Welcome to the blog millionaire, where we break down the essential strategies of today's most successful bloggers

to take your blog to the next level with top-notch content, monumental traffic growth, and multiple revenue streams to go beyond your wildest goals.

So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host, whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 152 of the blog millionaire.

In case you don't know already, dwell time is easily one of the top five

biggest factors in the Google ranking algorithm. Dwell time is defined as the amount of time that

passes between the moment a user clicks a search result and subsequently returns back to the search result page. If you can get users

to stay on your blog longer than the competition, then you're going to move up to the top of the rankings.

There are several ways to improve dwell time. They are separated into two primary categories.

The first category includes everything that increases the average time on the They are separated into two primary categories.

The first category includes everything that increases the average time on page of a specific post or page.

The big two in this category are getting as many users to read your post from the beginning to the end and expanding your content to keep them reading longer.

The second category is getting them to click deeper into your blog, which is also defined as

decreasing your bounce rate. The bounce rate is the percentage of single page sessions, which are visitors who

only visit one page on your website before they end up leaving. In this episode, we're going to

focus in on optimizing your related post by using the right plugin and applying a simple growth hack. For the first couple of

years of blogging, I have to admit, I did not put much effort into optimizing my related post plugin.

At the time, my theme had a built-in related post section, and I just figured it was doing what it was

supposed to be doing.

A year ago, I started researching and testing ways to improve the speed of my blogs.

This was after I found out that one of my old forgotten blogs that I hadn't done anything

with in years had added 931,000 monthly visitors in just six months.

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