Blog ZERO to Blog Hero in just 6 days!!!

Jeff McLeodjeff@jeffmcleod.ca

How I went from NO blog, to over 600 hits in less than a week!

Day ZERO – Sept 2, 2010

I purchase jeffmcleod.ca and get my tech friend to show me how to host it on BlueHost.com

I install Wordpress, apply a hideous skin and a handful of plugins◦This is a dry run for the videos I later create as

my first posts

VISTORS = 0 (don’t actually know, stats weren’t installed yet)

Skin #1

Day ONE – Sept 3, 2010

Install more plugins (including stats), try skins number two and three

Make the videos for my posts about how to set-up WordPress

Write the first post “How to Style WordPress” and publish it (Yaayyyy, my first post!)…nothing happens.

VISITORS = 3 (lifetime visitors is also 3)

Skin #3

Day TWO – Sept 4, 2010

After partying only medium-hard on Friday night I take most of Saturday to get healthy (ie, do nothing for the blog)

VISITORS = 4(lifetime visitors more than doubles to 7)

Day THREE – Sept 5, 2010

I complete posts on “How to install WP” and “How to optimize WP” and publish them (blog looks much less hollow)

Dying to unveil it to the world, ready or not, I post to facebook “Just started a new blog, give me your thoughts”

Skin #4

Day THREE – Sept 5, 2010

Facebook banter goes backand forth a little more

Install more plugins, tie myblog to su.pr (twitter + FB)

Start a Facebook page forjeffmcleod.ca (1 fan)

VISITORS = 113!!! Yay for social media(lifetime visitors grows 1700% to 120 total)

Day FOUR – Sept 6, 2010

Connect my blog to Facebook app NetworkedBlogs (auto-detects new posts)

Send out “Powerful checklist/vid on must have SEO plugins for wordpress: http://jeffmcleod.ca/ikM6” using su.pr, getting 10 comments on facebook

Continue tweaking WP pluginsGet my first comment ever, and I don’t even

know the person!!!

VISITORS = 64, FB fans = 3(lifetime = 184)

Day FIVE – Sept 7, 2010

Publish a post describing what the blog is all about, and the “My Story” page.

Both get sent out with su.pr and both go micro viral (total shares on Facebook is 16). This is a major victory for me.

Get comment #2 (from buddy in Winnipeg)I find a way to suggest my page to all my friends

on Facebook, publish a story on ING Direct, then go to bed

VISITORS = 101, FB fans = 7(lifetime = 295, starting to think this thing might

have legs!)

Day SIX – Sept 8

Things exploded overnight!Finally Global Translator is working (translation

begins for 40 languages: http://jeffmcleod.ca/sitemap.xml)

FB Fan page takes off like a Russian WildfireTie blog into LinkedInContact President of ING Direct via FB and

LinkedIn, requesting for comments

VISITORS = 298, FB fans = 44(lifetime visitors = 593, doubles in one day

thanks to Facebook page suggest)

My blog’s rise

My blog’s rise

Ranked #8 on Google for key word “How to optimize Wordpress” (880,000 pages returned)

Own 4 of the top 11 spots on Google for “Jeff McLeod”

Gaining traction… vroom, vroom!

YOU CAN DO THIS TOO!