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3 Valuable Ways To Absolutely Stir Your Blog To Glory On Day 1 by Princepri(m): 6:21am On Oct 06, 2016
The perfect reason for starting your blog with every other blogger is to live the dreams of a writer; to work from home, live the internet lifestyle we hear the famous success stories.
All you need to do is wrist in front of your keyboard and type out words.

You feel you are just very close to reaching your dream as a blogger.
Everything seems like fun. Relatively easy to start: purchase a second domain and host it for less the price your shoes cost.

Moreover, with the advancement of technology you can now get a free blog thanks to Blogger, WordPress, Typepad and others that host custom domain free.

At first, the reality didn’t hit you. You follow the great advice and the steps of similar bloggers.

However, as time rolls you find that you can’t pass a ceiling wall on your blog. You struggle with your blog to get traffic, to get comments, to install ads on it.

In short, to make a penny with your blog becomes a torment in hell.
The lifestyle you want to live as a blogger becomes a nightmare. It seems impossible to achieve your goal as a blogger.

Probably you’re guilty of these mistakes beginner bloggers make on their blog that cause them so much pain along the road. You are probably struggling to make ends needs as a blogger not because the blogging gods are against you

But because you’ve made some terrible mistakes as a beginner

Every professional blogger made same mistakes at some points, but they did eventually repent of their sins later on.

Want to find those mistakes let’s continue;

Using a free sub-domain name:

While it’s okay to use a free sub-domain if you’re just keeping a diary on the web(like yourname..com, yourname .worpdress.com). A free subdomain has limitations, which can hinder your blog success.
When you host your sites on a subdomain like blogger.com, or typepad.com, you limit your blog. You can’t use the necessary themes and plugins to grow your blog
Neither can you build your email list. Somebody else’s owns your blog, and they decide to keep your blog on the World Wide Web or not.
Believe me, it's hard, painful and requires special abilities to build a business, “you don’t own.” A sub-domain blog is like a business you don’t own. While there are 2 out of 10000 bloggers who succeed with a sub-domain. 200 of 10000 are likely to succeed on their domain - Is not a numbers game- Is the reality.
Exceptionality can only make you reach your blogging goals on somebody else’s host. However, in this age that everyone and their dog is blogging - it's mind taking to become exceptional?
Except you have some magical powers, it is nearly impossible!
Imagine you woke up one morning and all the hard work, the sweats, the sleepless nights all gone. Your host provider has shut down your blog. Worst, if you spent years building this blog and everything just disappear overnight. How do you intend to bounce back from scratch?

Not investing in their blog;
Many bloggers feel it's okay to start with all free things at the beginning. They use a free theme, a free domain name (if possible), free hosting.
They convince themselves this is right until they start generating profits on their blog. That’s a huge mistake.
Quitting your Job, and blogging full time can’t happen if you don’t go premium on your blog. Investing in your blog is equivalent to investing in yourself.
Not just the tools, you need professional services for your blog, how do you intend to edit your write-ups to spot grammatical errors and wrong sentence structure? Thus, the role of an editor or a proofreading tool comes in handy.
Sure, you can choose to edit your work by yourself but how do you intend to spot grammatical errors. Except you have a background in editing. It's quite difficult to modify one own write-up to detect grammar errors.
Next, how do you intend to deal with your blog design? A professionally designed blog gives readers the ease and sleek of your blog. Does your ad matches with the content of your blog that readers don’t get confused. For a professional blog, everything has to match. If when reading the contents of your blog, the ads distract you readers, you risk losing them for life.
What about your blog logo, banners, and header image, They pass across your blog message and forces people to decide to hop on your blog from the logo.
Images are also important because they simplify things.
You can quickly pass on a complicated message through a picture. No wonder images are the backbone of social media. Pictures get more shares because of the connection between the sense of sight and the human memory

Getting images for your blog is though if you don’t use stock or royalty images. Most free stock image providers give low-quality images free, holding back the high-quality images for premium users.

Don’t forget your internet expenses; Laptop maintenance, adequate power supply, and office space are essential ingredients. We won’t be on the web without them. A crappy laptop filled with viruses can slow down your work. You might not have an office space since you're blogging on your bedroom. However, you do still have to pay your bills to work.
Build it, and they will come;
Flee from such deception. People will jump head and shoulders over each other to read your blog post is a myth completely. The world d works in a very deceptive manner, which you may not know.

A famous writer once shared a story of a very incredible lesson he learned in his childhood.
His father was late. He didn’t have a dad to support him growing up and to worsen the whole situation he had paralysis. It so happened that they didn’t have enough money to pay their bills and feed themselves. His mother had lost her job as a cleaner in a local restaurant.
In fact, they had to go from house to house begging for their next meal.Not sure, where their next meal will arise. The writer brought out a signboard that reads “please help we need money,” at the front of their house. He waited for passers-by to stop by their house and give them money but that didn’t happen. His mother was emotionally touched when she was her son trying to raise funds for the family even while paralyzed.

he wept that day, then he looked out the window and saw a girl selling cupcakes from house to house and within some minutes she was done counting all the money made for the day.

He thought of this, but the didn’t have the resources to bake a cake. They didn’t even have food to eat. He thought of what he could give people in exchange for their money. Then he tried something ridiculous. He brought out some small empty notes and wrote each poem on them. He had the passion for writing songs.
Then he went round the houses, and when they opened the door, they found a 5-year-old kid on their door spot selling songs in a wheelchair.
What were the results?

he ended up selling all the poem books within a few hours and surprised his mother by coming home with enough food that could feed then for at least a month.

What many bloggers are doing in the blogging world is that they are putting “a sign board” for people to donate them some cash, instead of going out to the world and offering something in exchange for people's wallet.
How to take your blog to glory as a beginner
Don’t expect the world to give you money for your writing, Or, worst still come to you. Instead, go out there inspire people, solve their problems, and answer the little questions they’ve got tinkering in their heads.
Blogging is only a means to an end, not an end to a means. Blogging involves more than writing to succeed; It's where the world gathers to hear you voice out your capabilities.
So are you ready to go out there and apply this stuff on your blog? Run ahead and make the necessary changes to avoid sending your blog to the grave at the beginner’s level.
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