It's easy to give up on a blog when you don't know where you want to go and how to get there. Document your progress each month to keep track of small steps forward.
Carlos Bravo14
When you start a blog, time goes by very slowly. Each post requires a great sacrifice and work that does not have the expected result. At first, no one comments on your posts because apart from your mother and 2 or 3 friends, there are hardly any people who read you.
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It can be frustrating spending months like this. The vast jordan list majority of beginner bloggers don't make it to their first anniversary.
For the first 24 months I didn't notice my blog moving forward.
I have been running “Guerrilla Marketing on the Web 2.0” for almost 3 years now. It is a relatively young blog that is still in its teenage years. If yours is less than a year old, it is still practically a baby. You wouldn’t expect your newborn to have learned to eat, walk and dress itself at just 12 months old.
In the first 24 months I barely noticed any progress. It wasn't because there wasn't any progress, but because I didn't perceive it. I never set a goal, so I didn't know where I wanted to go. Months would go by where there didn't seem to be any progress. Now I write every day, but before 2012 there were phases where I didn't write for weeks.
Set goals and document them each month to see your progress.
My mistake was never setting a goal to pursue. Things changed when I set myself the challenge of writing a daily post for 2012. The blog started to take off without having set a specific number of visits, subscribers, comments or whatever. I am very grateful because I find myself in a positive vicious circle in which each new post generates positive feedback that motivates me to write the next posts.