Deadline for Blogging Success
When you start a new blog, do you set a deadline for success? In other words, do you know that you will give the blog one year (or some other time frame) to hit all your goals? I think that it is very important to set goals for your blog, but as far as setting a deadline for success, this is another topic entirely.
I don’t know much about search engines, but from what I have been reading, it appears that there are two things a blog must do in order to achieve success with them. First off, posting unique content seems to be the best thing you can do in order to catch the eye of the major search engines such as Google and Yahoo. To go along with this, I have read on three different blogs that you need to be consistent for at least six to twelve months to see solid results. As mentioned above, I have no idea if this is the case or not.
Personally, I have no timeline for the success of this blog. I enjoy writing at least one post per day, and as long as that does not change, ChrisBlogging will live on!
If you are going to put a timeline on your blog’s success, there is one very important thing that you must do. You need to know what the word success means when applied to your blog. Does success mean attracting a certain number of readers? Or are you like most bloggers who measure success with dollars and cents? Once you know what it takes to meet your expectations of success, you will at least have a chance of meeting your deadline.
While I am not one to put a timeline on the success of a blog, you may be different. Just make sure that you know what you are working towards before you set a deadline for success.
September 7th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Success is a matter of perspective. I blog because I enjoy having an outlet for thoughts and ideas and, until recently, stayed away from trying to earn any revenue from the site. Money was not a motivating factor at all … until I realized how I could essentially blog “for free” if a little advertising could pay the hosting fees
That said, I’ve spoken to several very popular bloggers that have a clear set of goals they strive to achieve every month or quarter, with regular reports of their successes.
For me, so long as I can enjoy writing unique content (why do people still plagiarize, anyway?) and provide a different perspective on things, then I can count my blog as a success.
That said, I don’t think you need to worry about success on your site, Chris. It’s quite popular and most of my favourite bloggers are regular visitors and commenters on here. Keep up the daily posts and, before you know it, the first year will be long past and readers will be plentiful
September 9th, 2007 at 12:03 am
I try to make at least one post a day for my blog. Success is when I get comments telling me that my posts helped them.