My names are Macquis Michelangelo Udochukwu and am a music Blogger.
Blarckbillboard a blog I started with the assistance of a friend and partner (Joshua) came into being on the 11th day of June 2016. In other words, the blog is barely two months old.

Being a music addict and a lover of literature I carefully thought of inventing a channel through which I could connect with music lovers as myself and most importantly contribute my quota to the growth of the Nigerian music industry. At that period in time in the year 2014 I conceived the whole music blogging idea. Though the idea of starting a music blog had been birthed in the year 2014, I never considered materializing the idea until after my service year in 2016.

My blogging experience so far ?

Blogging is quite difficult and time consuming, except you are nothing more than a plagiarist blogger.
Considering my blogging nitch the stress and difficulty is even doubled. Blarckbillboard most importantly deals with music news and reviews, and you will agree with me that the music industry both locally and internationally is always buzzing with one news update or the other.

Understanding the way things work in the media and blogosphere, the experienced news blogger strives to have a particular breaking news published on his/her blog first. If the news is hot enough, with adequate promotion of the blog post it could fetch the blog a lot of traffic. So I’ve had to constantly source for hot music news, rewrite them before publishing; write a detailed review on a new hit single; announce an upcoming music event and above all promote my blog posts on every available social media. Consequently, I’ve had to blog everyday, either in the sense of writing a new post or promoting one of my already published blog post, in other to make my baby-blog relevant to readers.

I recall nights when I’ve had to sleep for just 2 hrs owing to my sourcing for fresh music news to publish on the blog, and during the day spending long hours in a particular sitting position rewriting or typing a new post. The few hours I put into sleeping and relaxing my body both during the day and night began to take its toll on me as I fell ill few weeks into blogging. But my broken body wasn’t going to discourage me from pressing on. Even when the daily results I got paled in comparison to the hardwork and dedication I was putting into blogging.

Is my Blog being Successful ?

According to one source: “There are more than 164 million blogs… Most of these blogs get less than 1,000 visitors per month, and the harsh reality is, the majority of those blogs are, for lack of a better word, failures”.

Well, judging my blog’s success in the light of
Linda ikeji’s blog success from a traffic perspective would definitely spark up depression within me and kill my blogging drive, so I don’t ever make such insane comparisons. The problem with most newbie bloggers is that they make the mistake of comparing the traffic of their baby blogs with that of older blogs or bigger blogs. It’s no wonder most individuals who kick off a career in blogging throw in the towel 2 – 3 months into blogging. I have also understood that blogging success doesn’t come overnight and there is certainly hardwork that needs to be put in to eventually bring success.

As for my baby-blog’s traffic I’ve had great days when I got over a hundred visitors, days when I recorded between 5-8 visitors, and even days I recorded no visitor or reader at all, terrible days. The pressure builds up to the point whereby you continue to look at your blog stats to see if anybody has visited your blog. Such days alone were enough to make me quit blogging but my passion and interest in music has been the anchor holding me fast and keeping me from falling. The process of writing a blog post, editing, adding pictures and then proof reading is definitely time consuming! Not to talk of the longer minutes one has to spend publishing a single post in a country like Nigeria due to bad network. And so to feel that no one has read your post apart from yourself is undeniably quite upsetting.

During down times and periods I’ve considered quitting blogging, God has somehow always sent an angel in the guise of friends Felix Brambaiyefa, Idris Aliyu and Otosirieze Obi-Young. Their words of encouragement have been my strength and kept me going. The success stories of established bloggers have also been a source of inspiration and motivation for me.

As a newbie Blogger I’ve learnt that pressure will always remain as you want to do well and have people read and benefit from your blog. That is the reason you blog in the first place, so people read it and comment on your opinions and thoughts and so I try to reassure myself that people will come, and that I need to promote my blog more and not give up easily. I also tell myself that regardless of the Nigerian blogosphere being overly crowded, everyone has their position and followers, and if I work hard enough, make my blog posts more unique and stay focused on achieving my goals, I on the long-run will definitely establish myself as one of the most successful music bloggers in Africa.

Source:
https://blarckbillboard./2016/07/27/a-month-and-two-weeks-into-blogging-my-experience/

my advice for you, if you want to build not just a blog but a brand. Get a domain name. I don't usually recommend wordpress free blog, instead get switch to blogger and add a domain name to it.blogging is not as easy as most people paints it, especially when your utmost reason is making millions overnight. As for traffic, it all starts from zero to millions which is not overnight.

