Blog Success: Stick to Your Guns

Posted by scoop on January 25th, 2010 in Tips |

Launching a new blog can be very discouraging, especially if you’re starting from scratch.

You might be wondering how some blogs take off immediately but what you should realize is that the keyword here is SOME because most blogs really do take time before getting the traffic and readership to achieve the blogger’s desired goals: popularity, reputation, or conversions. Furthermore if you look at the reasons why these blog get a lot of readership almost instantaneously you’ll find that it’s highly likely that:

1. the blogger is already famous in his niche and has another popular blog/website. In short the blog’s “new readers” are already old followers (whether offline or online) of the blogger.
2. the blog is a newly bought but old has an old and established URL. This takes care of the “aging” part so that the blogger need only take care of other SEO efforts and of course churn our good content.
3. it’s due to good old plain luck. It just so happened that the blog’s recent launch coincided with some event that drew lots of people’s attention to the blog’s particular theme or even a single post.

The point is that as a blogger you have to be realistic in setting goals. Do not expect to be a famous blog within several month’s time. If you’re starting from scratch it will take several months just to start ranking decently. However, this fact should not discourage you but make you realize that your efforts will start bearing fruit in time. For now, make sure you’re doing everything you can to ensure that success will come sooner than later.