What I've Learned After 3 Months Of Blogging

It's an interesting thing how I was able to pump out 1000 word articles in an hour pretty easily when I started this new blog of mine. Maybe it was the excitement of having a new website and being very passionate about the health and wellness niche and helping people hit their fitness goals.

Now, just 3 months later, my most recent article took me over 4 hours to write. What's going on here? I guess I've come to treat this as a job now, and even though there isn't monetary payment yet, I know it will pay off, and this entire journey is a learning process anyway.

Actually, I take some of that back...there IS monetary payment, as I've gotten two Amazon sales so far, which was really awesome when I saw that. And Google Adsense says I've earned $1.87 so far.

My most recent article was listed on the first page of Bing within a day for the keyword I chose. I'm not yet ranking in Google, but Bing seems to like a handful of my articles so far, which is awesome.

I saw this surprising number the other day that I've written over 107,000 words. I'm simply following the training here at WA to a T. I've stopped writing 4 days a week and dropped it down to 3 days weekly.

It's a LOT of work, and if you're just starting a blog, my suggestion is to choose a topic you truly feel connected to and understand it like the back of your hand. Or at least a topic you're interested in enough to where you feel you can write about for months and months without getting tired of it. I'm pretty sure I'd have been burnt out by now if I chose a topic I only sort of cared about. But that's just me.

I'm approaching 70 articles written, and I've come to realize that it's taking me longer to write them now because I've changed my perspective on some things. For every keyword I choose, I am shifting my focus as much as I can to be in the person's shoes who typed that phrase into Google or Bing. I realize there's no point in spending all this time writing if I'm not doing the absolute best job I can to answer the question they're asking.

And this takes longer to do, because I end up doing more reserach lately, especially when I choose topics I'm not absolutely confident about. Also, I've started adding more bullet points, highlighted sections, and lists to my blogs, so that articles break down more easily. The point is that I'm trying to make articles as user friendly as possible.

I guess one thing I'm missing frrom my very first articles I wrote is that I threw my entire personality into each article, which felt very much me...but then I realize now, well, people aren't searching the internet for me and my weird personality or perspective on things...they're searching the internet to find answers to their problems. And that's my focus now...while still sprinking that personal touch on each article.

Anyway, that's my journey so far, and thought to share it as it seems to be just over 3 months of writing, and I have no intention of slowing down. Thanks for reading!