TLDR: Boosted blog to 417K monthly visitors using SEO-focused templates, scaled content production, and strategic updates. Key tactics: content templates, reverse outreach, and blog landing optimization.
This article is a summary of a You Tube video “How I Use SEO to Get 417K Visitors/Month” by Brian Dean
Key Takeaways:
- Content Templates: Leveraging a limited number of effective templates to streamline content creation, which greatly boosted traffic.
- Scaling Content Production: Increasing the number of posts from one per week to four to five by hiring multiple writers, thus rapidly growing visitor numbers.
- Specialized Content Focus: Creating content specifically tailored to target audiences, such as startup and trend list posts, to attract specific demographics like VCs and investors.
- Blog Landing Page Optimization: Replacing the traditional blog feed with a curated landing page to better promote and funnel traffic to high-conversion pages.
- Reverse Outreach: Producing content designed to attract links organically from bloggers and journalists, thereby enhancing SEO without direct outreach.
- Updating Existing Content: Regularly revisiting and updating content to keep it relevant and maintain high search engine rankings.
- Internal Linking: Planning to improve internal linking across the blog to enhance SEO and user navigation.
- Utilizing Analytics and Feedback: Monitoring which templates and strategies yield the best results and adjusting tactics accordingly.
- Experimenting with New Templates: Exploring outside of comfort zones with new content templates to drive traffic growth.
- Quality vs. Quantity Balance: Maintaining a balance between scaling up content production and keeping high content quality standards.
