Take a step back to reflect on your achievements so far! Review lessons learned over the past 9 days, troubleshoot common challenges, and get ready for the next big step in your journey to 100k+ organic traffic.
Review, Reflect, and Troubleshoot Progress
Congratulations! You’ve completed the first 9 days of your 100-day journey towards achieving 100k+ organic traffic. By now, you’ve learned foundational lessons on business naming, domain selection, hosting, content strategy, SEO, and email marketing. It’s time to pause, reflect on your progress, and troubleshoot any issues that might be hindering your growth.
Introduction
In this lesson, we will look back at the key takeaways from the past lessons, evaluate your progress, discuss common challenges, and give you tasks to help you improve further. This will not only reinforce what you’ve learned but will also prepare you for the exciting lessons ahead in your journey.
As we go forward, we’ll continue with advanced techniques, but first, let’s make sure everything you’ve learned is solid and well-implemented.
Reviewing Your Progress: What You’ve Achieved So Far
Over the last 9 days, you’ve made significant strides towards building your business and increasing your organic traffic. Let’s break down the milestones:
1. Choosing Your Business Name
You’ve learned how to choose a business name that is unique, relevant to your niche, and easy to remember. You also explored the importance of domain availability and how a good business name plays a crucial role in your branding efforts.
- Key Achievement: You’ve come up with a business name that reflects your values and aligns with your target audience.
2. Selecting Your Domain Name and Hosting
You’ve grasped the basics of selecting a domain name that aligns with your business goals, and you’ve understood the importance of reliable hosting. In particular, you’ve learned how to partner with reliable hosting providers like HosterPk for a seamless online presence.
- Key Achievement: You now have a fully functional domain and hosting setup for your business.
3. Email Marketing Fundamentals
You’ve dived into email marketing strategies that can help scale your business. From building an email list to segmenting your audience and creating valuable email content, you’ve laid the groundwork for a successful email marketing campaign.
- Key Achievement: You’ve built or started building an email list and are preparing to engage with your audience through email.
4. Optimizing Your Website for Search Engines
By now, you’ve implemented some key SEO practices, such as on-page SEO (keyword optimization, meta descriptions, header tags) and off-page SEO (link building and using tools like IndexNow). Your website’s structure is more search engine-friendly, and your content is optimized for higher rankings.
- Key Achievement: Your website’s SEO foundation is in place, and you’re on the right path to boosting your organic traffic.
Troubleshooting Common Challenges
While you’ve made great progress, it’s natural to encounter challenges along the way. Let’s review some of the common obstacles that people face at this stage, and how you can overcome them:
1. Low Website Traffic Despite SEO Efforts
If your traffic isn’t growing as expected, it could be due to several factors. Common issues include:
- Low-quality content: Even if your content is optimized, it might not be engaging enough for your audience. Consider adding more in-depth content or interactive elements.
- Overlooking technical SEO: Make sure your website is technically sound. Slow loading speeds, broken links, or poor mobile optimization can hurt your SEO performance. Use tools like SpeedyCache to ensure faster load times.
- Solution: Focus on improving content quality, resolve technical issues, and analyze your website using tools like Site Kit by Google to pinpoint any SEO issues.
2. Difficulty Building an Email List
Building a solid email list can take time, and if you’re struggling, you might want to:
- Reevaluate your lead magnets: Ensure your lead magnets (like free eBooks or guides) are valuable to your target audience.
- Utilize social media: Promoting your email list on social platforms can help you increase sign-ups.
- Solution: Create high-value lead magnets, ensure your email sign-up forms are visible, and actively promote your list on social media channels.
3. Domain and Hosting Issues
Choosing the wrong domain name or hosting provider can result in a slow, unprofessional website that affects both user experience and search engine rankings. If you face:
- Downtime: Check with your hosting provider, like HosterPk, to ensure there are no server issues.
- Slow website speed: Optimize your images, use caching, and consider a content delivery network (CDN) to improve speed.
- Solution: Partner with a reliable hosting provider like HosterPk for support and use SpeedyCache and other optimization tools to ensure fast load times.
Key Tasks to Complete Today
Let’s set some actionable tasks for you to complete today to ensure you’re progressing in the right direction:
1. Check Website Performance
Use Site Kit by Google and SpeedyCache to evaluate the performance of your website.
- Task: Check for any technical SEO issues, broken links, slow-loading pages, and optimize them accordingly.
2. Build and Nurture Your Email List
Take a deep dive into your email list-building strategy.
- Task: Ensure you have lead magnets in place and promote them across all channels. Use ConvertKit or Mailchimp to manage your campaigns and list segments.
3. Improve Your Content Strategy
Ensure your content is aligned with your audience’s needs. Look back at the content you’ve published and see if there’s any room for improvement or optimization.
- Task: Add depth to your blog posts, incorporate internal links, and optimize for SEO.
4. Troubleshoot Any Technical SEO Issues
Look into any technical SEO issues on your website and make necessary improvements.
- Task: Ensure your website is mobile-friendly, has an SSL certificate, and that all important pages are indexed by Google.
At eBrain, we can help you with your SEO, email marketing, and content strategy to ensure maximum results for your business. If you need expert help with troubleshooting, optimizing your website, or running successful marketing campaigns, get in touch with us today!
Looking Ahead: What’s Next?
In the next lesson, we will dive deeper into advanced SEO strategies that can accelerate your traffic growth. These strategies will include improving your content’s authority, building high-quality backlinks, and leveraging social signals to increase visibility.
You’ve learned a lot so far, and you’re doing great! Keep up the momentum, tackle these tasks, and get ready for the exciting next steps ahead.
