In the world of blogging, you must have observed some blogs starting up with an article or two and then end up leaving their blogs in the ‘Silent Mode' where you see nothing more than those 2 previously written articles. These blogs are often left alone because –
- They don't really get enough traffic.
- There are hardly any comments on the posts.
- They can't find themselves anywhere on the first few pages of the search engines.
- They've hardly invested any money, hence they wouldn't suffer any loss!
*Because…
1) The Baby Is Just Born In The World Of Blogging
- Feeding (Content)
- Introduction To New People (‘Blogger-Ship')
- Start Talking (Commenting on other blogs)
- “The Baby Knows How To Speak!” (Guest Posting)
Once the baby starts getting the above mentioned stuff, it will start growing in a healthy environment! Make sure you fulfill the requirements consistently.
2) You Don't Own The Search Engines!
In any niche, it takes time for search engines to show up content from your blog. Same thing applies for Getting Google Authorship. Even if you optimize your posts very well, the competition in that niche or specific keywords will be tough to overcome. Even though it is hard to get on the first page of Google, it's never impossible! When I say that you don't own the search engines, I mean that it's not in your hand to rock the search engines during the early days of your blog. Give it some time! Keep Writing! And don't forget to optimize your blog effectively! Don't feel upset by saying “Google Doesn't Like My Blog!”. It will notice your blog's content soon. Blogging isn't about winning in the first lap, right?
3) Your Blog Isn't Social Enough
Getting more traffic through Social Media is every blogger's dream, and many have achieved it and are still achieving it. I refer to the traffic from social media as consistent traffic. This is because once a Facebook Page is liked, there are least chances that it would be unliked. Though it takes time to increase followers and fans on Twitter and Facebook respectively, it's always worth because the fans usually keep a watch on all the updates from pages as it appears on their news feed. And trust me, once they start liking your updates, they'll visit your page to check out on more updates. Social Media plays a very important role in blogging.
So if your new blog is isn't doing well in its early days, don't worry because patience is the key to success.
Hence, all I'd say is –
Don't Give Up In Blogging!
Bonus tip:
Here's some advice that Ms. Ileane gave to a new blogger who wanted to know how often she should post on her blog: “I would be more focused on publishing a new post every day or two until you build up a fairly decent amount of content – like 15 to 20 posts. This should give your readers as well as the search engines a good idea of what your blog is about. After that you can decide if your going to post more often or less often. I would do a minimum of once a week but if you want to do more that will work too.”
Absolutely!
Don’t give up 🙂
I remember my time long back when such feelings were prevalent. And though ideally just as Ileane mentioned, we should be blogging much more often or have a decent number of posts on our blog, but due to my writing projects, I’ve never posted more than once a week. But what matters more is the content you write, which is something your audience likes or is looking for.
Now thankfully there’s a lot of traffic and people are kind enough to visit and leave their wonderful and insightful comments. 🙂
I guess what really matters is that you keep at it and don’t loose hope, instead just keep on with your writing pace. Remain patient and persistent , and soon you will start seeing results.
Thanks for sharing and loved those picture of the two babies crying…apt for the post . 🙂
Hey Harleena! Thanks for sharing your story! Exaclty…When there’s a will, there’s a way.
Thanks for passing by! And yeah, the credit for that picture goes to Ms. Ileane! 😀 I’m not allowed to upload pictures here on BBT!
Cheers
I am totally agree with Raaj!
I am believe blogging is something that doesn’t work immediately it takes lots of time to gain something from the desired goal’s but blogger should be patient and have the courage to keep it steady and eventually it will start working and I think beginner should read out the famous bloggers stories to get motivations whenever they feel bad about blogging.
Thanks Ayaz. Yes, patience is the Master Key to Success. But the only thing required for that key to work is – Patience!
Thanks for the comment.
i agree no one owns search engines.
The trends of search engines keeps changing time to time….one has to be consistent with blogging.
Good luck
Nice to hear those words! A blogger should keep on saying “Let the SEs decide for the rankings! I’m more concentrated for my blog!”, right? 🙂
Hi Raaj you’re right, in my early days i didn’t earn any money since first 3 months and my blogs were also not ranking good on top even i was trying very hard. It really dis-motivate me but i didn’t give up , slowly SE find my blog good and give it a better rank. Now i’m pretty satisfied with my work.
