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 the 200th episode of The Blog Millionaire.

For my 200th episode, I would be sharing the three things I did

over the past year that had the biggest impact on the traffic and income of my blogs. One of these

three allowed me to increase my ad RPMs by 50%. If you don't know what RPM means, it stands for earnings per 1,000 impressions.

So 50% is a big number.

Before I reveal the three big things, let me give you a quick summary of the ups and downs I

experienced with my blogs over the last year. In October of 2019, I made the decision that I was

going to venture out from my home and rent an office. I have three blogs that each get over

one million monthly visitors. I need it to hire an in-person editor to manage the day-to-day

operations of those three blogs.

While everything else that I need for my blogs is accomplished through contract labor,

I felt that I needed to be working face to face with my editor.

I started off modestly with a 100-square-foot office in an executive suite,

and me and my new employee hit the ground running.

By February 2020, traffic was growing fast. I decided that I would be acquiring a couple of

existing blogs each year to build out a media empire. On March 1st, I moved into my new 500 square foot office. This would be the home of my next

three employees. Fortunately, because of my medical history, I am very reluctant to lock into

long-term contracts, so the lease was only six months long. Two weeks later, I think you know what happened.

The city of Houston and the country shut down. I sent my one employee to work from home,

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