If we read the statistics, most of the blogs more or less 95% are abandoned during the first year, if we pay attention to the statistics and you have a blog with more than a year, you are incredible.
Overcoming the first year of a blog is complicated because technical problems are combined with including in your day to day one more activity such as writing, taking photos, editing because unless you dedicate yourself to reclog in the pure Tumblr style, you will to have to put the batteries, it is what you have to put up with a blog you have to have the batteries put. In the first year of any blog many things can happen since you start and leave it a week, you get disenchanted, what you write stops being fashionable but there are people who write thinking of staying and they are those who want to have a reference blog.
To get through the first year of your blog with your head held high, the best thing to do is:
Create quality content:
A good corpus of posts on your blog is the best asset you can create during the first year, trying to feed all the categories of your blog equally is very important so that you have a base on which to secure readers.
Search for a site on the networks:
It is an ideal year to see the networks that work best, although it is not convenient to trust much in any of them because it can happen that it stops being fashionable or a new one, as has been the case with snapchat, eclipses others due to its freshness.
Find your design:
Or get as close as you can to what you like, change things little by little and don’t get mad because you don’t have everything the way you’d like to have it, if it bothers you a lot, go to a professional to design a custom blog for you, but if you are going to do you have patience and do it base on few.
The first year is the best for experimenting and making changes to the template and design, take advantage now that you hardly have any readers, then you’ll be lazy.
Find your tone and your voice:
Listen, what you have written previously can be deleted or changed, it is not necessary to always write in the same way, look for a tone that is similar to your way of speaking and treating yourself with the people you know, this way you will gain confidence and it will seem that you do not you want to sell them anything. If you can find your tone you can reach your ideal reader.
If you have a blog, you must be up to date on your platform and the most advanced tools:
Having a blog and ignoring what’s going on in blog sport or in WordPress is crazy, if you want everything to work very well you have to pay attention to the updates of the blogging platform that you use and the tools that you use and those that appear in the market, for example WordPress plugins that you should not leave alone for more than 15 days.
Learn to handle yourself in «Bleulerian»
In the first year you will have to become familiar with a lot of terminology that will become part of everyday vocabulary, for example. hosting, domain, DNS, footer, permalink, widget, plugin. This is not nonsense but it is very important to be able to collect information and gain more autonomy to deal with problems and doubts that you have.
Ignore the people, ignore the trolls
In the first year, one of the demotivating threats that you can have been the trolls that I talk about in this post: kick a troll out of your blog Apart from the common internet troll, there are people who try to discourage you because a blog steals time and it’s not always welcomed by those who write it, so try not to make them feel threatened, although I recognize that at first you take the blog so eagerly that it seems to abduct you.
Be grateful and create community
The first year is when you can best work on ties with other blogs, enter communities and make this little pineapple that in the end all bloggers have, creating a community is also participating in those that you like, asking questions, sharing experiences and above all enjoy the experience that is having a blog. Well I blog turns one year old and I don’t know whether to do a giveaway, the truth is that I can’t think of many ideas to celebrate it. the only thing is to say that a thousand thanks for reading and for being there, waiting for the advice and supporting this simple and unpretentious project that is a blog to create a blog. In a year more than 100 posts are already crazy. Lots of kisses and thanks a lot!!
