FeedBurner is Good for Your Blog’s Health

 We all want to be successful blogger and there are several ways to measure the success of any website or blog. One of the top things that is considered when measuring this success is the number of feedburner readers. If you look at the websites like Tech Crunch, you will notice that they have more than 2 million feedburner readers, but on the other hand, I have only 1 feedburner reader in this blog. So, it clearly shows that this blog is not successful, but Tech Crunch is very successful. It does not matter if you are a new blogger or an established blogger. 

 If you have not added a feedburner option in your blog, then it is the high time to do it. Always remember that feedburner can bring some extra benefit for you. It helps your readers to read your content much easily and they do not need to visit your website. They can read even in their browser like Opera or from their e-mail box. So, do not waste your time and open an account in feedburner and it is not difficult. It will give you some extra benefits too.

Sitemeter: A Must for Every Blogger

In the last 3 years, my blogs have been visited by more than 8 million people. You may wonder that how I know about the number of visits. There is a very simple answer: Sitemeter. I think that it is an essential took for every blogger. It does not matter how big or small your blog or website is- you have to have it for understanding about your visitors. With it, you can have good knowledge about how many visitors come each day, week, month or even in a year. You can also know about the amount of your pageviews and IP sources. You can also find out about the sources of the visitors and with which keywords they come. These are very helpful and a if you want to make some money in this field then you must have this kind of data in your hand.  

Don’t make Castles in the Air about Earning Money Easily

This is an advice, I would like to give it to every newcomer in the field of blogging. Most people I have seen in real life or online think that blogging is very easy and anyone can do it because it is nothing more than just writing some words. In fact, attractive advertisements of earning money online has given the impression to some people that you can earn money by blogging easily and then you can get a lot of money and enjoy your time by going to vacation in Pacific islands. Those people who believed to have this kind of advertisements are nothing but police who are making castles in the air.

I have been writing about South Asia for more than 3 years and I have got some success by learning a lot about my own field.  

Do you Update Everyday: You Should

Today, I have a very bad headache. In fact, last night, I had hardly any sleep and as a result, today I could not write anything until now. It is almost bed time and I should go to sleep. Then I thought that I should write something and this is the thing I am doing now. You see that it is very important to update your blog everyday. Or else, you will be behind in competition. It is not that I am direct competition with any blog or website but there is the competition always. If others write something and I don’t then naturally I am going to fall behind. This is very easy to understand.

So, I could write this entry now and I hope that tomorrow will be a better day. 

Do you Understand that Blogging is one kind of Self Publishing

If you look at the kind of advertisements that some publishing houses are trying to attract wanna be writers for self publishing. Well, it is like Publishing on demand. You give them money and they publish on behalf of you. I like to call it as self publishing because in the end the entire investment and risk is with you. The same way, in blogging, you are on your own unless you work for a network or a company.

You have to manage everything and produce content and then hope to find a way to earn money. Internet is the place where people find content at free of charge. So, you have to attract visitors and earn by advertising. There is no gimmick here or there is no hide and seek. Everything is crystal clear. You have to write. You have to find visitors and in return you will get some money by displaying advertisements in a part of your blog or website. 

Are you a Cat and Dog Blogger?

Please, do not get offended by the title of my blog. I have no disrespect to any blogger and I have no disrespect against any animal. Well, some people who say that they want to earn money by blogging but they write about their daily life and then wonder why they don’t see any money in blogging. Unfortunately, what they do not understand is that most people are not too much eager to hear about their daily life or about their pets unless they are celebrities. In blogging, the more visitors you can get the more money you can expect to have. This is a plain rule.

So, if you want to earn money then remember that you need to change your style and write about the topics that people want to know about. Otherwise, just think that blogging is a great hobby.

 

Do you know why You are Blogging?

I think that most people do not have good answer to this question. Obviously, many of them came in this field for money but they forget that earning money in this field is difficult. It is difficult because here you cannot get any salary from any company unless you work for a blog network or do ghost blogging for another person or company. The reality is that very few bloggers have this luckiness to get paid by a company. Their number is very small and I don’t think it is even more than 10,000. If you are among them then you have no problem. However, vast majority of bloggers are on their own and most of them even earn less than $100 per month.

So, think of another factor for blogging and it will be helpful for you. If you are here only for money then you will lose your focus very fast and get frustrated very easily. 

Too many Blogs in the world: Don’t get Discouraged

According to Technorati there are more than 100 millions blogs. You can find blogs almost everything. So, you may feel discouraged to be a blogger because you may feel that the market is over crowded and it will be impossible for your to compete and earn money. You should be happy to know that you are wrong about it. First of all, although most people think that they want to earn money by their blog, they do not give any time. I have noticed that most blogs are not updated even weekly let alone daily. So, if you are serious then you do not need to worry. You just need to commit some time and hard work and then you will see some success and money.