Growing your audience and increasing your ability to monetize can happen a lot more organically and effectively if you use a reader-first strategy on your site. Here's tips on doing your own mini site audit and what brands and readers think when they see your blog.
Presented at TBex 2015 in Fort Lauderdale, FL
4. What Matters to Brands
• Quality of Content
• Quality of Photography
• Relevance to their consumer
• Numbers
6. The Most Important Question You Can Ask:
What am I doing to
help my readers?
7. Helping Readers Helps You
• The more readers enjoy your posts, the more
likely you are to get:
• Returning readers
• Social shares
• Links from other sites
• Brand interest
• Higher search rankings
16. Post #2
• Several hotels with detailed comparisons
• Dining options with different cuisines
• Research on multiple attractions
• Package and tour options
• Choices in different price points
18. Helping Readers Helps You
• What’s the experience like navigating your site…
• For the first time?
• On mobile?
• If you want to subscribe to posts?
• If you want to follow on social?
• If you want to contact you via email?
19. Helping Readers Helps You
• Is your site design and navigation…
• Simple?
• Welcoming?
• Bombarding people with ads?
• Using pop-ups that are hard to close?
• Working with ads that cover your images?
• Making it easy to find relevant content?
20. Insider Information
• When Brands Look at Your Site
• Numbers aren’t enough
• Working together means putting my brand on your
site
• I need to want to come back
22. Helping Readers Helps You
• Improve search rankings
• Detailed, thorough, relevant content
• Links from other sites
• Time spent on site
• Clicking through to more posts
23. More Readers Means…
• More leverage and influence.
• More name recognition.
• More brands say yes.
• More people click and purchase through affiliate
links.
24. Help Readers Monetize Better
• Creating opportunities for sponsored content
• Higher traffic
• Higher search rankings
• Higher social shares
25. Help Readers Monetize Better
• Creating opportunities for affiliate links
• Posts that answer questions help increase clicks and
sales
• Posts that help readers gather information increase
conversion rates
• Posts that rank in search help you leverage higher
commissions
26. Add One Step To Your Post Process
Did I help my
readers?