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Time for a quick quiz…

What do you think is the ONE thing every single blogger and online business owner needs to grow and scale their online presence?

Go ahead and guess. I’ll wait.

*taps foot and waits*

Got it?

Spoiler alert: It’s traffic.

And not just “I’ll pay to boost this post quickly” kinda traffic.

This kind of traffic is free and sustainable.

Best of all, I’m giving you five crazy-simple things you need to focus on right now that you can implement...like, yesterday!

Whenever someone joins my Facebook group one of the questions I ask them is about what they’re struggling with right now when it comes to online marketing. The number one answer always revolves around traffic and visibility. That need to get quick results is increasing.

Now I talk about the benefits of long-term growth strategies, like content creation and SEO, but there are actually some things you can start putting into place today that will instantly start making a difference to your results.

So this episode is going to walk you through the five things you can to to get more traffic to your website fast. I am going to walk you through tips, including:

Know your purpose
Build your community from scratch
Be consistent (in more ays than one)
Create quality content
Don’t focus on perfection

Need that?

Scroll up, pop in some earphones, and hit play.

By the way, this episode was brought to you by Blog It Boss It Coaching, my two coaching packages for bloggers and business owners who want to get one step closer to a breakthrough with your online presence. If you want to learn how to increase your visibility, grow your confidence and make a positive impact online, these coaching packages are for you.

So if you’re as excited as I am about how to get more traffic to your website fast, here are five tips to help you get started.

#1 | KNOW YOUR PURPOSE

The only way you’re going to gain traction with your blog is if you have a clear purpose when you first start creating content and a clear objective moving forward. So ask yourself - what are you doing this for? What’s your why? Because if it’s just for fun and you’re not taking it seriously, no one else will.

#2 | BUILD YOUR COMMUNITY FROM SCRATCH

Find like-minded bloggers with similar audiences to you covering similar content to you. Then go their blog and social channels and share their content and engage with them and their community. Be there to help, support and be a part of that community, and be seen by people who are interested in your kind of content.

#3 | BE CONSISTENT

There is no magic formula here and the more consistent you are, the more that you build trust with your community and they know you’re going to be back every single week. So try to stay consistent with your schedule.

#4 | CREATE QUALITY CONTENT

Make sure that you love what you’re writing about. Make sure it’s something that you’re passionate about, because if you’re not passionate about it and you don’t want sit there and write about it, people won’t want to read it.

Your content should aim to inspire, educate or entertain so you ned to figure out which one of these each of your blog posts fits into and run with that.

#5 | DON’T FOCUS ON PERFECTION

Perfection is not important. You just need to start and get over those hurdles. Start with what you have and go from there. And just be you. That’s the most important part, just be you.

So be yourself have your quirks, don’t be perfect and that’s really the key to having a successful blog and brand because if you’re yourself then you don’t really have any competition because no one else can be you.

THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE

Why you need to be aware of the concept of being undervalued.
The importance of focusing on the quality of your community over your reader growth.
How to effectively build your community from scratch.
A super simple hack for networking with people when you first start out.
The importance of being consistent with your content (in more ways than one).
Why you should focus on quality content.
A little pep talk on why you shouldn’t aim for perfection.

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