{"id":11313,"date":"2021-06-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.travelpayouts.com\/en\/?p=11313"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:10:41","slug":"how-to-get-visitors-to-your-blog-in-the-first-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelpayouts.com\/blog\/how-to-get-visitors-to-your-blog-in-the-first-month\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get 500 Visitors to Your Blog in the First Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The exact volume you can achieve depends on initial conditions and your strategy. In this post, we\u2019ll discuss techniques that\u2019ll be useful for aspiring bloggers without any special background in the niche or thousands of followers on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Promote Content on Social Media<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sharing content on social media is a great way to boost traffic fast, and you may even get visitors the first day with paid social. However, posts only show up well on social networks for a day or less<\/a>, and social traffic wanes if not supported by daily efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peep Laja of ConversionXL<\/a> sets a great example of how sharing content across social platforms can bring traffic to your blog fast. Here\u2019s what he did to get there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Peep Laja shared his posts on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Hacker News. <\/li>
  2. As the content was high quality, readers voted for it, so posts kept spreading.<\/li>
  3. Peep added social share buttons to all articles and asked readers to subscribe to the newsletter or follow him on social media. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Another example of a successful social strategy may be found on Catherine Oneissy\u2019s blog<\/a>. Catherine boosted blog traffic by creating pins for each of her posts on Pinterest, received 5,000 pageviews in just two weeks, and reached the 21,000 pageviews mark in the second month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    However, getting stuck with such a variety of social media platforms is a common mistake, which can dampen the whole process. Henri Junttila recommends focusing on one platform and scaling from there. If you still want to use different networks, automate your marketing with social media management tools<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2. Post SEO-Friendly Articles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Search engines can be a source of traffic coming to your blog for years, but it may take months before you start getting visitors. To make that happen, you need to write useful SEO-friendly posts and update them regularly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The good thing about search traffic is that it is easily projected for a specific query. Tools like Google Keyword Planner allow you to study the amount of queries and get an estimate of traffic volume for an article if it makes it to the top search results. However, you need to understand that SEO traffic won\u2019t get you tons of traffic the first month and is a long term solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Peep Laja of ConversionXL<\/a> focused on writing long and thorough posts with plenty of links to sources and great pictures. To enhance readability, Peep uses font size 16, equivalent to the way text looks in paper books, line height 24p, Georgia font, and a new paragraph every 4 to 5 lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    On the same note, Sujan Patel<\/a>, entrepreneur and digital marketing strategist, believes that you should write 1,000 words per post at minimum and increase word count to the extent possible. For example, the first post in the SERP contains on average 1,890 words, so keep it up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    3. Do Keyword Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    As a continuation of the previous point, SEO is inconceivable without proper keyword research. Keywords are search terms that people use when looking for a topic on search engines, and they can help site owners with marketing and ranking higher in the SERP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Essentially, there are short-form and long-form keywords. Short-form keywords usually contain three or less words and have high search volumes, while long-form keywords include four or more words and have low search volumes. It\u2019s hard to compete for short-form keywords especially for those who are starting a blog<\/a>, so at first you may want to focus on longer phrases. They can bring more targeted traffic and convert at better rates, as 70% of search queries<\/a> are related to long-tail keywords. Moreover, Google may treat keyword variations as equal, so ranking for one long-form keyword might also make you rank for its variations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Once you research the keywords<\/a> your audience uses when searching on the internet, it\u2019s important to optimize your content. Here are a few ideas of how to do that: <\/p>\n\n\n\n