How To Increase Blog Traffic 10x In Six Months Or Less

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Wondering how to increase blog traffic was the biggest question in my mind in 2016.

Back then I was getting 10 views per post on my new Wordpress site. Hardly the figures of some successful blogger, right?

Look at my blog traffic. It was abysmal.

Then, in late 2016, I discovered a site called Medium.com. Through this one site alone I unlocked a Pandora’s Box of traffic potential. Here’s my first solid month on Medium five years ago:

Look at the difference between my Wordpress site and Medium.

• Wordpress — 693 monthly views
• Medium — 3,189 monthly views

I more than quadrupled my traffic, just by changing publishing platforms. Since then I’ve had months on Medium where I surpassed 150,000 views.