Karen Woodham
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The very first day that you decide to be a blogger is probably one of the biggest, Internet based, decisions that you will make, not only will you be spending a lot of your time producing content that will be seen all around the world, but you will also start to become on the many that have decided to take the leap in to the world of blogging.
But remember there are several stages of blogging and though, not all of us will hit the very heights of the last stage, we will now doubt be on our way there, so I suppose you’re now thinking what are those stages, well, to be honest they are something that you do every time you even contemplate the blogging world.
Stage 1: Decision Time
This is that very first point that you may have been reading a blog and thought to yourself “Hey, I could do that”. Then you start to look into the many blogging platforms, most of the time a newbie blogger will start with a free hosted blog, but over time most, like myself, will move on to purchasing a domain and hosting to provide a more professional looking blog with a custom domain.
Stage 2: Writing your blog
Sounds simple doesn’t it! Well it’s not that easy, OK, when you’re fresh into blogging you can probably come up with a post everyday and sometimes two posts a day, but, as time goes by you may start to get the dreaded BloggersBlock, a point where a blogger burns themselves out by posting too much in the early days of their blog, so when you first start take it easy, don’t over blog and if you do spread your posts over a few days, just in case you get BloggersBlock.
Stage 3: Promoting your blog
Again, it may sound easy and sometimes it is, but if no one knows about your blog then now one will stop by to read it and after all, isn’t that the reason you are blogging in the first place?
Building your blogs reputation can take time, so don’t expect it to start bring you stardom straight away, submit your blog posts to as many RSS feeds as you can, join social networks and post your latest articles on to those.
Comment on other blogs,
Stage 4: Make Friends
What’s this got to do with blogging? Well, by making friends in the blogger community, you not only have people you can ask if you need advice, but you also friends are the ones that will often visit your blog and ReTweet your posts, comment and be there when you need them. Don’t try to do all this blogging on your own, having friends in any situation is a must.
Personally from my point of view, I wouldn’t have made it with my blogging if I hadn’t had the advice and help from those in the know in the blogosphere.
Stage 5: Earning with your blog
One of the questions I’ve been asked many a time is “How do I earn money from my blog?” It is easy to do, but, and it’s a big but, don’t try to start earning from your blog straight away, specially if you are on a free blog. Wait for a while until your blog has become popular, after all an advertiser doesn’t really want to advertise on a blog that only has a few hits coming in.
I waited until my blog was around 6-8 months old when I started getting more traffic, I then applied to Google Adsense for ads and started with those, they won’t make you millionaire, but it will pay for your hosting.
Later as your blog gets even more popular you can start selling advertising space, which after two years I have recently started doing myself and it does work.
Stage 6: Fame and fortune
Now this is probably the stage where a lot of us won’t reach, this is the point where your blog has become so famous that you have books written about you, newspaper articles, your blogs name is on everyone’s lips, you’ve even written a book in the form of a biography on your blogging experience.
This stage is probably one that most, if not all, bloggers are hoping to get, but it’s one of those goals that takes so much time and determination that with out the benefit of producing a blog that is so powerful in it’s right, that it’s just not going to happen.
But there are those of us who are quite happy with just falling short of this stage, after all, blogging and all it’s stages is purely just for fun … Or is it?
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Thanks for a great post Karen. Point 4, Making Friends, is great. People should put more focus on this. One way is to mention other people in the blog post, that has helped me a lot.
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Thank you Dave, yep you’re right Dave, making friends is certainly a way that I’ve built my internet world up and I now have so many friends that are always willing to help out when they can
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Great article for newbies! however i want your advice, are 2 posts per day enough or it’s too much? also i wanted to know how often you post? since my blog is a like a download portal i share various softwares links daily, I publish my own written posts every 3-4 days, is that enough ?
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It always depends on how your readers take to you posting articles, I generally post one a day, sometimes two, then there are other times that I miss a day or two. If your readers enjoy your articles then they won’t mind how many articles you post a day, within in reason of cause, but I would say, limit it to a max of two a day.
If your website is managing with a steady flow of traffic, then as you are posting every 3-4 days should be fine.
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Great work with words, you have mentioned some stages here and that are truly belongs to a blogger. Decision time is too confusing because we have to choose whether it will be beneficial or it will not be good for us. Writing for our blog and then promoting the blog is the most critical point. It’s not an easy task to promote the content until it is good enough. And the rest stages are dream of every blogger,
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Nicely said satrap, we all have to learn something now and again and as you say you should respect whatever language you may be posting in
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