How To Become A Semi-Successful Blogger
Posted on November 8th, 2007 | Category: Blogging | 14 Comments »This is a guest post by Jake Bouma from JakeBouma.com. If you are interested in writing a guest post too, let me know
If the task of developing a successful blog were divided into different phases of growth, it is my belief that the most difficult step for many bloggers is moving from Phase 1 to Phase 2:
Phase 1: 1 - 20 readers/subscribers. This is mostly family, friends, coworkers, and acquaintances who think it’s “neat” that you have a “weblog”.
Phase 2: 21 - 100 readers/subscribers. This includes Phase 1 people as well as people genuinely interested in your niche who discovered your blog via search engines and/or referral links.
Phase 3: 101 - 500 readers/subscribers. Will not be discussed in this article.
You see, in the bloated world of blogging self-help articles, you will find tons of articles promising to “Shoot your RSS subscribers through the roof”, “Become a world-famous blogger in 5 easy steps” and so on. The reality, however, is that for many people becoming a successful blogger considerably more difficult. Here’s how I moved from Phase 1 to Phase 2, starting with a single post.
This post is to reward regular commenters of this blog by linking good posts from their blogs and sending them some traffic. If you would like to get rewarded too, all you have to do is start commenting regularly on this blog.
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Looks like I am the only blogger who hasn’t talked about the latest PageRank update so far. So here goes…there were two batches of PageRank drop - in the first some sites like JohnChow.com, Entrepreneurs-Journey.com and this blog itself (from PR 6 to 5) that were selling text links were hit.
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