How to Get More Blog Views and Why You Need to

Last updated on March 22nd, 2019 at 07:45 am

“How to get more views on your blog?” This is the million dollar question that most bloggers ask themselves, myself included. Anyone who starts a blog with the intention of monetizing it wants to see it grow. The only way that you’re going to make money from your blog is getting it in front of more eyeballs.

Blogging Is Hard

When you first start a blog, it’s exciting. You’ve probably started your blog because you read an income report and are thinking about the possibilities of earning money from home. So you go out and start your own blog.

If you’re still on the fence and not quite sure about it because you’re not a techie, I suggest that you visit this tutorial to help you start a blog on SiteGround. Once you’re done setting up your blog, head on over here for articles to help you learn the basics of WordPress.

Oh, and if you’re concerned about the costs of starting a blog, it’s not as much as you might think.

If you’re starting from zero like most new bloggers then blogging is hard work at the beginning. As soon as you start writing content you’re not going to see any visitors. Well, you might if you’re in Facebook groups and you share on share days.

But it will be a while before you start seeing content from the search engines. Even if you get started with Pinterest, there’s a learning curve that you have to overcome.

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Unfortunately, there’s a learning curve that comes with blogging. We all have to go through this learning curve and we all go through it at our own pace.

How to Get More Views on Your Blog And Why You Need Them

As soon as you start blogging, chances are you’ll head on over to join some Facebook groups to collaborate with other bloggers. Which is a great thing and can only help you in the long run of your blog.

But after a few months of blogging you’ll notice that you’re not getting anywhere. You’ll probably find yourself spending time in Facebook groups asking questions like “why isn’t my blog making money?”

Chances are the main reason you’re not making money with your blog yet is because you’re not getting enough page views. If you can’t get enough people to come to your blog and click on your affiliate links, you’re not going to make any sales.

This is why it’s so important to make sure that what you’re doing is actually working. Otherwise you’ll look back a year from today and realize that what you’ve been doing isn’t helping you grow.

My first year of working on this blog, I pretty much wasted my time. I wasn’t paying attention to the growth of my blog and I wasn’t concentrating on just a few traffic strategies.

Instead, I was trying to be everywhere and ended up getting nowhere. That’s why for my second year, I’ve decided to take a different approach to growing my blog.

This year, I am NOT trying to be everywhere. In fact, I actually look at my Google Analytics every month to see what’s working and what I can improve.

It’s a much smarter way to grow a blog. Especially, if you’re hoping that it makes money one day.

5 Reasons You Should Care About Your Page Views

If you’ve just started or have been blogging for a while, then you need to be focused on growing your pageviews. I’m not saying that you’ll create a profitable blog and make thousands just because you have several pageviews.

But it’s more exciting when you’re actually getting some pageviews and making some sales. Then you can start working on other things to scale your business. But the most important thing is to first focus on growing your pageviews and your audience.

I’m going to tell you exactly why I’ve started focusing more on pageviews this year than I why I am so passionate about it, here are 5 reasons bloggers should care about growing their page views:

#1 Your Blog Is Your Business

Most likely you’ve started your blog in hopes of earning some income online. Maybe you want to turn your blog into a full-time income so you can either replace your day job or create a side income.

Either way, you need to realize that your blog is not a diary. I know that not everyone who has a blog wants to earn money from it.

But if you’re one of those bloggers who has blogging goals and wants to turn their blog into a business, it’s time to start taking your blog seriously.

We all have our own unique story to tell. You can use your blog to share your experience and knowledge with others. If you’re helping people solve problems, eventually people will buy the products and services you recommend.

But you can’t help anyone if no one is seeing your amazing content. The bottom line is that you’re not helping anyone if you’re not taking the necessary steps to improve your page views every month.

#2 Setting Blogging Goals Helps You Stay Motivated

Goals make us excited and get us out of bed. While I love blogging and writing content that helps you, it would be boring if I didn’t set goals for myself and strive to achieve them.

It would be kind of like going to the gym and not having any goals. You’d probably just show up to the gym spend a few minutes on the treadmill and call it a day.

Why?

Because you didn’t have any goals that you were trying to achieve. So you wouldn’t be able to tell if you’re actually making any improvements on your body or not.

Blogging is the same thing. If all you did was wake up and write new content and not pay attention to your Analytics. How would you know if you’re actually growing or if anyone is actually loving any of your content?

You wouldn’t and it would be virtually impossible to grow your blog. Well you probably could grow it, but be ready to spend years working hard and maybe making a few hundred dollars.

Setting blogging goals can keep you motivated to keep working on your blog even when you’re not getting the results you want. As long as you don’t beat yourself up when you don’t reach your goals.

Unfortunately, you’re not always going to reach your goals. As long as you’re treating your blog like a business and working on it everyday, it’s okay to forgive yourself for not reaching your goals.

