What I Wish I Knew About Keeping a Blog Alive

As I am scripting this weblog publish in February 2025, there are over 500 articles on this web site.

A few of them had been written after I was a teen, others after I was in faculty, and plenty of others via my early to mid twenties. 

It is thrilling to have a web based portfolio that has endured so lengthy. However preserve a venture like this isn’t straightforward, and many individuals are inclined to abandon a weblog after a number of months or years. 

Here is what I want I knew about conserving a weblog alive.

1. Your weblog will evolve with you

It is solely pure that as you develop and evolve as an individual, the content material of your weblog will develop and evolve too. 

Again after I began this weblog, I used to be writing much more random content material, like posts about about what I had for breakfast, or my family trip to Las Vegas. 

For a few of these early posts, I had assist from my dad, as a result of he had much more expertise on structuring and creating weblog content material, having created a number of profitable web sites of his personal.

Then, later as my writing expertise improved, I began creating content material about issues I used to be studying at school, analysis tasks, and even my own poems. 

Lots of my outdated content material nonetheless exists on this weblog, however some posts I’ve deleted, as a result of I felt that they had been WAY too random. 

Nonetheless, it brings me pleasure to know that I’ve this assortment of my ideas and musings that has travelled with me via time and has documented pivotal moments of my life, comparable to moving from England to Canada. 

In my twenties, my content material switched much more, to cowl themes comparable to psychology and extra structured content material about private growth. I start to pay extra consideration to website positioning (search engine marketing) and creating content material with tangible takeaways. 

My weblog additionally got here to incoporate posts comparable to course reviews and advice on books and audiobooks, to additional the private growth theme.

I am so grateful that I began my weblog all these years in the past, and to see its evolution generally makes me emotional, as a result of one of many issues I have been most according to in my life!

2. You actually have to like what you do

There is no such thing as a approach you possibly can hold a weblog alive for a decade or a long time if you don’t genuinely love creating content material. 

It was many, many, years earlier than I ever earned a single PENNY from this weblog, after gaining a much bigger readership and discovering a sustainable technique to generate an revenue from sharing e book/course suggestions. 

Even after I began producing revenue from the weblog, exterior elements comparable to algorithm modifications and altering enterprise partnerships would later have an effect on my earnings. 

If I didn’t TRULY care about private growth and sharing what I am studying, there can be no approach I’d have been capable of maintain a weblog for this lengthy. 

You’ll be able to’t simply do it for the cash. 

I am so blissful to say that this can be a actual interest of mine, one thing I’d do even when I did not make any cash from it.

So long as there are individuals studying and resonating and benefiting from what I am writing, I am blissful 🙂

And I’ve gotten so many heat and wonderful feedback over time from individuals who have shared their appreciation for my work, which warms my coronary heart.

However sure, I’ve at all times made time for my weblog, even throughout the busiest occasions of my life.

I bear in mind after I was in faculty and juggling assignments and volunteering and I’d nonetheless make time bi-weekly to create a weblog publish. 

Again after I began running a blog, nobody was studying my weblog, and I’d nonetheless write, as a result of I cherished writing (see my publish on 101 Things I love About Writing!)

I’d love for everybody to have the option expertise the enjoyment of getting a interest that brings them true fufillment and having the ability to maintain it for an extended time frame, as a result of it is life altering!

3. Do not be afraid to pivot

Being an entrepreneur means being able to adapt to market modifications, and being a blogger isn’t any completely different.

Whether or not or not you are making a living from running a blog, you are pursuits will change of time and it is best to anticipate for that to occur, and be okay with it.

As people, it is pure for us to worry change, however the reality is that change is also what brings exciting new opportunities. 

I do know many bloggers who’ve felt discouraged by algorithm modifications and the rise of AI which has affected weblog visitors, however I do not see these modifications as a damaging factor. 

I see modifications as a technique to be taught to be extra ingenious, to diversify, and search for new alternatives to attach together with your viewers. 

For instance, for years I’ve being constructing a publication (you possibly can subscribe to it on the backside of this text) the place I join with my viewers much more regularly than I do on this weblog. 

I plan to maintain my weblog round no matter what occurs with search visitors, as a result of on the finish of the day, it is a platform I personal, versus social media platforms which may be taken down any day.

Furthermore, I imagine that in case you are an artist, a author, a inventive individual, there’ll at all times be a medium so that you can share you’re employed, so long as you might be keen to adapt. 

I do not know what’s going to occur to the web sites and the web and Google throughout the subsequent few years, however I do know that there’ll at all times be a spot for me to share my written content material with an viewers that loves private growth and psychology and resonates with what I’ve to say on these matters. 

The longer term is brilliant, and I am actually excited to see what the long run holds.

When you’ve been studying my weblog for a number of years now, I’m so grateful in your assist.

And in case you are new right here, I would be glad so that you can be part of me on this journey, and produce your folks alongside too.

My publication is the place the place I am most energetic, so subscribe under and I will see you on the opposite facet. 

Form regards, 

Roli Edema 

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