Today is a milestone day of 1 million site views here at sarahgeringer.com. I’m celebrating this huge milestone with a story of how I arrived at this place.

Milestone Day: 1 Million Site Views

I began blogging back in 2010, which was at the height of the glory days of blogging. Until 2016, I was using free sites like WordPress.com for blogging. After investing in a course by Michael Hyatt in 2015 and reading his book, Platform, I realized I needed a self-hosted site to build my email list. That’s when this site began in the summer of 2016.

How I Wrote Over 1,000 Posts

I was working 35 hours per week as a high school secretary when I started this site. Because I was born to be creative, I needed a creative outlet, and blogging was the perfect fit. I got up at 4:30 a.m. to write before work and often wrote on the weekends before my children got up. This practice led to writing my first three self-published books.

My dream was to get traditionally published. I knew that regular blogging would help me build the platform I needed to get a book contract. That’s why I kept blogging in addition to writing my books. When I signed book contracts for my traditionally published books, the foundation I had built on my blog helped me reach more people with the messages God gave me to share.

The consistent writing over the years has paid off. Last year, I reached the milestone of 1,000 blog posts (some are archived now). Though I don’t write blog posts as often as before, I still get views every day of my older blog posts, and I’ll tell you more about that next.

How I Got 1 Million Views

In those early days of this site, I also linked up with many other bloggers. Several of them were experiencing explosive growth through Pinterest. So I decided to jump on that train, and it was one of the best decisions I made. Pinterest is still a top driver of traffic to my site. One of the posts I wrote in 2017 has brought over 30,000 viewers to my site in the past year.

Pinterest has been essential in getting 1 million views. However, learning about SEO made an even bigger difference. SEO stands for search engine optimization. It has helped me rank on the first page of Google for many of my posts. Working on SEO for my posts has helped me get to 1 million views.

Buffer has been an essential tool in helping me share my older posts to get more views. I mainly share my older posts on X, and I couldn’t do that without Buffer. Now, X is the third highest driver of traffic to my site, behind SEO and Pinterest.

In 2020, I began coaching authors and speakers about building their platforms. Five years later, I have had over 200 coaching clients that I’ve helped with all aspects of platform building, SEO, and more. I’m glad the lessons I’ve learned have helped me help others build their platforms. You can learn more about my services for authors HERE.

Celebrating This Milestone

It’s important to celebrate milestones in our writing careers. Today, I’m taking a moment to reflect on the blessings that helped me get this far:

1. My English degree from Covenant College
2. The great gift of the Internet
3. All my blogging friends in those early days of linking up
4. Conferences where I made priceless connections that are still paying off today
5. Online ministries where I served as a devotional writer for years, which drove lots of traffic to my site
6. Bloggers who allowed me to write a guest post on their sites, which helped new people discover me
7. My publisher, who helped me reach many new people with my three traditionally published books

Top 20 Posts of All Time

This is the list of my top 20 posts of all time, which still get visits every month. I’m grateful for the opportunity to have ministered to tens of thousands of people through these posts. Please read and share them if you find them helpful or encouraging.

1. How to Meet God in the Night Hours
2. How to Guard Your Heart in a Difficult Marriage
3. How to Handle Your Anger in 3 God-Pleasing Ways
4. Be His Private Garden
5. 7 Unconventional Prayer Closets
6. 5 Ways to Stand Firm During Spiritual Attacks
7. How to Begin Again After Marriage Separation
8. Too Much Mary, Not Enough Martha
9. The Best New Christian Books to Read This Spring
10. The Difference Between a Load and a Burden
11. How to Set Loving Boundaries in a Difficult Marriage
12. A Prayer for America
13. When You Are Deeply Hurt by a Friend
14. How to Be Free from Past Sin
15. How to Adjust Your Expectations in a Difficult Marriage
16. How to Set Boundaries on Others’ Bad Behavior
17. One Year Post-Divorce: Lessons I’ve Learned
18. How to Stand Strong on God’s Word in Marriage Trials
19. A Prayer for Integrity
20. How to Fight Bitterness After Unwanted Changes

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