Zero 2 Hero – Day 32 Traffic and Tactics

It’s been 32 days since I first started on my blogging journey. In the beginning I literally knew nothing about blogging. In the time span of just one month I’ve been able to accomplish many of the goals I set out to achieve.

Lets take a look back at the first 30 days and recap some of my mistakes and successes.

Traffic and Tactics
The first week was probably the worst feeling, I was unsure of what direction to take the blog and I was struggling to get between 1-3 visitors everyday. I just kept posting and started to branch out my network to similar blogs and forums where people might find my content interesting. My goal was doubling my traffic each week.

Day 7
13 unique visitors
84 pageviews

Not bad, but not good enough.

By Day 15
I had found a few blogs that were good at sending traffic through comments. I checked those sites frequently and used some secret “ninja” tools to make sure I was notified of new posts as fast as possible.

44 unique vistors
217 pageviews

Not a whole lot of visitors but I succeeded at doubling my traffic in just one week.

Day 21
I’ve stepped up my commenting routine and now I’ve gotten the hang of posting daily content and I can see the results.

80 unique visitors
319 pageviews

Another week of doubling my traffic. If I can keep this up I will be a Superhero blogger in no time. However at this point I’ve yet to make a dollar off of any my ads, which is to be expected. I spend the next week trying to optimize my ad placement and style as well as boosting traffic.

Day 32
A little more than a week since the last update, but since then I’ve earned my first dollar! As well as another week doubling my traffic, needless to say I am pleased with this weeks results.

203 unique visitors
628 pageviews

Getting my first dollar

was a great feeling but it took over 1000 ad impressions to do it. So I’m working further on increasing my “CTR” (click through ratio). Also I’ve added the featured section in the sidebar which has greatly increased my pageviews / visitor ratio. I will be adding related content as well in the future.

Now that I’ve created a foundation to build on I plan on spending the next 32 days greatly increasing my traffic, hopefully I can keep doubling my traffic every week this month as well. I’ve learned A LOT of tricks the last 32 days and I plan on sharing them all…eventually. If I give up all my secrets today why would you come back :)

So for anyone out there who is just getting started don’t let up. If you keep working hard it will pay off. And to those who say making money from blogging takes away from the pure spirit of it, I only say that the more I can earn from blogging the more time I can allow myself to invest in it. When its a business and not just a hobby you will take yourself more seriously.

My next goal is 1000 unique visitors which I plan on hopefully hitting somewhere halfway through the month, lets see what happens!

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