If I Started My Blog Again, Here’s How I’d Reach 10k Sessions Fast

Last updated on 26 November 2024

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I started my first blog when I was 18. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I did it anyway. 🤷🏼‍♀️ It was a hot mess, that’s for sure. Actually, it was a hot mess for about 5 years. But since then, I have learned SO much, and I would do things SO differently if I were starting a blog today, especially if I wanted to reach 10k sessions per month mark.

Why 10k? It’s a good starting point, and lots of ad networks require at least 10k sessions per month, so if you were looking to monetise through ads, it’s a good starting goal. But you could equally change that to 5k if you’d like a step before that.

What I would do differently to reach 10k sessions

1. Narrow Down My Niche

I’m not saying I would niche all the way down to something teeny and specific, but I would narrow it down a bit more than what I currently have.

My current blog, the one you’re reading, is a combination of blogging tips (oh hey yo), travel, books and sometimes (though not really that much in recent years) creative posts. While this has worked really well for me, I think it’s mostly due to the fact that I’ve had my blog for such a long time. If I were starting a blog from scratch, I’d just focus on one of those areas.

I’d look at travel, or books, or blogging tips. But probably not a combination of all of them, unless I could really sync them up in topic. (Maybe something like remote working while on the road – blogging and travelling together.)

2. Learn SEO a heck of a lot sooner

I wish I learned SEO sooner. Like, a lot sooner. This is what suddenly took my blog from zero to actual traffic a few years into my blogging journey. Understanding how to use keywords effectively, optimising my posts for search engines, and learning how to build backlinks would have saved me a lot of time and effort for all those years trying to grow my blog.

These days, tools like Ubersuggest and Google Search Console and Google Analytics are my best friends. They help me figure out what keywords are going to work for my blog, and then track to see if those keywords are actually doing what they’re meant to be doing.

3. Figure out what people actually want to read

If I were starting my blog today, I would find that balance of things that I wanted to write about, and what my audience was actually wanting to read. That’s definitely going to help push my views up to 10k.

When I started, I definitely just wrote about what I wanted to write about. And while I do think it’s really important for us to love what we’re writing (and readers can tell if we don’t like our own topics!), we do also need to be thinking about what kinds of things we can be helping people with. Perhaps that inspiration, education, encouragement, entertainment … whatever it is in our niche, we need to figure out what people want to read. And combine that with what we love writing about.

4. Get on Pinterest ASAP

Pinterest started just a few months after my blog was created. Yup. I started blogging before Pinterest, which is absolutely bonkers to me. But this meant that I was one of those people who had to get an invite to use it. These days? Pinterest is my second highest traffic source, after Google.

While I couldn’t really have learnt Pinterest skills and grown my blog properly with Pinterest back in the day, today that would be one of the first places I go to to start sharing my blog content. Creating eye-catching Pins for each blog post, make sure you’re using good keywords for Pinterest, and using Tailwind to schedule them consistently is going to help your blog traffic so much.

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5. Get a Community

How is getting a community going to help you grow your blog to 10k views? Accountability. Encouragement. Support. Ideas.

The more you hang out with people who are like-minded and are on similar journeys to you, the more you’re going to actually put in the work. The more you put in the work, the more traffic you’ll be getting. See what I mean? I think this is really important.

Joining blogging groups on Facebook (check out Bold Beginner Bloggers!), attending live online classes, and participating in challenges and collaborations … even signing up to events that are happening with other bloggers or businesses in your town. These all contribute to your accountability. And also, making blogging friends is FUN.

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There are a lot more things that I would probably do differently if I were starting a blog today and wanted to get to 10k sessions per month as soon as possible, but those are the main ones. If you’re starting a blog at the moment, or you’re relatively new to the whole blogging thing – keep these things in mind. Hopefully, they help!

What’s something that you would do differently if YOU were starting your blog again? Drop your thoughts in the comments below!