Being an Internet Home Business Owner Who Blogs, Is It the Way to Build a Business?
I own an Internet Home Business and I am like most people who read this, I am struggling to build that business into something. If you are not struggling, drop me a line and let me know your secret:) A successful Internet Home Business needs, among other things, traffic that converts. One of the ways to build that traffic, is supposedly, start blogging and the traffic will just flow into your site. Here is my take on that tactic.
1. This blog is attached to my Internet Home Business, www.learn2earn2.com. I will start there. For those people out there who have more experience on the Internet than I do, maybe my set up is faulty. I want people to read my blog, find that the information is of some value and continue to read and eventually go to my site, and see something they like and presto, I am making a million dollars. Kidding aside, I have picked having a blog as one of my key priorities for my site. I think there is a difference between making your blog your priority and having a blog as one of the ways to build your Internet Home Business.
2. There are people who have a blog and that blog is their Internet Home Business. There is no ” other ” site, like in my case, their blog is their site, all rolled into one. We have all heard of them, the bloggers that get hundreds of thousands of hits, and they are able to monetize their blog/site and they are very successful. That is great for the .0001 of the blogs out there, what about the rest of us? The Internet is notorious for using a minuscule sample of successful people, and then trying to extrapolate that group as an example for the millions of others out there trying to do the same thing.
To be honest, trying to be like the minuscule group that have monster blogs, is like trying to capture lightening in a bottle. I believe, you and me, and the hundreds of thousands others that have a small Internet Home Business, we need to look at blogging in a different more realistic light. Take my blog, I have posted 81 times in the last 3 months,what traffic have I experienced? If I take out the spam, the foreign posts, the porn posts, the bot and mechanical posts, I think I have had one real post. That is a lot of work for one , maybe, real visitor.
There is however the theory that for every real post, there are 100 people who are reading you, but never post or comment. From my perspective, I am posting on this blog for a number of reasons, and I think that is the way to go. If you post for only one reason, to get traffic, I believe you are going to be very disappointed in your results. If you have any additional information on blogging and traffic that I am missing, please feel to jump right in.
3. I post on my blog for 3 reasons. SEO, potential customers, original content, ideas and content for other end results, future articles, maybe back links, and maybe, way down the road, some traffic. I guess that is more than 3 reasons, but you get the point. If all that I was blogging for was to get traffic, I would of quit a long time ago. Something that I have not mentioned is this, what is the time frame one should have to wait, for this flood of traffic to come to my Internet Home Business site? As the Master says, I have to be patient, not one of my strong suites.
How long should some one wait for traffic to come from a blog? A week , a month, a year?, that is the real question. If you are a new Internet Home Business owner, one thing you have to know, nothing happens very quickly on the Internet, nothing good anyway. For now, I will leave you with this thought. I have mentioned in the last week, about the value of original content on your site, this is a concept that pretty well all the experts agree is invaluable to your Internet Home Business. Blogging is a quick, easy, efficient way to get that original content onto your web site.
More on this tomorrow, have a great day.
Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Ideas
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