A week short of five years ago, I launched a blog called King’s Kid at Blogspot.com. It was a great experience, but I found – and still find – that Blogger/Blogspot is too limited in its capabilities. I moved on to a hosted site at Wordpress with carefulthought.wordpress.com. That was a great experience as well; in fact, I liked it so much that I started this blog on my own servers and domain, but still using the WordPress framework. It’s time to move on to bigger and better, or at least other, things. I’ve received a couple offers to post on other sites, and I may take up those offers, but this is it for this venue.
Here’s what I’ve learned in five years, in no particular order:
- God is faithful, even when we fail Him
- Blogging is a great way to vent, but venting is no substitute for real content
- Your blog is unique, just like other the other 200 million blogs out there, so give people a reason to visit you
- Stay faithful. If you have a political blog, focus on that, if it’s a faith blog, focus on that. Readers seem to prefer blogs with a single topic or theme
- Don’t dwell on stats, but if your stat counter is stuck on zero, that’s a bad sign
- Post regularly
- Appreciate your readers
- Don’t be afraid to step on toes, but do with grace
- Trolls are a fact of blogging life. Deal with it.
- There’s a huge amount of information available on the internet. Some of it is even accurate.
- Give full credit for your content. If it ain’t yours, attribute it.
Thanks for reading!
Steve
