This is a guest post from Ryan WritersAddict.net, Now Ryan is am awesome guy with a fantastic attitude to life, I fully recommend you go and check out his style, Ryan over to you;First I want to state for the record that all blog’s made to be public should strive for anything greater, never just settle.  This is what I am working toward, I am being patient though.  I do not want my numbers to raise to high to quick.  I am an amateur blogger with a freshly released blog for which I am doing my best to increase traffic and quality of my content.

I read many post’s from other excellent writer’s on how to increase your traffic fast successfully and I read many more about how they do it while sitting on top.  So I figured since I do not have that sort of experience yet that many pro blogger’s have, I will write about why I enjoy being at the bottom of the blogger totem pole for the moment.

Here are some reason’s why :

  • Larger learning curb : Like I said above I am an amateur blogger, I make a ton of mistakes and only catch a handful before publishing my posts.  With few reader’s and constructive comments I am learning what to include and how on in my posts.  If you have read any of my content or comments you would know I can run on about a subject, now I am trying to stay more on point. If I had a higher hit count this could cost me to lose a proportion of them.  Using the learning curb to right your wrong’s while it is more readily available is key to learning your mistakes early.
  • Experimentation : Whether it be trying out plugins, themes, or just the way you present the content on your site.  You should constantly experiment for optimizing your blog to it’s full potential.  Find out what works and what doesn’t.  Once your number’s start increasing it will make experimenting harder for fear of losing your reader’s interest.
  • Appreciation : Just like having a child you tend to appreciate the early stages in his/her life because it will go by so fast, later you will wish the thing’s that were so simple as to when your child was a baby.  The same applies to your blog, appreciate your reader’s and what you are doing to relate your content to them.  As in your first child you are learning to be a parent and with your blog you are learning to be a blogger.  While your child grow’s he/she will start catching on to your mistakes and learning bad habits, learn early before he/she start’s really paying attention to you.  Apply the same to your blog.

Every amateur blogger need’s to start some where, if you are like me you can over look the important thing’s you have.  Striving for excellence in your content and maximizing your traffic is great but when you start out, appreciate the elbow room.  Maximize usage of your resources while you can and always remember the feeling you used to have when the comments started rolling in.  Remember how anxious you were to reply to those comments and post new material for your reader’s   Maintain that feeling and you will be just fine on your path to greater things.  There is far more reasons why I like having little traffic but I wanted to leave this open for discussion.  How do/did you use your newbie time to benefit your blogging experiences?

... as primas e a tia ...
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