Not a single blogger exists which was not at some point an immature blogger. Even bloggers a current list being immature - began the lion more virulent in the jungle was once a teddy bear chasing butterflies.
It is part of the process, until you can become a mature blogger, you need to go through the immature stage. You cannot skip this step. You cannot go directly to maturity. Blogging is a learning that you will endeavor. In the beginning, everything is new and make you mistakes.
You cannot avoid it, but you can be aware. First step is to admit you have a problem, and then only you can start healing.
In two years that I've been blogging that I have slowly moved to maturity. Here are a few changes that occur when you become a mature blogger.
For months, you are addicted to statistics.
How many visitors in the last couple hours? Even though there was never any surprises, its always two new visitors, you check all the same. Two visitors is not much but its better than nothing. You get a slight rush to see the increase in number of visitors. Unfortunately, you don't realize is that your mother, who is so proud of you, visit your Web site at least twice every couple hours.
This is a time that you have checked your Adsense income check you it again. And yet once see you the big green $0.00. All day and six times daily that the zero is waiting to welcome you. You know that it is, but not to worry - you need to see with your own eyes. A constantly permanent nerve goose and checking if the egg has hatched - nothing but a goose egg.
Mature blogger knows that statistical control once a day is great. And if you lie in bed and suddenly realize that you don't forget to check your statistics, no problem, you will check in the morning.
Of course, when you start your blog what you are missing the most is content. If you write. Driven by the enthusiasm and excitement spews content out like mincemeat. Each word is precious - more content than the words.
At the end of your first month you look at the big pile of words and pat yourself on the back. Look at all my words, its extraordinary that I've done all this in a week. Only a squirrel perched at the top of the mound of acorns could be happier.
Mature blogger knows that it is not on the amount of words, its the quality of the words. A well designed four hundred Word is much better than a vomit two thousand words. A mature blogger will never hesitate delete words because he realizes that it is not on the amount of words, his words of what they say.
Internet sends information at the speed of light. A person becomes someone within fifteen minutes. On the internet things go viral - video can go from current by fifteen persons to be seen by millions of days.
New bloggers assume that everything works this fast on the internet, including the rise of their blog to the top. They believe that all they need to do is to create content, to know a few people, and the internet will do the rest. They believe that to start an avalanche all that they need to do is to deploy a snowball on a mountain and gravity do the rest.
Plan of typical three months of a new blogger:
Month 1 (pack the snow ball): create a blog, write the content.Month 2 (start to roll the snowball down the Hill): market blog. Leave comments on other blogs, join forums, tweet all your friends about it. This will put your blog out there and people will notice. They will tell their friends and their friends will tell their friends.Month 3 (cheer as your gigantic causes snowball avalanche): leave your job and move to Beverly Hills.Sometimes bloggers mature bloggers wipe away tears of laughter that they hear these types of plans again. Know better mature bloggers, they think not months years. They know that just as in the real world, persistence and patience win the day on the internet.
New bloggers are always ready for the future.
They know exactly what they will say after the audience soothes and Opera Winfrey asked to tell their story. They know that they want to go on a luxury cruise and then want a jet ski for the cottage - and not the reverse. They realize that a Manhattan on Fifth avenue penthouse is close to shopping, but a Manor House of Bel-Air is an ideal place to have an Olympic swimming pool.
Fame and money attracting many in blogs. They begin their blog motivated by the prospect of a pile of money and adoration fans. They work hard and long hours believing that internet will be superbly pay them for their efforts.
Mature blogger know that the internet could not care less about your efforts. The internet did not owe you a penny. To be hit by the ugly stick of reality, written mature blogger posts because they enjoy it, not for some crazy chat with Opera dream.
I confess, I still have some immaturity left in me. I always check my way of statistics more that I really need to and I want a large swimming pool. How about you? Are you a mature blogger?
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