Blogging Eight Months Later
After blogging now since August 23rd 2008 I have been through many trials and tribulations when it comes to creating, posting and promoting your blog content. As I near my first mark my three blogs combined have about a thousand unique visits per day, with this site being my most popular with between 500 and 600 visits per day average.
Content is king and having quality posts that readers will want to promote and share are just as important as making it as easy as possible for the reader to share and promote. After all, if you don’t give the reader an easy way to tweet, stumble, or digg your post, they are gonna read it and think “that was a good article” maybe leave a comment and then move on to something else. If your lucky they will RSS Subscribe and you will make a reader instead of casual passerby of your blog.
Some of my most popular posts are ironically once that I would never have thought would have become popular, a Shiny Search post that I did as a SocialSpark opp continues to get about 500 unique visits per week from Google searches which is quite surprising to me. I find that the random spikes you get with StumbleUpon, Entrecard and other networks help for as long as you can keep them up, but eventually the traffic dwindles to your daily grind.
I think building links and connections with other bloggers helps connect you with their readers as well, find blogs within the same category, genre or similar theme and get acquainted. Read their word and comment often (meaningful comments, not junk) and build relationships with other bloggers. I find that many of the blogging giants out there don’t have time to reach every one, but leaving a comment maybe able to bring some of their readers to check out your site if you just leave a clever or witty comment.
I enjoy blogging first and foremost, and it is an added perk that I can earn a little while I do it, but as mentioned numerous times previously you have to “want” and “enjoy” blogging to be successful at it, or you will suffer burn out and give it up eventually. Once you have a passion for it, then you need to pace yourself and not spend too much time or you will burn out or your home life will suffer.
I used to blog 2-3 hours per night, but I have since cut way back to only a half an hour per day on average at most. Find the perfect balance, and keep at it. You will find your readership, did I think I would be making $200 per month and have an average of 20,000 visits per month on my blog when I started eight months ago? Nope, but I did set goals for myself and I have reached most of them.
-Dragon Blogger
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