I've noticed that in this community there are both a lot of newer bloggers, but also a few seasoned vets as well.
In your travels what is the most important lesson you've learnt in your ventures?
Mine would have to be not to jump into a topic just because it has high earnings potential. I have to really enjoy the topic to be able to invest a lot of time into the project.
I have learned SEO and promoting the website with earning a huge like 10-20 $ per day from google adsense !
I've learnt that you can't please everybody. You can either blog for money (which satisfies the market) or you can blog for yourself and unleash emotional freedom.
I have learnt that If you put an effort and put all your heart and soul in what you are doing it will pay back in the end .... I feel lighter after every post ....
You have to be passionate about what you are doing. Writing blogs and reading other blogs give us a sense of understanding on how people think.
Quite a few. Here's two things:
(1) To keep your blogging life healthy you must have have your blogging buddy- not those you'll gain by 1 click, rather, those matches your personality, passion and may be profession/age- without some of 'em you wont survive in blogging for long time despite your failure or even success on blogging. To be safe, and to inspire yourself, to compete or have fun- earn and care your friends who blog!
(2) Blogging for money made it popular and pulls wider audience due to the quality/benefit it brings for the general and geek people. Passion of bloggers keeps it healthy, not money nor popularity.
You can gather audience at large once you can put fun into it (passion is fun) and/or involve some sort of money (that is benefit, usefulness, helps or knowledge) into your blogging (or any venture).
Sadly, most of the people who seek that audience (to earn for their pocket) just don't want to invest their money (that is time, effort, knowledge) rather do the monkey business and lost in the wave of time- their dust that left, we call it spam! :))
Happy Blogging.
I think that you have to know what type of blog you have... are you blogging for yourself? Then its probably not a big deal if you have a ton of followers.
Are you blogging to earn money? Then write things that suit your niche and learn about marketing your blog.
Are you blogging for entertainment/to be entertaining? If that's the case, then you have to spend more time creating blog posts that will be entertaining to your audience, you have to get to know your audience better and you have to spend time marketing your blog, also.
I have learnt that patience is the best tool to setting up a successful blog. People don't need to worry much about page views and comments, it would come if the blog keep going in an interesting way.
For me it's being creative with the posts. I realize that a lot of ideas that I have relevant to my topic rarely turns into a post. I don't connect the two as much as I should, until someone else begins talking about that particular topic, then I remember that I had the idea months ago. The more creative and adventurous the posts, the more traffic I get.
http://lerebellesdoux.blogspot.com
I've learned to keep the posts short and simple yet informative because it's a fact: People are lazy. And adding your personality/ a tinge of emotions to your posts would attract followers. :) I know I should also interact more via comments, but due to the many back posts I have, I don't have the time right now, but definitely, I will. :)
i guess the biggest thing i learned is be patient!! you may not suddenly become an overnight sensation but eventually people who are interested in what you write will find you and you will build up a following. Even one follower is a bonus!! Unless of course its your mom and then it doesnt count :P
Be unique that's it....Mine is not in English...but doesn't matter as I'm focusing on Nepali literature and it's going well.
1) Write for readers, not search engines. Make your blog interesting
2) Have a clean design and good internal linking
3) Not fill your blog with much adds, it will look spammy
4) Focus on getting quality links, instead tons of junk links
5) Do not over optimise your site (Onpage SEO)
6) Diverse your anchor text! (important)
7) Use a lot of social media promotion
8) Interact with readers
9) Build e-mail list! (Still not doing it, lazy me :D)
10) Diverse your link flow
11) Slowly build your links to look natural
12) Do not use spinned content to get backlinks
