Can a blog about programming take off?

One thing you can do is go to sites like fiverr and odesk, etc and find people to do seo work for you so you can try to rank. You can also do posts on this forum in the programming section and put a link to your blog in your signature and keep posting in that section and you'll get some free traffic to your blog. Don't forget to have an optin form.

You should also be able to get high quality traffic by paying for it from sites like outbrain.com and taboola.com

There are already millions of programming blogs, so you'll need to approach it from a unique angle. What will make your programming blog any more interesting or worthy than all the others? That's what you've got to ask yourself, because without a unique angle, there's no reason for a high SERP or a significant amount of traffic.

I think with so many people publishing content nowadays, we've run into the problem of "duplicate concepts," which could suffer from the same consequences of duplicate content!

Blogger blogs rank reasonably well for programming topics. But it can be hard to monetise a blog in this niche, as geeks generally don't click on ads.

How old is the website? It can take a while for Google to determine where your pages will rank. Newer domain names and sites have basically no credibility in the eyes of Google so getting decent ranking is a slow go.

Have you submitted sitemaps to Google webmaster tools yet? Most important thing is to make sure your site is in Google's index.

What she said!

Ten articles won't cut it. Nor will 100 articles!

In this particular niche, you will have to be VERY focused, have a lot of GREAT content, and establish your personal CREDIBILITY.

You're not writing for the everyday housewife or the shade tree mechanic.

In this field, your content will be highly scrutinized by a very competent (savvy) readership. There is no such thing as "fake it till you make it" for your blog, and no overnight successes.

Assuming you are a software developer yourself, do a quick evaluation of the technical blogs that you, yourself, frequent. Are you capable (and committed) enough to emulate what they are doing in terms of value delivered, and frequency of content delivery?

It's doable - but it isn't an overnight journey. There be goblins.

Thanks for the advice. I am gonna keep writing and see where it will go. I am computer science student so i have lots of ideeas.

100% yes. I hired a 17 year old kid who did iOS Swift tutorials on YouTube cuz his programs were so nicely done and he wasn't even looking for work. He just did tutorials for fun.

A programming blog can Definitely be a fabulous platform to boost your career. The blog itself wont make you a boatload of money, but a blog posting your great programming samples will get you jobs, training gigs, consulting gigs, speaking gigs, book deals etc. And charge the top price range for your field. When a client sees your blog then they are pre-sold on you as an expert and will pay top range for it. You could also charge to fix peoples programs online.

That's how Chris Garrett took off. He would chat back and forth with programmers and found they were asked the same questions over and over. So he made a website posting his programming solutions and when he was asked he would tell people to go to his website. And people would say No we want YOU to do it for us and next thing you know he was writing books and doing corporate training and consulting.

Your blog could also turn into a programming school like Team Tree House, but has to be high quality. I think they clear well over 1mil a month.

Big topics like SQL, C++, .NET. PHP, iOS etc can do really well.

ps - My advice is to focus on 1 thing and be the best at it. I used to live in silicon valley and the people who made the most money were the people who did only 1 thing but they were the best at that 1 thing.

pps - Make sure you speak well and your programs are smart, look beautiful and perfectly done with no bugs, and people will throw money at you to help them. Good luck

A programming blog can definitely take off. You will have to demonstrate your skills to these people though. A simple approach would be to give tips, write articles/blog posts, put adsense on blog, and also promote a programming book.... written by yourself or someone else (as an affiliate).

Just prove what you know, become the expert, market the heck out of the site, then sell.

500 word tutorials won't really do much, unless you have a huge number and they follow on from each each other. If you want to appeal to programmers, you'll need detailed step by step tutorials with code and between 1000 and 2000+ words per post. Include graphics and screenshots where appropriate too.

As others have said, pick a specific niche. There's plenty out there like PHP, Rails, C#. Or how about Apples new programming language: Swift? Since it's so new there's not likely to be much in the way of tutorials.

Or you could pick a platform. For example Unity 3D is a gaming engine. There are a lot of tuts for it already, but people are always looking for good stuff there.

Or, combinations. Unity 3D is normally for games, but what about Unity 3D for architecture? Or environmental modeling? Something that is a lot more niche.

Check out Rails Casts (railscasts.com) to see a really good example of how it's done. They have a video podcast as well as the AsciiCast version for those (like me) who don't like video, and a robust comments area. And they offer a pro subscription for the latest tuts.

Programming languages are popular. You might want to start a Youtube channel about the topic, and become a YT partner. I know of a number of people who do this, and they easily make more than a full-time income any beyond. You could also post some of the videos to your blog.

Joey

Yes it can be. You have to spread things with your visitors regularly, so that you can get it.

For the articles you are writing, look at the search volume of the keywords you are including in the articles. To get some search engine traffic, the primary thing is the keyword must have good search volume.

Now to rank it, write longer articles. Generally, articles of 1500 to 2000 words rank better in Google. So, try writing longer articles (I don't mean including fluff). Just informational articles. If you find you can't put more information into an article, the max info you can put is about 500 words, possibly try integrating a video into the article with images. That would make your articles rank higher.

Do some outreach and get some backlinks to the articles to get a place in the first page of Google.

Move to wordpress instead of blogger