across all platforms
• Utilize images and infographics
• Studies have shown that the average blog reader’s attention span is approx. 7 seconds

CONSISTENCY IS KEY

• Content posting schedule
• Create a daily and weekly schedule of when and what you will post
• Experiment with different times of day
• Don’t be afraid to change things up if you are not getting the results you need
• Use a weekly posting template
• Keep track of what you post about so that you don’t become repetitive and dull
• Do NOT stop posting
• Disappearing for any length of time can kill your engagement with your audience as well as your SEO
• Add in “special events”
• Change up the weekly and daily formulas from time to time in order to keep your audience engaged

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

• Research your keyword
• It is important to know the keyword you plan to build your blog around and how your keyword ranks
• Optimize your blog for your keyword
• Utilize your keyword across the entirety of your blog: in the title, first paragraph of post, links, images, and attributes
• Optimize your blog for search engines
• How to achieve this: have a contact page, get HTTPS, add a sitemap, fix broken links, no duplicated content
• Use SEO tools and/or Plugins
• I personally use Yoast for WP. SEO tools will help optimize and track your sites performance in search results and so much more
• Keep an eye on your analytics
• There many tools you can use to track your site’s analytics, the most common of which is Google Analytics

UTILIZE SOCIAL MEDIA

• Post across multiple platforms
• At minimum you should be posting on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (I like mirroring on Medium too)
• Automate your posts
• Use automated social media tools to automate your posts across all of your accounts
• Engage with your audiences
• Respond to tweets and comments, participate in events and giveaways across different platforms
• Targeted advertising
• Utilize each platforms advertising in order to connect with your audience and drive them to your site
• Mirror blog posts
• Mirror your blog posts across other blog hosting sites
• Lead Generation
• Use social media to gather contact info on your followers and use data help shape buyer persona

EMAILING YOUR FOLLOWERS

• Capture follower emails
• Utilize some kind of form to capture your followers emails (I use a weekly newsletter sign-up)
• Use a weekly newsletter
• A weekly newsletter is a great way to stay in contact with and engage your followers
• Utilize an e-mail oriented CRM
• A must have if you are going to be collecting and contacting your followers via email
• Segment your audience
• Know where each member of your audience is in your funnel
• Send featured products
• Send featured products, sales, and giveaways to your contact lists
• Update your followers on news and events
• Take advantage of your contact lists by utilizing emails to self promote product news and events

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GUEST BLOG ON OTHER SITES

• Utilize more than one blog site
• This helps increase your web presence and enables you to interact and network with other bloggers
• Reach out to other similar blogs
• Reach out to blogs similar to yours about guest posting, they may do the say to you in the future
• know your competition
• Research the other bloggers in your niche; who are they and what are they doing successfully
• Grow your presence
• Expand your audience by guest posting to another blog you open yourself up to an entire new audience
• Appear on podcasts
• There a lot of small niche podcasts that you certainly inquire about appearing on to help build your brand

BUILDING BACKLINKS

• Broken link method
• For a detailed walkthrough on the “Broken Link Method” (Click Here)
• Build internal links
• For a detailed walkthrough on how to build internal links (Click Here)
• Use infographics
• For a detailed walkthrough on how to use infographics to build backlinks (Click Here)
• More useful articles:
• https://backlinko.com/hub/seo/backlinks
• https://backlinko.com/high-quality-backlinks

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