5 Reasons Why Most Bloggers Quit Blogging Within 6 Months. Although Blogging is definitely lucrative and there are thousands of successful bloggers who make a lot of money every month, the bitter truth is that a large majority of bloggers fail and quit blogging just within 6 months of starting their blog.
In fact out of every 100 newbie bloggers, around 90 hang up their boots even before enjoying a trivial amount of success. Why does this happen? Why do newbie bloggers find it hard to stand out in this ever expanding blogosphere? In this post I’ll discuss some reasons why this happens and hopefully you can learn some lessons from it too. 1. As it often happens, when people read about the success stories of others they get motivated by the desire to earn quick money and replicate their success. However it generally doesn’t happen that way since they look at blogging like an easy way of making money overnight, which is the reason why they don’t bother about putting in long hours in their blogging pursuits. 12 horrible pieces of blogging advice.
There is nothing more dangerous than a social media expert. For those who are new to blogging, be prepared to read a lot of advice from self-proclaimed experts whose only qualifications are that they've read a lot of advice from other self-proclaimed experts. Here are 12 suggestions you're likely to run into, and why you should run away from them as quickly as you can: 1. "Keep posts under 300 words. " Beware of absolutes. Your niche blog: How to Choose the Right.
WordPress Plugin: Easy Graphs. This article will take approx 1 minute to read.
Everyone likes data visualizations so I wrote a plugin that will make the quick and secure creation of Pie Charts, Bar Charts and Line Charts easy. The answer is: Easy Graphs. Easy graphs is very simple to use. It’s a shortcode – [easy_graphs] Not just like that. You can also add a “type” parameter. For a Bar graph, you can optionally pass additional parameters: width, height, and color. Example: [easy_graphs height="200" type="bar" data="30,70,65"] [easy_graphs height="200" type="bar" data="30,70,65"] By default, width and height are populated from your media embed sizes that are set in your Settings > Media menu inside WordPress.
For a line graph, the options are similar: color1, color2, height and width. If you will: [easy_graphs height="200" type="line" data="200,150,175,260"] [easy_graphs height="200" type="line" data="200,150,175,260"] In this case, color1 is the “fill” color and color2 is the line color. On the roadmap are other things. 7 Things to Never Do on Your Blog. Given the success of smedio, I’m often asked on my take on what makes a blog successful. I’ve always believed that there’s no secret mantra to making a blog successful, you just need to understand the basics and religiously follow them.
In my opinion, it’s equally important to understand the DO’s and the DONT’s that can make or break your blog. Today, I’m going to talk about the 7 things that you should never do on your blog. 1. Personal Rants I’ve come across several blogs which started off on the right note but then lost their way as high-quality content made way for personal attacks and rants. 2.
Once the blog is live and successful, a lot of bloggers have a tendency to post too little too late. Several bloggers are never able to find out how much content is enough. 3. It’s easy to get fascinated by the early success of your blog and overdo it hoping to cash in on the opportunity. 4. When you need to scale, it’s a common mistake to overlook the quality in favor of the quantity.