We all have our own fear.Fear of height,fear of failure,fear of being rejected,fear of flying to name a few.What does fear have to do with blogging?I think a lot.Some bloggers fear of failure,fear of not getting noticed,fear of not getting traffic,fear nobody will read the blog,fear the blog is not as best as other blogs,fear of writing the wrong thing..fear,fear and more fear until it makes you want to quit,or maybe not even start even though the urge is strong.
My greatest fear when I wanted to start is not about failure,not getting traffic or my blog will not be as good as someone else blog(This is because I've seen so many blogs,some I even consider very poorly done that I keep telling myself I can surely do better than this!).No..my greatest fear is not doing it the right way.Sure,there are no certain rules or guideline that you have to follow that says you're doing it right,and no,no blog police will give away summons if you don't.Some seasoned bloggers say do it this way,some say don't do that!Because of feeling unsure what the right thing is,I only started blogging in April this year instead of January as I have planned.
So what did I do from January to March?I did my research on blogging.I surf the Net looking at as many blogs as possible,finding out which blog is in the top list,look at this blog and see how this top and seasoned bloggers do it.I download free ebooks about blogging and reading it religiously(I normally read 1 book everyday and sometimes up to 3 or 4 depending on the number of pages),all this to look for the right way to blog.
After that three month,I came to a conclusion that it all boils down to this three things.
My greatest fear when I wanted to start is not about failure,not getting traffic or my blog will not be as good as someone else blog(This is because I've seen so many blogs,some I even consider very poorly done that I keep telling myself I can surely do better than this!).No..my greatest fear is not doing it the right way.Sure,there are no certain rules or guideline that you have to follow that says you're doing it right,and no,no blog police will give away summons if you don't.Some seasoned bloggers say do it this way,some say don't do that!Because of feeling unsure what the right thing is,I only started blogging in April this year instead of January as I have planned.
So what did I do from January to March?I did my research on blogging.I surf the Net looking at as many blogs as possible,finding out which blog is in the top list,look at this blog and see how this top and seasoned bloggers do it.I download free ebooks about blogging and reading it religiously(I normally read 1 book everyday and sometimes up to 3 or 4 depending on the number of pages),all this to look for the right way to blog.
After that three month,I came to a conclusion that it all boils down to this three things.
- Blog about topics that you're really interested in because if you don't,it will be hard to motivate yourself to keep on blogging when you ran out of ideas.
- Presenting fresh,quality content with every update you make to your blog.Fresh,quality content doesn't mean the kind of article that will each time be on front page of Digg or Stumbleupon,but content created from your own original ideas and presented in your own unique way.
- Updating your blog regularly.It doesn't mean you have to update everyday or every two days,but doing it frequently,not 1 article in January,4 in February,2 in March,0 in April,18 in May.The reason to update your blog regularly is it will do good for your ranking among search engine.Search engine just love regularly updated blogs,and having a good page rank can really help in bringing traffic to your blog.When readers see your blog and see that your blog has not been updated regularly,they will think that you're not serious about your blog,I always think that way.Readers won't bother to revisit this blog.
Blogging is actually an ongoing learning experience,you'll learn new things everyday,learn new way to enhance your blog,keeping it up to date.Blogs started with only written content,then you can add photo's,later on audio's and now you can even add video's to your blog.There is always new technology to enhance your blogging experience so we will never know what next that is in store for us,but whatever the changes been made to further add the excitement of blogging,bringing it to another level,never ever forget about those three core element that a blog should have.
Sharing your view on this will be very much appreciated.Leave a comment and share your thoughts.Have a great weekend and Happy Blogging.
Sharing your view on this will be very much appreciated.Leave a comment and share your thoughts.Have a great weekend and Happy Blogging.
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