Blogging

7 Important Lessons I Learned From 10 Years Of Blogging

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A decade. Ten long years. That’s how long I’ve been blogging. It feels like yesterday, and it’s been a terrific journey so far. It’s hard to imagine where I would’ve been if I hadn’t started blogging. I would’ve been ended up an engineer or something else, working somewhere 9-5, cursing the traffic and heavy workload, wishing if things were different. Or I might have ended up running an offline business because because I wouldn’t know what else to do. But one thing for sure. You probably wouldn’t have heard about me. We both would’ve been a total stranger to each …

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Why Bloggers Should Keep Their Focus on Content

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As bloggers, we are very much drawn to statistics. We always take a close look at the daily traffic, the daily traffic coming from organic search, the number of comments on the blog post, the search engine ranking for a specific keyword and so on. If we see a bump in our search rankings, a sudden surge of traffic coming from social media, or 100s of comments for a single blog post, there is no limit to the amount of joy we feel. Blogging is a creative field mixed with science. In many forms of art, technology is not involved. …

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The 4-step Creative Writing Process for Professional Bloggers

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Writing is creative and its a form of art. Writing helps you organize your thoughts and flexes your creative muscles. Writing also helps you grow in your career, irrespective of your area of expertise. The best way to write in today’s day and age is to be a blogger. Though the title of this post suggests that this is for professional bloggers, anyone who loves writing and blogging will gain immense value from this post. This blog post is an answer to the question that most of the bloggers have, including me: How Do I Write Great Blog Posts?  My …

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3 Tips for Professional Bloggers to Write More, Write Better

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Being a full-time professional blogger is no easy task.

Most of the people around us do not understand what we do.

It’s hard for my Dad to explain what I do to his friends.

Most of my uncle’s sons and daughters are employed in “real” jobs.

For them, I am still someone who is dabbling with something new.

I don’t think I have a solution for that, and it’s OK.

They don’t need to know exactly what I do and how my business operates.

Apart from making others understand what we do for a living, we need to constantly fight to create an environment where we can thrive as a blogger.

Friends and family do not always understand the needs of a blogger to support us in our blogging journey.

So here are some tips from my experience on how to support and fuel yourself as a full time blogger.

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Is it OK to Start an Anonymous Blog Under a Pen Name?

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If you want to become a successful blogger…

There is probably one big hesitation you have…

And that is…

Will people like my posts?

Will I add enough value for people?

Or will they hate me?

Will they ignore me?

These are some issues that every blogger faces when he starts his blogging journey.

I faced these issues a lot.

And to make sure that my content is loved and well received, I would often edit the articles several times.

And sometimes I would edit it so many times and still wouldn’t be satisfied.

And I would end up just saving the article and many articles like that have never seen the light of the day.

It has taken a long time for me to get comfortable with writing and publishing articles fast.

I have finally come to a stage where I can write an article and hit publish without editing it again.

This article has been published like that. No edits. No revisions.

This kind of confidence comes with years of writing practice.

And not just writing, but actually publishing it and distributing it to an audience.

Your first work might not get much traction.

You might get 100 readers if you are lucky.

You can spread your article on social media and within your personal network.

Out of 100 readers, may be 2 will leave comments on the article.

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