How to start a blog for free?
So you're interested in starting a
blog but you've done the research, you don't know how to use blogging platforms and there seems like so many things to do and you can't figure out where to start or maybe you already have a blog and you're ready to take it to the next level.
I’m going to get
into a guaranteed method
that's going to get paid views to your website a solid marketing plan that's
going to make your blog known to the masses and a content strategy that's going to
continue to bring them back for more.
Today I want to give you
my five no holes bar tips on what I would do if I was starting my brand in
2022.
The internet is crowded
now so I would do everything that I could do to set myself up for success and I
would tell myself these five things.
1-SEO matters I would
take the time to learn basic SEO one of the mistakes I made when I started my
blog is I didn't have a clue what SEO was and while you don't know what
you don't know it was up to me to figure that out.
I would get on YouTube, on Google and simply look
up SEO, if I had to do that you can do SEO
simply of using tools like Google, YouTube and things like that I don't need a
paid tool, but if I were starting and serious I would find 30 to 40 topics that
I could rank for on my site.
Now after I’ve done my keyword research and knew the topics that I was going to be writing about I would
actually create some sort of free gift or free download for my audience
giving them massive value.
Now what is this going
to do, this is going to show my audience that I’m a valuable person that my
site is a valuable place to visit right in turn hoping that they share that
with friends family members or whoever and that will increase my traffic but
not only that me giving them this value-packed free download in return they're going
to give me their email address.
Building out your email
list is super important; you need to own access to your audience because when
the algorithms on social media change and they're not showing your content to
your people, you need to be able to contact them.
So your email address
is the next best way to
do that. Providing that value first you're going to give first and then you're going
to get something in return which is their email address and in that case you
can then send out a weekly newsletter and keep them updated share new content
on the site with them and a host of other things but I would dare to give
before I receive.
Next I will focus on
posting over popularity. I know people want to be Insta-famous and Tiktok famous
and all this but we're bloggers and writing is what we do.
So I would take the first 90 days on my blog to
hyper focus on creating content. I will create one blog post a week for the first
90 days and at the end of that 90 day period I would have 12 value-packed blog
posts that people can go and see what I have to offer.
Then it would be YouTube for the win I would actually start a YouTube channel after my
first 90 days of posting on my site because guess what YouTube and Google are brother and sister and they feed each other
very well.
I would create videos on the content that I
create on my blog. This will give people the opportunity to find me on YouTube, find me on Google and then be able to swap that traffic between
the two.
YouTube is such a powerful tool for bloggers because it's a place that people come to actually research things and
learn things and be entertained the options over here.
On YouTube are just endless and I’m
always telling people you need to be on YouTube like what are you doing I
understand that other social media platforms.
They have video and it's all cool and everybody
wants to go viral and all that good stuff.
But when I’m building my blog, I would focus on my foundation and the foundation
of that blog is valuable good content on your site and being able to be found
in Google search, YouTube search
and I don't think
there's a more powerful combination on the internet.
Then its community over
everything I would pour myself into my community and responding to them, engaging
with them and trying to figure out what they want and what they need.
I would be the resource, I would go, hang out
on their channels, pages and I would just really submerge myself inside of the
community that also means networking
with bloggers like myself that do and talk about similar things,
not for the clouds not to be seen but to truly submerge myself in the community
of what I’m doing.
That means being social on social media,
commenting under people's videos. I would actually go live once a week I would
create some sort of live show.
I would be live every week and just talk to my
people because believe it or not going live gives people the opportunity to
know like and trust you so much better because I get to see your mannerisms and
how you act, how you respond and how you lift your eyebrows.
I would actually go live
every single week with my audience, get to know them, get content ideas from
them and really just establish myself as a presence in their online life and
from all that I would know the money's going to come.
I wouldn't get out here not expecting to get
paid for at least the first six months to a year now that's not to say that I
wouldn't do things to monetize my platform.
I’m just saying my expectation wouldn't be to
get paid or to make money from this because my focus would be to show up as an authority
get value pours myself into the community.
So that my people could see me as an asset, when
I got ready to launch something that's the super condensed version of what I
would do, if I was just now starting my blog.