Realistic Blog Goals: How I got 350 page views my first month

As I’ve mentioned in my article on starting a blog, this is not my first attempt in the blogging world. Therefore, I came in with a decent amount of knowledge along with it just coming naturally to me. However, I can have the best content and a professional looking website, but none of it matters if I can’t drive traffic. All bloggers and even business owners have to have a certain level of marketing skills to be the most successful. Any blogging course of taken or business podcast I’ve listened to focused on catering to what people are looking for and catering your strategies around your consumer. Page views matter! But is taking a course on how to get 10k followers in your first month blogging helping? To keep going in this blogging world you’ll need persistence and encouragement. Setting realistic blog goals are an important factor in that!

So how did I reach my realistic goal of 350 views in my first month? Patience, persistence, pinning, and groups!

Realistic Blog Goals for Success

Patience and Persistence

Patience is key! There are going to be those days when you get 0 page views and that’s just being realistic. Use this to not only build your patience but also your strategy. If you experience these losses, you can analyze what you did that day to ensure you don’t duplicate it again. Maybe you focused on Twitter that day and no one on Twitter read about your articles. Make it a point to keep tweeting to win that audience but reevaluate the amount of time you dedicate to that platform if you know Facebook is where you win! Use as many platforms as you possibly can without sacrificing quality and the relevance to consumers.

Persistence will be your friend! Maybe the people online today weren’t on yesterday. If your post gets buried, you posting again the next day will get fresh content in front of your audience. This is also true in your strategy reaching out to brands for collabs. Make rejection your best friend to build tougher skin! If you send 20 messages a day to brands you want to work with and only 5 respond and 4 were no’s, you just got your first sponsored post!

Pinning – Realistic Pinterest Traffic

People go to Pinterest seeking quality content, good graphics, and information. Anytime I need a “how to” article, my first go-to is Pinterest. Likewise, the same is true for others. Especially for first time parents like myself or even new parents experiencing different things with their 2nd or 3rd child, the internet is a great platform for information.

Pin your articles to help other people find you! Mix in some great graphics and switch up pinned images often for the same article. That was a gem I learned in a paid online course and now I’m giving it to you FREE! Never just create one image for an article because some one pin could go viral while because people like it more than the others. And it might not even be the one you liked the most but it’s still getting eyes to your content regardless. Pin to groups and tribes. Tailwind can be a game changer but should be used in combination with manual pinning when just starting out.

Groups

Pinterest groups, Facebook groups, blogging network groups. Despite the type of group, join as many as you can! These are usually ways to support like-minded people that are more likely to convert to sales or repeat viewers.

Pinterest groups are especially helpful because if bloggers use Tailwind to schedule posts they are more likely to add in the ones in a group because they know they are relevant. I started my own mom blog group and it’s nice having your own that you don’t have to apply to and you make the rules.

Facebook is another good place for groups. Find groups of bloggers to share with and potentially collab. Also look for groups in your niche in your area. So I’m a mom blog I searched for moms in OH or mom bloggers. All the different types are helpful as long as you have relevance and engage outside of self-promo.