Wow! I have two blogs and its not easy getting traffic for them but I know one day, I will look back and smile at my days of little beginning
www.aweleobioji..com

First of all you blog has a problem..... You need to insert page break (it is called jump break in blogger) This cuts your post so that everything is not lined out the way it is in your blog..

Secondly, are you writing according to SEO.. because if you are then when you buy a domain you wouldn't have to complain about traffic (thats if you are really good in literature and writing unique contents)

Thirdly, before you just spot on into blogging in music .... you have to understand your audience.. what motivates them.... In my blogs I have plans which will entertain my users and keep them coming... I have free giveaways and so much stuff in store for them....

Now this will implant them in my blog..

My Name Is Paul Samuel
CEO/Editor in Chief Newsphases (just search newsphases in google)

newsphase:
First of all you blog has a problem..... You need to insert page break (it is called jump break in blogger) This cuts your post so that everything is not lined out the way it is in your blog..

Secondly, are you writing according to SEO.. because if you are then when you buy a domain you wouldn't have to complain about traffic (thats if you are really good in literature and writing unique contents)

Thirdly, before you just spot on into blogging in music .... you have to understand your audience.. what motivates them.... In my blogs I have plans which will entertain my users and keep them coming... I have free giveaways and so much stuff in store for them....

Now this will implant them in my blog..

My Name Is Paul Samuel
CEO/Editor in Chief Newsphases (just search newsphases in google)

Good.
Please how can i test if my blog contents are unique ?

keep driving... I think am in a similar situation but What's driving me along is to get my ideas out of my head to serve as inspiration to others. Am a natural born writer. Before i started blogging, i have been the dude always writing in a diary. Knowing about blogging, i decided to use a platform where my ideas are safe and could inspire others.

Having the hunger to expand and reach more people, i decided to explore my writing skills by being a freelance writer just for this summer holiday. At least, to make some bucks big enough to host my blog and get me a system.. Am impressed with the earning though.

Toluwani111:

Good.
Please how can i test if my blog contents are unique ?

Checkout the link:
http://99traffictools.com/plagiarism-checker

Toluwani111:

Good.
Please how can i test if my blog contents are unique ?

There is a site known as smallseotools.cum ... There have something they call plagiarism checker and that will tell you if your posts are unique

I have been blogging for 2 months now and I achieved 1500 page views in my first month and this month I would gain approximately double of my first month. this achievement has made me write articles to help other bloggers. check out my blog

http:///2apvXiZ

Frankly, it ain't easy as a beginner in blogging. I just open this blog- www.eaglelike.com last week. But to be sincere, I ain't chill with the number of audience it attracts.

macquis:
My names are Macquis Michelangelo Udochukwu and am a music Blogger.
Blarckbillboard a blog I started with the assistance of a friend and partner (Joshua) came into being on the 11th day of June 2016. In other words, the blog is barely two months old.

Being a music addict and a lover of literature I carefully thought of inventing a channel through which I could connect with music lovers as myself and most importantly contribute my quota to the growth of the Nigerian music industry. At that period in time in the year 2014 I conceived the whole music blogging idea. Though the idea of starting a music blog had been birthed in the year 2014, I never considered materializing the idea until after my service year in 2016.

My blogging experience so far ?

Blogging is quite difficult and time consuming, except you are nothing more than a plagiarist blogger.
Considering my blogging nitch the stress and difficulty is even doubled. Blarckbillboard most importantly deals with music news and reviews, and you will agree with me that the music industry both locally and internationally is always buzzing with one news update or the other.

Understanding the way things work in the media and blogosphere, the experienced news blogger strives to have a particular breaking news published on his/her blog first. If the news is hot enough, with adequate promotion of the blog post it could fetch the blog a lot of traffic. So I’ve had to constantly source for hot music news, rewrite them before publishing; write a detailed review on a new hit single; announce an upcoming music event and above all promote my blog posts on every available social media. Consequently, I’ve had to blog everyday, either in the sense of writing a new post or promoting one of my already published blog post, in other to make my baby-blog relevant to readers.

