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Changing the direction of my Blog

by everetro
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Hi everyone, I've been blogging for about six weeks now and I'm really making very little progress. I have minimal traffic and gained no backlinks even though I've gained platinum status on ezine. Trouble is my content has no firm direction. It began going in one direction now it is different. Do you advise starting again or is it possible to keep the same site and domain name and move in one specific direction without affecting the site's potential in terms of google rankings?
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  • Profile picture of the author kenny5
    Stay on track, you might want to consider getting rid of or rewriting the content that caused your blog to stray from its original path.

    Blogging is a very slow process if you want to see income from it. I tried it and honestly I gave up because it was a lot of work with a very slow payoff. But if you work at it I know you can make some great money from it.
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    • Profile picture of the author everetro
      Many thanks for your help Kenny5. Another question. I used the plugin all-in-one-seo on my wordpress blog. Should I rework all the keyword data in that to reflect what I'm producing now?
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      • Profile picture of the author everetro
        Thanks for your advice, Anonymous Affiliate. I suppose there is much more for me to learn as I continue. The saving grace is that the whole process of producing content is a real joy to me and even if I never make any real headway, I'll have still relished the experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author Anonymous Affiliate
    What you need to understand is that blogging is not about backlinks, SEO, ezines, etc. Blogging is about actually engaging real people so they in fact read your blog and become recurrent visitors.

    You need to figure out whether you have anything interesting to write about before you worry about backlinks, traffic, etc. Otherwise, why would anyone read your stuff at all?
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    Find an angle that allows you to deliver content that people will keep coming back for. Bloging is like finding a niche, find a gap, fill it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyrus Antas
    Don't blog without building an audience first. You
    need a seed to make your blog blossom. Start
    by building a landing page and a newsletter audience
    then push them into your future blog.

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  • Profile picture of the author powerspike
    Originally Posted by everetro View Post

    Hi everyone, I've been blogging for about six weeks now and I'm really making very little progress. I have minimal traffic and gained no backlinks even though I've gained platinum status on ezine. Trouble is my content has no firm direction. It began going in one direction now it is different. Do you advise starting again or is it possible to keep the same site and domain name and move in one specific direction without affecting the site's potential in terms of google rankings?
    Google can take a while to show some interest in a new website. So if your content is on topic and good (ie not reposted articles etc) you should be fine.

    However, as suggested above, perhaps rewrite a little bit of your content, add to it.

    Another point was to engage your visitors, this is a must, i find media helps a lot - images video etc. the Search Engines will love this as well.

    Google appears to be very sus about the new kid on the block these days (ie new websites like yours), and takes a little longer to get ranked.
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