The Wardman Wire

This is a series of late evening weekday Hints and Tips that I aim to post at around 10pm. I’ll keep going for as long as I have things to say.

This post explains where you should focus your time in the early days of a blog. By “early days” I mean the first three months .

As a blogger you are probably a one person publishing company, covering research department, writer, editor, legal adviser, marketing, publicity and communications. In the early days of the blog, you can ignore most of these.

In the first three months, you will probably get no significant search engine traffic or comments anyway - so don’t worry about it. Do this:

1 - Blogging does not deliver quick results. Learn that, live with it, and do not worry about it. In general, don’t spend time on advertising or messing about with complicated design changes in this period.

2 - Get a domain and a hosting system that can grow. It is easy and cheap. Get one then forget about it. Do not build a framework that could turn into a cage in a few months if you succeed.

3 - In the first 1-3 months, split your time something like this:

* 10% initial set up and optimising design.
* 10% promotion. Directories, search engines, networking.
* 80% researching, writing, publishing content.

4 - Content is King is an old adage. It was true then. It is still true now.

Now go and do it.

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