I wanted to ask for some ways that you can grow a website/blog.

I have in the past created blogs using wordpress/Jeykll and they never seem to get that many views from google search so wanted to ask for some ways to grow a website/blog.

  • Black Xanthus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In the modern world, I’m not sure a blog without advertising is going to work - especially hosted on your own domain.

    You will have better luck with substack or koffi, who’s search algorithms will at least suggest related sites - and increase your visibility.

    For decent views you are going to need a way of generating audience - that used to be Facebook and Twitter, but Twitter is dead, and Facebook is showing reduced returns of a saturated market. However, reduced is but 0, so it’s still worth throwing up a page.

    After that, a public Mastodon profile will help in audience creation, but that’s very much a slow burn, and you’ll have to make sure you #tag properly.

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      1 year ago

      Depending on where you’re located, instagram is also pretty good to get things going. Making a short graphic for each article should be a nice balance. You COULD make a reel/story/tiktokVideo for more engagement, but personally I’d avoid a creator doing stuff like that.

      I’d say, in order:

      • Mastodon page
      • RSS feed
      • Instagram account
      • Facebook page