Nice to hear that Tauseed, and thanks for sharing your story. I’m sure a reader would be inspired by it. All the best for your future efforts! Cheers
There used to be one way to grow your blog traffic:
1. Start blogging every day.
2. Build an audience through consistency and capturing people’s attention via email and RSS subscriptions.
3. Increase the “stickiness” of your posts by optimizing them for search engines.
4. Wait.
The hardest part for me, admittedly, was #4.
The hard truth is that the age of a blog determines a lot about its credibility and worth to the Internet.
But that was before social media.
That was before millions of people were connecting with new people everyday to exchange information. Before social networks dominated online news distribution.
Now, you have an advantage
Now, you can start a blog today, and tomorrow it could be a success.
Now, you’re no longer constrained by the “older is better” rule.
Now, you can utilize the social web to your advantage, by creating remarkable content and unleashing it to the masses who will share it for you.
This is, essentially, what I’ve been doing with my blog.
Thanks for your insight Raaj!
Good luck
Exactly Amrik! I mean, gone are those days when you had to stand in queue to pay your bills! The world is moving fast, and so is blogging.
My new blog was started on 18th May 2012, and I’ve got Google Authorship + some of my posts are on the first page of Google for some keywords!
This was not at all possible in the older times.
Much credit goes to the social media.
Thanks for passing by Amrik!
Mainly for getting traffic those bloggers are newly born its not an hard task needed some basic work to improve your blog traffic. But many new bloggers are doing copy work that’s why they are not improving her self if they are going in a right way then surely they are getting huge amount of success.
True Janmejya. But as I said, all you need is patience because ‘the baby is just born!’ 🙂 Thanks for the comment.
Short but to the point…..
A new blog is just like a babe, and all the qualities of a baby can be attributed to a new blog on the internet.
The part where you said they have invested “no” money into their site, so there is like “no” obligation on their part. That is why I really encourage some type of investment into your blog, big or small.
Never give up, and make sure to let as many know about it.
Exactly Sam. In fact, I’ve written an article on investing in blogs. Do check that out!
By the way, “A new blog is just like a BABE”? 😀
I will check out that article on your blog.
“BABE”, haha maybe later when it becomes big, then yea, basically your girlfriend 🙂
LOL 😀 But then I would no like screwing my blog Sam!
You know its a shame that some new bloggers don’t continue blogging. Blogging is not an easy thing to do, there are so many things to do from creating content to getting traffic. But its not impossible. There are so many stories of success from being laid off to 200,000 USD per year. So continue doing the blogging with passion and success will come your way. My site YouBihar started with a single member (just me), now it has about 12,000. So its not impossible. Its all about passion for what you are doing. Patience is the key to blogging. Its not a get rich over night thing. It takes time and perseverance.
Brilliant post, I hope people will take inspiration from it.
Thank you so much Shalu! Yeah, people often make those mistakes. I mean, tell me honestly, did you even think that you’d get 12K subscribers to your blog? I guess not! It all happens! Let your destiny and more importantly, your skills decide for your blog.
Cheers!
No, never in my dreams did I think that so many members will ever join, the great thing is its still rising. End of the day persistence and passion is all that is left.
Once I started to get passionate about my blog and helping others things became a whole lot easier. Blogging is about creation and sharing. For a lot of people, this doesn’t come naturally. Even if it is–we still have to work and improve on it everyday. That’s a huge commitment, but very gratifying.
Yeah. Sometimes, we get freaked out because nothing’s working out well EVEN THOUGH we’re giving our best in it. But, I should say that after all, luck matters, doesn’t it Heather?
I don’t see any reason why people quit blogging. The main reason they quite is because their blog isn’t making money. Such bloggers start their blog just to earn some quick money.
I would only say that such money-minded bloggers should quit blogging. Its the only best thing he can do. Blogging is not at all easy and making money out of it is the toughest part but once your blog is settled and gaining readership, that means money will eventually start flowing.
Thanks for this superb post, Raaj 😀
I am agree with Arbaz, Most of bloggers are quitting blogging because they are not making good money from blog. !
This point is absolutely “New blogs are like baby.”
BTW Great article with interesting image 😉
cant agree more with arbaz and ‘ammar’ over here , though i dont agree with part that making money it is hard , i think making money is easy with the blogs or a website whats difficult is getting known among the bloggers.
