Starting a blog is easy. But finding the traffic to your blog is not easy… That's the hard part. To answer this question, I'll show you exactly how to find and choose a right traffic channel that suits your blog.
How to get your first traffic (within 24 hours)
Think about your current networks. Do you have a Facebook account? Do you have an Instagram Account? Pinterest? Use your own account to start driving visitors to your blog.
1. Facebook
Facebook is easiest to do. Just paste the link from your blog post. Write a small comment about why you think people should read it.
The first time you ever post something you can write: Yay my first post is live. But that’s about you. That’s not WIIFM (What’s In It For Me) as in What’s in it for your audience. Always write about them. What value they’ll get out of reading your post.
Ask people on your social accounts to comment on your page. Ask them to write what they did and didn’t like about it.
Be open to criticism.
Remember: you’re just starting out. You need to learn what your audience likes. What you’re doing well and where you can improve.
2. Instagram
You can do the same on Instagram. The only problem there is that you can’t add a link to your blog.
You can only add a link to your blog post in your bio. So add a link to your bio before you post on Instagram and refer people to your bio.
Make sure you add a great picture and use #hashtags. Hashtags are Instagram’s way of discovering new posts.
3. Pinterest
On Pinterest, the best thing you can do is start a new public board.
Add about 20 pins from other people that also write about the same topic you just wrote about (or about the same general topic) and add your blog post last.
You need a bigger image and with a different format here. Head over to Canva.com to make your own Pinterest image.
Pinterest rewards people who regularly add Pins to their boards with more eyeballs.
It’s better to add one Pin a day or a week than 10 at a time.
But to start out with, you can just add the 20 pins from other people and add your own.
Just make sure you keep adding Pins to your board to get more traction. More traction means more visitors to your blog.
A sh*it load of pins are repurposed (as in used over and over again). So if you add more unique pins to your board, you will get more traffic than other boards.
These tactics above should already get you some traffic to your blog and even more valuable: feedback from your audience. This will also give you new ideas to create content about.
Summary
Rinse and repeat this for the next 30 days. Get in the habit of making one piece of content every 3 days.
Don’t find the time. Make time. This piece will have cost me well over 10 hours to write once it’s finished.
Don’t focus on quantity.
There’s too much content out there already. Focus on quality. Find the real stuff. Stuff that hasn’t been written about. The stuff that resonates with your readers.
Keep in constant contact with them. Any feedback is good feedback. Even if it’s pure hatred. Just swallow it and move on. Always think to yourself: what CAN I learn from this.