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Your website is a portal to a land of opportunities. New freelance writing clients. New sponsorship options. New readers who love what you do. But it only works if people actually see it. So it makes sense you’re here because you’re wondering how to increase blog traffic fast.
You want to increase blog traffic yesterday. You want to know how to increase blog traffic for free. I get it. The good news is there are a ton of tools and strategies that can help you boost your blog traffic fast and without paying a penny.
TL;DR? This is also a guide on how to improve your blog. Because guess what: getting more views and building a better blog and pretty much one and the same thing.
What is blog traffic? Blog traffic, for beginners, is the number of views you get on a post or on your entire blog. How much traffic is good for a blog? There’s no hard number. Whatever number of visitors it takes for you to build your lifestyle is the right number.
I’m a freelance writer, so my entire job and life are based on my ability to attract readers to my website. It’s not intuitive, but it’s not as hard as other people make it out to be either.
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Duru Ifeanyi
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These are super helpful. I'm currently in the prrocess is starting to turn my medium articles into youtube videos, and its a process for sure. but its also kinda alot of fun. im also one of those ppl who waited too long to start a mailing list. i…more
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Thank you for sharing Zulie, these are super helpful tips. I've been debating whether it's worth starting a newsletter and growing a mailing list because I don't feel like I'm "big enough" for it but this article may persuade me to take the leap.
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Already I do follow 1-8, thinking to apply 9 and 10
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