{"id":113856,"date":"2014-08-13T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T14:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/?p=113856"},"modified":"2014-08-12T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T22:49:15","slug":"driving-blog-traffic-without-driving-yourself-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/driving-blog-traffic-without-driving-yourself-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Blog Traffic without Driving Yourself Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a guest post by\u00a0Carrie Rollwagen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year, I decided to come to WordCamp almost on a whim. I\u2019m not a developer or a designer, so I thought the sessions would be over my head and hard to understand. One of my clients urged me to go, and I had a Saturday free, so I figured \u2014 why not.<\/p>\n

That turned out to be an excellent decision. I really did learn a lot, and the User\/Blogger track was totally relevant and understandable, even for someone like me who doesn\u2019t know a thing about coding.<\/p>\n

After I attended WordCamp last year, I finished my own WordPress site, and I learned a lot about blogging that I\u2019ve put into practice for myself and my clients this past year. I also realized I have something to offer on the speaker track, too. This year, I\u2019ve started teaching Pop Up Workshops on Social Media for Small Business and Personal Branding, and the experience has been incredibly rewarding. I\u2019ve learned to help people through the rough beginnings of transitioning into the world of social media, and I\u2019m proud of what my students have accomplished. After all, I really believe that the key to successful blogging and social media is remembering that, even when we\u2019re blogging and tweeting, we\u2019re talking to people \u2014 and we use the same social skills we\u2019ve already developed in our daily lives. We just have to tweak them a little so they work well online.<\/p>\n

For my WordCamp presentation this year<\/a>, I went to a question I get a lot from my clients \u2014 How do I drive blog traffic? The follow-up question \u2014 How do I do this without driving myself nuts? \u2014 doesn\u2019t usually occur to people until they\u2019ve already begun, but I\u2019m including it in my presentation anyway. We\u2019ll touch very lightly on SEO, and we\u2019ll jump into how to use social media to get likes and shares for your site. After all, it\u2019s frustrating to work hard on the perfect WordPress site and create great content and then have no idea how to get readers. I\u2019ll help you do that, and this presentation is 100% appropriate for beginners.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited to present at WordCamp, but I\u2019m even more excited to attend. If it\u2019s anything like last year, I\u2019ll have a good time, I\u2019ll get to network, and I\u2019ll learn a lot. I\u2019m so thankful that I get to be a part of that.<\/p>\n

Carrie Rollwagen<\/a> is a copywriter at Infomedia, co-owner of Church Street Coffee & Books, and \u00a0teaches Pop Up social media workshops.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a guest post by\u00a0Carrie Rollwagen Last year, I decided to come to WordCamp almost on a whim. I\u2019m not a developer or a designer, so I thought the sessions would be over my head and hard to understand. One of my clients urged me to go, and I had a Saturday free, so … Continue reading Driving Blog Traffic without Driving Yourself Nuts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6609059,"featured_media":113858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/08\/7d718198a6168d69683a870e2b49f636_400x400.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6609059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113934,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113856\/revisions\/113934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}