Course

Blogging for Business

Free

Learn how to grow your blog past 100K monthly visitors and turn thousands of your readers into paying customers.

In this course you will learn:

  • The compound effect of content marketing
  • Two major strategies of growing a blog
  • How to analyze the traffic potential and ranking difficulty of a keyword
  • How to find great content ideas with high business value
  • How to optimize your article for a target keyword and generate maximum search traffic with it
  • How to create great content that promotes itself
  • How to create link-worthy content (and stop worrying about link building)
  • How to promote your content & make it rank high in Google
  • How to build backlinks to your blog content
  • How to build links & promote content via blogger outreach


Syllabus



The compound effect of content marketing

The primary goal of blogging for business 2:20

Three main customer acquisition channels 4:16

The main reason why most blogs fail 6:47

Two major strategies of growing a blog

The anatomy of the “Spike of hope” 4:41

Two major strategies of growing a blog 5:09

Busting the “publish more often” myth 3:37

How to convert visitors into subscribers 2:36

How to analyze the traffic potential and ranking difficulty of a keyword

How to test your article ideas for “search demand” 4:06

How to determine the full traffic potential of a keyword 5:49

How to find the best keyword to target 3:51

How to determine your chances to rank in Google 6:36

How to use Keyword Difficulty metric in Ahrefs 5:23

How to find great content ideas with high business value

How to discover great content ideas by studying your niche 5:12

How to generate keyword ideas using keyword research tools 4:46

How to find keywords that your competitors are ranking for 2:58

How to find low-hanging content ideas from all over the web 4:18

How to prioritize your list of content ideas 5:00

How to optimize your target article for a target keyword and generate maximum search traffic with it

What is “searcher intent” and how to match it 5:59

How to optimize your article for a given keyword 4:46

How to squeeze maximum search traffic out of your article 2:58

How to perform an SEO audit of your published content 4:18

How to create great content that promotes itself

Why your content has to be great 4:50

How to create content that people will care to read and share with others 7:15

How to create unique content that will stand out 3:45

How to create link-worthy content (and stop worrying about link building)

Do you always need backlinks to rank? 7:13

How to create content that attracts backlinks 5:26

The rarely mentioned “secret” to acquiring backlinks 3:56

How to promote your content & make it rank high in Google

Four common mistakes of content promotion 12:25

The best content promotion strategies reviewed 6:31

How to compete with the “big guys” in Google search results 3:04

How to build backlinks to your blog content

The best link-building strategies for blogs 6:15

How to get backlink ideas from your competitors 8:05

How to build links via guest blogging 3:04

Simple guest blogging “hacks” for better results in less time 4:28

How to build links & promote content via blogger outreach

How to use “Outreach” for content promotion 7:13

How to find thousands of high-quality outreach prospects 9:59

How to write ridiculously effective outreach emails 6:55

Guest interviews

Noah Kagan — On growing an audience 24:43

Bryan Harris — On list building 35:00

Ramsay Taplin — On starting a blog 35:12


Creator: Tim


Tim
Tim is the CMO at Ahrefs. But most importantly he’s the biggest fanboy and the truest evangelist of the company.

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