I recall nights when I’ve had to sleep for just 2 hrs owing to my sourcing for fresh music news to publish on the blog, and during the day spending long hours in a particular sitting position rewriting or typing a new post. The few hours I put into sleeping and relaxing my body both during the day and night began to take its toll on me as I fell ill few weeks into blogging. But my broken body wasn’t going to discourage me from pressing on. Even when the daily results I got paled in comparison to the hardwork and dedication I was putting into blogging.

Is my Blog being Successful ?

According to one source: “There are more than 164 million blogs… Most of these blogs get less than 1,000 visitors per month, and the harsh reality is, the majority of those blogs are, for lack of a better word, failures”.

Well, judging my blog’s success in the light of
Linda ikeji’s blog success from a traffic perspective would definitely spark up depression within me and kill my blogging drive, so I don’t ever make such insane comparisons. The problem with most newbie bloggers is that they make the mistake of comparing the traffic of their baby blogs with that of older blogs or bigger blogs. It’s no wonder most individuals who kick off a career in blogging throw in the towel 2 – 3 months into blogging. I have also understood that blogging success doesn’t come overnight and there is certainly hardwork that needs to be put in to eventually bring success.

As for my baby-blog’s traffic I’ve had great days when I got over a hundred visitors, days when I recorded between 5-8 visitors, and even days I recorded no visitor or reader at all, terrible days. The pressure builds up to the point whereby you continue to look at your blog stats to see if anybody has visited your blog. Such days alone were enough to make me quit blogging but my passion and interest in music has been the anchor holding me fast and keeping me from falling. The process of writing a blog post, editing, adding pictures and then proof reading is definitely time consuming! Not to talk of the longer minutes one has to spend publishing a single post in a country like Nigeria due to bad network. And so to feel that no one has read your post apart from yourself is undeniably quite upsetting.

During down times and periods I’ve considered quitting blogging, God has somehow always sent an angel in the guise of friends Felix Brambaiyefa, Idris Aliyu and Otosirieze Obi-Young. Their words of encouragement have been my strength and kept me going. The success stories of established bloggers have also been a source of inspiration and motivation for me.

As a newbie Blogger I’ve learnt that pressure will always remain as you want to do well and have people read and benefit from your blog. That is the reason you blog in the first place, so people read it and comment on your opinions and thoughts and so I try to reassure myself that people will come, and that I need to promote my blog more and not give up easily. I also tell myself that regardless of the Nigerian blogosphere being overly crowded, everyone has their position and followers, and if I work hard enough, make my blog posts more unique and stay focused on achieving my goals, I on the long-run will definitely establish myself as one of the most successful music bloggers in Africa.

Source:
https://blarckbillboard./2016/07/27/a-month-and-two-weeks-into-blogging-my-experience/

First Bro.

Nicely done on your part to create a blog.

It's a journey that teaches you a lot of lessons as you learn first hand what your doing right and what your doing wrong.

Like you I start a free WordPress blog and ran it for six months. http://palmpermtations..com

Then I switched it over to a domain. http://the-ahamefulas.com.

Why did I do that?

Not for the traffic, cos I was seeing between 5-8 visitors a day and a bounce rate of 82%

I switched because most people who came to the blog came for the information I offered.

Those 5-8 where constantly returning to the blog.

How did I know this?

I had a contact for where available for those who wanted to get in touch with me and I register with a mailer service to send them updates and new details and reply questions.

When the emails got to a hundred and I was actively engaging them frequently.

I knew I had something worth switching over to a domain for. So I went ahead and did that.

Cue today, where I have over five hundred emails and between 25-60 visitors a day.

Still not much, but when you have a bounce rate of 6% and average time on page at 4-11 minutes.

You know that your visitors are really interested in what your saying.

So what does all this mean?

I see you are a stats guy, just like me.

But you need to pay more attention to what those stats are telling you. Don't just look at the visitors but look at what the are looking at and where they are going.

This will tell you which of your content works and which doesn't.

As I said, I love free blogs like and WordPress. But it doesn't give you much in terms of tracking and monitoring your visitors activities on your site.

Also

Did you notice the way I wrote this.

Readable without making you feel the stress of content overload.

Do the same to all your posts and track your stats again, you should see some improvements.

If you can take the leap to get a domain and hosting plan, then you liked up Google analytics, search console and Bing webmaster tools to it(yes I said bing).

