Today, I have a great guest post to share from Steph from the Debt Free Family. She is sharing her blogging journey from the start until now, and how she built her traffic to 80,000 page views a month. Enjoy!

A little over a year ago, I decided to start a blog.

In that time, it’s grown from 0 visitors to over 80,000 page views a month. I’ve been able to go part time in my day job and I’m now earning more from my blog than I do at work which feels fantastic, and so I’m super excited to share with you how I did it!

Hi everyone, I’m Steph Addison, mum of 3, and I own Debt Free Family, where I write about anything to do with family finances, whether it’s savings, increasing your income or budgeting.

For the longest time, we never had any money.

There was never enough left towards the end of the month (or usually about half way through it!) and we spent way too many years not understanding why we were always broke.

Cars were financed, holidays went on credit cards (because how else would you pay, right?!) budgeting didn’t exist in our world and honestly…we didn’t give it a second thought. [Read more…]

Hello! Today, I have a great article to share from R.J. Weiss. He purchased my course, Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing back in 2017, and has since grown an amazing website. He now has a six-figure blog that receives around 500,000 monthly visitors. Enjoy!

Before launching The Ways To Wealth in 2016, I read the entire archives of multiple blogs’ income reports. For some blogs, like Making Sense of Cents (which started publishing them in 2013) this meant going through years of old posts. 

It was time well spent. 

I learned a lot about what worked and what didn’t when it comes to building a profitable blog. And with that knowledge in hand, I set a goal to build a blog that would replace my full-time job.

Fast-forward 14 months and that goal was accomplished. I was comfortable leaving a job I’d held for 10 years. 

It’s not like I was knocking it out of the park. I was making about $3,000 per month at the time. Still, with a healthy emergency fund, I decided to take the leap and become a full-time blogger. 

Fast-forward even further, to today, and The Ways To Wealth is doing great. It reaches around 500,000 visitors every month and has surpassed the next goal I set for myself — building a six-figure blog. [Read more…]

Hello! Today, I have a great article from Trinity Owen on how to optimize a blog post for SEO. I hear a lot of questions about SEO from readers, so this is perfect timing! Trinity has been researching and testing work from home opportunities for more than 10 years and enjoys sharing the information gathered with fellow introverts. Concurrently, she works as a freelance SEO auditor, consultant, and writer. She also has a free 6 Day SEO Boot Camp that you can sign up.

They say SEO takes time.

You can dot your i’s and cross your t’s, but for some reason, a blog post that you optimize for SEO could take six months to a year (or more) to rank on Google, right?

Wrong.

While there’s always the possibility that a brand new blog post needs time to build authority and rank on Google, it shouldn’t take a full year.

In all my years as a freelance SEO, not once did I stumble upon an old blog post making its own way to the first page of Google after a year or more in existence.

If an older post climbs the ranks, it’s because someone revisits it and optimizes it for search engines. [Read more…]