Blog Growth Strategies - Our Third Month Blogging

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Wow, three months of blogging in the books. I am halfway to becoming a real blogger! Let'south run into how I did!

Blog Growth Strategies for our 3rd Month

Readership

The blog readership is continuing to abound, slowly only surely.  According to Google Analytics, Partners in Fire had 516 users during this month, compared to 305 during month 2 and a paltry 89 during the first month. We are chugging right along!

How did we increment our readership?

A lot of our users are still coming from our various social media platforms, and we are continuing to grow and expand these while maintaining the sense of community. 2 hundred seventy of our monthly users came from social media. Our top performing platform this month was Facebook, and that was due to both of us sharing our posts regularly on our personal pages. Sometimes building a following starts with your own network.

We besides got quite a few direct hits (198!) during this third month. A big portion of that was J publishing his struggles and sharing them with people that he used to know. A lot of his friends and family didn't know about his bipolar disorder or his struggle with booze, and they were interested to learn those things.

Posting

I'm pretty amazed that I (generally) stuck to my posting schedule this month.  I only missed one day; and because how crazy this month has been I'll count that as a win. Instead of posting that mean solar day, I redid the "About U.s." department and inverse some photos around on the blog. It was cathartic and a good motility for me personally.

Things are a bit calmer in my personal life now, then I should be able to stick to Sundays and Thursdays for month four. Hither's to hoping anyhow!

Social Media

We are notwithstanding doing amazing things with social media. A huge portion of our traffic came from Twitter; and although I didn't gain a ton of new followers this month, I'm super happy with the community that I've built there.

We killed it on Instagram. We increased our Instagram post-obit by over 600 followers!   I really think our Instagram game and appointment helped increase our traffic this month. Although Google Analytics only recorded 18 referrals from Instagram; I'1000 going to venture a guess and say that number is a scrap higher. You can't direct link from Instagram to a website; so I am fairly certain some Instagram users indirectly copied and pasted the URLS that we posted with our photos. I'm guessing this because I don't retrieve all 198 of the direct referrals were due to his friends reading about his drinking trouble. But hey, they may have been. It's hard to know for sure.

This was also my first month every bit an official Tailwinduser. I've seen an uptick in my traffic from Pinterest, simply it isn't a crazy amount yet. I'm going to continue plugging away at information technology and hopefully we can grow from at that place.

Monetization

Affiliates

I am yet working on monetizing the blog through the use of affiliates. Nosotros actually aren't doing too badly on Amazon!  We had 16 total clicks and 4 ordered items from Amazon in the final thirty days; and fabricated well-nigh five bucks total. Apparently, that isn't plenty to proceeds financial independence; merely it's a dandy showtime! Although I'thousand pretty sure most of it is notwithstanding from the list I made; only I'chiliad ok with that, I'm super happy that nosotros were able to put together a listing that helps other bloggers!  I've been paying it forrad also.

I've utilized the other affiliate programs too, but then far nosotros haven't seen any results from them. We are members of Flex Offers, Share-A-Sale, and Clicky-Homes affiliate programs, and although we've received a few clicks; we haven't had any sales from those platforms.

Ads

We are still using Adsense to generate advertisement revenue for our blog. Currently, we've made nigh twelve bucks total with it (and they don't give you a payout until you reach 50). We are hoping to get enough unique visitors and folio views in the next few months to upgrade to a better ad program. I keep eyeing mediavine; but I don't have about enough users yet for that!

What'due south Next?

This side by side month is going to present a unique claiming for me. With Jonathan and I no longer living together, he will no longer be contributing to the web log. He insisted on still managing the Instagram account, merely we will run into what happens with that.

For this adjacent month, I'1000 going to continue to focus on improving as a author and I'm going to focus heavily on gaining traffic from Pinterest. I'm hoping to maintain over 500 users for the month on my own; without the help of Jonathan's network. I think it's achievable!

What are your favorite weblog growth strategies?  Leave a comment and allow us know!

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