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How to Get Traffic to Your Blog for Free

Once you set up your blog, it’s time to increase blog traffic for free. After getting a substantial boost in traffic, you can use paid methods to increase your blog’s traffic as well. 

Create & Understand Your Users’ Persona

Whenever I start my blogs, I always create and then understand the personas of my potential readers. It’s important to understand your blog’s users to create a strategy to fulfill their needs. Only then can you bring in traffic. 

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While it sounds daunting to create your users’ persona, it isn’t. All you need is to answer the following questions:

  • Who is your target audience?
  • What’s the target age group?
  • What are the problems of your audience?
  • How will your potential users find a solution, and where?
  • How much do they already know about a particular topic or problem?

The more questions you’ll answer, the better understanding you’ll develop. After that, use the information to help your blog’s users solve a problem. 

Bonus: Use HubSpot’s free Make My Personal Tool to create and understand your user’s persona.

Start Grabbing Email Subscribers

If you’re new to blogging, you are likely to spend your time only driving new users to your website. And that is a big mistake! Why? Because 70% of your users leaving your blog will never return. 

Then why bother getting the traffic in the first place? My recommendation is to build your email list even if your blog is new. Once you start collecting your users’ email addresses, start sending emails to bring traffic to your blog. 

Bonus: In email marketing, the average return on investment is $42 for every dollar you spend. Which Is Really Awesome!

Here is a screenshot of my ConvertKit Email Marketing Dashboard:

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ConvertKit Dashboard

I think you noticed that I have a Good Open and Click Through Rate! Do you want to know the secret?

It's about keeping your List active and fresh. Every month, I delete all inactive users, and I ensure only interested people are on my list.

So if you like to stay on my List! Please be ACTIVE 😄

💡 Do You Want To Learn Email Marketing For Free? Start Her

Make Use of Editorial Calendar

After doing the keyword research, you must have tons of post ideas to share on your blog. But honestly, it can be overwhelming to deal with a large list of keywords. Organizing makes things easy and practical. 

So, create an editorial calendar to keep track of all the posts. This way, you’ll stick with your content plan and thrive in the long-run. Otherwise, most people quit after writing two to three blog posts only. The choice is yours!