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200,000 blog sessions a month:
How I drive traffic to my blog
If someone had told me when I first started blogging that I would be at over 200,000 sessions a month in less than two years, I would have probably laughed at them.
Yet here we are.
I know that 200,000 blog sessions aren’t a ton compared to some bigger bloggers, but it definitely is a way bigger number than I thought I would reach, especially this fast!
Before I start with explaining what I’ve been doing to get this many blog sessions to my website, I do want to share my stats for the past 30 days.
Here is exactly what I have been doing to grow my blog traffic.
Pinterest marketing
By far the highest referrer of traffic to my blog is Pinterest.
I started using Pinterest about a month after starting my blog, and I believe I started off with 15 posts that I’d pin to multiple boards.
Back then Pinterest was easier to manage, because it didn’t require as many fresh pins as it does now.
With the new algorithm changes this year, Pinterest prioritizes fresh pins more than repins. Repins won’t hurt your reach, but if you only pin fresh pins once a week, you won’t get as much traffic as if you were active on the platform every day.
Pinterest marketing has really changed the game for me. If I weren’t using Pinterest, I’d probably have just a couple thousand blog views a month.
A lot of bloggers I know struggle with Pinterest marketing and either never really learn the ins and outs of the platform, or just get frustrated and quit.
But I promise it’s worth learning about.
It’s free traffic to your blog which you can use to monetize your blog, and grow it even bigger than you imagined like I did.
Because of Pinterest, I have gotten my first paid sponsored post, have over 5k email subscribers, and I make thousands of dollars every month from ad revenue.
If you’re still not using Pinterest to get your blog traffic, consider changing that ASAP.
I recently relaunched my Pinterest marketing guide which is 100 pages of Pinterest marketing advice. You can get your copy here for $14 off with the code MONEY. It’s normally priced at $44, so I’d grab it while the discount is still active!
If you are looking for more general and quick Pinterest tips, you need to get your hands on my free Pinterest marketing guide. Grab it below and make sure to check your spam folder for the confirmation email!
Organic Traffic
I only started paying attention to SEO a few months ago, and I wish I’d started sooner.
I already have one post on the first page of Google, but the goal for the end of the year is to add at least 4 more.
Nevertheless, I managed to almost double my organic traffic in just a few weeks’ time using proper SEO practices.
Here are my reports for both November and December to compare.
I started working seriously on SEO sometime in May last year, and by the end of June I’d already seen a big difference in my organic search stats.
Here’s what I’ve been doing to work on my SEO.
Keyword research
The first thing I did was work on finding keywords that will help me rank in Google searches. I had no idea that it mattered what my keywords were, but it’s actually REALLY important for SEO.
I learned about keyword research using SEO Keyword Research for Bloggers, and it’s been one of the best investments I’d made for my blog. This affordable guide helped me understand which keywords are worth writing about.
Before I write most posts now, I go on Keysearch and look up some keywords I’m interested in writing about.
If the competition is too difficult, I don’t write about it unless I really want to. Because if nobody is going to find my post on Google, what’s the point of writing it really?
Of course I can still pin that post to Pinterest, but as far as organic views go, it doesn’t make sense to write about something which won’t be read.
I would highly recommend getting SEO Keyword Research for Bloggers to better understand what keywords are, and how to find keywords that are going to help you get on the first page of Google.
If you’d like to use the same keyword research tool I use, you can get Keysearch for 20% off with the code KSDISC. It’s very easy to use AND very reliable.
On page SEO
Another tip I have for SEO is to structure your blog posts correctly. This was something I had NO idea about before I started my SEO research.
I used to write my blog posts whichever way I wanted, not really knowing that there is a right way and a wrong way to structure them.
Now I understand the importance of headings (and that you can’t just guess which heading goes where), how to use keyword variations, how to create the slug for each post, and so much more.
It’s a lot to learn and digest but that’s why I purchase courses. I fully believe in working smarter not harder, and investing in good courses helps free me from having to dig through a million articles myself to figure things out.
For information regarding on-page SEO, I can’t recommend the Easy On-Page SEO For Beginners ebook. I read through it in 2 days and made pages worth of notes which I still revisit to this day. If you’re planning to take SEO seriously, I really recommend getting a copy.
The last place I promote my blog posts and get a few hundred clicks daily from is Twitter.
I absolutely love the blogging community on Twitter and if you’re not on there yet, do yourself a favor and create your blogging account now.
The way I get clicks from Twitter is by using a plugin which tweets my posts for me every few hours. I use the Revive Old Posts plugin which I really recommend.
