July 12th, 2008

Blogging Burn Outs - How to Setup your Home Office for Creative Blogging!

Blogging Burn Outs - How to Setup your Home Office for Creative Blogging!

One of the things that can happen while blogging is that you can easily burn yourself out by blogging too much.

A solution to this problem?

You need to setup your home office so you will be relaxed.

As for me, I’ve recently moved my desk to where my sofa used to sit in my livingroom to take advantage of the ocean view and beautiful outdoor scenary while I blog.  Now, I can look out the window and see people, cars, and the ocean after every blog post to clear my mind.

With the recent changes, I have been more or less comfortable and creative about blogging.

If you feel very stagnant in your home office, I suggest you to move all your furniture around until you feel like you have moved into a new home.

There are also many other ways to refresh your mindset about blogging.  You can probably listen to different music, work at different hours, or take breaks.

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July 3rd, 2008

Web Traffic Case Study - ProGolferDigest.com

Web Traffic Case Study - ProGolferDigest.com

Well, here’s a blog that I have been working on since couple months ago.  As you can see, ProGolferDigest.com has been around almost a year now and I was getting like good decent traffic of around 200-300 uniques per day.  The site went down for couple days due to my lazyness.

Since March, I have been doing about 1-3 posts per day, all targeted at my SEO target keywords but found that this golf is still one of the best kept hidden goldmines.

Basically, the traffic growth resulted all from Google search terms.  Hence, this type of blog is explosive for making money online as a large number of your readers are people searching on Google and other search engines.

I’ve also learned that when you write a post about current events such as the U.S. Open, you get a spike of search engine traffic due to the people who are searching for it.

With just couple Adsense, this blog is making almost couple clicks, which isn’t too bad.

I think with a larger traffic such as around 2000 pageviews per day, this type of blog can make about $50-100 per day due to the “niche” of the blog.  The golf blog world hasn’t even started, there’s not enough golf blogs yet…

By end of this year maybe that could happen if I keep blogging daily about golf…man I’d rather play golf.  (That’s why I end up going golfing because I write about it…works I guess…)

This is my mindset for Multiple Blogs

Grow multiple blogs  and start watching which one grows faster, and then concentrate on those fast blogs to expect some results.

The slower blogs can be slow so really adjust your focus on building the blogs that are “growing” faster.

I think you need to really have multiple blogs in order to be successful at making money blogs as you can’t rely on one subject.

Once you develop couple really interesting topics for you and your niche market, you simply grow it with all the other blogs but watching the results in-between.

Which ever blog is growing faster, meaning more “search engine” traffic increase over a period of time, you need to put all your bloggers and blog posts onto those blogs.

Eventually, every site you run will increase in reputation and rankings if any one site increases due to the “network” structure of multiple blogs.  The opposite can happen, but you can simply deplete that link if the worst comes to worst.

Well, that’s my theory anyways.

If you have a better one, please feel free to suggest and use the comments.

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June 25th, 2008

Blogging is about Fresh Content, You gotta be in the Right Mindset!

If you look at carefully at blogs that are successful, you can see the amount of “fresh” content that’s coming out.

That’s what you need to focus on most, fresh content.   Fresh content is the core of blogs, whether you run a sports blog or tech blog, people want to read about something new, not something everyone knows about or from yesterday.  (That’s right, in the blogging world, even news from yesterday is old for some blogs…)

Now, how to go about fresh content?  

First, you need to be in the right mindset.  Get yourself excited and fresh to blog.

For example, for me, I like to blog in the early mornings around 6am to 8am, that’s when my mind if fresh and I can do like 50 blog posts within just 3 hours.

I do tend to get lazy at times and drift down to like 20 blog posts but on my good days, I do try to wake up early and get things done early.  (This is my best hours but it may be different for you so try different times and see what works for ya.)

What do I do the rest of the day?

I go play golf, I don’t need to spend ALL day blogging.  Trust me, you need to find a way to get your mind off blogging most of the time than the other way around.

As a blogger who has blogged almost 2 years non-stop daily, I know that every human being needs to learn how to distract themselves from work.

How long do I blog total per day?

Most days, I blog 4-6 hours depending on how early I wake up and how fresh I am.  But I admit that after doing 20 or so blog posts, my mind is about to burst into flames if I don’t stop blogging.

Find your distraction!

That’s right, you need to learn to distract yourself with fun activities such as going to get a cup of coffee at the coffee shop, work out at the gym, go grocery shopping, or anything that can help your mind get away COMPLETELY from blogging.

Why?

Well, first and foremost, you need to be “super-fresh” to write great content.

Second, you don’t want to burn out and write mediocre blog posts.  Your energy is felt by your readers.  (Even this post, you can probably feel my energy.   Do you feel my power??? )

Third, you need to stay away from the computer at least couple hours a day.   Computers were never made for human nature, only for robots.  If you want to end up an Internet zombie, be my guest but if you want a “life” (as they say, “get a life”), go do something with your life away from that keyboard and mouse.  Besides, it’s only going to help you develop handaches.

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