The first month of blogging is the hardest month

Actually, not only the first month, but the first few months. Blogging has its perks. But before you reach the ecstatic benefit of the perks, you must pass through a mountain of challenges first. Let us pinpoint the tribulations that you might encounter on the very first month of your growing blogging career.

1. Very low traffic - Unless you did well in getting huge traffic for your "baby" blog, traffic may be initially low. Numbers may only range to a few hundreds, and sometimes way below the 100 line. Sad it may seem, this is the beginning for almost all bloggers. In this kind of problem, desperation and discouragement shouldn't sink in. Why? If both do, how would you continue? If you think you are no good at blogging because you don't seem to get many readers on your first few tries, then think again. Low traffic on month one is very normal. It may even go on for like the first five months depending on your blog niche. So if you got a low traffic for the meantime, don't despair. You might want to even boost the spirit of blogging that is in you.
2. Career shock - This may sound absurd but this is actually true. Blogging requires writing and excessive thinking (and meditation). What if you were a person who doesn't write articles (or anything) regularly prior to blogging? Then starting out a blog would be a career shock. Blogging will make you write, think what to write, enhance what you wrote and analyze it. You do this regularly (everyday is not required) so you might be surprised. Don't get tired though. If you build the enthusiasm to write more and more, you will develop a lot of skills, writing and vocabulary are two of the many.
   
3. No comment - Okay, so "no comment" is a logical contradiction. What I meant is nobody is commenting out on your posts yet because either you have not enough traffic (#1), your articles are not yet that enticing for reading or you are not yet an established blogger. The first one is explanatory and roots from the #1 item on this list. The second one is probably due to #2 (skills not yet developed). The last one is of course because of everything. Other bloggers may not know you yet or felt your presence yet, but the moment you make connections with them, then comments will start to appear. Make friends and join a community.
4. Whiny judgmentals - Okay, so other people can get very mean sometimes. Anonymous people may start commenting on how ugly your blog is, or how stupid your posts are, or that you might want to stop blogging because you've got 0% chance on it. Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. And people like this are insecure. Just that. The only way to stop them - be famous!
5. Zero income - Yes. Don't think about earning yet during your first three months of blogging. AdSense will be completely nothing if you have low traffic. Affiliate marketing would just be for decoration. And paid posts? Usually they accept 3 months old blogs. That's why I said "first three months". They do have an exception, that is when you achieved instant fame before the your third month came, which is possible, but hard to do. If you want to have some earning alongside your blogging, try other money making online shcemes aside from blogging.

Starting out is difficult. The path is going up. But once you reach the top, there's no turning back. It's gonna be time to rock the blogosphere. Photo by DonnaGrayson

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