There are many blogs that are being made every minute of every day. New bloggers are making blogs for many different reasons, but their priorities are not right. Most new bloggers tend to try and make money online first instead of writing their their content or other important things. Here is a short list of how I think the priorities of new bloggers should be.
High Priorities
Writing Content
What’s a blog without content? That’s the main reason why your readers are visiting your site in the first place. Writing good quality content is the most important thing when blogging. Don’t forget to apply SEO! Being Part of the Blogging Community
The next most important thing is to be actually part of the blogging community. To be part of the blogging community requires that you communicate with other bloggers through commenting and joining blog directories like MyBlogLog and Blog Catalog. Other communities include StumbleUpon and Bumpzee.
Exposing Your New Site
Bloggers can easily achieve this by applying #3. Exposing your new blog to the world to as many people as possible is the stepping-stone to achieving your goal in blogging.
Low Priorities
Checking Stats
This is something almost every new blogger does! Their so with their accomplishments that they check their stats almost every second! There should only be two times you check your stats: in the morning when you start your day and at night when you call it a day. If you do this, it will feel much better when you look at the stats. Making Money
This should be the very least priority of the new bloggers. Making money is the last thing that should be on your mind. If you don’t do the first 4 things I’ve listed, it would be impossible for you to make money online.So what do you think new bloggers should prioritize? Got other important points? Leave a comment and tell us what you think.
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I find that checking stats are making me crazy. I rarely do that and focus on writing more.
I think that nerds or the want to get rich quick people check and stare at their status everyday
I really like this post because it addresses some issues that I think virtually every new blogger is faced with. It’s also practical and easy to apply.
By the way Michael, I strongly disagree with your comment about nerds and get rich quick people checking their stats constantly. If you read any other successful blogs, you’ll know that a lot of them were going stat crazy in the beginning. It’s perfectly natural for a new blogger. What’s important is that it’s controlled and doesn’t eat up too much time. One way of doing this is by setting daily times where you check you stats.