10 Lessons I’ve Learned About Blogging

Darren at Blogged Out wrote a post about the lessons he’s learned about blogging and asked for submissions. Here’s a few I’ve learned:

1. Get a domain name early. Blogspot domains are so 2004.
2. Use subdomains if you want to set up blogs about different niches, rather than new domains for each niche. It helps when keeping your google and alexa juice internal.
3. Write often. If you don’t, you’ll never develop the habit and you’ll let your blog founder.
4. Don’t be afraid to experiment. It’s almost too easy to delete posts and websites, so if you try something that turns out like crap, just get rid of it and move on.
5. Reach out to other bloggers. Blogging can be an incredibly solitary and lonely activity without some regular visitors and commenters. Take the first step.
6. If you want to get some link love, give some link love first. Again, easy to delete if the other blogger is a tool.
7. I love monetizing my blogs, but have at least one blog where you write just because you love to.

9. Depending on how you define the phrase, Successful Blogging never happens overnight. Like earning the love of a good woman, it takes time to build an audience.
10. Controversy and chaos work, but remember that you still have to live with yourself at the end of the day.

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