What Do You Regret as a Blogger?
Everyone makes mistakes, some more than others, but it is all human nature – no one is perfect. When you chose to start a blog, you likely figured that it wouldn’t be as much work as others made it out to be, that you would quickly rise to fame and churn out those posts on a daily basis. While this isn’t my first blog, I did make some mistakes that I regret to this day.
Finding the time to blog is one of the most overused excuses bloggers write on their blogs, and may either means that they really don’t have the time, which in most cases, means that there are other events that take precedence over the task of blogging, or they have found that blogging isn’t the right thing for them to do, and they have called it quits.
I believe that I asked this question before, but I would like to reopen it again with further discussion, after all, quite some time has passed.
One of the biggest problems I faced when I started this blog was not taking it in the right direction. While I had planned extensively before creating the blog, I didn’t think about what visitors were really looking for, and therefore didn’t produce enough content in the initial three months or so, leading to a total of only three to six posts by the time December and January rolled around (blog was started in mid-October).
While I have (for the most part) been able to recover from that costly mistake on my part, what mistakes have you made in the process of starting a blog?
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I think it is an interesting question. I don’t have an answer at the moment. I’ve been blogging since 1998 and still think of it as free expression more than a business. Really can not see blogging as a business at all in fact. It is still the media, not the actual business. The business is get rich quick, publishing or sales.
If I regret anything it would be that I didn’t start sooner or more specifically, that I didn’t spend more time on learning the technical side when I had more time and far more knowledgeable contacts through blogging. Nowadays you rarely get anyone to give a real reply through email. I used to get all kinds of feedback and information from other bloggers who were far more creative and accomplished technically than I am.
We all learn from mistakes. This too common. I don’t think Problogger also didn’t make any mistakes. It is the process of learning from mistakes and learning downstream. If we just make success each month, then we might not learn a single thing at the end of the terms.
I have never regretted to blogging. I’ve started for more than 4 months now into serious blogger and will continue. The thing is, usually bloggers give up during first month or 2nd month. If they can hit the first obstacles that is 3 months of constant blogging, things will be getting easier…
In simple, Life is full of hinders.. just don’t give up.
when i decide to be a blogger,i have no regrets………=)
First thanks for the entrecard drop. I have a laundry list of regrets as a blogger most of them minor but the major ones are as follows
1) Flipping a lot of my early blogs rather than sticking with them blogs five or more years old now wouldn’t have me in the position I am in now.
2) Starting too many blogs. I run an entire network of blogs that have various levels of commitment from me and others, but the fact I personally run 4 of the top tiered blogs on my own means I am never done with my work and if I don’t blog that day I pay a penalty for it.
3) Not expanding fast enough or far enough with my network
4) Repeating a lot of my early mistakes because i thought i was smarter this time without realizing I was just lucky the first time through.
5) Not going nofollow free long before now.
Thank you for all your comments.
The only regret I have as a bloggers is the fact that I started blogging late (2006). Though I repidly figured many things fast, I still have the feeling I have missed the real taste of blogging when it all started.