How I Grew My Blog From 0-658 Pageviews In 24 Days: May 2019 Progress Report

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Do you love reading income and progress reports? You are just like me

I love reading progress reports so much that I even created a Pinterest board sorely for that

Reading other bloggers’ progress reports helped me with realistic insights about blogging and how folks can actually become successful with their blogs

I’m so excited that I am sharing with you my first report after launching this blog again

Early this year I once created a blog and then later destroyed it due to some challenges I was facing and I wanted to quit blogging

But something amazing happened and I decided to start blogging over again

My domain name was still active so I just installed WordPress and started my blog from scratch with 0 readers 0 pageviews 0 income

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My goals for May where:

• Reach 800 Pinterest followers – (had 225 before) Fail! had 705
• Publish 10 blog posts – Fail! Published 6 Posts
• Reach 500 page views – Success! managed to grow my blog from 0-658 page views
• Have 10 email subscribers- Success! got 12 subscribers
• Make one affiliate commission- Fail! I didn’t make any affiliate commission BUT I was paid $25 after publishing this post. No, it wasn’t a sponsored post I share everything privately with my subscribers. You can harp in and learn more

Taking You Back In A Few Lines

I started blogging on a free platform and I didn’t reach anywhere close to 100 page views

When I upgraded my site I deleted everything and started over again, nothing changed but things got worse and I lost all my readers

There is a post with all the details here

I started over again and I failed,

Though my blog was getting some traffic (on my second attempt), I have never had anything close to 500 page views that’s the other reason I gave up blogging

I am glad that this time around my blog is showing fruitful results

Reaching 658 page views in 24 days isn’t much but honestly it’s exciting!

It shows that the strategies that I was implementing throughout the month were effective

I know how frustrating it is to spend long hours and sleepless nights crafting your great post only to have nothing but crickets on your blog

We all love visitors on our blogs (that’s why we are blogging)

And I am going to share with you everything so that you have the same experience as mine or do even more than I did

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How I Grew My Blog From 0-658 Pageviews In 24 Days

Why 24 days?

I decided to start blogging again during the end of April

I wrote one post and 2 pages but didn’t launch my blog

It was on maintenance mode, I wanted to fix everything before launching

I even started building my email list since day 1

After having everything in place, I launched my blog on the 7th of May with 0 visitors, so I had to find ways to drive traffic to my blog

I am going to list 3 ways that I used to drive traffic to my blog

3 Free Ways That Drove Traffic To My New Blog

Before taking action, I outlined my weaknesses so that I could figure out everything to avoid failures

The main weakness was money, I didn’t have enough money to pay for my host

I was hosting my site on wealthy affiliate and I had to pay $49 every month

Which was too much, and I couldn’t afford to pay yearly

I had to focus more on finding ways to pay my host than on building my blog

I then decided to move to a new host and I moved to Siteground which is affordable only $47 a year

I love everything about Siteground, their support team is amazing and the speed is splendid.

After moving to a perfect host I started focusing on my readers and my site and here is how I grew my traffic

1. Publishing Useful Content

Have you ever heard this phrase, “content is king”?

Well it’s true, if you publish valuable content you will get more readers to your blog

You need content that solves your reader’s problems

To do that, I started visiting more authority sites to see how other bloggers are doing and also for some inspiration

I started grabbing every freebie from those sites

And I am focusing more on How-to posts and tutorials to make sure that I help you in any possible ways

My second traffic source is direct traffic, which means folks are typing in Blogger’s Jungle directly on their browsers because they know what they will get from this blog

The first tutorial that I posted clocked 100 shares within 2 weeks

But, unfortunately, the social sharing plugin that I am using started acting up and the share counts started fluctuating up and down

My other post had 56 shares and one morning I wake up only to find 0 shares

Visited the forum on WordPress.org and almost everyone is having the same problem with this plugin, I am thinking of ditching it

I love showing share counts so that I know how much you are interacting and loving my blog posts

2. Optimizing My Posts For SEO

Not a fan of learning SEO? You are not alone

But we don’t have any choice, optimizing your post for SEO is the root of getting organic traffic

Content isn’t king if it’s not optimized for SEO

Therefore, I tried my best to optimize my posts and got a small amount of organic traffic

Not getting much organic traffic but at least it shows a brighter future for this blog

And I am sure if I keep learning more about SEO I will double my organic traffic

3. Pinterest

If you check on the screenshot above, my #1 traffic source is social

The only social platform that is driving traffic to my blog is Pinterest, I can’t praise Pinterest much

I am so glad that I am getting more love from Pinterest

The first thing I do after publishing my post is sharing my post on Pinterest

If you haven’t been paying much attention to your Pinterest account start now, it’s very easy to get free traffic from Pinterest

I do manual pinning and also use Tailwind for pin automation so that I stay active on Pinterest even when I am offline

With a Tailwind free plan, you can join 5 tribes, pin 30 pins monthly on tribes and schedule 100 pins

Want to learn more about Pinterest? I have found this course to be extremely helpful

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Top 5 tools that I was using in May:

1. Grammarly For Proofreading
2. MonsterInsights for Analytics
3. Siteground for hosting this site
4. Tailwind for pin scheduling
5. MailChimp for Emails

There are other tools that I recommend and some that I personally use that I didn’t add to the above list you can check them out on my resource page

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Goals For June 2019

That was all for May and now we are looking forward to June

Pinterest is my main source of traffic, so I will be focussing more on Pinterest but that doesn’t mean that I will not be paying attention to other fields

So here are my goals for June:

• 1000 page views
• 20 Email subscribers
• 1500 Pinterest followers
• Publish 10 posts (planning on focusing more on quality over quantity)

***UPDATE*** I want you to benefit from my income and progress reports, posting them monthly might end up demotivating you, (for instance, if my traffic or income keep decreasing every month) My aim is to help you grow your blog so I have decided to publish milestone income/progress reports. Here’s an example, I shared how I made my first $100+ blogging. I hope you understand

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Over To You

Did you start blogging yet? Leave a comment below and tell us how was your first month

And if you haven’t started yet let me know what’s holding you back, would love to help

If you have any question(s), feel free to ask me I am more than ready to help you

I hope this post helped you, please show some love kindly share with your peeps and don’t forget to follow me on Pinterest

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