Many people ask me about how I built my blog audience, and my strategy was very simple. Before I tell you how to build a blog audience, I will tell you that over 7 million people have visited this blog - B&D, so I know very well what it takes.
Here's exactly how I built my blog audience…
Building a blog audience was very easy for me and here's why: I never actually tried to build an audience. I had a secret weapon that a lot of other people don't have… I knew my content was too good to not be found.
So how did I build such a large blog audience? It was basically a two‑step process:
- I had something to say
- I said it
Rule #1 to build a blog audience - Have something to say
I had something to say, and I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that people needed to read what I had to say.
I knew there were people ready, waiting, and salivating for the kind of content that I could produce.
Nobody was writing like I knew I could write, and I knew that there was an audience for it. I simply knew it.
Rule #2 to build a blog audience - Write on your blog for at least 4 months without thinking about the audience
For an entire year I just put out the content and just let people find it. I was not on any social media. I simply got my message out and focused on the next article.
That's all I did. I wrote and I published and that's it. I knew that people would find me on Google. I knew that people who needed to find me would find me on Google, and that's exactly what happened. I simply had faith. In fact it was destiny.
I simply knew it was going to happen. I just simply knew that one day, somebody was going to be on Google searching for an answer to a problem and he was going to find B&D. And that's exactly what happened en masse.
What about social media as a new blog artist?
You don't build a blog audience on social media, you build a blog audience on your blog and that's it.
When I started my blog, I was not on Facebook, I was not on Twitter and I was not on Instagram, which didn't even exist then. I was not on social media at all wasting my time.
If you're on social media in your first year and you're spending more time on social media than you are creating content, you are wasting your time. I wasn't on social media for many years.
(I should have been on Instagram earlier because I've been to a lot of fun, cool places that I should have taken photos of but I didn't.)
I took photos where it counts - in my head - and I kept it all up there, which is why I was able to write about it later. If I had been monkeying around on social media, my content would not have been as good.
When you give a little dribble of content out to social media, you feel like “it's done, it's finished.” You don't want to talk about it anymore. When you keep it in your head, you have something to write about.
That's why you keep it in your head and you don't give it away on social media - not until you build a blog audience.
When you tweet something or Instagram it, you feel like “that's it. That's good. Job finished.” You feel like you don't need to write an article about it because you've already put it out on social media. Putting your content on social media gives you a false feeling of accomplishment.
All new blog artists need to stay off social media so you can give your best content to articles. This is important - stay the fuck off of social media until you have built an audience. Don't give good content to social media because that's going to kill your supposed blog content.
What should be your main focus? Your blog. Always give your best stuff to your blog. Only give scraps or nothing to social media.
This is how you build a blog audience: You write fire, and then let people find it. The people who need it will find it, because destiny demanded it.
And everybody's happy.
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B&D has a side-business called Badnet. Badnet is a blog set-up service. It is a way we make money and it is a way we provide a service to the readers of B&D who want to go into the blog business for themselves.
Badnet is in-house, nothing is outsourced to India or China. The Badmin is the lone-wolf behind Badnet, and the Badmin ALWAYS takes care of you.
When you build a blog with Badnet, you get a WordPress blog set-up for you within 24 hours (we do not take days off) and you get 4 free reports about how to make your blog profitable.
We do not charge you for the service of Badnet, is is free for you, you get a free domain name, but you do need to pay for your web hosting which is very cheap. For extra questions about Badnet, please refer to the Badnet FAQ.
Ps - We also offer a very in-depth book called Spartan Entrepreneur: Blog Artist that thoroughly explains the blog business, in a way that anybody can understand. SE: Blog Artist is available in the B&D book store.
mm-hm… *taking notes*
Thanks for explaining more about Badnet, you will be hearing from me soon.
Great advice.
I especially like the part about saying what you have to say on social media and when you say it there, you will think it’s accomplished. Nobody has said it this way. Brilliant.
Thanks for the article.
Thanks Lane.
My man is ON FIRE.
Vic Nick IS BACK !
Keep going !
ps: If you can bring more articles about this side (business w/ a blog ) it will be awesome!
pss: Will NWR have a second / third part ?
NWR is an evolving world of it’s own. There will be more to come, 100%.
NWR will have as many as 12 parts. We are just getting started ?
Victor(Nick) I actually was thinking this question when it was posted. I came here and would you know it right there. Bold and Determined is the place to be. I’ll never read any other blog. No reason to. You never feed bullshit and you always speak the truth. Shit you actually sell the truth.
Great Article. Thanks my man
Thank you Santino.
Hey Vic, don’t want to whine about grammar but sometimes you’ve got some funny mistakes, that interrupt reading flow. e.g. “… ,which is why I was able to able to write …”
Grammarly is an awesome browser Plugin that gets such errors and hints to them in no time. Setup is like 3 mins.
Greetings
Don’t say you don’t want to whine about grammar and do exactly that.
Thank you for this post. I have needed precisely this post for a while.
I will be starting a blog tomorrow and I kept telling myself that I wanted to just write daily and stay off social media - I have put it off for months for this very reason - I’m not personally on social media and I don’t want to start now for the sake of “having a presence” I have no interest in having.
In fact, the blog will be about being the best wife possible - my absolute passion - and I feel that it is very important that a wife not waste her time nurturing relationships on social media, especially when her relationship at home needs improvement. It felt hypocritical for me to be on social media when I advise against it!
Thank you, Sir! I wish you the best.
Thank you!
Good advice. I have been working my blog off and on for the last year. I struggled with social media but gave up on it. Was able to drive up traffic but the extra pageviews were not worth the effort. Also posting political satire got lots of visitors bu diluted my core message. Everyone uses Trump to drive traffic. I have cleaned it up a bit and am keeping it focused on men’s work issues. Rather than write crap and ping social media I will just add useful essays and build it slowly over time.
I set up my own wordpress site and theme but would recommend getting professional help if you plan to attempt a serious blog. Having worked in software for many years it’s something I do myself but it still has an amateur look and feel to it.
Off-topic but since this site is oriented towards personal income development I just posted a notice about today’s Department of Defense SBIR request for proposals. There are also some links in the post on how to use the SBIR to find money and work :
DoD Releases Hot New Tech Opportunities in SBIR 2017
http://wp.me/p6QFjS-i2
I want to ask for a post about how you personally treat those who sabotage you/attack you/are feminists loaded with advice for shoguns under construction. Is it an eye for an eye or the forgive-forget-ignore thing?
I will get to this question on tonight’s audio.
Time beats everything.
For now.
I’m the same when it comes to photos. I feel people waiste time taking a 100 photos instead of enjoying the experience it’s self. Great post! Thehamptonsbutcher
Thanks.
Hey guys, long time reader, wanted to express my appreciation for Victor (Nick) and all the guys at B and D. For all the inspiration, here’s s tribute from a Sri Lankan Victor Pride (Sam Lanka). Enjoy.
How To Grow Balls
Good evening. Sam Lanka at your service. It’s about time I educate you fools on how to drop them nuts, and be the man. So sit back, shut the fuck up and the let these balls do the talking, and I don’t wanna hear nothing about them candy boys on YouTube, talking bout how to love yourself and be perfect just the way you are. You have a job to do, let’s get the fuck on with it.
How to get paid. Simple as fuck, bud. You don’t work a job. You don’t do shit, ‘cept make money.
Didn’t make sense there, did I? Coz now you thinking, oh no, if I ain’t suck up to my boss and beg for a pay raise I’m gonna get fucked. It’s the economy, man. Nah, it’s you being a pussy. The economy ain’t going nowhere, but your job sure as hell. Shits called outsourcing, and even them Indian fucks ain’t got enough cattle to spread beef with. Sooner or later, it’ll be them Asians that take the cake, or maybe even them South Americans or Mexicans or shit.
That’s my point, right there. Youse a little punk looking for stability and a good job with benefits, coz you listened to your rents and got a dumb ass degree in Human Resources or some lame ass shit. Coulda just sat in front of a computer and sold pornos, ‘stead of jerking off to them and pretending to do your job so you can punch the fuckin clock. Whatever, man.
But yeah, you wanna get paid? Improve your situation? Get shitloads in your pocket? Simple. Gotta be a businessman, but you can’t pick any business. You gotta give the people what they want, and that’s balls buddy.
Now you thinking, what kind of balls? Big balls, man. You search up that shit, you plunk down some of that lunch break money, and you get yourself some nice balls, like eight of em. Then you stand on the corner and sell that shit coz it’s addictive, and customers keep coming back. Supply creates its own demand, ain’t never gonna run out of clientele.
Nah, I’m just fuckin with ya. Naturally, you think I’d be into some criminal shit, coz everybody think Sam is some deadbeat fuck out of prison or parole or something. But Sam don’t get down like that. Sam do real shit, that’s legal shit. Gots ta be legit, you can’t quit shit.
Still ain’t getting it, huh? Probably thinking fuck is this retard doing? Telling me I need to get a job again, just going in circles. Nah, man. It’s called using your brain. You get in there, plunk some of that latte money, get yourself some nice balls, like eight of em. Then you stand on the corner and sell that shit coz it’s addictive. Simple yes or no, coz people be working their asses off and wanna know the future. Does she like me? Am I gonna get rich? Are you really doing this shit?
Yeah, Sam be doing that shit. Horoscopes and wheel of fortune shit, coz if you ain’t know what’s gonna happen you can always hope for the best, but when shit don’t work out don’t go bitching to me. You can’t get rich, that’s your fuckin problem.
For real, man. Nobody asked you to spend fifty hours a week working some shitty ass job with jack shit pay and free tickets to corporate restructuring. Nobody asked you to be a pussy. You wanna make it big, live your dreams, hurry the fuck up, coz Sam only got so much time before he buys out your company. It’s all about liquidating shit, coz when you inflate the figures on that valuation them sharks be coming, and then you sell it for six hunded million and fuck your loyal staff. Good times.
How to train like a beast. Yeah, Sam def knows what he talking bout. You wants to pack gains, you gotta do it right. None of this overtraining bullshit, coz the first year is what makes or breaks you. You get in there seven days a week, you lift your heart out, and then you laugh at all the pussies who run their fat asses on the treadmill coz they be like Cardio counts too! Yeah, if Sam wants his heart racing that’s what fucking a broad’s for. Lift the fuckin weight, you dork.
Now you get some fools in here that say it’s all unfair, like you see them bodybuilding champions with the steroids and the chicks and the shrunk dick, coz they can’t take no alcohol in the system. Yo cuz, wanna grab a beer? Nah, you dead. That’s what you get for looking like a freak. Calm the fuck down and be natural widdit, coz drugs is for the real players. You can sweat your ass off, and then go for that low intensity shit. Big weights before baby weights and anabolics, that’s how you do it.
And now you get fools talking bout which is best, strength or aesthetic? Fuck is your problem? You get all dorky and shit outside, and then you gotta bring this shit to the gym? Since when do you have to analyse this rep or this set? How bout you train like a fuckin Spartan? And fuck a personal trainer, lift the bitch and give me twenty curls in ten seconds flat. A personal trainer is a certified fatass, so this’ll work just about right, and stop bitching about how to lift and what to lift. You can’t make up your mind, do a fuckin push-up. Be enough work for you losers, with your man tits and your bitch ass.
But naw, bodyweight’s just fine. Do enough push ups and sit ups, don’t forget the squats. Soon enough the girls will actually look at you, right before they get picked up by your man coz he lifted trucks before wetting panties. Don’t look at him, touch your fuckin toes already.
Yeah, think I covered most of it. Keep buying them books and trying out them supplements, but I got a real smart way of cutting fat and stacking muscle, right here and right now. Simple as fuck, and any of you can get this. STOP. EATING. There, solved your problem. Fatasses eat food, skinny people don’t. No more of this cardio shit.
And you wanna know how to get muscles? You go hard, that’s how. Get three aunties, stack them together, and do a bench press. Bout sixty reps a minute’ll cut it, and once you past all that giggly shit you can chuck em out before they shove any more of that goddamn rice in your face. Shit only works when she ain’t a Buddhist and lets you top it up with some fat ass steaks, coz it’s all about protein and not looking like your dad. But naw, bunch of fairies be like No, Sam! You can’t eat carbs, you’ll get fat! Gotta stick to them protein shakes and diet plans!
Nah. It’s called living. Eat whatever the fuck you want, just train your ass off later. So don’t let me catch you near them bosu balls. I don’t wanna hear nothing about this cycling and dancing shit either, coz you can swing them pretty little hips when you done breaking every other part of your body. Weights are for boys, Zumba is for bitches, you got that?
How to fight like a man. Yeah, that’s it. You ain’t been in a fight, you ain’t a man. Can’t get no simpler than that. I hear all these pussies screaming about we want peace, we want peace, like Sam cool with that and we all gonna hold hands after singing our asses off. We is all good people, ain’t no right way to live and we can teach them kids everything.
Yeah, like the world give a shit about your kids. You think those Islamic State motherfuckers want peace? You think those ISIS bitches give a fuck about tolerance and accepting yourself? Nah, that’s why we got soldiers. It’s called defending the free world, motherfucker.
But yeah totally, fighting ain’t shit. Gotta be nice to your kids, and your peers in this grown ass so-ci-ety. Can’t afford to get in trouble, so Sam walks in the bar all dainty and shit, ain’t pushing to get drinks and looking away from all the other punks. Least that’s what they say, coz when you start drinking low fat shakes and wheatgrass it’s suddenly okay to start acting like a bitch. So yeah, run to mommy and daddy when someone steals your girl or hits your mate, coz that’s how a real man roll.
Yeah, fuck that. One shot is all you need, one shot is all you gotta take. It’s kill or be killed, carpe diem or some fancy shit. Motherfucker’s looking at you, ears flapping and nose all big in your face, and them mouth be dripping with icky saliva and shit. Walks up to ya, starting doing the macho thing. Fuck you looking at? You wanna go, mate?
Yeah, I wanna go. Just stare straight into them baby blue eyes, don’t say shit. Just gotta get him mesmerised, coz all this battle shit is psychological. Smile like you the man, like you just had an experiment that gone dead wrong. Step up to him, look close, and talk it. Yeah, I wanna go, pussy. Put your fuckin beer down and fight, bitch.
Guarantee that’s a happy ending right there. Most fellas see the muscles, the fists and a hard ass chest, and then fruits burst apart right there. Be crying and shit, offering to buy me a beer and let me fuck their girl, coz she’s already wetting herself over Sam. Like I said, it’s all psychological, that’s why you gotta get straight in their face. Look right, talk right, and it be magic. Fool just crumples right there.
But what about them pack boys? Pussies can’t fight on their own, so they be circling round ya like wolves. Fuck that, you a lion, so here’s what you do. Roar like an animal, right in their face. Got a big set of lungs, use that shit. Might even spice it up, just for kicks, coz if they be talking shit you talk it right back, so you can go full gorilla or monkey or whatever shit comes easy. Then you disappear.
What? Ain’t no more to it. It’s all about the eyes and ears, man. Get in their heads, they ain’t gonna do shit, so poke it. That ain’t work, grab the nuts and rip it, ‘cept if they wearing them skinny ass jeans, in which case you spit in their face and let em sort it out. Ain’t no shame in leaving, coz you got lots more to do with them girls waiting by the door. Sam a pretty boy, he need that face.
How to get bitches. Ain’t that hard, man. Bitch is only special coz you think she special, and that’s where you fuck it up. Ain’t saying being a dick is right, but the shit works and that’s what Sam do. He swoop right in, take your girl and make shit happen. Fuck, if you ain’t all dorks we wouldn’t have this nice guy business. Plenty of bitches in the world for everyone.
I see you sweating, you thinking the girl is hot and all that shit. Probably with her friends, looking you up and down with them beautiful brown eyes, and a fat ass to go with it. Got you all excited, but ya just can’t get it up coz you a bum ass kid who jacks off to digital shit. Yeah, little dicks rise fast and fall quick, yer fuckin nerd.
So yeah, how to get bitches. Well you could walk up there and talk some shit, or sweat about it or worry about some bullshit. But I’m a tell ya it’s all about your vibe, how you present yourself. None of this fancy clothes and shit boy perfume topped with a fuckin gold watch, acting like you some kind of power player. Nah man, shit is simple. You just get right in there, whip your dick out and tell her wassup!
But yeah, it’s about presentation. You gotta present yourself, so you looks good. I hear a lot of talk about how muscles don’t matter and it’s what on the inside that counts. Well, riddle me this bitch, how she gonna love your inside if she ain’t see pass the outside? If your inside was outside, then you’d be outside and I’d be inside your bitch. Shit is simple like that, without all you pussies acting like you gotta rehearse your lines, pick the right dress and practice your breakdancing shit because you afraid to let a drunk bitch dance all be herself. That’s why you at the bar, coz you think enough of that alcohol is gonna stop you from wetting the place, and then youse all like oh-no-what-if-i-ain’t-ready-to-fuck-yet? Bitch, you ain’t even leave the place and you worried about protection? Fuck you need those bouncers in your bed for?
See that’s the problem with you pussies right there. You think too much. Always stressing out about that bullshit, asking these bum ass questions. Oh no, what if I don’t get that promotion? What if the chick doesn’t like me? What if I totally fuck up? Gee, what if everything goes alright and you don’t shit your pants? Ever think about that?
Yeah, and that’s why you stressing about this pick up shit. Youse a little baby afraid of rejection. Man, you want the girl, you get the girl. Fuck she gonna do, cut your balls off coz you didn’t smile at her pretty little face? Man, rejection’s a bullshit word, just like anxiety and issues. You ain’t got issues, you just a pussy.
But I’m a tell you how it works. You act all cool, you don’t say shit and you don’t think about shit. You just cruise along in your automobile, with the new spoiler and reclining seat. You take it slow and steady, coz you ain’t got no rush. You keep moving, you look out of your window and you see that pretty young thing, all dressed up to get messed up, hair curly with them bangs and shit. You roll down that window, you flash them pearly whites and you whistle at her. She’s all good to go, she ain’t even lock the door coz done sucker’ll be doing that. She just gets right in, kisses your pretty little face and squeals like a pair of geek nuts, while youse cruising away with the hat thrown back and your mind all set on not giving a fuck. Driving away, getting to the motherfuckin destination, two balls at a time.
And that’s how you pick her up. Bitch was waiting for you the whole time.
That’s all I gotta say. I’m Sam Lanka, and this has been a most edu-cational evening. Hope all you pussies drop nuts soon, coz I ain’t done fucking you and your girl ain’t neither. Y’all take care, you hear? Gud night.
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Thx mate.
Great post vic!
BTW, there is a typo ” able to able to ”
-Shyam
Hey Shyam,
I read your blog.Quite interesting!
Iam from India too and have my own blog.Wanna help each other build some audience?
Thanks Shyam!
That is EXACTLY what I fellt the last days. This completes the missing piece. Thanks
My pleasure.
Killer points per usual Vic, my 3 Top Points are
1. First to Market ( new content). You where one of the first ( maybe THE first?) to post this style of content. At least the first I am aware of. Being the FIRST in anything is fucking hugeeeeee.
If you are first to post an article on XYZ, that people actually want, you will get found. If you are article 328 on some random sub topic, nope..nadda.
2. For the love of god don’t copy or re spin other peoples stuff, I have seen SO MANY B&D copy cats, I don’t care about people that copy, people copy my content sites all the time, I just want to shake them and be like your wasting your time copying my shit. You will NEVER get the traffic and profit I do from my sites.
Unique content kills.
3. Realize its going to take 6 plus months of HEAVY writing, before you notice any traffic.
I always troll through the old comments of sites and notice the ” dead” pages, dreams long since forgotten. This shit takes awhile.
Enjoy the Game.
Keep Killin it
-GoMode
I really like the part of this post where you talk about not wasting your good stuff onto your personal social media accounts.
I do this a lot.
Cheers,
D
If all you do is read and then do what you’re told and that’s all you’ve got…
If you’re thinking “at level”…
You’ll never make an impression.
Gotta make a splash to make some cash.
That’s why you keep it in your head and you don’t give it away on social media –
not until you build a blog audience.
All new blog artists need to stay off social media so you can give your best content to articles.
This is important – stay the fuck off of social media until you have built an audience.
Don’t give good content to social media because that’s going to kill your supposed blog content.
What should be your main focus? Your blog. Always give your best stuff to your blog.
Only give scraps or nothing to social media.
This is how you build a blog audience: You write fire, and then let people find it.
The people who need it will find it, because destiny demanded it.
And everybody’s happy.