I frequently ask myself and have many friends ask me - how I came to create this blog? Well I hope I will be able to answer that question in this post. I hope I could inspire some of you to start something of your own.
Frankly speaking before this blog I was actually a newbie to all this blogging business. And it took a lot of patience and time to read and learn all the possible materials to be able to actually understand and talk about it freely.
The initial idea behind "My Bits n Pieces" was to have a website where I could share my knowledge with others, and eventually at some point start making money (you have to do what you preach!) :)
Looking back over the last year or so can say that I have come a long way and although I'm not a 6 figure marketer, I think I'm doing quite good.
I think that when you start a blog the main motivation or idea behind it, like with any entrepreneurship should be - to solve a problem someone might have.
So the problem I tried to solve here in my blog was to share my knowledge and have it all one place for newbies who I once myself used to be cause too many friends were asking me how I get traffic, what I do,etc . It was out of solving this ‘problem’ that "My Bits n Pieces" was born.
The truth is, I know that there are so many bloggers/people who are so excited about setting up a blog, but cannot for whatever reason get over that hurdle that exists when you first start out – of writing content, researching posts, building relationships etc (The GIVING bit) with very little in the way of income coming back in return. Its so important so "GIVE" something to society before you start "GETTING" something back.
So often I visit a Blog and see that in the first month of operation there are plenty of posts but come the second or third month the posts have become less frequent.
I wish I could say Blogging is an easy way to make money – but I can’t. I can however say it is an excellent way to make money and frankly it does eventually become quite easy, but not until you have first gave of yourself and created something of value that other people will follow.
Wanted to leave you all with a quote - or I should say something that could motivate to go forward and keep trying.
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake -
you can't learn anything from being perfect
I hope you enjoy My Story and I hope it Inspires you.
To all our Successes
Helen
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Steve · 738 weeks ago
When did you start and I wanted to ask how much SEO you done and keyword research, and the main one - backlinking - before you found that you were getting enough traffic/readership/subsciptions to your blog?
Theres much advice out there for SEO and it's easy to spend months on this with backlinking and still not see much traffic, so any advice would be great
Many thanks
Steve
alen4ik2003 37p · 735 weeks ago
I'm so sorry for this late response, just have been caught up with another project I'm currently working on.
Initially when you just start out, keyword research is very important and needs to be done thoroughly, but I cannot say that i did the research and that's it. SEO keeps changing and new methods come out all the time, so something that you do a year back will in no way work now and be as efficient as it was then. Back to the point, I should say that creating good content and provide value to your readers provides a lot of the traffic. Backlinks are good, but google is very picky these days. They are more interested in content.
You have to provide unique value to your audience in the niche that you are in. Be the authority and with the help of word of mouth, traffic will come by itself with good content.
Hope this helped..
Steve · 736 weeks ago
Would be great to get your thoughts please on my above comment!
Regards
Steve