Stop doing this to grow your blog without wasting time

In this post we share a important, but often ignored key to grow your blog traffic and stop wasting your time!

When we first started blogging we didn’t have ANY audience for 1.5 years. In fact the first year we don’t think anyone ever visited our site. Google certainly didn’t know about it.

You know how other people say their moms read their blogs? Our mom didn’t know about our blog.

She thought we're selling books online. Actually we don’t know what she thought we were doing. She thought we're studying microbiology when we were studying biochemistry.

However, despite the lack of audience we didn’t give up. Even though we were inconsistent with posting while also being overwhelmed with how much we had to post – we kept going.

So a year and a half in, when even the crickets weren’t visiting our site anymore, we decided to CPR our blog into life and actually join social media.

Now it might not seem like a big deal to most of you, but for us this was SCARY. We were so used to writing for myself that the thought of actual people seeing our posts and what we wrote (even if we've never met them) was just terrifying. Terrifying.

The Great Expectations

We expected to join social media and people to go crazy about our blog once they found it. We truly believed we will become an overnight success and the paparazzi will wait in front of our house the next day.

Poor, little us. No paparazzi, no nada. Social media turned out to be one thing.

A HUGE waste of time.

Then we realized people were following us, even though we were a small blog and we felt flattered, so we'd follow back. Then in about 3 days we'd notice they’ve unfollowed us. Well, that sucked.

How it all changed

At least we thought that we needed a lot of followers. So we joined and same thing – people would follow and then after we follow back – unfollow us. Then we stopped following back altogether and started joining group boards and repinning.

Within a month We had 19.000 visits to our site.

One thing you need to do to grow your blog and stop wasting your time

Stop trying to be everywhere and just be in the right place. Stay focused. That is all you need to do.

If you’re struggling to grow your audience and your blog, then this is probably one of the things you’re doing wrong. You need to stop being everywhere and decide where your audience hangs out and where you want to be. At least in the beginning.

People will find you there.

You’ll get better at it.

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• the 2 most important keys to becoming a successful blogger
• how to grow your traffic using social media and
• how to monetize the traffic you get without feeling like you’re selling your soul.

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