I own a blog www.lif-explorer.com (CMS WordPress.com). I have 148 articles published on it, and 36 of them were published in August (2024). I am not getting any traffic and I am wondering if an upgrade to a Business plan can bring any change. My site is currently on a personal plan ($48 a year).
No, changing your plan won’t increase traffic.
Focus on your seo.
i’d focus on
(1) the writing (i could not follow this post at all: https://lif-explorer.com/2024/08/21/my-name-and-my-grandfathers-craftsmanship/)….
(2) change the domain name
if you want to use a misspelled domain name to secure a .com why not lyfexplorer.com
otherwise spell it correctly and choose another top level domain. lifeexplorer.net would be awesome.
(3) concentrate on best practices in SEO
– make sure every image has an ALT tag, make sure every post has a good headline (the ones u use currently don’t say anything about the post, they seem more personal in nature) make sure every post has internal and external links etc. Also make sure every post has a featured image, on your site home page only about half the stories have an image in the post grid view and so your site looks unfinished.
honestly u should not use wordpress.com at all for your hosting they are the devil incarnate but thats my own opinion.
I agree, it’s not going to help you get more traffic. I’d focus on finding other well-known publications that focus on your genre and submitting articles to them, not your existing articles, but original pieces. Build up credibility, Google will take note of that.
Search engine optimization is what you should be focusing on.