No Saad,
I disagree with you. Getting known among other bloggers is not at all easy. You can connect with different bloggers via social networks, with regular blog commenting and guest blogging.
Whereas making money is a bit difficult. Once you start making money then it won’t be any problem but to start the money flow is a bit hard.
Arbaz, I think it’s 50/50. Most Blogger quit Blogging because they want to make money from their blog and they can’t do it and other 50% of newbie Blogger quit Blogging after sometime because maybe someone suggested them to start Blogging, it’s easy and it’s get rich quick scheme, but they find it difficult.
Ammar, Nice to know that you are agree with Arbaz.
Saad, As I said, Be able to make money from Blogging isn’t easy. It needs a lot of time and hard work. Apart from hard work it also needs proper planning.
thank you guys for not agreeing with me lol , you know the money theory right? or what ever its called , how much ever money you are getting , you will not be satisfied with it.
I remember my friend making $1000/month and was never satisfied , so he started doing blackhat stuff n btw I showed him how to make that much money but he wanted more , and guess what! he got thrown out of google and its been 2 years his blog has not shown in google! yup true story!
anyways , where is the greed coming from? u are paying $100/year for domain & hosting and expect to earn 1000/month? btw, if you stop worrying about making money and start creating quality content. i guess you can eliminate the hardest part yourself then. lol
and plus u can sit in a room , get 1000visitors per day and earn money. how difficult is that? lol , without even the world knowing that u exist , one day u’ll wake up and say i am a lonely money maker haha.
Well for me , i just wanna be known , get my words out ! have people to listen me out! thats all i want and i think thats the hardest part.
My pleasure Arbaz 🙂
I believe that “Making Money via Blogging” should be on your task list FOR SURE, but when you start off, leave that factor aside for sometime and concentrate on the main thing i.e. Blogging.
Cheers 🙂
Many of buddy newbie bloggers gave up blogging, I asked why ? , they said that they didn’t get more traffic for their blog even though they had quality content. Shared this article with my friends, Hope they’ll read this and will make a good decision!
Thanks for sharing it Hari. I hope it inspires them and brings them back in the world of blogging! Wish them luck from me 🙂
And all the best to you! Cheers
Actually this is the only secret to be successful in the world of blogosphere.
Nice post.
Thanks Swamykant.
I almost give up blogging when I failed to achive what other bloggers had managed to achived. I think high expectation of what you can get from blogging can be dangerous to you. Rationale thinking and careful planning of what going to blog will help u a lot. I think this article is a must read for new bloggers.
True Ismail. I guess the first expectation of a new blog should be anywhere between 20-40 views a day (for some weeks). But hopes should be limitless! Thanks for passing by.
great post raaj , i dont see a reason why people quit blogging , i mean if you are writing unique and good stuff , you will definitely get good feedbacks and feedbacks is one of the main reason you stick to blogging.
Well if you are writing what others are producing then you should quit and blog about what you are passionate about.
Blogging needs patience , but its better than fishing :p not boring
Thanks Saad. And yeah, it’s not a must that you get feedback only on your blog posts. Even if someone verbally says “You’ve got an amazing blog”, it’s worth paying for your blog!
Loved the fishing comparison 🙂
I must admit that I was many times on the the verge of quiting blogging. Fortunately, I understood that we should work alot before seeing the first results. In addition, I think that we should write for our readers and not for search engines.
Nice said Julian. Search engines just SHOW our posts, while our readers read it. So its better we write for them! Cheers
Sadly I think too many new bloggers are blogging due to success stories about Mr Joe Blogs who used to work in an office, then started to work from home and now owns a yacht and hummer. These people generally enter into the blogging world expecting google to be their life long friend. And we all know, it just doesnt work like that.
Exactly. Success stories have a million hidden words behind them. Words such as patience, hardwork, frustration, boredom are never thought of by new bloggers.
a friend of mine did want to give up the blogging after 3 Month, i told him not to do that, i told him the same.
He did already get some people on the site then, he did a post about how to build some think and then Boom about 300 People per day came visit him after analysing the traffic we did see that the post get some trackback from other blogs and some blogs post about it.
Now he post more that stuff about it and he makes already some money with it.
That’s a spirit! Buy him a beer, please 🙂
I agree with you. Content is the main part of the blog. If blogger don’t update the blog in time then there is no mean of making blogs. Guest posting also gives benefits to get visits from new audience. Commenting on another blogs is necessary to engage with another bloggers. Social media plays a major to get more traffic to blogs or websites.