At least it will first make your site indexable by Google and Bing, which also helps improve site traffic by 100% I. E 5 before 10 after.

Then you can monitor what keywords people use to enter your blog and your position per per page for those keywords.

You can really improve your site visitor rates and traffic.

But it does take more than blogs and sharing.

Good luck Bro.

Oh and one more thing.

Do you spend anytime to do keywords research after you write each blog post.

Doing this will help you optimise your post for the best keywords that have high search volumes related to your posts.

Cos by doing so, you will know what people are actually searching regarding that post, plus the volume of people per month that search for that keyword.

Google "keyword planner tool" and sign in with your Google account and get started.

Cool... Nice write up! Blogging is difficult but more fun and interesting when you are doing it for the right reasons and in the right way.


And Blog about what you love and have passion for!

TECH till I pack up...


I rep www.stevenbergy.com.ng

To even start with, your domain name is a big NO and using FREE WordPress makes no sense either.

So, it's obvious you still have a lot to learn.

Music blogger, have you paid your fine to Adekunle Gold?

@Op...the only thing I know about blogging is that to be a successful blogger you have to be a good writer that can captivate readers. Abeg...opening sentence...My names are Macquis Michelangelo Udochukwu? .... bro... my name is. That's a big turn off from jump....hope you don't have the same in your blogs.
Must say the advice given so far on this thread is like a concise version of a How to be a Successful Blogger....sooo on point comments.

macquis:
My names are Macquis Michelangelo Udochukwu and am a music Blogger.
Blarckbillboard a blog I started with the assistance of a friend and partner (Joshua) came into being on the 11th day of June 2016. In other words, the blog is barely two months old.

Being a music addict and a lover of literature I carefully thought of inventing a channel through which I could connect with music lovers as myself and most importantly contribute my quota to the growth of the Nigerian music industry. At that period in time in the year 2014 I conceived the whole music blogging idea. Though the idea of starting a music blog had been birthed in the year 2014, I never considered materializing the idea until after my service year in 2016.

My blogging experience so far ?

Blogging is quite difficult and time consuming, except you are nothing more than a plagiarist blogger.
Considering my blogging nitch the stress and difficulty is even doubled. Blarckbillboard most importantly deals with music news and reviews, and you will agree with me that the music industry both locally and internationally is always buzzing with one news update or the other.

Understanding the way things work in the media and blogosphere, the experienced news blogger strives to have a particular breaking news published on his/her blog first. If the news is hot enough, with adequate promotion of the blog post it could fetch the blog a lot of traffic. So I’ve had to constantly source for hot music news, rewrite them before publishing; write a detailed review on a new hit single; announce an upcoming music event and above all promote my blog posts on every available social media. Consequently, I’ve had to blog everyday, either in the sense of writing a new post or promoting one of my already published blog post, in other to make my baby-blog relevant to readers.

I recall nights when I’ve had to sleep for just 2 hrs owing to my sourcing for fresh music news to publish on the blog, and during the day spending long hours in a particular sitting position rewriting or typing a new post. The few hours I put into sleeping and relaxing my body both during the day and night began to take its toll on me as I fell ill few weeks into blogging. But my broken body wasn’t going to discourage me from pressing on. Even when the daily results I got paled in comparison to the hardwork and dedication I was putting into blogging.

Is my Blog being Successful ?

According to one source: “There are more than 164 million blogs… Most of these blogs get less than 1,000 visitors per month, and the harsh reality is, the majority of those blogs are, for lack of a better word, failures”.

Well, judging my blog’s success in the light of
Linda ikeji’s blog success from a traffic perspective would definitely spark up depression within me and kill my blogging drive, so I don’t ever make such insane comparisons. The problem with most newbie bloggers is that they make the mistake of comparing the traffic of their baby blogs with that of older blogs or bigger blogs. It’s no wonder most individuals who kick off a career in blogging throw in the towel 2 – 3 months into blogging. I have also understood that blogging success doesn’t come overnight and there is certainly hardwork that needs to be put in to eventually bring success.

