A blog sometimes have a very short life span.Most people give it 3 month,other are bit generous and giving it 6 month.No..a blog doesn't have any serious illness that given the seriousness making it life span that short.What determine the life span of a blog is its owner..you,me and any other blogger.
A blogger starts a blog,write the first post and publish it for the rest of the world to see..but after three days there is still no one reading it except for mom and dad,little sis,big brother who says what silly thing you wrote on your blog..well..at least you got your first comment even though he gave it straight in the face instead of writing it,which if you set your comment to be moderated will certainly have no chance to get publish on your blog.What about the rest of the world,didn't they like your blog,you have spent hours of what you consider your valued time to make it look nice.Being a new blogger there is no wrong to be naive,you search the web to look for answers.It says you have to join forums,submit your URL to major search engine(And you thought only cars have engines!),submit your blog to blog directories and so on.Hey!You found Entrecard,BlogRush and BlogUpp too while searching.You think the hard part is to make your blog looks nice and write an article,seems that more hard work waiting for you.
The first month..You got 300++ visitors!You're on the right track to become an A-List bloggger,so have to do what an A-List blogger would do..You do contest for your readers with great prize..what should it be..PS3,Wii or XBox?But your readers have to subscribe to your blog or your newsletter to be eligible to participate.Traffic increase by double fold and you are extremely happy.Later on you learn about social media..Digg,Stumbleupon..you just have to get your article there..and amazingly somehow you manage to do it..it certainly increase traffic to your blog,this time by thousands..you have made it,all this just within 2 month of blogging.
But during the 3rd month,your subscribers starts to decrease so does traffic to your blog,and the decrease is very drastic that it worries you..what are you going to do?You can't actually write good article because you started a blog in a niche that you knew little about but you still do it because it is a popular one.You take a drastic step and wrote about what is hot at the moment,but have nothing to do with what your blog is about..it backfires,more and more of your readers leaves you..until you decided..it is time to let go..
It doesn't have to be that way..
A blogger starts a blog,write the first post and publish it for the rest of the world to see..but after three days there is still no one reading it except for mom and dad,little sis,big brother who says what silly thing you wrote on your blog..well..at least you got your first comment even though he gave it straight in the face instead of writing it,which if you set your comment to be moderated will certainly have no chance to get publish on your blog.What about the rest of the world,didn't they like your blog,you have spent hours of what you consider your valued time to make it look nice.Being a new blogger there is no wrong to be naive,you search the web to look for answers.It says you have to join forums,submit your URL to major search engine(And you thought only cars have engines!),submit your blog to blog directories and so on.Hey!You found Entrecard,BlogRush and BlogUpp too while searching.You think the hard part is to make your blog looks nice and write an article,seems that more hard work waiting for you.
The first month..You got 300++ visitors!You're on the right track to become an A-List bloggger,so have to do what an A-List blogger would do..You do contest for your readers with great prize..what should it be..PS3,Wii or XBox?But your readers have to subscribe to your blog or your newsletter to be eligible to participate.Traffic increase by double fold and you are extremely happy.Later on you learn about social media..Digg,Stumbleupon..you just have to get your article there..and amazingly somehow you manage to do it..it certainly increase traffic to your blog,this time by thousands..you have made it,all this just within 2 month of blogging.
But during the 3rd month,your subscribers starts to decrease so does traffic to your blog,and the decrease is very drastic that it worries you..what are you going to do?You can't actually write good article because you started a blog in a niche that you knew little about but you still do it because it is a popular one.You take a drastic step and wrote about what is hot at the moment,but have nothing to do with what your blog is about..it backfires,more and more of your readers leaves you..until you decided..it is time to let go..
It doesn't have to be that way..
- Start a blog around topics that you know and you're familiar with.
- Focus on quality content.
After having your own quality readers to your blog,you can start doing..
- Schedule routine post.A certain day for a certain post,doing polls on certain days to get feedback from your readers,or making another day for posting questions and getting your readers to answer,compiling it and turning it into a post.
- Write a blog series.Certain topic takes a longer post,so make it into a few series instead of making one long post.Your readers will certainly be waiting to read all about that topic.
- Run a worth while contest,not one asking readers to subscribe to your blog,but a contest that needs involvement from your readers,even if they don't win,they still gain something by participating.
Don't let your blog have such a short life span because you don't know how to make it live longer.Having a blog and keeping it going for a long time needs patience,determination and hard work.Good luck to all of you and to me too :-)
This posting is inspired by a post in Problogger,written by Jeff from BuzzMyBlog.com
This posting is inspired by a post in Problogger,written by Jeff from BuzzMyBlog.com
