I'm sure that almost everybody in the United States or in the World for that matter, has heard the famous phrase... "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You - But What You Can Do For Your Country"
Which the 35th President of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy (JFK), was quoted as saying.
Well, today I've put my own little twist on those all-to-famous words, I hope nobody minds. I wanted to make it a little more appropriate for the blogging world because I think more bloggers should...
Ask Not What Your Blog Readers Can Do For You - But What You Can Do For Your Blog Readers
Ask Not What Your Blog Readers Can Do For You - But What You Can Do For Your Blog Readers
You see these days there are a lot of people out there that plan on starting a blog for the soul purpose of Making Money. Now I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with making money from blogging, there's nothing wrong with it AT ALL.
Believe me when I tell you that I want to see as many people as possible making money online. That's why I started my new blog, i-Blogger just 2 short months ago. I want to share with my readers the many things that I've learned, mistakes that I've made, and also the things that I continue to learn so that I might help others in hitting their blogging goals just a little bit faster.
Like everyone else, I have been at the starting gates and I know it can be frustrating when you're not making any money online, especially when you're trying to. In-fact I'm not even close to where I want to be financially, not yet anyway. But I am doing everything that I can to make it happen.
I started my first website at the beginning 2008 and my first blog just 2 months later. I now have a total of 7 websites all together and within the past six months I've started 2 new blogs that I have been focusing all of my energy on. I use Affiliate Marketing and Google AdSense on all of my websites and on my 2 new blogs as well. I am also doing other things like selling ad space and building my email list.
When I started my first blog it was mainly to blog about my journey with affiliate marketing and also to drive traffic to my websites. I didn't even use Google AdSense on my first blog.
I started my first website at the beginning 2008 and my first blog just 2 months later. I now have a total of 7 websites all together and within the past six months I've started 2 new blogs that I have been focusing all of my energy on. I use Affiliate Marketing and Google AdSense on all of my websites and on my 2 new blogs as well. I am also doing other things like selling ad space and building my email list.
When I started my first blog it was mainly to blog about my journey with affiliate marketing and also to drive traffic to my websites. I didn't even use Google AdSense on my first blog.
Thinking back on this helped me to realize that your blog readers are what makes your blog move forward. If nobody was reading your blog, after a while you would probably stop blogging. I know that I would have.
However, I think when a person starts a blog strictly to make money and for no other reason, they're not thinking about what they can do for their readers. Their only concern is getting visitors to click their AdSense or to join their email list so that they can bombard them with product offers.
They forget that their readers didn't come to their blog to click on ads or to get emails from them. They came for good quality information, or possibly a joke, celebrity gossip, or if your visiting one of my blogs, you came to get tips on the HCG Diet or to read about my journey to becoming a successful blogger. And that's exactly what I hope to give you. If you decide to join my email list, subscribe to my feed, or do anything else, that's even better.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that you shouldn't try to make money from your blog, because you should. I'm just saying giving your readers what they came for is what you should concentrate on doing first.
A lot of the more successful bloggers that I follow, say that they really didn't start blogging to make a living online. Most of them started out just blogging about things that they are passionate about and that it just blossomed into a successful blog.
Take Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.net for example, he started a personal blog back in 2002 and over the years he has established himself as one of the leading authorities in blogging today. When you read one of Darren's blog posts it is evident that he is writing with his readers in-mind, not making money. Even though this is how he makes a living.
What I have learned over the past couple of years is to write for your readers first and everything else second. This will help you to become a much more successful blogger.
And of coarse remember...
Ask Not What Your Blog Readers Can Do For You - But What You Can Do For Your Blog Readers!
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