Having a blog and running it on a customized or paid domain name and host is not really an easy task as it involves money, time and effort to put the pros and cons together in order to arrive at a well desired result for your blog. Having a blog has lots of potentials online irrespective of if it is a free domain or customized domain blog but when it comes to achieving a more desired result such as making money and exposure, there are certain things you must take out of your 'hat' of tricks and some of those things are what we are going to be looking at in this post.
To begin, first I will like to ask a simple question, which is; 'How long have you been a blogger and how much have you been able to make in blogging?' the odds is that lots of online blog owners have abandoned their blogs due to the fact that they are not making much income from blogging and the only tool they have in making money as far as blogging is concerned is Google Adsense. That is to say that the day Google refuse to pay, they end up winding with little or no money in their pulse. Permit me to say this, Google does not reward beginners, it only reward blogs that have grown with lots of audience and are ranked high in traffic, and the only way to be in this category is to be patient, work hard and learn even as you grow from one stage to the other. Below am going to share with you five(5) ways you can maximize your blog potentials. Feel relax and enjoy the 'show'.
5 WAYS TO MAXIMIZE YOUR BLOG POTENTIAL:
1. Watch the Masters at work: Know it may sound out of the blues but watching the masters while at work is the best way to learn. There are several bloggers that have been in the business for years and have mastered the act of blogging. I agree that no one knows it all but as a beginner, it is always good to align yourself with someone who has been into the business before you, go through their blogs and signup for free news letters. Some blogs you can go through and learn from as a beginner are listed somewhere in this post.
2. Develop a reading habit: Reading exposes you to a whole lot of information in all areas of life. A good reader they say is sure to be a leader. Same also go for blogging; if you are not a good a reader, you definitely are a 'bad' blogger. Learn to read books and several other blogs because whether you like it or not, the amount of knowledge you have in a particular area will influence your blog output. For example, if i decide to blog about daily football news updates, I will need to have a vast knowledge about football, the clubs and the players, this will make me blog easily about football in such a way that my audience will love what I do.
3. Socialize and interact with others: No one is an island of his own, the more you interact with others, most especially those that are into blogging with you, the more you gain exposure and the more you tend to learn from each others experience. Make it an habit to join online Forums such as Nairaland.com. Better still you can create social network groups on Facebook, Google+, StumbleUpon, Twitter and others. The aim of of having a social media account is to be able to relate with people and let them know what your blog is all about so that if they are convinced about it, they can subscribe to your blog and that means additional traffic to you.
4. Do not be too stingy with knowledge: Some persons are very stingy with what they know, they prefer to die with that knowledge inside of them than let it out for others to benefit. How disdainful I must say because whether you like it or not the thing you claim to know very well and you don't want others to know has already be known else where in some place and you are not the first to know it, so why not just share it with others. The truth is that if you fail to share what you know with others, what you know will be revealed by other means instead of you. Derive joy in sharing what you know to others, which is the whole essence of blogging.
5. Monetize your blog as much as you can: Google Adsense is available for beginners but like I say earlier, Google does not reward beginners in blogging but reward blogs with massive traffic. As a beginner, Google Adsense should be ruled off from your mind until you start having lots of traffic. There are other ways you can make money with your blog as a beginner such as marketing of ebooks, building of websites and blogs for others if you have knowledge of website design and programming and if your blog niche is related to that. There are others apart from the ones I have just listed but we will consider them in subsequent posts.
Hope you learned one or two things from this post, be free to share with others. Without forgetting what I promised earlier, below are some of the blogs you could run to as a beginner in blogger. They are others you could subscribe to but the ones I recommend in no particular order are;
- nairaup.com
- blog.kissmetrics.com
- Ogbongeblog.com
- bloggingbasics101.com.
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