Right Amy. In short, commitment and dedication are the words.
Awesome post Raaj,
I think this post is enough to let the new Bloggers know what is Blogging all about and how should they work on their blog to be a better Blogger.
Every new born blog should focus on quality content for at least 3 months than they should start talking (Commenting to other blogs).
BTW awesome post Raaj, Keep up the good work bro.
Thanks Ehsan! Good to hear that it would inspire new bloggers.
Yeah, it’s like 3 months of knowing your new job, and then start knowing your colleagues.
Thanks again!
But i think not doing a post for week can make your blog lose traffic..! At least one post a week is essential people even lose interest when they see no update to the blog they like visiting daily..!
Hey Raheel. Exactly, I’ve actually written a post on ComLuv (http://comluv.com) about the same thing you said. It’s scheduled on 11th OR 14th, I don’t remember!
So do check that out if you remember and add more there if you feel so.
Thanks
I think starting a blog is quite easy, but maintaining it is rather hard work. Generally many people start blog to earn money and they have misconception that as you start your blog, you start getting huge traffic and hence huge money.
But in reality, This all proves quite opposite. So they stop blogging.
It’s like Sonia Simone wrote in a post I read recently. “If you build it, they will not necessarily come.”
True Aasma. I guess they’re all attracted by those sales page titled “Get A Blog and start earning within 12 Mins”. Aah! So stupid those sellers are!
Even Darren Rowse failed with his first blog. Most of the professional bloggers (who are today look at as gurus) learned from their own mistakes. While starting a blog, there are so many things that you’ll learn. In any case, you have to persist until you succeed. That’s the best piece of advice you can receive from anyone.
Thanks for the useful share, Raaj!
Exactly Faissal! I mean, I didn’t even know what blogging actually was. But I’m a person who loves to try new things, hence I just gave it a try. And now, it’s like a full time job (though I’m just 15 and half :D). I actually didn’t have any creative thing to do before I started blogging. All I did after school was TV, Gadgets and Sports. That was my only life UNTIL I was introduced to blogging!
Glad you liked it!
PS Didn’t know about Darren Rowse’s first blog. Is it still live?
Hi Raaj,
Be social. Branch out. Use the power of building a powerful network who will happily promote your posts, expand your presence and increase your readership. Super tips here.
I made the error of being a shy blogger for many months. 1 day I decided to leave my first comment. Loved it. I branched out, built relationships and my blog and cash gifting team grew more quickly as I learned from pros and received some hearty promotion from my friends too.
Give freely. If you struggle with generating traffic help other people gain traffic. Promote them. Add value to their blogs in the form of comments. Sow persistently, other bloggers will promote you, and comment on your blog, and you will become inspired to blog persistently as your readership and online success grows.
Thanks Raaj!
Ryan
Hey Ryan. Got you on Twitter before this comment here 🙂
Exactly. If you can’t play for anyone, play for the man you see in the mirror. The first few games for a soccer player are not games, those are explorations of new environments. Same is the case with new bloggers! Start exploring..! There’s a hell lot of things to see and learn before you can succeed.
Thanks for passing by! Cheers
I completely agree. we live in an impatient world and a believe the internet with instant access to information, music and video has played a part in creating this impatient society but we do need to take a step back and remember, things just don’t happen overnight. It takes time, commitment and work. These are things we need to remind the newbie bloggers.
Cheers
Andi
True Andi. Some think that it’s a ready made cocktail and they just have to put a straw! But it’s not. It’s much much much more than that 🙂
One of the many reasons why people quit blogging nowadays is because they can’t make money out of it in a time span they expected they will.
But I liked the 2nd point. Made me smile.
Thanks buddy. Bringing a smile is what makes me smile 🙂
All the best Pulkit. Do passby my blog and BBT for some great tips on starting your blog. Cheers
With the Penguin updates, it’s been hard to own the search engines. Google has been pushing a lot of my blogs out of the first page.
Hey Prim. There are many articles around the web which can help you get back your position.
All The best!
Yes, you are right don’t give up so easily from blogging. In blogging success comes after a long time and after a hard work.
True Prakash. Thanks for passing by.
Another reason why people stop blogging too soon is because they run out of content ideas. However, I created a solution with my upcoming book, “62 Posts to Overcome Blogger’s Block.” Ultimately, the content will help you get found on search engines AND help you get social.
