3. Start Social Media Marketing


This is a marketing strategy you should have started implementing long ago be it for a free or self-hosted blog. The key idea is to figure out where your ideal audience loves hanging out, and engage them thoughtfully.

If, for example, you run a bit of research and get to know that members of your specific audience constantly use Facebook, then set up a business Facebook page for your site and begin from there. Once you’ve gone at length in building social media following to a considerable number in one platform, extend the same to other popular social media platforms.

4. Improve Your Website's SEO

Boosting website traffic (be it direct, social, referral or organic traffic) is a crucial step in what helps turn an amateur blog into a professional one. Getting traffic from multiple sources can help improve your website’s SEO and that will impact your search engine ranking positively.

It involves ensuring you’re consistently producing quality and engaging content, running a bit of keyword research for your content, ensuring your bounce rate keeps improving, submitting a sitemap to GSC and many more.

5. Upgrade to a Pro WordPress Theme

Leveraging a free WordPress theme is amazing as there are a considerable number of strong free themes out there for newbie or struggling veteran bloggers to use. However, free WordPress themes also come with their set of restrictions like those of free blogging platforms.

Some of these include functionality and style limitations. So, you may want to upgrade to a pro WordPress theme in case you’re on lookout for a well-designed, quality and more beautiful theme.

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I’m archiving this for future reference ...thanks for the insight
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Much welcome on board, timstime20! Kudos to you for taking the time to read this training piece! Glad you found it insightful! The tutorial contains great steps you can follow to move your amateur blog to the next level in the blogging world. All can be achieved in no distant time by implementing the working strategies.

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Eaka1 Premium
Thanks for sharing Israel, very informative post.
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Hey Eva, much welcome on board! While it can take several months and even years for so many people out there to come up with a successful blog, I wish to let you know that within a period of 6-12 months from now, you can be rocking your blog in search results. But it depends on how consistently you're willing to publish content and build quality backlinks to your site. Thanks for taking the time to read this training!

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Great job Congratulation to you .keep up the good work All the best to you on your journey at WA. .Have a wonderful weeken.
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I'm grateful, starfalex123! Kudos to you for reading this tutorial and thanks for your words of encouragement! It means a lot to someone like me. It sounds so awesome to be congratulated, especially when one is already working on the verge of being congratulated in the real sense. While everyone is struggling to move their blogging game to the next level, it became necessary to follow the pro blogging fundamentals in order to start seeing pro blogging results soonest.

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Excellent tutorial and tips to continue requiring dedication to drive traffic to our websites. Thank you!
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You're most welcome, my friend Claudio! Glad you read this training and found it excellent! Yes, you've said it all that we need to continue dedicating our time towards driving more website traffic. We don't wake up and expect things to happen. Not at all, it doesn't work out that way, but rather we wake up and make things happen. Thanks for your contributions!

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Magawealth Premium
I really like your article, I'm new here and still putting everything together. This will be a big help. Thanks
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It affords me great pleasure to welcome you to this great online business community, Magawealth. I could remember I became part of the community in December 2017, when I finally decided to pursue financial freedom through an ideal online business. I'm glad you also made it to WA and I look forward to seeing you become successful in the blogging world soonest.

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