At some point, you know that you have good, valuable content on your blog. The next step in financial or personal success is to try to get more attention in the form of traffic. There are a million different pieces of advice that you can follow for making this happen. But, you can generally figure out how to split it into a few categories.

So, if you’re trying to improve the visibility of your blog, start at three of the more traditional places. First of all, you have to know your audience. Connecting with your audience is the entire point of having a blog, but to create that connection, you have to first understand who they are. Secondly, dig as deep as you can into search engine optimization possibilities. Having great content is an excellent first step, but knowing how to arrange that content for better search engine visibility is also crucial to appropriate project management with your blog. 

Third, adapt and overcome obstacles with short feedback loops. In other words, ask your readers for feedback! Find out what they want more of and react to their ideas.

Know Your Audience

It is one thing to write blog content that you enjoy. It’s another thing to find out how to transfer your passion about a topic into interest from other people. That’s why you have to work to get instant audience communication from yourself to others via your blog. There are two ways to think of audience – you can either think of them as a broad set of people who might be interested in your content, or you can think of them as a very narrow set of people who definitely are interested in your content. There are success and failure ratios for both of those pursuits, so you’ll probably find a balance somewhere in the middle.

Dig Deep Into Search Engine Optimization

Once you have established the kind of material that you want to present in your blog, the next step is to make sure that you arrange the text in a way that web crawlers can understand. Yes, you can always send direct links to people when you want them to read your blog posts. But, if you want them to be able to search for you, you have to get your keywords, headlines, and structural arrangement set in the way it needs to be. That’s where learning about search engine optimization comes in the play.

Adapt and Overcome With Short Feedback Loops

Once you hit a certain degree of attention to your blog, you may wonder how to take it to the next level. At that point, you can do several things to overcome this hurdle. First of all, you can create a questionnaire for the people who read your blog and find out what they like and what they don’t like. By adapting to their desires, you can create a captive audience because there will be people who know that you are responding to their interests.

Originally posted on June 30, 2019 @ 7:46 am