How I published 48 posts in 30 days and tripled my blog traffic.

**Update December 2014** – Pressgram is no longer available. You can still publish to your WordPress blog using the WordPress App on your mobile device. It’s just a a little more tedious. Many of these principals below can be applied to any current or future publishing application.

I haven’t really publicly announced this yet, but I have a personal goal this year to publish at least 500 blog posts to my personal blog, here at kineticbear.com. If you average that out, that’s about 10 per week. So that means I have to post at least one per day. That sounds like a big commitment doesn’t it? How the heck can you blog that much!?

Well guess what…. It’s way too easy thanks to Pressgram.

I have been blogging every single day as part of a 365 challenge through Discover Pressgram which challenges you to blog one image per day using Pressgram right to your blog. I was pretty much already addicted to taking photos with my phone every day, so to be able to post them right to my blog with a decent size caption allows me to shoot, edit, write and publish within a few minutes.

Five minutes per day is nothing. Most of us today are multi-taskers, so you could easily share a photo to your blog in real time and talk about what you are doing. You could even share a photo you took earlier in the day or even from last weekend. You could do it from your freakin couch without having to use a computer. Just grab your iPhone from your pocket and publish.

What’s great is that if you set up jetpack and your plugins in wordpress correctly, you can automate social sharing for every single post you make from Pressgram.

It’s so easy. Seriously.

So how many of those posts were done with Pressgram?

I was able to blog 31 posts in January straight from my iPhone. The other 17 posts I did from my computer. Those posts were a little heavier on the content side of things. They had more complex images and way too many words to type using my iPhone.

If I stay at this pace of 48 per month, I will be way past my goal of 500 posts in 2014. So I am already quite a bit ahead of myself. Which is awesome!

I’m killing it.

So how much traffic are we talking about?

So just so everyone is aware, this is just a personal blog for me. I love writing, creating photos, graphics and videos and I currently do not monetize my blog at all. I do it for me. I do it because I love to blog. Straight up. I don’t think I am to the point were I should be asking for money quite yet, but it has been really cool to see my traffic increase on just my personal work I have published here.

This site is just over one year old right now, so it will be exciting to see where it heads this year.

I took a screen shot of my stats for you all to see.

One thing to note, is that January of 2013 is a bit flawed for the average per day, since it is based on only the last few days of January 2013, which is when I launched the site as self hosted and no longer a wordpress.com site.

As you can see, most of the time my average views per day in 2013 was anywhere from 9 to 51 with September being an exceptionally high month due to the launch of Pressgram and my involvement with the launch that month.  It was around October that I began to publish a bit less with Pressgram and in December, hardly at all.

What I find very interesting was that as soon as I committed to publishing at least once per day with Pressgram, my stats had become very consistent.  If you look at the screenshot above, you will notice that since January, my weekly traffic has been steady and equal to, if not higher than what my stats were in October and November. In those months, I was pretty consistent with using Pressgram. Like I said before, in December I hardly published with Pressgram.

I went from hardly publishing with Pressgram in December 2013, creating 797 views….. to publishing every single day with Pressgram in January 2014, creating 2195 views. That is nearly triple the traffic change in just one month. Now that is pretty darn cool.

The amount I used Pressgram to publish to my blog directly began to reflect upon my traffic. Here is why……

1. When I was publishing less, the less content I was creating.  That was less reason and interest for people to come see my blog. When I published more I got more traffic. Plain and simple.

2. When I found myself publishing more often with Pressgram, I began to publish more posts on my blog in general. High quality and well thought out posts that I would write from my computer began to take priority in my life as well. It was the act of publishing daily through Pressgram, that created a habit within me to just keep on publishing. Pressgram nearly made the habit an addiction. When a habit becomes an addiction, then it’s super easy to keep it up.

3. Not only was I publishing more posts, I have found that I am just getting better at writing. Forcing myself to write, publish and reveal thoughts and opinions helps me understand my own thought process and feedback from others. It also makes me realize where the strengths in my writing are. Better writing means better traffic.

Pressgram is the easiest way to make blogging a daily habit.

It seriously is the easiest way to not only start blogging, but to even to rekindle the your blogging spirit if you are a veteran blogger. The simplicity that Pressgram offers is a huge opportunity for bloggers to create the daily habit of publishing. It is almost too easy. If you aren’t using it to publish you are missing out on saving a ton of time and becoming a better publisher. That is a huge win.

 

I will keep you up to date through out the year as I continue my 365 Challenge and pursue over 500 blog posts this year. – Read an update here.

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