Hello Everyone, and Welcome To Gary's Space.
Okay, Last Evening I Spoke about the differences of building a blog for Business or for Pleasure. But today, I am going to take that discussion into a parallel direction, of sorts to give you a little information, you might or might not, for now anyways, think is important. However, It is something you will definitely wish to do.
Okay, don't worry there is no cost for it; at least not monetarily anyway.
No matter what sort of blog you have, you will definitely want to know who is just visiting and who is interested in what you are putting on the internet. Now before I get started on that, I want to say that even if no one who reads your blog participates, It bears time to do anyways.
Once you set up your Blog, on a given platform, you will definitely want to go and find an auto-responder, almost before you do anything else, and get it up on the site where you are going to be writing your blog.
Why? Well, you will want to know who is interested in following your journey, as well as who is visiting. You know, it is great to have a little or a huge amount of traffic coming to see your blog. That is something that everyone wants to have. However, if you are not capturing anyone's attention enough to join your following and mailing lists, you are simply not doing well.. But don't lose heart on the fact that at first, no one will probably join your list.
No one will probably join your list at first is probably one of the most heart breaking things every new blogger or website owner faces. But when you are blogging, it is normal unless you have already built up a list or buy a list, from somewhere else. Usually, it takes about 90 days for your blogs, your new sites to get started producing any results. I believe it's because most people, like the search engines want to know you are going to be around for a while. Now, 90 days is the average of what it takes most folks to get any sort of responses or signups, or even sales on a site.
Now, that does not mean that all you have to do is put up a site and wait 90 days. No, typically static sites will take longer than dynamic sites, like blogs will take less time to start going anywhere. The reasoning why a blog takes less? is because of several factors; one of which is the fact that if you utilize the blog correctly, it takes that long for the search engines to pick up on your site. Also, because it takes that long for you as a blogger to get your Proverbial "Sea Legs" under you.
What I mean about getting your "Sea Legs" under you, is this: When you first start to blog, you are fishing. You are not really sure of all that you are working with, and you are not sure what you are going to be talking about, with any structure in mind. The first 90 days, is a time for you to start developing a knowledge of what directions you wish to go, on your blog. You are also finding out things like, how to cut down posts and spreading them out, over several postings. And finally, you are learning what your audience wants to see and hear.
In any case, you definitely want to have an auto on site and ready to go, should your list start taking off earlier than planned or discussed. I have an auto responder in mind, and it's called "ListWire." and you can view the site, by clicking the name of the service. Since it is a Free Service, I do not have any monetary interest in it, other than I use it on some of my sites to gather emails and other information. So, clicking on the link does not make me a dime in revenue..
Okay, that is my post for this morning.. I have to go into work early today, and do some consulting and some driving around the greater Marina Del Rey are of California for a while, then off to San Diego, for most of the day.
So, for now, I bid you and yours, a Very Happy Blogging Day!
Take Care;
Gary
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