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Blogging has emerged as a strong tool to get good visitors and turn them into potential buyers. However, if a blog offers content that has been uploaded on a fraud website, readers would not notice it. Plagiarism of text, as well as visual content, is a hazardous factor for blogs.
Consider that you have used the image of a watch for your blog. A few days after the blog has been published, the image is uploaded on a fraud website involved in fraudulent activities.
When I started blogging, I had no clue or little clue as to what it’ll bring us. Now after 8 years of blogging and several thousand dollars and around 1400 posts later, I feel like doing something very right. Many of my blog articles rank well in Google and Bing searches. This brings me steady traffic. Blogging might not be rocket science but after several failures by many people, it surely is not a cakewalk. I am presenting a high-level blog post checklist that a new blogger can follow.
You need to be knowledgeable and skilled in various areas apart from typical writing. The beauty of it is that you work simultaneously in putting everything together to come together to build one epic post.
When I first started this blog, way back in 2011, I knew that only writing content regularly, multiple times a week, is the only challenge. But very soon I realized that more challenge lies in day to day maintenance of the site and having a good looking website are bigger hurdles to overcome.
I started doing the design myself, after all, I was techy! I do software development for a living. But the designing logo, designing header, footer, and social media icons, their placements were too much of an artistic job, for which I had no training.
Blogging is a great practice for anyone to invest their time in. Whether you’re planning to make money or just using the platform as a hobby, creating a successful blog takes time and effort. Many bloggers, however, take to the internet and wonder why their posts and blogs are not doing as well as they’d like them to.
While creating good content should be your priority, it is not enough to just ensure that you have high-quality posts to create a successful blog. So much more goes into a blogging website than just the words on the page.
Are you thinking of starting a blog? As a blogger, I will obviously say that that’s a fantastic decision and has been one of the best decisions that I’ve ever made. I say go for it! After all, you can start a blog for just $20. You may struggle at first but, with every post, you’ll gain confidence. With every passing month, you’ll be close to earning your first side income. Those initial days are pretty hectic, you’ll need to devote a good chunk of your daily time.
Once you are passed first 6 months, you can put blogging on autopilot. All you need to do is post regularly twice/thrice a week and try to make one concrete post a week. and, if you have a day job to take care of then that’s the maximum time you’re gonna get anyway.
This is an introspective post that can tell you a little bit more about myself. I was pondering over this question, how does I really feel that I am a blogger with good follower base? Am I happy, proud or just normal? Here, I will write about how does it feel to be a blogger. How a blogger feels for his blog and the readers.
Real Time Visitors, as shown on Google Analytics
Blogging gives you mixed feeling. It can be enjoying, satisfying and at time it is too draining. No doubt it’s a great feeling that readers keep coming back for the new posts. When I see the dots in my real-time Google Analytics screen (like in the picture above), I feel proud to be a blogger. I think it’s the same feeling of pride that book authors get with each copy being sold. Where it pains is the immense work-load you take on.
Blogging is a learning process. During the holidays last week, I was learning keyword research. I am putting it out for my readers who are bloggers by themselves.
This article is not about deciding new topics based on a number of search queries they can generate in future. This is about that part of keyword research where you want to write a guest post or want to build links, based on certain keywords contained in published articles.
The objective is to tackle the words that can generate maximum visits to your site.
