Don’t accept roadblocks!

How long have you had a website? Are people coming in droves yet? Are you breaking the barriers to success?

Remember you are not alone if your website is slow at first. Not to worry, people will come to your website in droves, once you learn how to trick them into coming to your site.

Learning the tricks of the trade may feel like you’re walking through a mire at first. But if you walk bravely through the gate into the future, you’ll be surprised how things start working out for you.

How are a few tips you can use:

Before starting out, I bought a couple books on setting up a website. One was a WordPress manual, the other was ProBlogger. This quickly shortened the period of learning the trade.

Darren Rowse is a natural and interesting person. He has grown from strength to strength since he wrote that book ProBlogger with Chris Garrett. I bought another two books after that, but they were too complicated and so boring! 

WordPress.org is one of the best support systems you can have. They have many plugins to choose from, to suit your personal type of niche.

High trending SEO keywords (or tags as some sites call them) draw people to your site. Make a personal list that suits your niche, by using Google Trends site. List them according to their trend value. Higher the trending value, the more chance you have people coming to your site. For example the words:

• Free is trending at 94-79% 
• 49 New
• 43 Watch 
• 39-31 How
• 29-23 Best

Be stubborn. Keep at it.  Success comes to those who are brave and don’t give up on themselves. Successful people are consumed by their obsessions!

• Don’t stop searching for more Knowledge. Technology is advancing at a zooming rate. Make notes of your findings and keep them in a file. If things stall at any time, go back to your notes for inspiration.
• Even though your subject maybe the same as other peoples’, promote it differently. If you enjoy what you are doing, it makes it easier for you to keep your website going. Most people go to work doing things they find boring or don’t really enjoy doing. Better is to make your hobby your career. Then you get paid to have fun!
• If you have hit a roadblock, decide what your priorities are and change gear. Find new ways of doing things. Check out what other successful web owners, designers and editors are doing. Work out what it is they are doing so well.
• Planning ahead: Take time out to dream up new and exciting things you would like to do and say. Make notes of how you could possibly do them. You can adjust and build on them to suit each situation.
• Your personality counts. Who do you hang out with? Personality tends to rub off with association!  People enjoy people with strong interesting characters. What is your lifestyle like? What do you do that’s exciting?
• Be willing to learn new skills. Little steps become bigger steps when conference takes over. The more skills you have the more interesting you are. What do you read and how often do you look up stuff that’s trending in your field?

All that isn’t enough, though! And one `website’ isn’t enough either. 

You have to hangout where its happening and you’ll be seen and heard:

Oh, I can hear you say, “I suppose she means… Social media” 

But I say, let’s look at your website as having many satellites outposts. Like legs supporting your home base. Like having a string of chain stores! If people see you everywhere, they think you are trending, so they start to consider you as a “Hallmark” product.

But don’t bite off more than you can chew.

Don’t have so many satellites that you can’t keep up with each and every one, on a regular basis. You have to think of the time and effort it takes up.

Rather reduce those satellites, to places where your niche is the main theme. And also, because it’s your favourite topic, it won’t seem like hard work and your blogs will be more solid and significant.

The fact is:

Remember been a `creator’ is fun. Been a `curator’ of your website is a slog!

Make it a great website where you want to be.  And the enthusiasm will rub off on others too.