One of the most common complaints
that I hear from bloggers is the fact that no matter how hard they try, they
can’t grow their blogs past 100 or so daily page vies. Those early days are
indeed the hardest, because you need to put hard work in without the certainty
of achieving results.
If you are in that same situation,
here is a simple strategy that will certainly increase your blog traffic and
make you break the 1,000 daily page views mark. In fact, the strategy could be
used even if your are already over that number but have reached a traffic
plateau lately.
Just make sure to execute the 4
steps as planned and to spend the two hours and a half every day (obviously if
you have more time available you can expand the time spent on each of the four
steps proportionally).
First
Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day)
Spend one hour brainstorming,
researching and writing killer articles (also called linkbaits, pillar articles
and so on).
Notice that your goal is to release
one killer article every week. If that is not possible aim for one every 15
days. So the one hour that you will spend every day will be dedicated to the
same piece. In other words, expect killers articles to take from 5 up to 10
hours of work.
If you are not familiar with the
term, a killer article is nothing more than a long and structured article that
has the goal of delivering a huge amount of value to potential visitors. If you
have a web design blog, for example, you could write an article with “100 Free
Resources for Designers”. Here are some ideas for killer articles: