Growing Your Traffic with Lena Gott and Stephanie Keeping: Mediavine On Air Episode 6

Mediavine On Air

In our latest episode of Mediavine On Air, Lena Gott from What Mommy Does and Stephanie Keeping from Spaceships and Laserbeams talk about their top traffic tips. From post and image SEO to Pinterest best practices, this episode covers a whole lot of ground. Learn how to increase your traffic and keep viewers on your site from these experts in episode 6 of Mediavine On Air. Related Resources Spaceships and Laserbeams — Stephanie Keeping's blogWhat Mommy Does — Lena Gott's blogKizoa — A video/movie making appSemrush — A tool used for SEO research JENNY GUY: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Mediavine On Air. I'm your host, Jenny Guy. Today we are talking about traffic, not the academy award winning movie from 2000, but the people who come to your website. Like money, traffic is one thing most of us always want more of, but how do you get it? For this Summer of Live episode, originally recorded back in 2018, I was joined by veteran bloggers and instructors Stephanie Keeping and Lena Gott. Stephanie is creator of the wildly popular website Spaceships and Laser Beams and Lena is the face behind the website What Mommy Does and her courses at Adventures in Blogging. These ladies loaded the episode with action items to turbocharge your traffic growth. So be prepared to take a lot of notes. If you like what you hear, like and follow Mediavine on Facebook and never miss another broadcast. And of course, subscribe, download and give us that sweet ratings love wherever you're listening. If you want to connect with our guests, we have links to them in our show notes. For now. Let's grow that traffic. You're listening to Mediavine On Air, the podcast about the business of content creation. From SEO to ads and social media to time management, if it's about helping content creators build sustainable businesses, we are talking about it here. I'm here On Air host, Mediavine's Jenny Guy. We've already got a bunch of people saying hi to us. It is Thursday. It is summer. That means we are live at the Mediavine Summer of Live and I'm beyond. I know I say this every week. But I am beyond excited about this week's guests. We're talking about how to grow your traffic. And I've got two incredible experts. It's one of the questions we're asked every conference everywhere we go. How do I get to the 25,000 sessions, traffic threshold for Mediavine and I couldn't have two better people on here I have Lena Gott of What Mommy Does. And I have Stephanie of spaceships and laser beams. Well, I want to let you guys talk and say hi, yourself first. Lena, you want to you want to start us out? LENA GOTT: Well, my name is Lena. And I've been blogging for about 10 years, a few years for someone else. And then about seven on my own site. My main site is what mommy does and actually have, where I write about personal finance, family, family finance, fun with kids, things like that. And then also for the past couple years have had a second site that's just a Thinkific learning course for bloggers called adventures in blogging, where I teach bloggers how to get more traffic and more income, while not working as hard because a lot of bloggers I know are stay at home moms like me trying to fit in blogging in between juggling family and everything else. And so that's what I focused on and actually use my degree for that I'm a CPA by trade. And blogging is just the thing that I decided to do instead of going back to work as an accountant, this is what I do full time now. JENNY GUY: Awesome. And Stephanie STEPHANIE KEEPING: Yeah, I am I blog at Spaceships and Laserbeams which originally started as an Etsy store. And now I don't have an Etsy store. I just have a blog. And funny how those things work. I also I answer questions daily, along with seven other bloggers at bloggers tell all which is like a membership and reference site and Facebook group that we basically we tell any question,