How to Manage Running a Great Blog!
Managing a blog is not an easy task. It’s not a cup of tea, which anyone can pour and drink. Managing a blog is not a task which anyone can do easily. Many of my friends complement me, for running such a nice blogs like Tech Acid, along with I News India. For them it is not a tough task, but frankly it’s too difficult as well.
Well, I would not say that managing a blog is that much difficult as well, if you know the tricks, it will become quite easy for you to manage it properly.
While I was writing my last blog on some Google Adwords tips for beginners, I realized that I should write some simple tips for how to manage and run a blog for beginners. So here is a summary of some of the tips which can help you to properly manage a blog.
Patience
Patience is the backbone behind every successful blog. No one can be able to gain any success in their life without patience. When you run a blog, you will realize that patience is the main criteria which you need and I am sure if you will take blogging as seriously, you will definitely has higher level of patience later on.
Always remember, not every great blog achieved so much success overnight. It was the hard work of the blog owner which made it great with time. While if you seriously planning to run a blog, then generate the quality of patience in yourself first.
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Creativity
Other than patience, creativity is the vital force behind becoming an owner of a great blog. If you are a regular visitor of our blog, you will also realize that initially I was also not that much creative, but with time I realized the need of the same, and now you can easily see the differences.
I would not claim myself as the most creative person, but yes, up to an extent, I became creative, and what my experience tells me that you can become creative with time and experience only.
Blogging Platform
While running a blog and running a great blog is entirely different aspect. A blog can be hosted with the help of blogger, and it can have the URL like yoursitename.blogspot.com or you can also host a blog with the help of wordpress.com and then your blog’s URL will be something like this: yoursitename.wordpress.com.
Believe me my dear friends, it is a free way to run a blog, but in my honest opinion, it is not a good way to go ahead. People won’t take your blog that much seriously and your dream of running a great blog will scatter away.
In my opinion, if you really (seriously, rather) want to run a blog, then you must need a unique domain name for your blog. Then along with the domain name you must also need to spend a bit on hosting them as well, and if you ask me my recommendation will be Hostgator as always (Use the coupon code techacidva and get a discount of $9.94 off the package price).
Once these setups are done, then you need to chose a blogging platform such as WordPress, or Blogger too so that you can easily run your blog and with time can be able to convert them into great blogs. My recommendation in this case is WordPress, nothing is better than them (if you have any problem in installing them, contact me at inews@inewsindia.com and I will definitely provide you help as well).
Great Content
You must have heard that Content is King. In the field of blogging, content is everything. I am sure those who has a idea about this, will understand why I mentioned patience and creativity as the most required things above. These are the two most important aspects, as far as writing great content is concerned, that to on a regular interval.
Well, there are millions of blog out here in the world of web, why do you think that someone will visit your blog and remember it too? It’s simply because of the great and informative content which you will provide regularly to the visitors.
Second thing, how a visitor will reach to your blog only? That can also be achieved with the help of writing great content only. Once you will write a blog post like we do for reading benefits, the search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing etc. will place your posts in the search results, thus you will start getting visitors.
There is one more benefits of providing great content to your readers, and it is, many people will refer your blog in their own website, thus your blog will get natural links and slowly-slowly become a great blog.
Also read How to Increase the Popularity of your blog?
Although there are many more things related with the same, but I am finishing this blog with the above four things only. How did you like my post?
Do update me with your comments on the post, do ask me any question which is coming in your mind, or suggest anything which you think might be relevant with the post. I would always welcome the suggestions, feedback and comments.
I agree with all the points, Alok. A great guiding post.
Thank you so much Maniparna 🙂
Nice one Alok.. I like the order too, patience sure takes a lot from us and gosh it sure is a long and rewarding journey.
Creativity and content really play a very strong role, esp when you are trying to present information which is already out there. Creativity and people skills come into a greater role indeed.
You are absolutely right buddy 🙂 Thank you for all the appraisals and support.
It’s always great to read your informative posts. Shall surely consider pointers mentioned, though I follow many 🙂
Thank you so much 🙂 I am extremely delighted that you liked them and following them too 🙂 Thanks.
It’s always great to read your informative posts shri Alok ji and I m the one , who got maxm advantage from your posts.
Thank you so much Yogi jee. It is a pleasure of mine that you liked these posts of mine so much 🙂
I agree with all points but i think a beginner blogger will start from blogspot or wordpess,atleast you will know how much audience will love your post and improve your writing skills than buying a domain name would be worth it.
You are absolutely right Simran, for beginners blogspot or wordpress.com suits better as they don’t have to invest anything and can gain the experience of running a blog, but once you start getting some responses, you should migrate it to self hosted wordpress as it is the best blogging platform, as far as blogging is concerned. Thank you Simran for visiting my blog and sharing your opinion about it.
Great one Alok.. As always.. Cheers.. Rajesh
Thank you so much Rajesh 🙂
Those sound like great tips. 🙂 I’m still on #1, lol… cultivating patience instead of giving up on my blog when it’s in an infantile stage hardly attracting any viewers. Thanks for the post! I would like to add a point here on which I would like your views: when you talk about blogging platform and recommend people to get a unique domain name on WordPress, would you recommend WP dot org straightaway or WP dot com? I’ve got a WP dot com and I got myself a domain name, but after a few months of usage I feel restricted by WP dot com since I can’t do a lot of things – cannot have iframe or java pop-ups, cannot monetize easily, etc. Most solutions that I seek on the internet come in the form of plugins which can only be installed if your host is WP dot org.
Hey Ami, Patience is the key especially when you talk about blogging. Blogging need much patience.
I always ask for WP.org as that is the best one and as you said that you are feeling restricted with WP.com and self domain name, it is really true that if you want to enjoy blogging to the fullest you must need the freedom, like you can get from WP.org only. You are absolutely correct with regards to plugins as well.
I really enjoyed your post, thanks a lot for sharing Good luck in blogging journey
Thank you so much Seeraj 🙂
nice post alok … loved it
Thank you so much 🙂
Absolutely true. Patience, Creativity and Content are the most important for any blogger to reach the world.
Yeah really true the most important thing is patience.. just keep trying and never give up 🙂
Very nice and inspiring post especially very useful for novice blogger like me. 🙂
Thank you so much Aagam 🙂
Nice Alok,
Very informative post for novice Blogger, You can capture the blogging platform and explain well. I am sure this will help to the upcoming blogger to choose right platform as per the requirement.
Thanks
Thanks a lot Satish for the appreciation 🙂 I am really delighted that you liked it.
This is a valuable article I have read today. managing a successful need proper discipline and patience, as blogging is one of the most frustrated freelance job.
Thank you so much Santanu 🙂 Thanks for the appreciation.
Nice Article … Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work !!
Thank you so much Kapil…
Thanks for sharing this article and give such a nice information. This is very useful to me.
Thanks Rajat, considering the importance of links in SEO, guest blogging is crucial these days…