In addition to using the plugin, I also schedule my own blog post promotion tweets throughout the day, especially if I have a new post out which I’d like to bring traffic to.
Final thoughts
To conclude this post, I do want to stress about the importance of patience when you’re working on building your blog traffic.
It doesn’t happen overnight, but the time you are investing now will pay off later with the correct strategies.
I highly recommend you invest in tools which will help you grow your blog, implement the strategies learned, and have patience. You will get there, and you will thank yourself for putting in all this work.
Before you go, remember to pick up your copy of my Pinterest marketing guide for $14 off with the code MONEY before this offer expires soon!
More posts on blogging:
Blog Income Report
How To Make Money Blogging
How I Got My First Sponsored Post
Best Blogging Tools To Grow Your Blog
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Oh wow you’re an inspiration!! Amazing job!!
You are so sweet Nele! 💕
You’re such an inspiration for me. For a long time I was reading your advice on using Pinterest but I was not implementing it. But when I started taking it seriously in last month, I saw some great results for my blog.
Thanks to you! Keep inspiring and may you achieve all the success you wish to ❤️😇
Thank you so much! I’m so happy you’re seeing good results from it 🙂
You’re amazing! Seriously!
I can’t ever imagine hitting numbers like this with my blog but I just find it so inspiring.
I’m dedicating my summer to my blog and I think I’ll have to check out the SEO guide because I need all the help I can get.
Thanks for sharing and continually inspiring me x
You are so sweet, thank you! You will definitely get there and I 100% recommend Nele’s SEO guide, I saw results really quickly!
Congratulations that’s a great achievement! I am working towards this too 💖
Thank you so much!
Great post!
I see many bloggers like yourself talking about driving traffic from Pinterest and I realized that I actually don’t pin enough. I’m actually going to go and make some fresh pins after this!
My Pinterest views are currently on 11k but the views on my actual blog are very little in comparison. How do I get more link clicks? Are hashtags effective on Pinterest?
Link clicks will depend on what your audience is drawn to so experiment with different pin designs and use catchy titles! And I would put more effort into keywords than into hashtags 🙂
Amazing post! Thank you for sharing! Congrats on reaching this! Also this post is very useful to me!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you found this helpful!
Thanks for the amazing advice, so much value here! So many things I can implement straight away, really wanting to up my Pinterest game! Thank you so much for sharing x
Best of luck!
I’m beyond impressed with your status – I know how much work it takes to be that successful. Congratulations!!
That’s so sweet, thank you!
This is so helpful. I’m happy that Pinterest is working out for you. These are such good numbers. While I have a low bounce rate of 3% there about, I would be interested in increasing the number of users I get from Pinterest.
Cheers!
Sarah.
That bounce rate is so good!!
Wow those are amazing stats, congratulations! I really need to up my Pinterest game so will definitely be checking out your guide!
Thank you! Make sure to use the code for some money off 🙂
This is awesome! I will have to check out the Revive Old Posts plugin. It takes so much time to choose old posts to manually schedule. Thank you for sharing all of this!
You’re so welcome! I love that plugin so much!
Wow! These statistics are a HUGE deal. I’m nowhere near that at all, but reading your blog post makes me feel hopeful that perhaps, I can achieve this too. Thanks for sharing!
You can definitely get there! Thank you so much for your nice words!
Mariam, I absolutely LOVE your site. Everytime I come here there’s useful tips. After reading this I’ve realised I definitely need to put more work in to keyword research. I hope one day I’ll be getting 90,000 views too!
https://www.racheldowning.co.uk
Thank you SO much! That’s so nice of you to say 🙂 I can’t wait until you hit that milestone!
You’re doing brilliantly! Well done. You’ve shared really great advice and tips here that I’ll definitely use. I have just started to try to use Pinterest and I’m still at a bit of a loss with it and gave up pretty quickly. I’ll try to get back to it though and grow it.
You should definitely look into getting better at Pinterest, it’s the best way to get fast traffic!
Great tips! I’ve been working on Pinterest and SEO as well but it’s still a little difficult for me, especially the more technical part of SEO. Thanks for the tips!
The more you learn about it, the easier SEO gets! It’s not that hard to learn honestly. 🙂
thank you. Really good information. Alot of it is above my head. At 47 its harder for me to learn and understand most of the things you have talked about. I will try to learn how to use Pinterest better first of all.
Pinterest is a good start 🙂 Best of luck!
