Comments on: The 5 most important lessons from my first year of blogging http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/ A Top 20 ranked Australian marketing blog Wed, 18 May 2016 03:17:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: kwiaty online http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-6662 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:11:21 +0000 http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/?p=403#comment-6662 Hello! I know this is kinda off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you using for this website? I’m getting sick and tired of WordPress because I’ve had problems with hackers and I’m looking at alternatives for another platform. I would be awesome if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.

]]> By: The 3 key lessons from my second year of blogging | Online Marketing Banter http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-2843 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:01:44 +0000 http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/?p=403#comment-2843 [...] its second birthday. Huzzah! To commemorate my first birthday I published a post outlining the key lessons from my first year of blogging. It turned out to be quite popular. Who’d of thought? So second time round I thought [...]

]]> By: The Sharper Image Review http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-2236 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:04:35 +0000 http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/?p=403#comment-2236 It reads like you had an informative first year of blogging. Wow And nothing about Twitter. Good for you :-D

]]> By: The true formula for link building gold | SEO Scoop http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-1933 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:49:24 +0000 http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/?p=403#comment-1933 [...] post that attracted these two golden links discussed the key lessons from my first year of blogging. In terms of link quantity, the post was no more successful than most of my other work. Indeed, [...]

]]> By: Where is Your Focus: Subscribers or Traffic? | Guilda Blog http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-1879 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:15:03 +0000 http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/?p=403#comment-1879 [...] Duthie of Online Marketing Banter has a really valuable post on 5 important lessons that he learned from his first year of blogging. I think everyone could agree to having learned a [...]

]]> By: Dave http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-1870 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:27:38 +0000 http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/?p=403#comment-1870 Blogging is like going to the gym. Consistency brings great results. Keeping working those guns!

]]> By: Andrew Dever http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-1854 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:34:17 +0000 http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/?p=403#comment-1854 Excellent post!

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issues such as time frames, ROI, resourcing, legalities and management hesitancy rendered many of the tactics I’d used redundant. My personal blogging experience still held some value, but its applicability was limited.
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spot on.

]]> By: Zac Martin http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-1848 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:14:23 +0000 http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/?p=403#comment-1848 Congratulations and very interesting post. My first birthday a couple of months ago was one of those lame self congratulatory posts, but I found these insights very relatable. Here’s to another year!

]]> By: Greg http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-1826 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:18:11 +0000 http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/?p=403#comment-1826 Hi James, was reading that your traffic had dropped of so came by to give you a boost… only one hit on the counter but everything helps right? More of a moral support thing I guess, keep going. You have a new subscriber.

]]> By: Duncan http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/the-5-most-important-lessons-from-my-first-year-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-1825 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:39:43 +0000 http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/?p=403#comment-1825 Hey James. Thanks for the summary of your blogging year! As you say traffic isn’t everything. After a two break I’m reminded that blogging isn’t everything either!

I’ve been blogging for 5 years and have found that after a while you build up what you might call long tail posts that just keep bringing the traffic in – enough to cope with momentary lapses in blogging. But I’ve also found that the search engines are watching to see if your site is fresh. If they get the impression that you’re not active they stop calling by. When I’m getting ready for a break I plan for a reduced but regular number of advanced posts just to keep the momentum. I’m looking at contracting guest bloggers as a way around the dip as well.

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