Is Blogging A Hard Slog? Keeping the Faith Until the Tide Turns
Well we have all heard about Blogs by now and if you are serious about developing your business you should have set up several in different niches, not because the more Blogs you have the more you will earn, although that could be a possibility given time. Quite the contrary; it is a lot of hard work maintaining the flow of content to your Blogs but who said Life (or Blogging )was going to be an easy ride? It is however, probably the least costly way of creating an image for yourself as an expert in your field and is guaranteed to bring results in the way of increased traffic to your web site in a few months. O.K thats a pretty bold statement coming from a newbie blogger, incidentally when does one cease to be a Newbie? Now theres an interesting thought! Heres another thoughtwhat if you dont have a web site yet? Phew thats another days work did I actually say a day? I really meant a year! The message is coming through loud and clearand that is get Blogging right away because the sooner you start, the sooner you will see some results and the quicker you will leave Newbie status firmly in the past. The first faltering steps on the blog road can be interesting to say the least. You spend so much time creating your content aka posts, that you tend to forget that even when you have been at it for a week or two, posting every day, nobody probably has even seen your work at this stage! Or have they? Thats the next hurdle which is very reminiscent of the New Web Site owner who sits back with great sighs of relief at having the creation on-line until he or she realises that what has just been achieved is actually the easy part and the real work now has to begin in earnest. What is the real work? Well first of all you must set up a routine to collate material to provide your inspiration for your posts and then you gotta keep up the posting momentum. Some experts say that you should post three times a day in the first few weeks or even months and some say you should post at least three times a week. Either way you should decide on a number and stick to it. Easier said than done! One statement that I came across in the first couple of weeks, and bear in mind the euphoria still had a long life ahead of it yet, was on the lines of dont expect to see any real traffic for six months. Now with all the publicity and mass hysteria surrounding Blogs you could perhaps have been forgiven for thinking that you would become celebrated overnight. Six months Wow thats a lifetime on the Internet with things changing so rapidly. Why isnt it all going to happen tomorrow? Well, just like most things in life, time plays a major role in events and even with all the technology at our disposal we have to put a great deal of effort in before we see a return. No such thing as a free Blog, sorry Lunch! Thats a topic that deserves some separate comments outside of this article.
We left the first of all, several paragraphs back, so its time for second of all which is finding some, or rather many as many as possible, Directories to list your Blog. What a chore but necessary. Here is where I reward the reader for getting this far and not switching off long ago. Wait for itare you surfing/reading/ snoozing comfortably? Just discovered a wonderful resource that will save hours and hours of research but will require hours and hours of submissions and its the incredibly named RSS Top 55 which actually boasts 160 RSS sites and Blog Directories. The author is none other than Robin Good not to be confused with the Outlaw of Sherwood Forest Fame, in those heady pre Internet days when life really was simple (but still not easy!)By the way what on earth is RSS? Come back next week and with a bit of Luck something else will be flavour of the month and you won't have to worry about it any more! Actually the authors real name is Luigi Canali de Rossi who must I guess be of Motorcycle or Formula One extraction. Hence the confusion between the numbers. I have still to work out how 55 makes 160! Though on reflection, if you add a couple of noughts to each of these you are probably close enough to first and sixth gears! So he must have been working on his RPM stats at the time! Why he should want to change his name is beyond me since this must be the best resource going for a Directory non stop shop. Want the link? Go to the end of the article like all good freebie- hunters and beg! The listing is on Luigis Blog at Master...New...Media; wow I nearly slipped in a Bie there by mistake since it is now the most frequented word in my vocabulary. This listing does everything but make the coffee for you...get to it and get Blogging. Dont you just love it when Bloggers play dirty? Here is the url w w w.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55 Robin Piggott is about to leave his Newbie status behind although that could be open to conjecture! In his spare time(which is zero) he operates a Professional Driving School in Limerick Ireland and provides current insider, under the radar help, tips and information for would- be Drivers through his Web site and would be Bloggers through his...yes you've guessed it... Blogs!
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