On June 30th thehappyflammily.com will officially be nine-years-old. It's hard to believe I've kept this thing running for that long, and it's seen a lot of variations throughout the years. I had originally started the blog as a family journal and had another food blog called The Flammily Kitchen. Sometime around 2012 I merged the two sites and have been blogging here exclusively ever since.
I made a goal this year to start making a consistent full-time income blogging, and to do that I had to implement a lot of strategies that I haven't done the previous eight years on the internet. I've learned so much about how to make money blogging, and how to market your blog in 2020 that I've been able to hit some huge milestones, the biggest was signing onto a new ad network that has dramatically increased my ad revenue by over 2200%! Crazy right? Here are three things I'm doing to make money blogging in 2020.
How to Start A Blog and Make Money:
The first thing you need to do is decide what you want to blog about. Books, food, family, photography, medical, etc... Once you decide your topic, stick to it and don't vary from that category. This is often referred to as a "niche" in blogging. Then you will use a key word generating software such as Word Tracker to find all the relevant keywords for your niche. You can then use these exact keywords to focus and write your blog posts.
You want to aim for the keywords that have the highest volume and the lowest competition. This is how you rank on Google and get traffic to your site which will convert to money eventually. You need to make sure that those keywords are in the title of the post, the permalink to the post, and in a heading within the post. That is the best way to rank for the desired keywords. Google often likes longer form blog posts so aiming for 1,000 words if possible is always a great target, but Google has also said if you can get the point across in less words that's fine too. Basically be thorough, but don't ramble.
Use Pinterest to Increase Blog Traffic:
I've had the biggest love-hate relationship with Pinterest since it's creation 10+ years ago. Every blogger I know says this is their number one traffic source and I just couldn't get it to work. This year I finally cracked the code on Pinterest and have taken my account form 100K monthly views, to over 2.6 million monthly views on my Pinterest account. This has led to a dramatic increase in traffic, and is the main reason behind me signing onto a new ad network. You can read all about my Pinterest strategy here.
Russell Brunson 30 Day Challenge:
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter you might have seen that I'm participating in a 30 Day Challenge. Russell Brunson recently published Traffic Secrets: The Underground Playbook For Filling Your Websites and Funnels With Your Dream Customers. I've been reading this book the last several weeks and have been implementing it's teachings to help build my site. It's all about identifying who your dream customers or visitors are, figuring out where they're hanging out online, and then being able to convert them to your site and business. By completing the 30-day challenge, you'll learn key strategies to increase your site traffic.
The biggest problem most entrepreneurs have isn't creating content for blogs, or amazing goods and services for business owners, it's getting their customers to discover that they even exist. Businesses start and fail each year because business owners don't understand the science behind getting customers or website visitors to find them.
The biggest problem most entrepreneurs have isn't creating content for blogs, or amazing goods and services for business owners, it's getting their customers to discover that they even exist. Businesses start and fail each year because business owners don't understand the science behind getting customers or website visitors to find them.
It's honestly helped me really focus and identify where I want my blog to go in the future, and has given me tangible, actionable steps, that are evergreen and can be carried over to any platform, no matter what algorithm changes or social media platforms rise up in the future. If you're a business owner or blogger, you need to get your hands on a copy of Traffic Secrets.
Learning The Basics Behind SEO:
At this point in time, I use Word Tracker exclusively for my SEO. I enter the term I want to write about, it tells me the best titles and keywords to use to rank on google, and I implement them into my blog post titles and permalink on my post. You want to use the phrases that offer the highest search volume for the lowest amount of competition. I then plug several of these keywords into my pinterest captions to help me gain traffic over there as well.
Are you a blogger or business owner? What have you found to be the best ways to get customers to your sites? I'd love to hear all about it in the comments below!
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