Have you been blogging for a while?
Maintaining a blog is more than just writing blog posts. There is so much that goes into having a successful blog like writing content, promoting your blog posts, creating freebies for your audience and figuring ways to monetize your blog!
But, one thing to remember is as you are writing new blog posts, you have to pay attention to the old blog posts you have!
You started a blog! Yay!
Or, you’re thinking about starting a blog! Yay to you too mama!
As a beginner blogger, there is a ton – ton, ton, ton – of things to learn about and focus on.
How do you grow your blog traffic?
How do you make money from blogging?
What are the best blogging tips for beginners?
Let’s dive into this ultimate guide for blogging for beginners. We’ll go through the most important and proven blog tips to help you have a successful first year as a mom blogger.
Are you a mom blogger ready to have a baby? Need some time saving tips for your new mom blog? Oh yeah, I’m here to help ya!
Even though I’ve been blogging for a while when my twins were toddlers and are now in school, I know many mom bloggers blogging away and are pregnant!
You go mommy blogger!
Time management is something you need when your new baby will be born. How do other bloggers manage their time with a new baby and another child or toddler running around?
Starting your blog can be one of the best things you can start!
As a mommy blogger with five-year-old twins, I’ve seen how my blog has grown my income, helped me meet amazing mompreneurs and above all, inspire and serve my readers.
Did you know that you can open up your new blog for guest bloggers?
Why would you want to have submissions as a blog strategy?
And how do you open up your blog for guest writers?
There are multiple ways to increase blog traffic and one way is to turn your blog into a contributor blog.
This is a blog that has multi-authors and allows for a blog content calendar with fresh posts weekly, bi-weekly or daily.
And the blog traffic you gain can come from the writers sharing your blog post on their blog – or better – linking to your blog on bigger sites. This is a great SEO strategy.
Starting a new blog and increasing blog traffic is a proven system that big blogs use.
And my newest blog has grown its traffic quickly.
Before I go into that, this blog, Twins Mommy, started two years ago and in it’s first month I grew my blog to 4,000 pageviews. I was ecstatic and so happy.
I decided that I wanted to try to grow my blog traffic for Twins Mommy.
So, on my blog, I charted my journey to grow this blog. I have grown the Twins Mommy blog to over 60,000 pageviews!
You started a blog!
Congrats mama!
With a new blog, there are so many things to focus on. But, building your foundation for growing your blog should be your primary focus.
SEO.
If you’re a new blogger, I’m sure you’ve heard this term before.
It stands for Search Engine Optimization.
In simplest terms, your blog posts can be the #1 search result on Google (or on another search engine platform) when someone searches for a specific keyword or general term.
For example, here’s the result for Pinterest groups for moms.
You have an amateur blog.
You start a blog and then all of a sudden, you feel like you have to play catch up.
You have to learn all about blogging, SEO, Pinterest, Facebook, marketing, email and more. But, how can you when you’ve only been blogging for 24 days?
When I started my amateur blog, I was fortunate to have my husband help me with the design and development of my blog. He also helped me figure out things I wanted to know quickly.
I’m forever grateful for that. And that’s why I like sharing blogging, traffic and money tips to all of you!
Got a new mommy blog?
When I first started Twins Mommy, no one came to my site. I think only 8 people did at first. I even leveraged my other blog’s audience to grow my blog traffic for this blog.
But, that didn’t work (obviously) since my other blog’s audience is primarily men!
So, I had to make sure that when new people DID arrive at my blog, that I kept them here as long as possible.
Why is that important?
