New Blogger Talk And Tips

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..

After having your own quality readers to your blog,you can start doing..

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

I hope you all like my posting yesterday about RSS Awareness Day.I know,some of you might think that it is just a way to promote a blog..in some way I do agree,but its up to you how to promote your blog.Some do contest,with prizes,some do polls.Daniel at Daily Blogging Tips initiate RSS Awareness day,to create awareness on the benefits of RSS and I support his cause because most of us still doesn't subscribe to RSS feeds,or didn't make it available to our readers although it brings great benefits.Maybe he will gain a few extra new readers doing this,but that is because of his brilliant idea to create it.

The first real blog that I've read is Problogger by Darren Rowse,and I found it while searching on how to make money blogging.From his blog I learn about RSS and I immediately subscribe to it because of all the information available from his blog about blogging.So,instead of looking for ways to create an income by blogging,I turn myself into a blogger who wanted to have a great blog,a blog which can be helpful to other bloggers or readers,a blog which in some way can bring value or meaning to other bloggers or readers.I enjoy reading Problogger because there are times where certain people guest blog on it,and I personally like stuff written by Gala Darling and Skellie.

What Is The Benefit Of RSS?

To me there are two ways it can be beneficial :-

My Personal Opinion.

As I've already told you,I subscribe to Problogger,and of course Daily Blogging Tips,that's how I know about RSS Awareness Day,and Remarkablogger..all this blogs is for my latest info on blogging and there are lots of it.Problogger is more on building a good content,making your blog better,Daily Blogging Tips is my resource because it has list of Blog Directories and other resources that is vital to blogging,especially for me since I am in the proses of building my blog and Remarkablogger,well,since he is a Blog Consultant,tips on how to maximize your blog.

I read their posting to get an idea for my own stuff.Don't copy the whole of other people content!There are certain people who do this,it is wrong and not ethical.If you want to take some part of it,mention where it is originally from.I do take some pointers from all these blog,but I present it in my own way,with my own perspective.

I do subscribe to another blog,Mashable..it is more about things happening on the Net,and it is good because it keeps you updated on the latest news.

I like to subscribe to more blogs,if I find it interesting and worth reading,and most importantly,it adds value and provide valuable info,not only about blogging,but other things that I'm interested in.To me by subscribing to these other blogs,it gave me a lot of resources to work on my own blog,and it is a great thing.