202th post
14Mar08
I suppose to write this on 200th post, but I missed the count. By the time you read this post, this is blogjer.com 202th post. Not much compared to establish bloggers, but at least it remind me of how far have I gone so far. OK, back to May 2007, I started this blog after a long thought. I wonder if I could do posting regularly or at least couple of posts in a month. Judging the numbers that I have now, I consider my self successful going over the barrier.
My impression before I start blogging is, it will occupy most of my ‘free’ time and another big question is, what am I gonna post?? I look at this on a positive side and over the time, I can coupe with this challenge and in fact it made me more knowledgeable, interact-able and a better writer with quite better English
Why I keep blogging?
Blogjer has never provide me enough earning to my self, and even for few bucks only per month, I still grateful to have it (better than none). I still rely on adsense, kontera and other affiliates program to which earned from other websites to pay for ebooks, SEO and hosting and domain expenses. But why I keep blogging if it did not provide you enough earning.
There are 2 reasons. I’m working as an analyst, and most of the time, figure and stat will determine GO or NOGO for certain projects or even metrix for our own perfomance. What is the connection between my job with this blog?? In non working world, I love stat and analysis as well (perhaps I get used with it). I would like to see blogjer.com break into top 100k Alexa. At the same time I would like to see Blogjer.com achieve pagerank 5 as well. Why I’m too keen@obsess on this 2 stat? It’s because none of my websites has achieved this feat so far.
The 2nd reason is back to $$$$$. Adsense and Kontera not performing very well on blog that blogging about blogging. I experience quite low CTR and eCPM here. But again, I believe blogjer has potential to rake more money, if I open it up for private advertising. But I’m not gonna do it at this point. Perhaps soon when I’m dried of money (or if there is enquiry from you)
Why you should keep writing.
Success does not come overnight. Unless you’re an exceptional writer or blogger who can provide high quality content regularly, accept the fact that your blog won’t be able to make you rich in a short period of time. Do not get frustrated easily with low visitors earning. The most important part it to be yourself. Maintain your posting frequency perhaps few post in a week is good enough for a part time blogger. But if you can post daily, why not give it a shot??
Successful bloggers such as Liew of LiewCF.com or Amit Agarwal of Labnol.org has been in industry for years, and look at how much they have earned. Don’t you think after blogging for few months you’re dreaming of to earn that figure? I respectfully ask you to forget about it!
My humble experience, observation and statistic also shows that, most of my unique visitors came from the search engine, landing at my older post, whereas the new post normally viewed by regular visitors or those who has subscribed the content on their RSS reader. This serve me as a gentle reminder that search engine also won’t index your content immediately. Your contents are gold, the more you have, the more you’ll get on later stage.
To kick of a new blog has become easier nowadays with help of widgets, plugins and themes or even ebook and guidance that available freely on the blog-sphere. One must remember though, that do not customize your blog heavily until you forgotten that the utilised time can be used for something better such as writing post for the blog. Gobala Krishnan and Yaro Starak are among blogging resources that I frequently visited, to get a fresh ideas about wordpress and blogging.
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agreed, success did not come overnight. just be patient while you build your credibility, have loyal readers, and get better SERP… patience pays.
congrats on the 202th post! (lol you missed the count xD)
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That great!! keep it up bro..I believe in you..
congrats ! hehe
i hv already reached my 180th
it depends on how often google visits your site, u can check that with google webmaster. if the topic you wrote is hot at the moment i.e Ms buying Yahoo, and google visti your site regularly .. with a little SEO tweak, it should be on the 1st page of SERP, but i do get lots of traffic on old post especially on the alrajhi, payperpost and paypal debit card.
betul tu… Bukan mudah untuk sukses..
Ianya mengambi masa yang bukan dalam masa singkat.. Sori tulis BM…
English teruk
Congratulate to you for your 200+ post. I myself could not challenge you because I’ve didn’t have much time to blog nowadays. Anyway… i hope you will blog more in the near future.
Congratulations! And I see you breaking the top 100k Alexa this year. Right now your at 139,346. Good luck!
Well done bro. You’ve got a fantastic blog and you definitely can get there.
i envy your success in kontera. I haven’t got anything yet from it. I hope to get something soon.
Congratulations to you for having achieve 202 blogs, and more to come. Your post above is inspirational! I am sure many readers find it the same. I got to see new views and new actions i could take. Thank you/ and keeping blogging.
Thank you for this post. i learnt something from you on blogging to keep me focus. thanks and do keep it up, and look forward to hearing more from you. cheers
oh..aku nyer dah 300 lebih dah..mungkin entri yg ke 500 aku akan buat entri
huiyoo…im just got less than 150 post even that blog already run more than a year, that mean im really a lazy blogger :p
Sorry for the belated congratulation. Keep it up.