Good Afternoon and Thank You For Joining me, Today.
Okay, I am back to the task of writing on the blogs today. I apologize for not being here the last couple of days. I was really trying to get things ready for a move of my residence and It has been exhausting and time consuming. But I am back, to help with your Blogging efforts.
Before you start almost any project, you have to decide on a few things:
1. The Intentions of your efforts. Are you going to write to help others, to make money? maybe both, maybe not. Or, are you going to share your life's journey and share it with your family and friends, or the general public?
2. Are you wishing to make money from the blog, or again you are doing the blogging thing to amuse yourself and take time off of your hands, sharing things as they come. (Not trying to be disrespectful here..)
3. What is the Goal of the Blog I mean what are you looking to get out of the blogs content and how soon are you looking for that "thing" to happen?
4. Deciding what platform you will use to suit your needs.
Almost everyone, I have been helping out, with getting started with their blogs, has been initially set up with a free blogging site. This was done for various reasons. One reason is someone who has never blogged before will have no idea of how long they wish to continue blogging. I tell them to get through a 90 day habit setting period, and then decide whether paying for a hosted blogging page, is worth the monthly or annual payments to maintain. The second reason, I set them up that way, was because it is a good way to experiment with what they are wishing to blog about and whether or not it is going to be productive for them to move to a more cost demanding site.
Keeping a clear and concise idea of what your intentions are, while writing a blog is paramount in successful blogging. Therefore, by pre-writing your posts and deciding if it fits your first ideas for your blog, you know you are on the right path to a good continuously flowing message. Jumping around normally occurs, when someone first starts out trying to find a direction for the blog.. However, continually jumping around on the blogging message, is not good for long term readership and a loyal fan base.
In my recent time off from blogging, this last week, I have helped several people to begin their journey on the blogging about their passions.. All of them were different in many ways, and their reasoning was also different.. However, of all of the people I was assisting I believe I forgot to tell one person whom was blogging about her interior décor in her home and something about crafting money saving decorations.. But I will remedy that this evening when she calls me and follows up. Anyway, my instruction to them was not to initially blog for the intentions of making money.
By going into the blogging game, money is not going to come real fast at first. In fact there are folks who have been blogging for months and months and never seen the first dollar in returns for their efforts.. Why is not important as maybe something either in their presentations, or maybe their monetizing those blog posts incorrectly which can account for many reason they are not going to make money.. Back to making money!
If you put making money on the back burner, then you can better decide what your blogging should be about, more effectively. you can later go in and monetize your blogs after the posts have had some exposure and after you hone some of the writing skills. Remember, Practice makes perfect!
With that in mind, take time to go in search of related blogs and websites, and visit them on a daily basis.
Visiting potential competition blogs are a great way for you to find ways of monetizing and structuring your site.. By looking at any page stats (particularly the amount of visitors coming to the site.) The higher the visitor numbers, the more you want to use that particular site as a model for your blog. Pictures, videos, and other aesthetics will show up and are very good ranking tools, for your blog! While there, take a few minutes to read their posts and leave a comment on their materials. Also, do not forget to post your comments (positive comments.) and leave your name and the URL or address so they can come and visit your site.
What this does is steer some of their visitors, they have paid for in most cases, to your site as well.. Not only that, it leaves a trail to your site which the search engines love! It's called "Back-Linking" to your site. The more Back-links you leave at different sites, the better the search engines will rank your blog an later will pay huge dividends if or when you decide to monetize your blogs.
Well that is enough for now, I am off to write on another blog I am working on..
SO, for now; Happy Blogging and have a wonderful evening.
Gary
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