Basic Blogger Tips: Creating a Successful Blog - Rome Wasn't Built in a Day!

With reports that over 20,000 blogs are started daily it's easy to see why many fail to win significant numbers of readers. In  fact, the vast majority are abandoned within the first six months, as bloggers become disillusioned with the results they see - usually as a result of their own unrealistic expectations regarding blogging.

Upon recognition that your blog is but a tiny grain of sand in an infinitely expanding ocean, you may feel as though you face an impossible task that simply isn't worth the effort it requires. But before you go ahead and give up, consider that Rome wasn't built in a day, and that all enduring structures are built slowly, and purposefully, with keen attention to detail. Also remember that the foundations are the most important feature of any building project. The same is true of your blog.

Creating a Successful Blog

If you speak to any successful professional blogger you'll soon discover they all have pretty much the same advice when it comes to building an enduring blog - patience, and perseverance. That's not to say that quality content, SEO techniques and design are unimportant - quite the opposite: they're detrimental - but understanding the time and effort required to build a successful blog is an important aspect of the process.

It is said that any blog will take a minimum of six months to a year to develop a reasonable page rank in it's particular niche. This is true even if you are posting quality content several times per week or more, so there are no short-cuts here, and patience is ultimately the key.

If you're planning to set up a blog and fill it with content under the assumption it will receive instant recognition from search engines, and an immediate surge of visitors, you are sorely mistaken; creating a successful blog requires motivation and commitment over a long period of time.

This means your topic-choice must be one you are willing and able to expand upon for years to come, or your blog will die an early death, quickly becoming redundant - along with millions of others.

In short, if you want to build an enduring, successful blog you are going to have to put in a lot of effort, on a regular basis, over a long period of time. If you're not prepared to do this you may as well give up at the first hurdle. Blogging isn't easy, but it's not exactly hard, once you know what you're doing. However, if you lack the patience, perseverance, commitment and motivation necessary, you may as well not waste your time.