How I Grew a Blog to 10,000 Monthly Visitors in One Year
This month one of my websites reached an exciting milestone — 10,000+ visitors in one month.
I’ve worked on websites that get millions of monthly visitors, but this is way more exciting.
I love starting new projects and getting them from 0 to 1.
Getting early traction is also the most challenging part of SEO. Once you’ve gained some momentum, getting more traffic becomes much easier.
I’m going to share exactly what I did to grow this website over the past year.
Keyword research
Doing good keyword research is the primary key to growing a new website.
I don’t start working on a website until I have a list of 100 low-competition keywords. The top priority is to get the website ranking in Google. When Google sees your website in the search results, they’re more likely to rank you for more keywords. It’s also proof that Google likes and trusts your website.
If you can’t rank for a keyword with 0 competition, you won’t rank for anything.
I used Ahrefs for keyword research and focused on terms that had N/A competition. That usually means that it will be very easy for you to rank, but it still doesn’t happen overnight.
