Blogging needs continuous support from frequent content creation, link building, search engine optimization, creativity, new ideas, and more. What exactly keep us blogging? Finding a right motivation to blog is very important for a blog survival. Usually, if our main goal is to make money from blogging, we may give up blogging pretty soon. It happened to me too. Initially, I have started 6 blogspot blogs with one aim; make money from blogs. But, I have quit blogging right after 3 months since I can’t earn enough money for the time invested to maintain all 6 blogs.
To enjoy blogging, we need to have other goal setting than money. A goal can be anything like gaining new rss subscribers, increase page rank or Alexa ranking. Or, increase visitors referred from search engines with massive SEO works. Probably, writing one post every single day that is related to your niche. Maybe, share our experience in our work field. Any goals that are not money concern will eventually help us to run blog for long term. Blogging something in our work or interest area could help keep the blog alive.
I’m sure many of you have seen abandoned blog after few years of frequent posts. Search engines and backlinks still delivers traffic to this great blogs but it is not active anymore.
Oh I hear you! I know when your motivation is just to make money it won’t work, cus readers will know you are there blogging to make money. The best blogs are the ones that author really enjoy what they are writing about. Love the subject etc…not in to the money.
Agreed. If I am a visitor, I would like to see something more beneficial rather than some advertisements. It makes me to close the site and move on to another.
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That is a good motivation! Good luck with this month earnings!
Yeah…
Its a good thing when you see you RSS reader increasing everyday. When it sometimes decreasing, you will feel “what happened?”.
Will try to know what is my limit in blog. Can I stand blogging for the rest of my life?
Right now still thinking a way on how to decrease my blog bounce rate. EC still give 93% for me yesterday.
See you around.
EC referred traffic have highest bounce rate compared to adn.entrecard.com referred traffic. For me, it is 93%:80% range. Maybe, you can try to advertise more on EC as the advertisement traffic have lower bounce rate, still not so low.
Blogging is a desire driven activity.
if you have a theme, you should always find relevant info coming into focus. that is more likely what will drive your blog, and it’s growth.
on one of our blogs we get more than 2 million hits a month – and have for years. on others we are niche size; getting maybe a few hundred thousand hits in a month. each is satisfying in it’s own way.
it’s the return visitors and link building that keep our blood flowing.
great post today.
2 million hits a month? WOW! I’m sure your blog got ranked well for several top keywords in many search engines. Congratulations!!
Blogging in same niche and providing relevant topic could help us in long run.
If there’s one reason why I feel compelled to blog as I do, it’s as “emotional release,” so to speak, from years of abuse, maltreatment and cruelty I was made to suffer, complicated by an institutional and foster-care upbringing for the most part.
Not to mention a form of “payback” for such who, in the name of “mental hygiene,” abused me so badly that I cannot find honest work (and, ergo, try to use my blog as a way to supplement the income I get from disability benefits; unfortunately, such is not the case.)
I’m really sorry to hear about this. Blog is one way to release our emotional feeling. That can keep us blogging for long period of time.
It actually takes about a year before you can make any real money from your blog. It takes that long for the search engines to really have your blog indexed high enough in the search results that people will find you. Unless of course, your blog is the only blog in the world to have a very rare subject matter. Page Rank has very little to do with visitors to a blog. I had a blog at wordpress.com several years ago that I wrote a post on perhaps once every 2 weeks. After only 10 posts it had a PR of 5 and no traffic at all. What that blog did have is several keywords that just happened to show up high in the search results.
Traffic to your blog is not determined so much by having inbound links (but they do help) but by what your subject is and the words you use in your blog posts. Do that correctly and the search engines will do the rest for you. A successful blogger needs to know all about SEO for their blogs.
I agree with you on “A successful blogger needs to know all about SEO for their blogs”
PR is really unrelated to SERP ranking. I wish to have PR5 too for this blog but never succeeded yet. Most of the time, it is hard to understand how PR is calculated. I’m sure you gained some quality backlinks to show PR5.
Actually, the longer it goes, the more money we can make from blogging. Reason is, the blog pages get indexed in search engine and most probably traffic increases too. This means more advertisers will be attracted.
One thing that really motivates me is when I get loads of comments on a blog post. It’s really disheartening when no one comments on a post of mine.
I agree Adam. Comments is where we know our blog is still alive and have some real people take some interest in our writing.
I initially started blogging with my Remergence blog as a promotion wheel for our music and I do still blog on it, I have turned my attention more to Blazing Minds as this gives me more freedom to blog about what I want and when I want! It is nice when my blogs bring in a little money, it helps with the hosting, but I don’t think they will ever make me a millionaire
As long as I get visitors and good comments left then I must be doing something right and that gives me the incentive to carry on
It is always easy to do something that we like. You are doing good on Blazingminds blog. For initial purpose, we can expect the money earned to blog to pay hosting and domain services. I’m sure we can earn more than that as time pass by and surely, Millionaire from blogging is totally out of topic. No one could reach that level.
I agree with you Atniz.I personally created 10 blogger blogs but left work on them due to time problem and lack of energy to write for them.I also wanted to earn money but unless you have a very high PR like its very tough to earn a good amount.I think giving some services like designing and seo can be a better option to earn money.
Thanks
I have had to make money by doing SEO as well. It is really hard to get your blog noticed and optimized in a way that it generates money quickly, blogging takes time to make money, certainly not an overnight thing.
You are right. I noticed that John Chow is currently doing SEO for “make money online” keyword. I got shocked to see the first place in google.com taken by a blogspot blog. I’m sure he is earning more than $1k from this blogspot blog each month from 125×125 and text link ads alone. Doing good SEO can beat up any problogger in SERP ranking. This is a good example.
Yes, Neo. We can’t totally depend on blog for money. An alternate way should be added too. Maybe, article writing service, or blog posting or link building, etc.