7 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog and Have Fun Doing It!
Turn your business into bliss. Read how you can make blogging fun, make more money doing it and keep going.
In this article, I am going to share with you 7 ways to successfully drive traffic to your blog. Plus, how to have as much fun as possible – while doing it.
Warning – this a pretty long blog post with a lot of information. Pin it now so you can read it later. In case you get interrupted. Then come back and read it.
If you’re not having fun with your blog then what’s the point, right?
I’m not sure if every blogger goes through this or not. But having heard a lot of stories of the ups and downs makes me think most bloggers have gone through this too. Or something similar at least.
Making money is fun.
Obviously. But I would rather enjoy what I’m writing about than focus on just making money blogging. There are a lot of ways you can make money.
If I didn’t care about my passion, the freedom of flexibility and helping people in a way where I can possibly impact millions of lives – then I would have stayed in real estate.
After many years of working as as Realtor, I had reached a point where most of business came to me from repeat business and referrals.
But I wasn’t fulfilled.
I needed more. Let’s be honest though. Blogging is hard. There are so many things to learn. Building a following, learning how to monetize it and the “biggie” driving traffic to your blog. It can get frustrating.
Once I finally found a system using Pinterest that was finally driving a steady flow of traffic to my website I lost sight of my vision, my purpose and my passion.
Don’t Lose Sight of Your Passion.
I instinctively want to help people. So when I discovered what I call a winning formula to put Pinterest on automation it became my obsession. I became so obsessed with Pinterest and driving traffic that it’s all I was writing about.
I put my other top priorities like creating continuity and writing courses on a shelf. Things that I think can help my audience more than another blogger teaching Pinterest. Stuff quite frankly, I am even better at. That I can teach you.
That’s when blogging stopped being fun.
My new followers and email subscribers aren’t engaging as much. And well…
I thought about quitting blogging altogether. The problem is though, that I am NOT a quitter.
So once again I find myself shifting my focus. Hopefully, this time for the better. That’s why I wanted to write this article.
To make sure you are having fun blogging too.
Now I am going to share a few ways that you can drive traffic to your website. That hopefully makes it more fun for you. So you can make more money and not lose sight of your passion.
Oh and to the left is a silly face my youngest daughter made a few years ago. I came across the picture today. As I’m getting ready to start selling stock photos for bloggers.
Now let’s continue…
The Best Way to Drive Traffic to Your Website.
I have been doing this for long enough that I can honestly tell you that media and building a reputation is the best form of traffic.
The credibility you get from being interviewed as the “expert” by someone else is priceless. The link backs to your website heightens Google awareness for you and your website.
Plus, you can reach masses of people by doing it.
Another way to become an instant expert in any industry is to write a book.
Right after I started blogging I wrote my first book. Within two weeks I had my first book written, published and the first copy sold.
Writing my first book opened up so many amazing opportunities for me.
I was going live on the radio and being interviewed for podcasts every week. I was accepted into a Mastermind group where I flew to LA and met with a room filled with like-minded entrepreneurs.
In less than two months from writing my first book I was asked to become the Health & Fitness expert on an award winning radio show. Where I went live every month to speak to over 2 1/2 million listeners.
Talk about FUN!
Then some bad stuff happened. I’m not ready to share that part of my story yet. But let’s just say I wouldn’t wish what happened to me upon my worst enemy.
That’s how bad it was.
Okay, enough negativity. At some point, I gave up the radio show and stopped going on interviews. As you can imagine this pretty much killed my business. For a while.
Then I discovered Pinterest. Finally, a way to get traffic to my website without being in the public eye.
Which I was desperately trying to avoid.
I went all in. I was determined to start making money with my blog using Pinterest. Of course, seeing sales come in and watching my email list grow was fun.
Kind of.
But I was losing my voice. My purpose. My mission. To help people feel happier. To live a happier and healthy lifestyle.
That’s when I started getting kind of depressed again.
This time not because of circumstances beyond my control. But because I wasn’t doing what I am meant to be doing.
I don’t want to become a Pinterest expert.
Yes, I will continue to use the Viral Pinterest Pin Strategy to continue to drive consistent traffic to my website. To keep making sales.
Until eventually, it massively explodes. Which takes time, consistency and patience.
However, it’s time to go back to what I really enjoy doing. It’s Time to have fun again. It’s time to come out of my shell.
No more hiding from the world.
I will be going back to promoting my books. In the past year, I have written over a dozen books while I was “hiding out.”
It’s time to publish and promote my upcoming books and have fun doing it.
Which is another thing I have been doing. Helping authors share their stories. If you have a story that needs to be heard. Or you want an easy way to get into the media and get interviews. That can skyrocket your business, I can help you with that.
Another thing that’s fun is when a client out of the blue writes you a testimonial. After going live on one of the radio shows, one of the hosts asked me to help him with his book.
He is a musician now turned author. Here’s what he wrote about me on Alignable. “Irene is loyal to her clients, she strives to meet their needs, a true professional” ~Win Thompkins.
Fun right? Hearing good stuff about yourself out of the blue.
That’s what I’m talking about Making blogging fun! Creating the life you want from blogging. There are lots of ways to drive traffic to your blog.
Here are five more ways to drive traffic to your blog.
Create a Facebook group or join other Facebook groups. You can answer questions on Quora. You wouldn’t believe how many people ask me for *expert* advice every single day.
Plus, if you follow me on Quora you can read tons of blogging advice I give to new bloggers.
Start your own YouTube channel. It’s super easy to get started but you need to be consistent with this. I am just exploring this myself. Now that I’m getting back into video and live radio. So I will be keeping you posted as to what’s working and what’s not.
You can drive traffic to your website by doing Facebook or Instagram lives.
People love videos. Especially live videos. I shied away from this after my trauma. I realize though that if you want to be successful in the online world and build trust, you need to do videos.
Facebook and Instagram prefer that you use their live video streams. They will push them further than if you put a link to any source that will take your viewers away from their platform.
Use videos on your website to build trust, build your email list and keep people coming back.
I just signed up with Vimeo. So far they rock the house so check them out. You can even get started for free. I am not an affiliate for any of these by the way.
I’ve done a lot of research and just want you to know the best stuff.
Learn everything possible about SEO. And if you haven’t already, you should download and use the Yoast plugin.
This has been blog changing for me.
I didn’t know about Yoast until recently. Like it was a bloggers secret or something. Hopefully, you already knew about this but if not, now you do.
This blog post is already super long and I could go on forever. There is so much to learn and share about blogging! Please pin this to all your relevant boards so we can help other bloggers too!
We need to help each other as much as we can. Just one more super important thing as I sum up…
The Most Important Thing About Blogging.
Whichever way (or ways) you decide to drive traffic to your blog, do what you enjoy most. If you don’t enjoy it you are more likely to quit. The key to any successful traffic strategy is using consistency. Keep going and you will succeed.
To get more traffic to your website now, check out how you can create Pinterest pins that go viral.
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