Blogging the wrong way

I have been blogging for passive income for a few years now. And sad to say I haven’t really broken through any major milestones in my blogging career. I usually start with a few good days but I always seem to loose my drive. Is this blogging thing really for me?

Today, I have decided to yet again to make an attempt in blogging for passive income. This would be quite another nostalgic experience since I already “started” blogging several times. But hopefully i can move at a better pace now than before. But as I move now with renewed enthusiasm, I pause to reflect on what are things I have done wrong in the past.

Blogging mistakes I made

• Not having a goal set – like any other project, blogging for passive income needs to have a goal. I wrongfully assumed that things will fall into place if I just churn out regular blog updates. I should have set some personal goals for me and my blogging activities to help me focus.
• Not having an editorial schedule – the success of any project relies on how regularly follow your activity loop. I always thought the things i should be writing will all just come to me. But unfortunately, since I’m not a natural writer, writing blog updates eventually became a chore. An editorial schedule, allows me to organize what I would like to write, when I should write it and when I should publish it.
• Not interacting with my readers – the best way to encourage visitors to keep coming back or even better, subscribe to my blog’s RSS feeds is to reach and interact with them. Visitors will notice if a blog is dead and will like not go back to it nor refer it to friends.
• Not doing keyword research and targeting about my topic – the web is bursting with different articles, blog posts and even status updates. With the search engines indexing hundreds if not thousands of new pages a day, it wouldn’t be a surprise if there are similar articles to my post. Not doing proper keyword research and targeting it properly means I have wasted my time since my articles would not rank well in my intended topics.
• Not reading my posts aloud – the best way to spot grammatical errors is to read your work aloud. Several times I just hit the publish post button just to get it over with. It was only when my wife read the post did I discover my unique way of mutilating the English language.
• Not doing any link building – incoming links are the primary way search engines gauge the importance of a web page/site. I tend to get lazy about link building since I feel that it’s too much work, but if I wanted to really start earning from my blog/s, I should do proper link building.
• Not pushing with it – in other words, quiting. It is hard to really swallow my pride but I do have to admit, I quited several times in blogging. So now I a fresh start and I am determined *not to quit*.

Wow. This is quite a list. Guess I should move along now.

Moving forward with blogging for passive income

So with my mistakes clearly identified, I’m looking into making the proper corrections and setting my blogging skills back on track. I know its going to be a challenge. But, I do have my emotional whys that will help me push forward with this. In my next blog post, I will be trying to outline some of the things I’d like to do in order to address my mistakes.