246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging That Will Accelerate the Growth of YOUR Blog In today’s episode I want to share my keynote at this year’s Social Media Marketing World – 9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging that Will Accelerate the Growth of YOUR Blog. Here are the slides from my talk: 9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging that Will Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog from Darren Rowse Keep focusing on the pillars of pro blogging: Profitable blogs are built on great content Take the initiative to drive traffic to your blog Take ownership of building engagement with your readers Monetization. Don’t skip over these pillars or take shortcuts. And here are 9 accelerators to grow your blog faster: Understand and engage with your audience. Know your readers’ needs. Transform your readers’ lives. Great content leaves a mark on your readers. Focus less on the number of eyeballs, and more on engaging the hearts of the right readers. Create a design based on what you know about your readers. Customize their experience. Teach and engage readers through challenges using various mediums. Collaborate with others to: exchange services generate content drive traffic create revenue streams. Focus on creating evergreen content that maintains relevance and doesn't date as fast as other content. Maintain your archives, or they depreciate. Archives are an income-generating asset. Be careful about where you go all-in on.. Where should you spend your time? Quotes of the Week: “Speed is only useful if you are running in the right direction.” – Joel Barker, Future Edge “Everyone wants to live at the top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney “Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing, and regrouping.” – Julia Margaret Cameron Links and Resources for 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog: Success Incubator New Members Area Social Media Marketing World Social Media Marketing World last year’s virtual pass Further Listening: Strategies to Help Convert First Time Visitors Into Interested Readers of Your Blog How Collaborations Can Accelerate Your Blog’s Growth The Ultimate Guide to Creating Evergreen Content for Your Blog 7 Types of Evergreen Content You Can Create on Your Blog More Evergreen Content Ideas for Your Blog How to get More Traffic By Updating Your Archives Trends in Social Media - Where Should You Focus Your Energy? Courses Starting a Blog ProBlogger Pro – 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Join our Facebook group Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Darren: Good morning and welcome to episode 246 of the ProBlogger podcast. My name is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind problogger.com. A blog, podcast, event, job board, series of ebooks, and courses, all designed to help you to start an amazing blog to grow the audience on their blog, to create great content, and to build some profit around that blog as well. You can learn more about what we do at ProBlogger at problogger.com. In today's episode, I want to share with you a recording of a talk I gave this year at Social Media Marketing World. A great event run by Mike Stelzner and his team from Social Media Examiner. This talk is one that I got a lot of positive feedback on. In fact, I don't think I've have so much positive feedback on a talk at Social Media Marketing World as I've received both at the event this year and since the event. I've got permission from Mike and his team, who've kindly allowed me to republish it here on the podcast in its entirety. The title of the talk is Nine Things I knew About Blogging that will Accelerate the Growth of your Blog. It's nine things that really–today,