Blogging

You might remember last year, I was thinking of starting a new blog and I did! Some say blogging is dead, I’d say…it’s very much alive right now. So, if you’re looking for some great blogging tips to really grow and start a new blog in 2021, here are the things I’ll be doing differently this year to grow my new baby blog!

So, what I’m thinking is: I want to keep Beauty Bites only for food, recipes and healthy lifestyle and to share my personal development stories, blogging, productivity and business tips and ideas in my new blog.

You Don’t Need To Be A Writer Or An Extrovert

I understand blogging is not cool anymore, it wasn’t cool when I started this blog in 2015. But to me, it makes me happy. It’s fulfilling to see I’ve built something out of nothing. See the progress I’ve made from even just a month ago.

Did I tell you that I never thought blogging would be for me? Never in a million years. All the writing and promoting content is so not in what I considered my nature. I did not like to write. Being the introverted extrovert that I am (aka very shy) promoting something I had created also sounded pretty terrible. Yeah, just go, dig a hole in the backyard and hide somewhere. Who do you think you are?

But after doing this hundreds of times, you kinda get used to it. You kinda know it’s going to be okay and you start trusting yourself. Because it’s true what they say: Nobody’s perfect. Something else they say: You live and you learn. They know things.

So blogging in 2021. Let’s talk about it. What’s going be different if I were really to start a blog all over again?

Blogging In 2021: Things I’d Do Differently

1. Start Social Media Before The Blog

The one thing I’d definitely do before starting the new blog is to start social media even before I’ve started the blog. No secret I love Pinterest, so that would be my first choice. Then I’m thinking Instagram since it’s easier and a more personal way to connect with your audience (even if small).

The reason I want to do that is that it takes time to build trust with these platforms. You might remember I started social media about 2 years after starting this blog and because of that, during those 2 years I didn’t have anyone come around. Now it’s grown into something that brings me so much joy and helps me connect with others and serve those who need it.

So by starting maybe two, three weeks in advance I’ll have the basics covered and I will have build a small audience. So that when the blog is actually ready, I would have people to show it to.

I also don’t want to wait more than 2-3 weeks to start, because I kinda lose motivation when I put things off and I get less excited.

Of course, with starting social media – I’ll focus on saving and sharing content that’s relevant to my blog niche. So for personal development, blogging and business I won’t necessarily be saving a pin about how to dry tomatoes, even if I might want to do it. Always think what your ideal reader would like to read.

2. SEO Everything.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it’s what people do to get found on Google. You do it by using specific keywords and by formatting your blog posts properly.

Still, SEO is a mystery to me. I try to do it, but then I’m too slothful to go and start guest blogging and building backlinks. It just doesn’t excite me, it makes me want to run away and hide somewhere. But I have found that choosing the right, more niche keywords and writing really helpful articles really helps.

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If you are a beginner in blogging (or feel like it) and want to increase your blog traffic and engagement but don’t know how you need to read this. Growing your blog audience and keeping it engaged can help you make more money online, build good relationships and create new opportunities for you and your business. Find out what you could be doing wrong and how to fix it.

I talked about how I grew my blog traffic from 800 to 19.000 page views in one month, but what you might have missed is that it took me over a year to come to that place.

For that whole year, I didn’t have ANYBODY visit my blog.

It was weird. On the one side, I felt safe that nobody can judge me and my blog, but on the other side I wanted to actually get traffic, so people see what I have to share & so I can start making some money (even if not a lot). The moment I decided to be very honest with myself, see what I’m doing wrong & change it, was when my traffic exploded. And it never went back, it grows more and more each month as I’m learning new things and creating new content.

Now I know many would tell you you don’t need traffic to make money blogging…but the truth is: You do. Maybe not millions of monthly page views, but over 30.000? Yes, you do.

More traffic means more ad revenue, more affiliate sales and more product sales, more potential clients. More of everything. So don’t make this excuse. Make it a point to grow your audience and don’t be lazy about it – it can never hurt to have more visitors to your blog.

If you haven’t started your blog yet or struggling to grow your blog, make sure to work through my step-by-step guide here.

So, from what I’ve learned, here are 11 reasons nobody reads your blog.

12 Reasons Nobody Reads Your Blog & How To Fix It

1. You’re waiting for “them” to come to your blog.

One of the things I didn’t do and the biggest reason for me not having ANY traffic for over a year: I didn’t promote my blog anywhere. And I mean nowhere. I would write my blog post, publish it and expect it to get a lot of traffic without me doing more.

This never happened.

Even with the 800 page views I had already started promoting my blog posts a little bit. The leap from 800 to 19.000 page views? A ton of promotion on Pinterest for a month.

There are so many websites and blogs out there that getting traffic by chance/ or by being found randomly simply doesn’t happen anymore. You need to make it happen. And the good news? You can!

Pinterest is in my opinion the best way to get traffic to your blog for free, especially when you’re a brand new blogger and nobody knows about you. By promoting I don’t mean pin one of your pins to one board and wait for it….Well, you can wait for it all you want, but getting traffic like this is very very rare. What I mean is to create multiple pins for each blog post and pin them to different boards every day.

2. You’re not using keywords

How do you usually find anything on the internet? You search for it. You put in some words into Google or Pinterest and then they give you a huge list with options to explore.

So the things you put into the search bar? Those are keywords. From my experience the more specific you go with a keyword, the higher chances you have to be found on the Google.

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