How My Website Got Its First Million Visitors

Wind back the clock five years and I’m sitting at a coffee shop writing my first article on Medium on a challenge from a friend. Already, I’d been working in the digital marketing landscape for a few years, but in reality had hardly dipped my toes in the water.

That article, though, was noticed by some folks at the British Broadcasting Network, and I ended up being featured on a live show.

That has almost nothing to do with how I got my first million visitors on my website. Other than it lit a spark.

For Web Writers, Finding Your Voice Still Matters

At college in the Pacific Northwest, I wrote a play. It was about giant rabbits attacking a rabbit farm. Simultaneously, it was about the futility of greed, social classes, youthful angst, religion, destiny and love.

Instead of recommending me to therapy, the drama department asked me to have the play produced. I wanted to, but I went East instead, ending up somewhere near Pittsburgh.

I only mention that because symbolically, that’s where the writing journey I had been on hit a major fork in the road.

Going east, to see what else lay out there in the world, and not limiting myself to an art form that seems (unless you are Lin Manuel…