I have a few problems as a blogger.  First, I’m not necessarily patient.  I look at the work I put into a blog, and I want to see better results as far as ranking, traffic, and most importantly, income.  When results aren’t happening quickly enough I get frustrated.  That frustration can get in the way of writing.  It can become a chore to get past the “Why bother” stages, and force myself to crank out more posts.  Then something will happen to show that I’ve been on the right track, and everything gets back on track.

An example of that is my working to improve my blogs Page Rank.  I’ve written about building links as a way to improve your blogs position in the search engines, but I wasn’t seeing any results for my own link building efforts.  Over the past several days Google has been doing updates of Page Rankings, and this blog went from PR-0 to PR-3.

Another of my problems is that I am not a marathon runner, I’m more of a sprinter.  I tend to write in batches.  There is a lot of activity, then I slow way down while I try to catch my breath and get ready for the next sprint.  It makes it much harder to post with any kind of consistency when my writing habits are so inconsistent.  So my blogs tend to show a lot of posts in a relatively short period of time, then long stretches with very few posts.

I’ve written about setting up a writing schedule, but I’ve not made it an important enough priority to actually stay with it.  Well, I’m trying a gain.  You’ll be able to see the results for yourself.

I’d love to hear what it is you do to stay on track.

Too often it seems we tend to forget the past when we move on to something new.  Big mistake.

Yesterday I wrote a post at PureBlogging titled “Throwing the Baby Out with the Bath Water.”  The main gist was that we tend to abandon things that have worked in the past because something new comes along Read the rest of this entry »

What makes an expert an expert?

Last week Kevin Ott posted an article about some backlash against the practices of some SEO experts. It got me thinking about the multitude of people that call themselves experts. They dub themselves with that moniker, but they don’t appear to know any more about their chosen subject than any one else. The web seems to be clogged with “experts” that know less than you or I.

So, what makes an expert an expert? Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes life seems to get in the way. Most bloggers aren’t fortunate enough to be able to do this for a living. For most of us, it is something we do after spending a full day making a living. The difficulty is, sometimes there aren’t enough hours in the day to fit it all in.

A lot of jobs have seasons that are more busy than others. For instance, anyone working in the accounting industry is rapidly charging full speed ahead into tax preparation season. Read the rest of this entry »

One thing that I really struggled with when I became a writer was finding my voice. I had a tendency to be very stiff in my writing. My internal editor was being so strict that I wasn’t able to allow any of my personality to show through. How did I get over that? I wrote, and I wrote, and I wrote some more. The more I wrote, the more my own voice was able to reach the page.

I’ll be honest, when you spend so much time writing to get paid, it’s hard find the time to write for yourself. Read the rest of this entry »