I have been following Mr Cruz for a while now, and I think that he is on to something. Now I know that he is not the first person to show how to build a blog up in real time, but he is the first that I have watched from the beginning, and I have a feeling that he really didn’t have much background in the blogging world before he got started. This is something of a capital that I feel that others that have done the “study” of blogging did have. They had existing traffic, and industry contacts that they could leverage in their endeavour. I understand that Tyler wasn’t completely new to the game, but I think that he was mainly involved in the poker world and they typically aren’t the audience that a webmaster blog would be looking for.
Starting in January I am going to be working on my site design, and the type of posts that I am writing to build up a brand. I need an identity, I have other sites that I can shoot off my mouth, so bluenoser.net has to be about chronicling my experiences and helping others do it too.
What is the brand going to be?
I have been asked in the past on how to do this or that, regarding the building or starting a simple website. How do they get the name? How do you host it? How do you do HTML and where can you learn? I am going to be writing tutorials and such to help these people out. This will be right from what is a website, the pros and cons of particular CMS systems and how do you monetize your traffic. There are a couple of reasons that I feel that this is a great way to do it. One it gives me great content for the site, two it gives me a definite place to point the people who are looking for information, and maybe they will use my affiliate links in the process and three it helps me build an identity.
What about the blog posts themselves?
The largest issue that I have for a number of sites is coming up with ideas on what to write. If I can build this site into something that people visit, and I can build a trust with those users, I believe that they will be asking me questions that I can answer through the site. This helps me build content that I know at least one person is looking for, and it is a big world out there so I am sure they are not the only ones looking for it.
And when there isn’t any questions, I have a lot of other projects on the go that I will be writing about. Sometimes it will be good things, other times it will be about a business issue that I am having and means that I have used to solve it.
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