As a newbie blogger, it is natural that you may have little or no audience with the big shots in your market niche. 🙁 Instead of running around the big shots trying to catch their attention you will be better off building relationship with your peers 🙂 . Start making friends with bloggers who are newbies like yourself, they are in need of friends just like you, so you will not need so much effort to catch their attention. They tend to be more friendly and willing to reciprocate love.
When I first started blogging (Saved By Jesus), I wanted desperately to establish links with well known bloggers. I embarked on what is commonly refer to as “bootlicking”(I visited the famous blogs daily, and put so much effort in dropping quality comments in a bid to catch the attention of the blogger). After some months, I got angry because all the effort brought no result whatsoever. Later, I read some tips given by Yaro Starak, I applied it and lo and behold, I discovered that it works. Now I have friends online who relate to me as their peer. They show me so much respect. Every visit I make to their blog is reciprocated eventually, if not immediately. And you know what, the circle is growing. I even have someone who wants me to be his mentor (quite interesting, considering the fact that I am a newbie myself) 😉 . (more…)
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Network With Your Peers – Stop Bootlicking!
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Site Statistics Can Ruin The Fun Of Blogging
Monday, April 14th, 2008Constant checking of your site statistics can ruin the fun of blogging. If you look at the statistics frequently enough, it will change your attitude towards blogging. When the graph is climbing up, you will feel on top and naturally more ideas will flow, however when it starts going down, you may suffer writer block. The ideas seems to cease and you feel like packing up the blog.
So is it wrong to check the site statistics? No, that is not what I mean. I just want to point out that the daily movement of your site statistics should not be allowed to discourage you from working towards your goal.
I have observed that every blog or website, no matter how popular, suffers the same fluctuations in site statistics. Ask successful bloggers, they will tell you that some days, week and months are better than others (sometimes the fluctuation has no correlation with the quality of posts on your site).
A post that did not receive attention when you wrote it may suddenly become a traffic puller because its content addresses an issue that is currently among the hot topics in the blogging community.
However, you need to study the trend being shown by the statistics at least once a week so that you will know what the trend has been like. The statistics is meant to be a tool (for improving on your effort), not a verdict on the success or failure of your blog!
If you have a goal and you are working on it, then you are already succeeding. It does not matter if Google Analytics, Alexa, FeedBurner and other statistic tools think otherwise. 🙂
You Too Can Become A Successful Blogger
Saturday, April 12th, 2008An average newbie blogger dreams of having a blog that receive thousands of visitors per day and earns 6digit incomes every month. Every new blogger wants to be like JohnChow, ShoeMoney, Yaro Starak etc. We want to be successful. We want to be famous in the blogosphere. What does it really take to achieve this?
Some assume that successful blogges were just lucky or genuies who possess extraordinary abilities. This is far from the truth. There is nothing extraordinary about successful bloggers. (A little research on their state in prior years before they became famous will confirm this) Rather they are just ordinary guys doing extra ordinary things because they have the right attitude, the needed blueprint and strong determination to persist until the goal is accomplished.
For an individual to succeed in any human endeavour, he must have confidence in himself. If you believe you can, then you can. If you believe you cannot then nobody will be able to help you achieve anything.
It is a well established fact that knowledge is required. Without the right blueprint you will not be able to coordinate resources at your disposal to accomplish your goal.
Also, persistency is indispensable. Keep at it until you get what you want. It does not matter how many times you fail. Just keep at it until you get that one success that will make the difference. Remember, winners never quit, and quitters never win. A little research will show you that some of those bloggers we consider famous today were unknown five years ago. However, their personal belief and strong determination have earned them a place in the hall of fame.
So, get your attitude towards your online business right. Stop thinking about all the reason why you cannot accomplish your set goal and start thinking about all the reason why you can set a new record.Get all the help you can to acquire a blueprint that will enable you coordinate your efforts. Make up your mind to keep working at your goal until your dream becomes a reality. See you at the top!
Do You Read Articles Written By Robots?
Friday, April 11th, 2008Will you read articles written by Softwares if you happen to know the source of such articles? I will love to know your view about this.
I have been away from my desk for about a week now being that I was sent to another city on official assignment. Next to my family that I missed so much (I love being around them), I have missed the opportunity of interacting with my online friends and updating my blog.
Due to the nature of the assignment, it has been difficult updating my blog with articles. I thought of several things to do to savage the situation, but all the options did not quite satisfy me. One of the options opened to me was to simply copy articles that I found interesting and paste same verbatim while acknowledging the author. I was not quite comfortable with that option.
Another option was to simply use software to grab feeds I consider interesting and turn post them as articles on my site. That I consider unacceptable also.
Finally, I decided that I will rather post my personal ramblings rather than implement any of the aforementioned options. I believe my readers comes to the site to read original content or my unique view on a common topic, not others people opinion that I just copied and pasted.
Well that is my personal opinion, I am willing to learn from others that might have a diverge opinion on this issue. Thanks for visiting. Enjoy!
Quality Content The Indispensable Contributor To Blogging Success
Monday, April 7th, 2008Blogs are the choice of online information seekers. If you host quality content on your website and you update regularly, people who visit once and got quality information will tend to return again and again to your blog (quality traffic!😉 ). That is what makes quality content an indispensable contributor to your blogs success.
Have your visitors in mind. It is the content of your blog that people are attracted to. Not the advertisements. I was shocked when I discovered that some websites have been stealing contents from my posts and pasting them on their blogs. I have visited three different sites that did this (I will not paste their URL here because I do not want to give them more publicity). When I visited the sites, I was amused to discover that they were solely set-up for the purpose of displaying Google Ad-sense. To me, that was absolute rubbish. I will never click adverts on such site, and I guess so many other visitors will not either.