5 Things To Keep In Mind Before Starting A Blog

5 Things To Keep In Mind Before Starting A Blog Make Money Online Queries? Struggling To Get Traffic To Your Blog? Sign Up On (HBB) Forum Now! 5 Things To Keep In Mind Before Starting A Blog Updated On 17/04/2017 Author : Srivathsan G.K Topic : Blogging Short URL : http://hbb.me/2oze5Js CONNECT WITH HBB ON SOCIAL MEDIA Follow @HellBoundBlog When youre ready to start a blog, all our mind sets would be on theme, design aspects, and making our blog look better, but we ignore certain aspects which must be present before starting our blog. Only when these things are set clear before starting a blog, then it can come out as successful blog. Here are few things that should be taken care before starting a blog. I am not sure about the statistics, but on a average 10,000 blogs are created per day, but 3 months later only 1% is maintained. So most of the people concentrate on designing the blog rather leaving out the main aspects which makes the blog more successful on the long run. Here are few working methods that would make your blog more successful probably if you keep all these points in mind before starting your blog. Also Check : 5 Things Every New Blogger Must Know #1 Schedule 10 To 20 Quality Articles Earlier Before your blog is live, make sure you schedule some 10 to 20 quality articles which are ready to be published. Many blogs install wordpress and keep it as such with the Hello World post. No one wants to see that, instead a new blogger should produce some quality post and show the ability. First impressions are the best ones and you should make the reader to come again to your blog. So, work before your blog is alive. #2 Changes Should Be Finalized Offline Dont work or make changes to the live blog. Once youve made live, then only thing you should concentrate is on quality articles over quantity and also promotion. All the changes to the design and other things should be finalised at offline. When youre branding your blog, design it offline and make it live at once. Dont keep changing the design or other things often. The only thing you should concentrate is on content and promotion. For offline working with WordPress, you can install Xampp and WordPress. #3 Content Is Nothing Until You Promote It So, you have finalised the design and also started working on content once the blog is live, now how to make people know about your blog ? Content is nothing until you promote it. So, promotion here plays a major role, now starting promoting your blog. Plan for promotional activites before you start a blog. 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If youre on twitter, Retweet the post of some bloggers, get their attention, star t the conversation with them. Same goes with digg, facebook, and other sites. So now once youve got some familiarity with them, it will be easy for promotional activities. When you make your blog live, it will be easy to get some traffic from other sources than search engines. #4 Only Passion Can Drive Your Blog With Success Here on the note 4, I would like to focus on 4 points that you should keep in mind before starting a blog. Only passion can drive your blog with success. Many people fail in the first 3 months because of less passion towards work and no patience. So, the 4 points which you should tell your mind always Hard Work by frequent update of articles and writing quality content, Patience, Smart promotion of your blog and Communicating with fellow bloggers and readers. So focusing on all these 4 points will make your blog successful. You should also maintain concentration in Blogging. #5 Follow The Dont Give Up Nature Apart from design, content, promotion and communication, you should set your mind free and strongly follow the dont give up nature. Blogging is not quick race, its more like a marathon. You will be successful only on a long run. So never give up at any circumstances. You may fail, but learn where youve failed and come back with a bang. Strictly follow the dont give up nature, you will be successful one day ! Believe the potential in You ! So these are the factors I think that should be kept in mind before starting a blog. What Say?