First step to organic traffic?
Adam from Quora asks:
What should be the first step to grow organic traffic for a health blog run by a pharmacist?
Being a pharmacist is a massive head start because people already trust your degree.
Here's my thought process when tackling a situation like this:
Pick one specific corner of health. You can focus on broader health topics, addressing specific diseases or disorders, or explaining supplements. Choosing what topic you cover informs the types of questions you'll look for later.
Find out what people are actually worried about. Go to places like Quora or Reddit and look for the questions people ask when they’re frustrated. Subreddits probably include: r/dietandhealth, r/health, r/healthy, r/menshealth, r/vitamins, r/guthealth.
Look for the why and the how questions. Use those exact questions as the titles for your first ten posts.
Talk like a person, not a textbook. It’s easy to sound too professional where everything is formal and dry. Try to write the way you’d explain a prescription to a friend over coffee.
If it sounds too professional, it usually feels too cold.
Just keep showing up. Most people quit after three months because no one is reading yet. It takes a long time for search engines to trust a new site. Pick a schedule you can actually keep (once a week, once every 2 weeks or whatever) and stick to it for a year.
Focus on being useful, not on making a sale. If your posts feel like they’re just trying to get someone to book a consultation or buy a product, people will click away. If you just focus on genuinely solving their problem, the business side of things usually follows on its own.
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