The 6 Month Blogging Milestone
This should just about be the turning point for your blog. If you’ve been posting 2-3 times per week (at least) you should now have more than 50 posts. For me, it just seems like that’s the point where things start to get a bit easier. It’s like being on the job a year or two or getting halfway through high school or college. You know what to expect, you know what’s going on – you seem to have a pretty good handle on things. If you did everything I said to do for the previous two milestones than you should have 50+ articles with a few “pillar” articles being the attraction and the rest contributing a little bit each day. Hopefully you’ve got 50-100 comments on your posts at least, and 100-300 visitor’s per day. You’re somewhere “in the mix” not in the blogging community and you have some followers in your own blog community, and other bloggers may know you as part of theirs. You should be used to posting and writing, so it’s time to do a few additional things to give you an extra push.
Check Your Sitemap against your SERP’s to ensure indexing in the search engines is going well. You should have enough posts now to think about going back and making previous posts more profitable. Now that you have lots of posts stacked up, think about organizing your site using pages. Monetize your Search Results with products or Create your own theme. You could even add content by creating an entire affiliate store from a data feed. Now that you have enough articles you can seriously consider submitting your best content by learning how to do article directory promotion.
Create Your Own Blogging Milestones
If you haven’t already realized it, everything you do as a blogger is just a building block. Like a lawyer building a reputation, a pastor building a congregation, a mechanic building a customer base, or a doctor building a base of patients – YOU as a blogger are creating your own milestones. You should be making goals and plans to reach them. Analyze where you are now and where you want to be. What will it take to get there? Make a short, medium, and long term goal. If you have 100 visitors per day now what would it take to get 200? If you make nothing on your blog now, what would it take to make enough to pay for your hosting bill? How many posts and comments do you want by the end of the year? Goals that you achieve will be your own milestones. Do what I did awhile back and analyze what are the habits of successful bloggers.
As you can see this post is littered with links to my previous posts. That’s because my blog is about teaching people to be more successful and earn more money online. I’ve made thousands of mistakes along the way, so I write up all the things that have happenned to me so you can learn from my mistakes. I figure I’m only about 5,000 more mistakes away from earning a REALLY good living online. But I’ll never get there if I don’t keep pressing on. What do you write about? Do you blog about your experiences? Your successes and failures?
Your blog is not a failure. It’s 5,000 mistakes from success…
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!