Well these are some of the basic questions that might crop up to a newbie blogger’s mind. Even I was looking for these answers but found them nowhere. So I decided to write the answers myself as feel a bit experienced now.
I wrote this post after I received a mail from a Friend, which said : Hi Debajyoti das,I loved ur blog and have suscribed to it via rss feeds.Actually I came to know about blogosphere some time before and then eventually started blogging.But as I am new to this world I am facing certain doubts and hence require your advice.
1)From Where do you find topic for blogging ?
2)How much time do you spend online for blogging?
3)What is the average time you spend on each article? It takes me around 4hrs to complete once is it normal
4)How did you promote your article during your initial stages of blogging
Wow, For the first time I felt like Darren Rowse or Harsh Agarwal. Anyways these seem simple questions at first, but the answers are actually quite elaborate. So, this are my answers to all new bloggers out there.
1) How to Find the Topic for Blogging
Well this means both “What Topic to write For” and “Where to Find Post about that Topic“.
What Topic to Write For : Anything that you feel interested about talking about with your real life friends. Well maybe it means that one will write about Lindsay Lohan’s assets or about Why should you Vote ?. That’s so Good about Blogging. BUT, if you want to make a blog that gives you a readers base as well as some search visitors so that you might make some money out of your blog posts using Adsense, then you need to find a Niche. I didn’t even knew what’s a niche. What it means to me is your interests. For Eg. -My Blog is about Internet & Web and Computing Stuff. Similarly you should find your Interest about what you are going to Blog about. Some Ideas I think you can be blogging about are Blogging, Computing, Tech, Motivation, Entrepreneurship, Music, Bollywood, Parental, Personal & Education.
Where to Find Post about that Topic : You don’t have to Find Posts. You have to Create Them. For that you need ideas. So where to Find Post Ideas ? What I do is I subscribe to a lot of RSS Feeds of many popular blogs of my niche in Newsgator FeedDemon. What is does, it shows all the latest headines from the blogs you’ve subscribed to. So it keep you a track of what’s happening in the Blogosphere. If you are a Technology Blogger then the List of top tech sites can be found at Labnol’s Favorites. You can subscribe to these blogs for the top news in technology.
Sometimes even you can get random ideas from TV shows, Newspapers & even by asking your friends about an issue. For Eg : My Post How to Connect a PC or Laptop to a TV was written when my friend & I were discussing about how would it look be to play pc games on his large lcd tv.
2) How Much Time Should a Blogger Spend Online
Well, Blogging is not about the amount of time you spend, It about the quality of the post you write. You see that’s why Kanna is Kanna and computerandcelltrics is computerandcelltricsBut, ya initially some time needs to be spend not for posting posts but for the learning process. Its all about the mistakes you make. The more you make the more better you blog become. I did a lot of them. Too many. And I have learned a lot from them.
Anyways I think 3-4 hrs is nice. But if you are a professional blogger then read Labnol’s A Day in the Life of a Part-Time Blogger Who Has a Full-Time Job.
3) How Much Time for an Article
Again Its all about quality. One can take a full day of research if you want to write really well. Sometimes its can even take a month to create those amazing lists of stuff, for example my post Enable Right-Click On Any Website (Including Orkut) took me 3 weeks of hard work Googling. After which I decided never to write list type posts again. Since the post hardly gave any value to my blog. Again a Mistake (I learnt : Do not waste time on stupid stuff). My Advice Read Problogger’s Post How To Write Excellent Blog Content.
4) How to Promote your New Blog & Posts
The most important in a life of a blogger. Promotion. Everybody needs to promote to make it visible to a lot of eyes. What I hate when some Gurus say that’s its not important to promote instead CONTENT IS KING. Dude you believe them ? They themselves promote & promote via Twitter, eBooks, Ads and what not ?
Promoting Means letting other people know that you have written something and you want them to read it. And why ? So that you can get traffic to your blog. More Traffic… More Readers…. More Linkbacks … Higher Rankings … Much More Traffic… Fame… More Linkbacks…Massive Traffic… Good Earnings.
Some of my must read Posts about promoting your blog :
- Easily Drive Massive Blog Traffic with StumbleUpon
- Get More Search Traffic to your Blogger Blog – Video
- How to get a Higher Page Rank in Less Time
Promotion is everything … you are reading this because I promoted this post…
Finally, I am no guru or the master etc. I just wrote some of things which I have come to know about.
BUT, noting is complete if you don’t see the video in this post : A Must Watch Video For Getting Success in Blogging
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