Blogging Expectations VS Reality
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| Blogging expectations vs reality |
When you start blogging the first time, then it is an amazing and exciting feeling, a sense of hard work makes your every day. You were full of confidence and we're enjoying thinking that in a short time you may be financially independent. But after few months or within a month you start realising that it would not gonna be easy that you were thinking before. If you are a beginner and see this blog then you can learn a lot from this post and if you are advance and has spent years as a blogger then you can relate to many things and can recall all your journey till now.
So let's begin with our expectation and reality list:-
1) Adsense approval
2) Time
3) Blogging as a business
4) Content quality
5) Specific keywords
6) Competition elimination
7) No need for Marketing
8) Term and conditions
9) SEO easy or hard
10) Management
11) Blogging community
Let's see why they can be in this top 11 list-
Adsense approval
1) Adsense approval
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| Adsense approval |
The first milestone in your blogging career is to get your Adsense approval from Google. All newcomer thinks that they can easily get an Adsense approval but it is not. The reality is that you had to do a lot of hard work. This is not sure that with your current blog you can get the approval. This is the harsh reality. You had to doa lot of work and in many cases, they are doing their best but still, they are not able to get it because they had somehow and somewhere miss to check out their Adsense term and conditions. And if you go against many of their condition then you will not get the approval and had to rebuild your blog from 0 and this hurts a lot and this is also a reason why many bloggers quit.
2) Time
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| Time |
Time is a resource. That can change anyone from zero to hero. If you can make it then you are able to do anything in your life. And all beginner expects that they would have a lot of time for their family and hobbies even if they spend hours on blogging but it is not like this. The reality is completely the opposite. You would not be having time after you spend hours because writing a post single-handedly can take 2-3 hours and writing is not only thinking that is there, it is more than that. And if you are not appropriately managing your time then sire you would not be having any time left and this would lead you to procrastination...and you would just think to skip writing the post and then you can't cope with your time any more.
3) Blogging as a business
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| Blogging as a business |
Expectations are more in this case as all newcomer just see it as a passive income and a hobby. To just gain few money and later they thought to switch it as an active source of income. And this is good also no doubt but reality can hurt you because thinking it is a passive source is good but thinking it is a hobby can be very harmful to your career. Blogging can not even be compared with a hobby because it is a business and only a business. Blogging can make you a millionaire no doubt but it needs your consistency and quality. And when you seek it as a hobby you can't do what you can do with a mindset of a businessman. So start seeking it as a business and grow it as a business.
4) Content quality
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| Content quality |
Quality is directly proportional to success.And everyone knows it but expectations also arrive through the same gate. All of us thinks that you can write anything with but chunks of text and can post it. No matter what the content is. But the reality is they it matters a lot. This can work for a while you may get views but you would never get followers because you are not giving quality content to your audience and no one follows you back. Tit for tat. You must be honest with yourself first and must provide quality content to your viewers and then anyone can promise you that you will grow faster than before.
5) Specific keywords
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| Specific keywords |
This is a special case that no one cares about the specific titles, keywords, images, etc as they think that competition would be reduced by their quality content. But the truth is that no one finds your quality content. Because your content is not ranking. No one suffers down to get to your blog. You must use specific content, tag, niches, and thus would help you to get more views and followers as you are now standing as a unique blogger. And thus would be great then.
6) Competition elimination
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| Competition elimination |
When you start blogging you are not realising you are jumping into a sea of competition where there are millions of blogger who are working and managing their blog uniquely and efficiently. All people expect that they can overcome that competition but the reality is far more than that you can't overcome it until and unless you sit and talk to yourself that...Are you putting in the right amount of effort? Are you putting write keywords? Are you giving the best out of yourself? if your answer is NO you can never overcome that competition so you had to put efforts into that field you want to be successful.
7) No need for marketing
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| No need for marketing |
All newcomers know that they need to promote their blog post but they live in a fixed belief that without marketing they can grow your blog but this is not true.As discussed above, blogging is a business and you must do marketing as it is a vital component of blogging you can't run any business without marketing and it needs a lot of time as well as resources. So all new people skip this important tip to promote their blog and works hard for it but still, they are not able to make it. You had to promote your blog post, you may also have to give money to others for promoting and had to manage various accounts on many platforms at the same time for this purpose and can take your whole day too. But at the end, it would be worth it.
8) Terms and conditions
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| Terms and conditions |
This can be compared to a diamond. As term and condition play an important role. No one thinks about this before and later they suffer because they never take the hardships to at least go through the SEO and Adsense terms and conditions as it is a long piece of text. And it is the place they lag whereas professional don't, they know all the latest terms and conditions and mould their blog as per the criteria and make win the race of competition and earns a lot. But a new commer after doing a lot of hard work they realise that they miss the chance to monetise their blog as they were not working as per the prescribed criteria and this hurts us all your hard work gets ruined. So please at least just go through it once.
9) SEO easy or hard
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| SEO easy or hard |
SEO is an acronym for search engine optimization and most of them just know this about it. And it is really important for your blog as this can get you more traffic as it improves the quality of your content and your website. And it can increase the click rate of your websites. You must seek it. And this is the reality as you can't learn algebra if you don't you variable. Expectations of all people are that they can skip this crucial step and can still grow. You can but not as good you would be doing if your blog is SEO optimised and once it is then all you need is your content, your passion and your marketing skills.
10) Management
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| Management |
Expectations, in this case, is huge....that they can easily manage blogging career and their personal life at the same time by giving only a few hours of a day and rest for family and your hobby but the reality is vice-versa. You had to manage a lot, promoting, writing a blog post, editing, checking plagiarism, cross-checking, etc and it can easily take 4-5 hours a day. And promoting is a huge task itself as well as vital, you had to confirm again and again that your content is being promoted or not and after this if you don't get views that could be very demoralising. And you need to manage your time because it is up to you, you can do anything if you can and nothing if you think you can't. It is totally up to you.
11) Blogging community
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| Blogging community |
A community is nothing but a group of people that shares a common interest within each other. Expectations of all people who want to pursue their career in blogging think that they can easily find one such community but the truth is that you can't. This is reality and many people still don't know what blogging is and don't want their child to go in that field and many never express that they do blogging in secret. But there is a famous dialogue you can even find god if you go out in search of them. And here also, it may be hard to find it near your locality but you can find them online and can get tips from them as well as support.
Conclusion
Expectations and reality never go hand in hand. They can vary a lot. So, never believe and trust your expectations, only trust reality and example and go for it and you can't achieve anything until you work for it. And then you can achieve wonders. Avoid procrastination and go to make your dream a truth