How to be a happy blogger

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I plan to write this post quite sometime ago but I couldn’t make it due to my limited time. Today I will explore in details how to be a happy blogger. This blog post would be useful to those that just started to have a blog and wait for success. They wait for money to go into their account. To be frank it is not too easy.

There are a lot of products that keep telling us we can make money online. Some they even say just a few click, you can make hundreds or even thousands of dollars per day without doing anything. Everything will be automated. If they can already made thousands of dollars per day, why they still selling this product? Why they still insist and telling you again and again to buy their product? This is the trick, they would make money if you buy their product. That’s it.

Of course after you make the payment they will give you a tool to play with, something that might auto generate the contents for you. You can have a website in few clicks that has thousand of pages if you want. But who is going to read it? Who is going to come back to your site? After all, does it make sense to you?

Don’t ever believe in any product that tells you something like what I just told. There’s no shortcut in making money online. It will need our effort, our time and patience.

Online business exist for real. There are real people that really make money online. But they need to work hard, use their knowledge to create contents and convert their visitors to the buyers. They can sell their own product or being as an affiliate to the products that related to their topic. That’s what I call the real system to make money blogging.

I am now happy with this blog, spending my free time at night to write about my passion in sharing information about Cambodia and other topics related to make money blogging, how to create a blog and how to use social media to promote blog. These are the things I like to talk about. This is make sense to me and I could say today I am a happy blogger!

I plan to write and E-Book that talks about my experiences in blogging but in mean time I can share you few points that I apply today for my blog.

Stop looking for shortcut way or any automate system

As I said, there’s no shortcut way in making money. Stop looking for any quick way to make money online. Stop buying any automate product. Focus on your blog! if you keep searching everyday to look for quick product or magic way to make money online, you waste your time. You should reserve that time to do sport, going out with your friends or family. Sometime your friends or family might give you a lot of good ideas to write for your blog.

Schedule Your Blog Post

It is good to keep update your blog everyday. WordPress allow you to write the post in advance and schedule it to be published in any day you like. For example this post, I wrote it on Sunday night and I plan to publish it on Monday morning. It is good if you could schedule your post in advance, even you are busy, your blog will publish the post for you. The good tool to do agenda for you blog post is TeuxDeux. I love it, if I miss my time to write my blog post, it will push it up to the current day. By this way, you will know which post you should write for today. If you missed yesterday writing, today you need to write two posts!

Structure your post

I don’t do what we call “brainstorming and mind mapping” all the time but such as when I wrote Tutorial how to set up a blog, I did use a software to help me to arrange the ideas and elements I want to write about.

I like a free tool that allow me to do the brainstorming and mind mapping, it called Xmind

Find the way to keep visitors coming back

The visitors just came and go. They don’t have time to write the address of your website. Create a subscription box that allow people to subscribe to your blog via Email, RSS Feed or become a fan on Facebook.

You can see what I just setup on the top right sidebar on my blog. This is absolutely something you have to do now, if you not yet done. This will give visitors the possibility to come back to your blog again.

Don’t stay late

1 year a go, I work a lot on searching the quick way to make money. I did the research every night. Sometime I worked until 1 or 2 am in the morning. That was a big mistake. Stop looking for any other things, focus on your blog, spend maximum 2 hours per day to work on your blog. Even if you work more than this, I don’t think the quality and efficient of the contents would be better. 2 hours would give you a good timing to write one or two posts per day.

I usually work on my blog from 09 pm to 11 pm, it is the best time for blogging. After this you can enjoy TV a bit, take a good shower and go to bed before 12 (mi-night). This timing will allow you to sleep enough between 6 to 8 hours per day. You will get healthy and have ideas to write on your blog.

Well, its 11 pm now, I would stop it here and I hope you enjoy this post. I would love to hear about how you schedule yourself to work on your blog, don’t be hesitate to share here!

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