Wow! This is an amazing post! Thank you for sharing this, Congrats on reaching this! it’s very helpful to me.
Thank you so much!
This is such a useful post. I definitely need to start looking into SEO soon. As I’ve not got many posts on my blog yet, I’m currently focusing on increasing the amount of content I have so that I can start going hard at pinterest marketing, and can also make use of the old post reviver plugin x
Roni | myelevatedexistence.com
Those are good ideas! It’s definitely good to start working on promoting your posts early on 🙂
Wow… you inspire me so much. I’m nowhere near these numbers. You are doing amazing
That’s so nice of you to say-thank you! 💕
It is so inspiring to see your hard work paying off! I love that you have compiled your Pinterest knowledge into a ebook, but I also love that you put effort into other areas beside Pinterest. I love clicking a good post that is not just written to skyrocket on search engines but actually has something worthwhile so say, and this post does just that. 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing!
I needed to read this today. I’m in that mental zone of wondering if I’m even doing this correctly. I’m just learning about Pinterest and implementing it. I think I need to work on learning SEO better as well. I know some basics but I really haven’t been searching keywords and stuff like that.
What a great article. Always love what I find here and your a huge inspiration to keep going!
Currently I’m struggling with creating and making a lead magnet that works. UGH the struggle is real
Wow, they are some impressive stats. Congrats! Thanks for sharing your advice. I’ve really started to up my Pinterest game and it’s paying off. When I first started on there I had no idea what I was doing, but after investing in a course I’m seeing results and my pins look so much better! Totally agree about Twitter, the blogging and writing community are so supportive and helpful. SEO is definitely an area I need to spend more time learning and putting into practice.
These are the 3 areas I’ve been working on, courses are definitely important, and the best way to learn. I wish I had lots more disposable cash to buy loads, but I’m working through courses slowly.
Adam – https://daddoesautism.com
90,000 views is amazing!! What an achievement, Miriam! 🙂 And I’m still getting the hang of Pinterest but reading your post is inspiring me to keep going 🙂
Hi! ThAnkyou for this post! I started taking my blog seriously last year and I’m really desperate because I can’t get more traffic 🙁 . I didn’t know about the repin in Pinterest Is no longer useful and I just started Twitter I hope it helps me and I’ll try to be more patient
Such a great post, very insipirational! Thank you so much for sharing this.
Congratulations! You’ll be at 100K in no time. I really need to start scheduling tweets, thank-you for the reminder! x
Wow! That’s amazing! Great numbers and really useful post.
These are some amazing tips! I see bloggers emphasizing Facebook groups and other “promotional” types of traffic, which also work but are obviously not as great as traffic from actually interested readers. I 100% agree with your Pinterest advice, and am currently studying SEO more so I can improve my organic traffic 🙂
Thanks again for the wonderful advice! Hope I’ll be able to reach 90k someday too!
Very impressive numbers! I spent my first 3 years on organic search and Twitter. Working on building a Pinterest platform now and will be reviewing your content. Thanks for sharing!
thankyou for this, i have been blogging for almost 2 years now and I cant get more than 200 visits a month and make some feel so frustrated lol like you said patience and keep working hard hopelly one day ill get as much traffic as you do
Such a great tips! I definitely think that Pinterest is one of the best platforms for driving traffic too. Can’t wait to learn even more and completely master it with your help!
-Hoes that Hustle | https://hoesthathustle.com/
People always say that pintrest is the way to get views, which is crazy that I don’t put enough time into it. I’ve been putting more time into SEO, and that’s been helping tremendously with my blog. It seems like pintrest is the next thing I have to do! Great post xxx
Melina | http://www.melinaelisa.com
I love the tips! Thank you so much for sharing!!!!
Great tips, Mariam! I recently started using twitter for promoting my blog posts. But had no idea about blogging community. Will check for it now and start connecting in the group. Thanks for all the SEO and ON-PAGE SEO tips.
You’re very welcome! Best of luck to you!
I really enjoyed reading this post, do you have like a pinterest growth course i can purchase?
Yup! https://gumroad.com/l/pinterestperfect
This is super inspiring for me as I’ve just launched my blog and have high hopes for the future of my blog! I’ve been working hard on writing my blog posts with SEO in mind and am going to focus on Pinterest this month, so fingers crossed!
Tara | mamasmoneydiary.com
Best of luck to you!
These are massive numbers for me. And yes, I can confess that nevertheless, I gave Pinterest for more than 3 years already, what traffic I receive from it, its just up to 100 per month. All I’m missing is consistency.