Our Guide to Leveling Up Your Blog

What’s Included

We have written four actionable guides that help you grow your blog to tremendous levels. These guides are filled with resources and step-by-step instructions to help you take your blog to the next level.

• Digital PDF download immediately upon purchase.
• An actionable step-by-step blueprint for growing your blog and traffic. Over a $200 value!
• Bonus templates for building an endless list of article ideas, learning about what your audience wants to read about, and hiring freelancers when you’re ready to scale.
• Get free updated guides anytime we add new content.

Guide 1: Understanding what your audience wants to read

This first guide walks you through understanding your audience so that you know what content will work well with your audience. In particular, we’ll cover the following topics:

• How to use the “Ask” method to know what your visitors want to read: This method has helped us really understand our audience through polls and interviews. In fact, we used this method to find out what our readers wanted from this book and you can see the results below!

  

• How to create blog personas: Learn how to consolidate your learnings from the “Ask” method to build robust overviews of who visits your blog.
  
• Techniques to generate 100s of blog article ideas: Learn how to quickly brainstorm 100s of blog article ideas so you will have an endless supply of new content.
  

Guide 2: Growing your blog traffic

Once you understand your audience, it’s time to start finding content for them to consume. In this guide, we’ll cover the following topics:

• How to use organic search and SEO to grow your blog: Learn why SEO is so important to growing your blog and how you can do it for virtually free!
• Using keyword research to prioritize your article writing: Keyword research helps you understand what customers are organically searching for and is a great method for prioritizing your articles so you can reach more readers quickly.

  

• Building a content calendar and publishing schedule: We teach you how to take your prioritized articles and schedule them throughout the year to capture seasonal audience preferences related to holidays and other events such as back-to-school.
  
• Other ways to grow your blog traffic: We dive into other methods to grow your blog traffic including social media, email, and paid marketing.

Guide 3: How to make time for writing

Now that you have a list of blog topics, it’s time to write them. But how can you make the time? We’ll show you:

• How to find time in your schedule to write: Learn how to carve out pockets of time throughout your day to write new content.
  
• How to use stream of consciousness writing to write more efficiently: Find out how stream of consciousness writing will actually make you a better and more efficient writer.
• What is the Pomodoro technique: This amazing time management technique will have you cranking out blog content left and right.
• How you can hire freelance writers to exponentially grow your content creation: We include step-by-step instructions to hire the best freelancers and even give you job description templates that you can copy and paste into platforms like Upwork.
  

Guide 4: How to make money from blogging

Our final guide teaches you how to monetize your blog now that you’ve grown it. This guide includes topics such as:

• How to use affiliate marketing to sell products others have created: Affiliate marketing lets you sell other people’s products so you don’t have to worry about inventory or customer service. It’s a great way to begin monetizing your blog audience.
  
• Best platforms for advertising: We walk you through the best advertising platforms no matter the size of your blog.
• How to get brand sponsorships and sponsored posts: Brand sponsorships are a great way to monetize your audience. Learn how to leverage these partnerships to increase your income.
• How to sell digital products: Selling digital products mean you own 100% of the profit. Learn how to make digital products that sell well.

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