Jon Morrow has consistently and repetitively grown the blog traffic for several sites and organizations. In the early days of CopyBlogger, he helped take them to 3.5M page views a month. He then helped KissMetrics grow from 0-130,000 visits per month. And he has grown his own site SmartBlogger to well over 140,000 monthly visits (Google US, according to SEMrush) with less than 500 pieces of content!



If you are a company or an individual looking to grow your blog traffic this episode is for you!



Looking for writers trained and certified in SEO? Visit Jon’s free directory at: https://writer.me/



Here is the free content brief Jon mentioned: https://smartblogger.s3.amazonaws.com/freebies/content-brief-template.pdf



In this episode:



Jon’s overall traffic strategy

Just HOW different search content is vs social content 

How to ACTUALLY outsource content creation and get good results 



How to find good writers 

How to vet writers

Why Jon does NOT want to know the writer’s ideas for posts









Setting publication dates AND milestones 

How to make content better and rank worthy

How Jon sets up a content team

How Jon thinks about and classifies search “Intent”

When you don’t need a full content team

Why and when writers are getting paid $5,000-10,000 per post.



What is the ROI of this cost? 









Backlinks Strategies

And much more! 



Listen Now!







Related Episodes You Might Like



* What Link Building Success Really Looks Like w/Mark Johnstone

* Backlinko’s Content Process Revealed w/Brian Dean



Information About United Search







United Search is a brand new Speaker Accelerator program helping especially those from underrepresented groups – learn more about them in today’s episode.







To apply to be a mentor, mentee or learn more in general go to: https://www.unitedsearch.org/mentors



Show Agenda and Timestamps



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Tools Mentioned



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Articles, Resources, and Links Mentioned



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Find Jon Online



* https://smartblogger.com/

* https://writer.me/

* About Jon Morrow and SmartBlogger

* Jon on Linkedin

* Jon on Twitter