Oleksi.com » Blog Tips http://www.oleksi.com Learn What I Know And Don't Repeat My Mistakes Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:11:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Haven’t Written Any Posts For 2 Weeks. Nobody Really Cares http://www.oleksi.com/personal-experience/lazy-blogger.html http://www.oleksi.com/personal-experience/lazy-blogger.html#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:13:53 +0000 Oleksi http://www.oleksi.com/?p=103 I was really busy the last two weeks. So busy that I haven’t had a chance to write at least one post for my blog. Although it takes about 30-40 minutes to write a post I still couldn’t afford it. Although by looking at my stats I realized that nobody really cares besides me.

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As you can see I got only 62 visits. The max was 13 visitors per day. 3 RSS subscribers. Nothing to be proud of for 3 months old blog. And I’m not surprised that I have such a low usage. I exactly know the reasons why:

  • I tried to post once a week and I haven’t blogged for two weeks now. Should post at least 2 times a week
  • I haven’t picked one particular subject to blog about. I blog about different kind of things ranging from running online store to productivity tips. I.e. I haven’t defined my niche
  • My posts are too long. I should learn how to write shorter posts but more frequently
  • I don’t do any promotion of my blog at all. I very rarely comment on ProBlogger, ShoeMoney and John Chow blogs and I have my Twitter and Facebook profiles linked to my blog. That’s all that I’ve done to promote my blog
  • I don’t network with other bloggers

You may be wondering why the hell I need to run a blog like this. This blog is the beginning of developing my personal brand. I try to make it useful for the beginners like me so they don’t repeat my mistakes and see what really works. I’m not pretending to be a guru and bullshitting people with content aimed to sell affiliate offers. I don’t even have any advertisement yet…

Hold on, look like I’ve just defined my target audience! LOL

]]> http://www.oleksi.com/personal-experience/lazy-blogger.html/feed 4 Starting Blogging? Know who is bloggers’ Godfather! http://www.oleksi.com/blog-tips/bloggers-godfather.html http://www.oleksi.com/blog-tips/bloggers-godfather.html#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:40:26 +0000 Oleksi http://www.oleksi.com/?p=20 If you are thinking to start blogging or already running your blog you should subscribe to this guy’s site: http://www.problogger.com. His name is Darren Rowse and he is kind of “godfather” of all bloggers. His site is a blog about blogs.

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I started reading Darren’s blog in November 2008. I was interested in blogging but just didn’t have time to start my own one. So I subscribed to his RSS feed and started reading his posts on the regular basis. Since then I learned a lot about blogging industry. His posts target the beginner bloggers as well as experienced ones. You can find answers to any blog related questions in his blog.

Another thing that I like about Darren Rowse is that he tells the truth. He puts it straight that you can’t become rich overnight by blogging and it would take a lot of effort to make full time living from your blog. Even if you are going to blog for fun you need to know how to do  things the right way.

Another thing I’m thankful to Darren for is Twitter. When I was reading his posts about blogs he mentioned Twitter from time to time. Then I discovered that Darren runs another blog fully dedicated to Twitter. I was thinking that if this guy decided to create separate blog focused on Twitter it must be a new trend I should be the part of. Now I’m a Twitter addict like millions of others.

So, if you made it to the end of this post and haven’t subscribed to ProBlogger and TwiTip do so now! I don’t know Darren personally and this post came from the bottom of my heart.

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