As for my baby-blog’s traffic I’ve had great days when I got over a hundred visitors, days when I recorded between 5-8 visitors, and even days I recorded no visitor or reader at all, terrible days. The pressure builds up to the point whereby you continue to look at your blog stats to see if anybody has visited your blog. Such days alone were enough to make me quit blogging but my passion and interest in music has been the anchor holding me fast and keeping me from falling. The process of writing a blog post, editing, adding pictures and then proof reading is definitely time consuming! Not to talk of the longer minutes one has to spend publishing a single post in a country like Nigeria due to bad network. And so to feel that no one has read your post apart from yourself is undeniably quite upsetting.

During down times and periods I’ve considered quitting blogging, God has somehow always sent an angel in the guise of friends Felix Brambaiyefa, Idris Aliyu and Otosirieze Obi-Young. Their words of encouragement have been my strength and kept me going. The success stories of established bloggers have also been a source of inspiration and motivation for me.

As a newbie Blogger I’ve learnt that pressure will always remain as you want to do well and have people read and benefit from your blog. That is the reason you blog in the first place, so people read it and comment on your opinions and thoughts and so I try to reassure myself that people will come, and that I need to promote my blog more and not give up easily. I also tell myself that regardless of the Nigerian blogosphere being overly crowded, everyone has their position and followers, and if I work hard enough, make my blog posts more unique and stay focused on achieving my goals, I on the long-run will definitely establish myself as one of the most successful music bloggers in Africa.

Source:
https://blarckbillboard./2016/07/27/a-month-and-two-weeks-into-blogging-my-experience/

Just keep on try and focus on it, I know 1 day you will get what you need

newsphase:
First of all you blog has a problem..... You need to insert page break (it is called jump break in blogger) This cuts your post so that everything is not lined out the way it is in your blog..

Secondly, are you writing according to SEO.. because if you are then when you buy a domain you wouldn't have to complain about traffic (thats if you are really good in literature and writing unique contents)

Thirdly, before you just spot on into blogging in music .... you have to understand your audience.. what motivates them.... In my blogs I have plans which will entertain my users and keep them coming... I have free giveaways and so much stuff in store for them....

Now this will implant them in my blog..

My Name Is Paul Samuel
CEO/Editor in Chief Newsphases (just search newsphases in google)

SEO fora music blog is not beans... There are hardly any search terms and LSI.

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Bloggers sha

Am beginning to think that all bloggers have similar beginning.
I don't know you, but deep within me when I was reading your post I thought you were narrating my story. The hustle is real bro. Keep your head up. We shall make it to the top.

This is my own baby blog
www.politicalcritics.com.ng

passion and focus is essential

HenryDion:
keep driving... I think am in a similar situation but What's driving me along is to get my ideas out of my head to serve as inspiration to others. Am a natural born writer. Before i started blogging, i have been the dude always writing in a diary. Knowing about blogging, i decided to use a platform where my ideas are safe and could inspire others.

Having the hunger to expand and reach more people, i decided to explore my writing skills by being a freelance writer just for this summer holiday. At least, to make some bucks big enough to host my blog and get me a system.. Am impressed with the earning though.

how did u get d freelance writing engagement. I'm interested in it buh dnt knw ow 2 start.

A guy already has given you the best advice. Writing well alone isn't the only way to attract visitors to a site; it is a big plus when you understand that there are Onpage optimization and Offpage Optimization.

Onpage opt has to do with all those keywords (using Longtail pro, SEMUSER, keyword planner etc) you embed on the heading, meta taGs, your contents and so on. Minimum content length should be 700 words. IF you have images, always have an ALT that has a keyword , too. You're doing fine interMs of promotion. Still look for more successful blogs on music and try to be a quest blogger to attract people to your site.

Offpage optimization, is technical. Won't go much into it. You will be fine. Trust me.

newsphase:
First of all you blog has a problem..... You need to insert page break (it is called jump break in blogger) This cuts your post so that everything is not lined out the way it is in your blog..

Secondly, are you writing according to SEO.. because if you are then when you buy a domain you wouldn't have to complain about traffic (thats if you are really good in literature and writing unique contents)

Thirdly, before you just spot on into blogging in music .... you have to understand your audience.. what motivates them.... In my blogs I have plans which will entertain my users and keep them coming... I have free giveaways and so much stuff in store for them....

Now this will implant them in my blog..

My Name Is Paul Samuel
CEO/Editor in Chief Newsphases (just search newsphases in google)

how do insert this in blogger ??

Bloggers.