BLOGGING- My half yearly report.
Over with June, so half of the year is done.Everything has a progress report card, I thought why not evaluate my own blog as per my standard. And also its not about competing with anyone as all my life I have been in the race for top ranks, cant take it anymore. Here I am just trying to gauge my progress as a blogger and the response of my readers. The keyword is Progress.
I captured the idea of blogging in the first week of January but came up with the first post on 18th Jan. It was a personal article- Something In a Name! It will always be very special being the very first one. Within an hour, it had my first comment and it gave such immense pleasure when I realized that people were reading it already. It acted as a great moral booster 🙂
Initially when I started the blog, I had no pre-plans as to what I wanted to write about. It was more of a personal hobby that I really wanted to move ahead with. I was part of School and college editorial boards, they had already build the grounds for going a step further. But the first blogging hurdle I encountered was choosing the ‘Theme’. In the first ten days I experimented with around 7-8 of them till I settled with iNOVE (had to fix one for the reasons of ad-sense) 😉 have gone for a change again a few weeks ago. (Change is so constant with me)
In the starting weeks till it continued in Feb as well, I had every other topic in my mind that I wanted to write about but fell short on time. Though there were 3 categories which had my deep inclination and I dint let them fall out. I wrote about environmental topics- ‘ Save Tiger ‘, Earth Day’ as I joined the campaigns here and there. Secondly, about my BOOKISH and READING love regularly, later pursued the BOOK REVIEW idea. And when I was not writing about the above two, it was my personal thoughts in the category ‘ BREEZY’.
All this while, I was blessed to get great support from my friends, colleagues and above all the TG TOWN blog mates who were constantly bringing the smile with their comments, praise, discussions and load and loads of encouragement. And if I had a comment from Dagny Mam and TG Sir, that was a grand day in my blogging progress card.
Gradually, as the days progressed I learnt more about widgets, fire stats and played around with some looks change. But never realized the fact that I had to grow the number of readers as well. Though it was progressing and I knew that a few( meager 40) were reading it everyday but again dint work out on more. Though now I am working on the optimization but it isn’t showing much results 🙁
Every month I aim to come up with more than 10 posts but have failed as well due to job pressure. But the best achievement has been my progress in rank on Indiblogger. I started with 73 in the month of May and now its 80 in June. And here is where I realize networking helps and I have thought to do lots and lots of it.
With 6 months of my writing, I know that I have developed as a writer though the progress may be small but its there. Foremost I love the idea of having a web-page of my own where I can speak out randomly and there are few of my great friends who would listen in all cases. There’s guidance pouring in from all directions. Last but not the least I would say these last 6 months of blogging have been great.
Hope to improve considerably till the year end.
And the Mantra is Writing regularly and better each time…
Here is my 65th post….
Happy blogging!!!
Congrats..and yeah, inspirational. Think I am too fast though, 34 posts in 2 months!! And so much to write! But yeah, it feels good….
Keep blogging!
Congratulations.
Wishing you an intellectually rewarding and emotionally fulfilling blogging experience.
Keep Blogging.
you have done exceptionally well so far.. Keep blogging and keep enjoying 🙂
@Abhishek, Vikram, Ravi, Booklover–
Thanks all sooo much for all ur great wishes and praises….
I am glad and happy..
Me too waiting for my 100th post…
I have read almost each of your Bookish posts (even the older ones !). Yes, you sure have evolved and I’m sure you’ll continue to evolve.
I think you’ve got the gist of it
1. Love that you have a webpage of your own.
2. Create content that people love to read
3. Network , share and encourage and people’ll give back
Keep going. I’m sure we’ll be applauding for your 100th post very soon !
As someone who just started blogging last month..this is a very helpful post..A lot of things here that I would have to learn the hard way..So thanks a lot..and congrats on your progress..
good one. informative. It had galvanized me to action.
Hmm… I have a tip for growth of your blog. If you see the URL of this post it is
http://….blogging-my-half-yearly-report/
You can see that your post title has become the part of your URL. And google gives importance to keywords which are in the url. So keep titles which people would type in google. You might have to sacrifice a little bit of attractiveness here. But maybe not, if you are creative. 🙂
@Ajay– hey welcome to my blog… and thanks much…
@ Dipak— I am glad its been of help…
@ TG sir—- Thanks for the great tip. Will think creatively and cleverly next onwards..
🙂
CONGRATS 2 U DEAR 4 reaching 2 the summit of this journey, well may u plz tell how may i get 2 know the no. of visitors of my blog (tell me on my inbox), congrats again.
And some of your achevements you havent even realised…you must have made many others to pick up books and read…one of them is myself 🙂 I am taking some baby steps in this field…but yea…they are ofcourse steps afterall…Thanks & Best wishes…Juniors will catch up soon 😉
And some of your achievements you havent even realised…you must have made many others to actually pick up books and read…one of them is myself 🙂 I am taking some baby steps in this field…but yea…they are ofcourse steps afterall…Thanks & Best wishes…Juniors hope to catch up soon 😉
Hey lived that journey as if it was mine…Congo for the 65th post…It is some number gal
I think this was a really nice post. A good progress report at the end of six months. Best of luck to make it a year and then more! 🙂
congrats manjulika….nice progress…..
u blogs were n are alwaz readers choice…..
n like Deepika, i have also started exploring book world n found it really interesting….
i m waiting for ur book n i knw u will rock…..
thanks n all the best….