What to Expect Your First 90 Days of Blogging
After your first 3 months of blogging you should feel like you have a bit of a routine. You should be regularly posting, and even have a few ideas for posts stacked up. If you don’t (like I didn’t) you need to get more organized. Keep a pen and paper handy and write down all of your ideas as you get them for later use. Also read lots and lots and lots of other blogs – and you will get all sorts of ideas to write about. Make sure spending quality time blogging and not wasting time. Now that you have some content (after the first month), get your blog registered with google, Yahoo!, and MSN. Also learn to track your search engine rankings to figure out where (and if) people are finding your site in search engines. Signup for some of the social blogging networks and reach out to other bloggers. Check out myBlogLog, BlogCatalog, Bumpzee, entreCard, or one of the many other ones out there. You can do this by messaging people, commenting on their blogs, offering to guest post, or advertising on blogs. The more you interact with other bloggers the more exposure you will get.
Explore new wordpress plugins if you use WordPress, or figure out ways to creatively expand your site and make it more useful for your visitors with plugins and modules. Regularly vivew your blog stats and learn which google analytics are most important. You should be learning How to do Basic Keyword Research, and How to Build Links. If you’re using WordPress Learn How to Manage WordPress More Effectively, if you’re using another blogging platform – learn more about it, how to hack it, and customize it more to your liking. Also begin to learn How to Monetize Your Blog if you haven’t already. Learning how to convert your traffic into a monthly income is possibly one of the most important things you can do – and may (in the future) be the only thing that keeps you from quitting. Nobody wants to blog for free forever.
At the 90 day mark you can expect to have some kind of regular traffic, whether it’s 15 visits a day or 100. You should be on a regular posting schedule and have posting ideas backed up. You should know the ins and outs of your blogging software and be comfortable making some custmizations. You should have some type of monetization, and be constantly learning how to promote your site in as many ways as possible. You may or may not be getting regular comments on your posts at this point, and your traffic may not be that great. You might not even have a google pagerank yet or good search engine results, but you are in “build mode” at this point. You should be both reading and writing a lot. Think of this phase as your “blog internship”.
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That post is a keeper. I just hit 6 months, myself.
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That is definately a great post. Remembering that giving something 6 months is often forgotten with one day of success in the first 3 months.
Hey JT.
I really like the site that you have here. This post was certainly a motivator! Thanks for the really useful information, I will keep reading for sure.
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Great post. Don’t give up. Building takes time. All key things to remember. Cheers Mate!