How to grow your blog

At the mention of how to grow a blog, it
becomes almost clear that this piece is not to
address expert bloggers but for newbie who are
still searching for every available means to grow
their new blogs.
But mind you, pro bloggers can still grow their
blogs too, for growing of blog has always
remained a continuous process.
Many newbie bloggers today have always failed
to understand that their new blog can be likened
to a new born baby that needs nurture, care and
all the necessary attention they require to raise
them up gradually to maturity.
Until you understand the above concept, you
will not be able to grow your blog properly in
the right manner.
Blogging involves series of growth
developmental phases, though sometimes I
don’t really blame the newbie bloggers for just
wanting to see their blogs turn springs of living
water in few days of starting up a blog, because
virtually every so called pro blogger today was
in that same shoe with similar mind set at their
early stage of blogging.
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But my candid advice here, which I want you all
to see as precious pearl is just for you to try
and cultivate the habit of learning and
implementation with patience . Since Rome was
not built in a day, it is also wise to say that that
your want-to-be rock star blog will not be built
in a day.
Having said that, for you to grow your blog, you
really need to treat it as a baby and give it all
the necessary attention it desires.
Most times, I overhear newbie bloggers saying
they want to monetize their new blogs with
Adsense or other monetization means and I
always laugh it off.
Truth be told here, even if I give you Adsense
account with Google Ads for that your new blog,
it might rather get you frustrated and can even
make you think of quitting blogging on starting.
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So it is completely useless at this point because
you will not even be able to earn a withdraw-
able amount, and neither will affiliate ads do you
any good.
Before you should even think of monetizing your
new blog by whatsoever means think first of
how to grow your blog.
Then, how do you grow your blog?
Good question! I must admit. You can grow
your blog simply by doing most of the
necessary things that are required in nurturing a
blog like choosing a proper and simple template
design for an individual blog, creating original
and good number of contents, building
relationships and connecting with other
bloggers, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to
grow organic traffic and growing your audience
(blog readers/visitors) in general.
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Call them the prerequisites for new blogs before
thinking of monetization in any way, so there
are no short-cut to the monetization stage. And
you will agree with me that those prerequisites
cannot be achieved in a day, not even a week
nor a month, but months and some years.
You might want to ask me to give an estimate
of the number of months before monetization,
and I will like to say 6 months and above as
answer to that question.
As I have continuously mentioned in this post
that growing your blog involves treating it like a
baby; give it good food (content), take it serious
and work diligently on those prerequisite to
grow it to maturity before thinking of
monetization. In plant kingdom we say nurture it
before thinking of harvesting the fruits from it.
The moment your blog is ripe or matured for
monetization, you will know because you will
get to see it clearly with your eyes.
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There will be increased visitors, bounce rate will
be low, Alexa ranking will be better, Google will
be tempted to give you a page rank of 1 for a
start, and you will notice increased engagement
on your blog.
You can now see that it is not magic but a
straight forward concept that if you do well, you
will see your blog growth.
No need to be in a hurry, just know that ‘slow
and steady always wins the race’. And by so
doing, the moment you begin to monetize your
blog, you will begin to see result almost
immediately, other than when you crave to
monetize at the nascent stage.
At this level now of your blog developmental
stage, you will then begin to see your blog grow
faster by the day and the cash begins to roll in
to some reasonable extend. It continues
growing that way as you work until the sky will
no longer be your limit but a starting point.
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Finally, just know that there is no set limit that a
growing blog can attain; blog growth is a
continuous process as far as you keep blogging
it out the right way. In the real sense, every
well-meaning blogger is growing his/her blog to
the next level at every point in time, and I am
not left out.
If you are happy with this piece, kindly use the
comment box to express yourself or if you want
to tell us the rate or level at which you blog is
growing, we are all waiting to see below.