Getting out of content is nothing but laziness Marcie, agree? I mean, there’s like a hell lot of things to write in ANY niche. It’s just that they’re lazy asses 🙂
Let’s hope your book helps many. All the best! Cheers
Raaj, your response made me laugh. Thanks for my chuckle for today.
totally agree with you about content…..its the secret to sucess i think, not in the way that some people think though that it brings in millions in a short time but if you`re patient and keep putting in the hard work a living can be made from it… loved the picture of the two babies crying, very apt!!
True Lenin. Thanks for the comment! The picture credit goes to Ileane 🙂
Hi Raaj,
Not just in blogging but everything else in life it all depends on how bad you want to reach your goals.
You have to feel you are ready and unstoppable when the bad hurdles come approaching.
It’s when the bad times come rolling in that many give up.
Terry Conti
Hey Terry. Thanks for the wonderful comment.
True. In life, you don’t spend every moment being with someone right? You’ll be alone when the real life starts, and then joined my millions as time passes. But one has to learn to make the best use of that loneliness, and then enjoy the time later!
Nice and very valuable post.I could get more knowledge from this.I hope to come again.thanks…
Yeah Rushan. I’m sure we’ll see a similar copy-pasted comment soon.
All the best for your ‘futureworld.blogspot.com’ link building!
This is a good post for beginning bloggers–many think their first post will be met with wild fanfare, and then they are disappointed when they realize it really went into the black hole that is the blogosphere. Without promoting yourself and your blog— in many of the ways that you mentioned, they really should not expect a different outcome.
Hey Sammie 😀 Like your gravatar!
True. They first timers often quit blogging just because they didn’t get any traffic for their first post! I mean, come on! They’ll just touched the first step on the ladder, not even started climbing it 🙂
Well written post, i really liked the way it is written.
I have a blog since 1 year now, i write actively for it but haven’t earned good amount of readers, what should i do.?
Dev. As they say, practice all the ways of driving traffic. I just checked your blog and saw that you’re posting 2-3 posts a day. You should consider getting responses on each post. Give priority to each post. And then go for the second one.
Some articles, actually, many articles on my blog might help you out. So check them if you feel like.
Thanks for passing by!
This happened to me, I already stop blogging for 3 months mainly because I am busy with my full time job. After that, I came back and regularly post tutorials which I enjoy a lot! Thanks for the article!
Hi Raaj, thank you for a great article. It is so true that through perseverance we can achieve what we want. The only thing is to not give up!
Hey Mariella. True, dedication and hard work can get you anything (almost :D).
You need ample of patience to survive in Blogosphere, In my initial stages of blogging I faced a lot of failure, People didn’t even pay visit to my blog but gradually things started working well. Blogging is something that takes some time. Good post, thanks for sharing.
True Terry. The time spent is always worth. Thanks for the comment.
Thank you for the encouragement Raaj. As an experience blogger you know how difficult it is to say motivated as a blogger when your site is not getting much traffic, no one is commenting on your posts and your list is not growing.
I am going to stay the course and not give up blogging. Because it is what I love.
That’s the spirit Larry! Here’s something for your blog – It looks great. Just make sure you optimize your posts well as most of them are related to WordPress. So compress your keywords so that you get much targeted traffic.
All the best and pass by my blog if you aren’t doing very well. It might help you!
The struggle, or the fight is part of the enjoyment. If it was easy everyone in the world would be doing it and be succesful at blogging, but in reality that isn’t the case. With most things hardwork and dedication pays off.
Hey Chris! Good to hear those words. Wish Christiano Ronaldo heard those words and didn’t get anfry for every miss!
But when it comes to blogging, as I mentioned, laziness strikes them..badly!
Blogging is one of the hardest things I have done but it is also one of the most enjoyable things. I just try to concentrate on blogging and let the chips fall as they may. If you get a popular article the search engines will take notice.
True Michael. It’s like addiction to me! Just can’t live without it! And if you get very ‘high’, people will surely notice you 🙂
Hey Raaj,
Nice article, my biggest problem with blog posting is time, I love my blog and I want to update it regularly but time is my biggest problem because when I write an article, I need to make sure it’s perfect in all ways possible, and that consumes a lot of time.
Great article though, thanks.
