Real World Blogging Success

Our blog collects and disseminates information about blogging and social media. We want this to be a place where we all learn from each other. To further this aim, we established the Real World Blogging Success project. Our readers will get an inside look at our efforts to get our own blog off the ground and build our audience. We will describe our efforts, report the results, and discuss the business impact. Our readers will follow the development of a real world blog in real time. Readers can learn from and discuss our successful and unsuccessful activities. We will also encourage visitors to discuss their own experiences. Based on your input we will build a library of real-world cases that we can all learn from.

Like many of you, we are starting our blog from scratch. We have nothing but a domain name and an idea. Our Page Rank is zero, our traffic is limited, we have few inbound links, we are not listed on search engines, and our content is almost non-existent. We must address each of these issues as we work through the process of building up our blog.

Different stages of the process will likely require us to focus on different activities. These activities will be highlighted in our posts. We will always couch our discussions in terms of larger strategies and principles. The Real World Blogging Success project is a tool to explore important ideas and concepts by providing concrete examples. The Unified Social Media blog will also discuss a number of subjects related to the business of blogging. So, even if your blog is farther along than ours, you can still pick up useful blogging tips.

The project is titled Real World Blogging Success, but there is no guarantee our blog will be successful. Whether it succeeds or not, our readers will learn valuable lessons that will help them improve their blogs. The detailed data we provide about our efforts to improve our blog is the true value of the Real World Blogging Success project. If we fail, you will learn from our mistakes, not your own. If we succeed, you will see exactly how to navigate the path to a successful blog. In either case, you will be a better blogger.