I know I have read that a couple of people on here maintain blogs. I thought it would be fun to share ideas on what has worked for you and we can bounce ideas off of each other for increasing traffic, enlarging readership, etc.
I'm going to post a few questions here to start it off, but by no means feel like you have to answer them.
-What type of blog is it? (mom, fashion, fitness, career, etc.?)
-What website do you use to host? (wordpress, weebly, etc.)
-How often do you post/create original content?
-How many readers do you have? How do you attract readers/ advertise your blog?
-How do you monetize your site?
Re: Blogger Moms
Married: 1/2008 ~ DD#1: 3/2012
TTC #2: Started 4/2014 BFP 7/30/15 MC 8/3/15 BFP 9/4/2015 EDD 5/16/2016
Sorry I'm mobile so I'm just going to answer the questions.
1. Mommy blog- www.out-to-lunch.net
2. I use squarespace. Wasn't sure what to use, so I just went with it.
3. I'm hoping to do about 3 posts a week. I have quite a few written already, so we'll see when I need to realllly start thinking.
4. I had 250 in traffic yesterday.
5. None at all. I don't even know where I would start!! Any advice would be great! Lol
kami09 Don't worry too much about monetizing now. You need to get some blogging under your belt first. The one thing you good do now is install Google AdSense so that your readers are always used to ads on your site rather than them suddenly showing up one day. But a lot of affiliates and such won't even look at you until you have been blogging x amount of time and have x amount of views.
Can I make a suggestion to all? If you do not have Google Analytics installed on your blog, do it now. It is the industry standard for knowing page views and such. The built-in page view counters with things like Blogger, Wix, Squarespace, etc. are notorious for being highly inaccurate. They count way more views than you actually have, unfortunately. If you want to do things such a monetize, many places will require GA because of the inaccuracies with the build-in things.
Married: 1/2008 ~ DD#1: 3/2012
TTC #2: Started 4/2014 BFP 7/30/15 MC 8/3/15 BFP 9/4/2015 EDD 5/16/2016
Little brother was born October 1, 2012.
Thanks! I love my site designer. She's amazing. She took what I had done myself and made it so much better.
I used to write out a number of posts and schedule them out when I knew I was going to be too busy. I'm just really, really having a hard time getting back into things since my break so even that isn't happening. I was over 5,000 page views a month and that was a lot of work. I was working my way to 10,000 (a lot of companies won't work with you until you have at least 10,000OPVs) but just got too burned out.
Blogging as a profession is not for the faint of heart, that's for sure. Even with "office hours" I was spending so much of my life writing, taking pictures, editing, visiting other blogs, promoting, social media, etc. I'm hoping to find the happy balance between "full-time blogger" and "full-time mom" sometime soon. It seems like I can only do one or the other.
Married: 1/2008 ~ DD#1: 3/2012
TTC #2: Started 4/2014 BFP 7/30/15 MC 8/3/15 BFP 9/4/2015 EDD 5/16/2016