The 100 Post Milestone: What I Learnt About Blogging
In a few months, my blog would be celebrating it’s 3rd birthday. I am very pleasantly surprised that I have managed to keep my blog active most of this time. This is especially true since my friends would describe me as someone who would start a lot of things but never finish anything.
Although I am still around, the same can not be said for some of the personal finance bloggers who started blogging around the same time I did. For some reason, many of them have discontinued their blogs. I just hope that they do no give up on their journey to financial independence and end up coming back. It would be nice if I get the chance to reconnect some time in the near future.
Blogging is hard work
Despite what many people think, blogging requires a lot of time, energy and determination. There will be ups and downs. For example, in the summer of 2015, I went on 6-month streak of only have one post per month. Yikes! Posting on a regular basis has proved quite challenging for me.
The good news would be that I stuck through blogging this entire time and have developed a passion out of it. I assure that Million Endeavour will not be going anywhere for at least until I become financially free.
So everyone is a blogger nowadays eh?
In my attempts to make some connection through Twitter, I have noticed that nearly everyone has a “Blogger” status in their bio. This got me thinking that blogging is way more popular than I have originally thought. To stand out from all the bloggers out there, I will need to make my blog more unique with interesting content (something I will continue to work on).
Not everyone will agree with what you say
Another thing that I have learnt in my blogging so far is that there will always be some one who will post negative comments and perhaps even send you hate mails. Whenever I receive comments like these, I simply ignore it and try to not let it get to me.
Additionally, there will also be times when I post something and many of my readers simply would not agree with it. Posts like these can sometimes hurt blog traffic.
On November 8 of 2015, I posted an article saying that I was going to transition into a part time job. I’ve got a few comments saying that it wasn’t wise and ever since then, comments and traffic just started to go downhill!
I try not to let situations like these get me down especially since I am not proclaiming myself as a financial expert in any way. My goal for this blog is share my journey to financial freedom in hopes of motivating people in similar situations.
The future plan for my blog
Moving forward, my plan for Million Endeavour is to start focusing more on social media platforms. I am going to put more of an effort in reaching out to more people interested in personal finance. I believe that learning and growing is best done when surrounded by like-minded people.
Before I conclude, I would just like to give a quick update on my Yakezie Challenge. I started the challenge on August 15 with an Alexa rank of 5,872,687. It has been almost a month now and I am happy to say that my rank now is 1,635,169. I will only hope that I continue to make progress.
My rank has jumped faster than I anticipated. As a result, I have changed my 6-month target to 500,000 now. I hope I am not being too ambitious. 🙂
What are some of the things you have learnt from blogging? I’d love to hear from you.
Happy 100th Post, Jeff. All the best with your Social Media Endeavours ahead!
Thank you very much Mr. KingAce!
Thanks for sharing your blogging journey!
I haven’t been blogging for as long as you yet, but I’ve already noticed that some bloggers start giving up after about 6 months. It seems like blogging goes in waves.
And I haven’t really received any negative feedback yet, however, once you get negative feedback you’re probably = doing something right. Those haters still took time out of their day to comment on your work. So who cares what they say because they’ve got nothing better to do. Also congrats on the Alexa rank jump! Keep it up 🙂
Thanks for the encouragement Graham! Eventually everyone would receive a hate feedback every now on then! Keep up the good work at RTC too. 🙂
Congrats on the milestone! Blogging is definitely not easy, but isn’t it such a great feeling knowing that you hung in there and made it to the big triple digit mark? You don’t want a blog where everyone agrees with what you say, what fun would that be? Some tasteful disagreeing will allow you to grow and expand your knowledge!
Best of luck in the next 100 articles!
Bert
It is Bert! Although, my blog is already 3 years old and it’s only just reach 100 is not a good sign. Haha
Thanks for the luck, I’m going to need it!
Congrats on hitting 3 years! How do you plan on making your blog more unique (I think its great now!) I really like following your journey.
Thanks Piggybanknomics! I haven’t really thought about it yet but i would need to stand out from all the personal finance bloggers out there. That would be difficult since all of them are so great!
Hi Jeff, first of all, great post. Thanks for sharing this as I am the new kid to the blogging block and this post has definitely given a lot of insights into what I should expect going forward with my blog. Secondly, I hope that I can refer to this experience when I hit a snag. I hope to be talking to you again when I reached my first 100 posts 😀
I look forward to your 100th post Leo!