The important thing is to set realistic goals that you can reach. Most of us set unrealistic blogging goals that we won’t reach, even if we worked 24/7 on our blogs.

If you’re never reaching your goals, maybe you’re just setting your goals too high. Make sure that you’re setting goals that you can actually reach.

#3 You Can Monetize Your Blog

If you’re getting traffic and have an audience, this means that you can monetize your blog. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with monetizing a blog.

I know that many people think that you become a sellout the minute you start trying to make money off your blog. Personally, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with monetizing your blog.

Bloggers work hard and many of them have built up a business by sharing tons of valuable information. They have poured hours and hours into their blog and have managed to turn it into a profitable business.

I personally think every blogger should monetize their blog. After all, you’re going to spend hours into growing your blogging business. Not to mention, there are blogging costs that every blogger incurs.

You can’t expect someone to provide all the valuable information for free. Even if you’re blogging as a hobby, you might want to think about monetizing your blog to cover your blogging costs.

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#4 You Can Help More People

It’s so easy to think that you don’t have anything to offer anyone. Maybe you’re struggling with the fact that you’re not an expertise in your niche?

But the truth is that you do have something to offer your audience. As I mentioned above, we all have our own unique stories and experience. If you can write quality content, not only will you be able to help the readers that follow your blog.

Eventually, you’ll start to show up the search results where people can find your blog.

Your stories and experiences can help people and by increasing your pageviews you’re able to help more people.

Remember, your main goal as a blogger should be to help your readers. Yes, you want to make money.

But you never want to put the profit before your readers. I truly believe that as long as you’re genuine and really help people then the money will come.

If all you do is care about the money, you’re audience will be able to tell in the writing. So whatever you do, focus on helping your readers.

Put yourself in their shoes and help them. After all, they’ve come to your blog because they need help with a specific problem.

#5 Your Pageviews Don’t Dictate Your Worth

Now before you start thinking that pageviews are everything. The truth is that pageviews don’t necessarily dictate whether a blogger is great or mediocre.

I’ve seen some amazing content on some blogs and they struggle to get pageviews. Then I’ve seen some bloggers who don’t have the greatest content but have managed to get over 100,000 pageviews per month.

It can be frustrating when you see bloggers who have started after you and are now getting over 25,000 pageviews while you struggle to get to 10,000 pageviews.

Trust me I know how it feels. The only thing that I can tell you is that you just need to keep blogging. As long as you don’t quit and you’re constantly monitoring what’s working and what isn’t you will reach your goals.

Start paying better attention to what type of content is working for others. This doesn’t mean that you should steal other people’s work, but if it’s working for them, then maybe it will work for you.

You can’t expect to continue doing the same thing and get different results. As a blogger you have to keep testing and tweaking to see what works for you. Remember, what works for someone else may not necessarily work for you.

More Pageviews Doesn’t Always Mean More Money

Yes if you get more pageviews, chances are you’re going to make more money. But if you take a look at this article on how much do bloggers make.

You’ll be surprised to see all the different ways that bloggers are making money. It’s also interesting to see how some bloggers are getting thousands of pageviews every month but aren’t making that money.

While some bloggers are not getting that many pageviews every month, but yet they’ve managed to grow their blog intoa profitable business.

It all comes down to how you’re monetizing your blog. If you still need help with turning your blog into a business, here’s a free guide that will help you treat your blog like a business.

There’s nothing wrong with testing different monetization strategies. In fact, I think you should always be testing and see which affiliate products and services convert best.

Sometimes it’s not always about the commission you make. You want to go with products that convert the best otherwise you’ll never make any money with your blog.

It takes time and patience to make money with your blog. So whatever you do, just keep putting one foot in front of the other until you reach your blogging goals.

Keep Learning

I started my very first blog several years ago and it was so much easier to promote your blog posts and drive traffic. Today, with so many blogs being on the Internet, you have to keep learning and implementing new traffic methods.

This might mean that you’ll need to start creating YouTube videos or learn how to use different social networks to promote your blog. Things constantly change and you need to find out what works best for your blog.

As long as you are willing to learn and keep doing those tasks that work for you, eventually, you’ll see your hard work pay off.

Final Take Away

Pageviews are important and it’s exciting to see your blog grow month after month. But don’t get sucked into the numbers and check your Analytics every single day.

Work on monetzing your most popular blog posts and growing your email list. You can still make money if you don’t get a lot of pageviews every month.

If you’ve built a loyal following that trusts you, then you’re golden. You won’t need a lot of pageviews to start earning money from your blog.

Are you ready to take your blog growth into your own hands? Here are a few posts and resources to help you get started, don’t forget to read my blog growth updates where I share what I am doing every month to grow my blog.

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Do you set blogging goals to improve your pageviews every month? If so what are you doing to reach those goals? Share what you’re doing to grow your blog every month, I’d love to hear about it.