Hey Sayed. It happens. Just find the right time, and see that you don’t get interrupted. Give your 100% to any post you write and you’ll be good to go!
you are absolutely correct. blogging is a tough task, its not limited up till writing a post and posting it, it needs to be brought in sight of the people, liked and commented on. all this takes a lot of time. the blogger should have the patience to be noticed and should keep blogging on good and attractive topics.
True Domenic! Thanks for passing by and the appreciation. Cheers
Awesome article!
Not everyone will be successful in blogging, well that’s if they give up too easily. You have to be persistent at it and try to follow the things that the successful bloggers are doing and then you can become successful if you put in the hard work.
Thanks for the wonderful tips that you have provided.
My pleasure Kharim. Thanks for the share!
This encouragement is needed by so many bloggers, myself included. After seeing hardly any results in the first few months I wondered whether or not it was worth my time to keep going. But now I am glad I stuck it out. I am getting steady traffic! Thanks for this post.
Glad to see that this post was useful to you Josh! All the best! Cheers
Exactly. It takes time Puneet. Even I was hurrying and used to check my if I was on the SEs. And fortunately, I saw myself there within less than a month! So maybe I was lucky enough or maybe I deserved it, what do you think? 🙂
PS I was talking about my blog http://myblogismymoney.com
Thanks!
Yes, no traffic or results in the way of income and statistics rising can be off putting for a new blogger, but time is what is needed.
For one of my blogs it took nearly half a year and over 100 articles before i was seeing a good number of daily visitors and some income, now business is booming.
That’s right Surminga. Everyone has different stats. I hope that blog of yours is now running well!
Blogging is not so easy as it seems. It requires lots of research to create a good quality content to attract visitors. You need to build a strong network in social media sites. Blogging is also about building relationship with people around the world. If you are unknown to the people, how do you expect a good amount of traffic through social media?? For a new blogger it’s a little bit time consuming process and there are lots of things to be discovered. I think new bloggers can take suggestions to improve themselves from the experts such as “Ileane”.
True Lucus. Thanks for the brief of the whole thing!
thanks for giving me a sight of hope I run my blog from my pocket money, some strange thoughts come in my mind like Himanshu Quit blogging nothing is there in this give up, thanks for your motivation
DON’T!…Himanshu ….DON’T! You’ll regret it! Just follow the tips! And contact me if you’re having any trouble. All the best.
Well hello Raaj, I totally agree with you a new blog will not become a must visit overnight but may do so overtime.
For that to happen you need to be clear about the point and goals for your blog from the outset. What is it you are going to focus on, you must have a theme otherwise there is no specific type of person that will visit your blog and of course no specific type of fellow blogger to network and build relationships with.
If you are clear on your point and goals then when your umpteenth post is posted without fanfare, you need to have this clarity of vision to drive you through these wilderness days.
igor Griffiths
Exactly Igor! Thanks for the comment! Cheers
Thanks for this info. I’m about to give up on my blog. But it’s too early, I guess.
I do love playing casual games (my blog is about casual gaming)…So I’ll just keep on playing and posting. There’s also the problem with writing…something that I need to work on.
Why would you give up? Please don’t! Improve your blog and everything else before coming to a conclusion.
i’m a new blogger, based upon what you’ve explained, I get bored most often, not being consistent on what I’ve been doing for the past days on blogging. Thanks for the tips, personally i prefer using social bookmarking sites, really helps a lot.
Glad to hear that this inspired you! All the best! Cheers
I completely agree with you the trends of search engines keeps changing time to time one has to be consistent with blogging.Thanks for sharing such a informative post.
My pleasure Sajan. Cheers
Well said, Raaj!
I like the fact that that you pointed out the similarity of a new blog to a baby. Lots of people that get into blogging with this false belief that it will become extremely popular within a short period of time. That’s just like expecting a baby to know how to run and talk a few months after he or she is born. Blogs need the same level of time, attention and dedication parents give to babies for it to take off.
Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks Adeline! Yeah, too many expectations will lead to too high regrets!
Love this post & shared it too! There are so many newbies who start off writing just a few posts & are ready to give up just because all the traffic isn’t flowing in like crazy.
Or they mention the fact that they had no idea how time consuming blogging was.
Well let me tell you if you bought a building to start a business I guarantee you that you’re going to have to work your butt off just getting things off the ground & to build up your clientele so what’s so different about building a blogging business?
