30 days of blogging. Wow. I am so glad I took on this challenge and that it is part of the Praxis curriculum. Blogging is something that I would not have thought would be as impactful and helpful as it was. Not only do ones writing skills improve vastly, but ones creative and ideation process is accelerated to another level. Before this challenge, I slightly hated writing in part because I thought I was terrible at it and had thought it was time-consuming with little ROI. From what I can tell from my first to last blog post is that my writing has improved and boy was I wrong about the ROI of writing.
It is apparent to me now why good writing is one of the most critical skills to have. It makes ideas more coherent to yourself and an audience, you improve your grammar, you learn how to submit pieces to third-party publications, you learn a myriad of things about yourself, and your personal brand is brought into a more significant light.
Due to blogging and promoting my articles daily in workplace for the Praxis community, slack for my Praxis cohort, LinkedIn, and my website, my website traffic has improved significantly. Over the last month, I have had 31,000 hits on my site vs. 2,000 the month before with no little to no posting. I have also had pages of my website load 24,000 times in search engines and has lead to hundreds and even into the thousands of visitors. Overall between my first blog post on my site a few months ago and now, I have had 61,000 hits on my site almost 45,000 pages loaded, and a little over 1,500 viewers with 500 viewers returning for more content.
This start of an audience and traffic on my blog has inspired me to keep blogging past this 30-day challenge. It drastically helps self-, and I have a 30-day streak as of right now so why stop?