Blogging works even though it starts out slow in the beginning if you dedicate a few hours per day so many days per week then you can make it work for your.
Exactly Toshiba! Thank you so much! Was glad to hear from you. Cheers
The main reason of leaving a blog is “not getting enough traffic”.
Traffic is the most important reason for leaving a blog.But i should suggest everyone that have patient , you can surely win . Just do hardwordk
very well written also you can include a point that none of the niche is unique, so it takes time to grow up ….
Thats true…search engines seems to hate new com’ers
hi raaj,
really awesome article for newbies like me.i am in the first phase,i guess.i am commenting on other blog for getting the backlinks and my blog is almost 4 months old. sometimes i feel like quitting but your article is really inspiring so i will work hard.
thanks
Hi Raaj Trambadia,
Deep thinking you have made in the post, I really liked and will prefer your way why don’t new bloggers give up blogging very soon.
In my opinions:
When a little baby born at this time he is very helpless and very weak. But soon this little baby starts growing and gradually, he won the world in his hand.
And a new blogger can see this miracle how little baby born and how he starts cripple, and slowly slowly walks. I also advice for those who don’t try fall in that I cannot do that. No, it’s no that if you lose the first step of your life the next will be losing from life. That’s it.
Hi, i will try to never give up. it’s hard at the moment i see a big wall in my front, but i want to fly over. thanks for your article
Marius
Really an inspiring article , i personally gained confidence having read this article, awesome tips and very encouraging to us
The scenario of blogging has changed a lot and Blogging isn’t as easy as it would be in the past. But one with a strong will and kin can be a successful blogger.
It took 8 months before I started to make decent money on my blog. You’re right, don’t give up!
Thanks for this information. I think starting a blog is quite easy, but maintaining it is rather hard work. Nice article. Cheers!
thanks for the article raaj, this article always motivatd me a lot, i am a pro blogger too, i read this article on august when i was trying to get my adsense verified but failed everytime. then it seemed like i would never get my account verifid this article gave me the strength and resulting my adsense is verified now.., thanks again raaj. 🙂
Your article encourages new bloggers to continue working hard to make a name in blogging. I agree search engines take at least 6 months before they start producing organic traffic for new blogs and new bloggers should try to write on topics happening at the time this will help them generate good traffic from social media websites
This would be a very good read for new bloggers. Good job Raaj!
@raaj you have done it as usual, all i have to say is you are excellent, you made a clear point, lets have a toast of your wine
Thank you miss Ileane. For the encouraging words.
If all of us can have such an attitude of giving. I can only imagine how this world will be like. Many Thanx
I keep telling this to myself whenever I lose hope that if you motivate others or you appreciate their work then you will get same response in return. It sounds little bit on selfish tone but yeah, it works and it’s the way to blog purely.
Today I met a blogger whose blog’s more popular than problogger but yet he’s unknown to people, why? coz he never do any effort in promoting himself. And that’s the biggest mistake he’s doing I think. Anyways, it is a long story and also not on topic
I am running a blog for 9 months and got my adsense verified.., my traffic is near 100-120 but the alexa is going down continously., my friend said me to sell this blog and i think so, my blog is geekfanatics.com.. plz RAAJ suggest me what to do..??
I recall my first blogging experience. Despite believing that my content was great and worthy of some attention (I wasn’t overly ambitious, but a comment here or there might have helped!), I hit a glass ceiling that I just couldn’t crack.
No matter what I tried, SEO, keyword research, creating “viral content”, nothing — zip — I just wasn’t making any headway.
You’re right. Never give up. Be stubborn. Out of the blue, a year and a half down the line I got a link from an authority site in my niche and my traffic literally spiralled upwards and never fell. Here’s my hint: Do your thing, don’t try and second guess your audience and keep ploughing on. Just because you aren’t a celebrity blogger doesn’t mean you aren’t worthy of being one. When success hits, it’s usually out of the blue.
Great article.
Hi! My name is Joan Casey. Im new to blogging and I was a little bit of upset or something like that when i got started. I’m not the pretty one if i could define myself im the nerd one. lol What im trying to say is that i never really knew the power of blogging until i tried it. My blog only started about 2 months ago and i dont do much marketing but it already has almost 100 views and it somehow make me feel happy. Thank u for your post. It gives me more inspiration to continue my blog. Thanks!
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