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4:39 am
December 7, 2011
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Hey all,
I have been thinking about how little I knew when I started my first blog (especially about keywords, seo, etc.) and have been wondering if others would start over with a different blog if they had the chance to go back in time to do it again??
I know that many won't consider after all they have put into their blog right now, but just theoretically. If you were starting a blog for the first time, knowing what you do know, would you choose the same focus?
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6:20 am
December 7, 2011
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Aaron Hung
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Starting over knowing what I know now? hmmm I would certaintly be faster in terms of putting the blog up, promoting and networking because all the tools are there for me already.
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6:55 am
December 7, 2011
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I'd probably wipe out the first 15 months or so and try to start from there. I love Money Beagle though and wouldn't change the focus.
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7:23 am
December 7, 2011
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Aloysa
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I started over with My Broken Coin. Same focus, but at least now I know what blogging is all about. In fact I even like the name of my blog better now. :-) Blogs evolve… so do people. :-)
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7:29 am
December 7, 2011
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I learned a lot over the months, and I kind of like seeing the transition on my blog. I would change things like social promotion, and guest posting, but as for my blog itself, I wouldnt change a thing.
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9:17 am
December 7, 2011
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Jeff @ Sustainable Life Blog
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I wouldnt change what I write about – i'm a fairly boring person on a good day, so no one would want to read if I wrote about anything else. I'd probably handle a few things differently now though – like my transition to wordpress.
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9:30 am
December 7, 2011
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I would start a new site, but I wouldn't abandon Retire By 40. I put tons of work into it and at this point, I'd rather improve it incrementally. Of course, if someone offered me a million dollars…..
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9:56 am
December 7, 2011
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Jeremy @ Personal Finance Whiz
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Would I start Personal Finance Whiz over? No, but PFW isn't my first site by a long shot. It's funny going back to my first blog 5 years ago seeing how little I knew about SEO, monetization and writing in general.
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11:05 am
December 7, 2011
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I don't think I'd start over with Daily Money Shot. It wasn't my first foray into blogging so I definitely took what I learned with the first experience and put into DMS. Although I admittedly still have a lot to learn.
When I look at my first few months of posts, I literally cringe but I like to use as a benchmark for how far I've come in the last 6 months. Even if I were to start a new blog, I wouldn't abandon DMS. It would be like dropping one of my older dogs off at the shelter in favor of a new, shinier, more well-behaved one.
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11:08 am
December 7, 2011
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So true Aloysa!
Aloysa said:
I started over with My Broken Coin. Same focus, but at least now I know what blogging is all about. In fact I even like the name of my blog better now. :-) Blogs evolve… so do people. :-)
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11:10 am
December 7, 2011
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Thanks – I'm curious, would you just do more of social promotion/guest posting? If so, I'm sure we all wish we would have done more of both. :)
MoneyIsTheRoot said:
I learned a lot over the months, and I kind of like seeing the transition on my blog. I would change things like social promotion, and guest posting, but as for my blog itself, I wouldnt change a thing.
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11:11 am
December 7, 2011
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I hear a lot of people regret not moving over early enough. I'm glad I don't have that regret.
Jeff @ Sustainable Life Blog said:
I wouldnt change what I write about – i'm a fairly boring person on a good day, so no one would want to read if I wrote about anything else. I'd probably handle a few things differently now though – like my transition to wordpress.
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11:22 am
December 7, 2011
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20sFinances said:
Thanks – I'm curious, would you just do more of social promotion/guest posting? If so, I'm sure we all wish we would have done more of both. :)
MoneyIsTheRoot said:
I learned a lot over the months, and I kind of like seeing the transition on my blog. I would change things like social promotion, and guest posting, but as for my blog itself, I wouldnt change a thing.
I wouldve started social media and social promotion sooner. my biggest regret was waiting way too long to start a facebook and twitter account for the blog. They have grown quite a bit over the past few months, but they could be that much further along. Actually I just wish I wouldve paid someone sooner to guest post for me…I'd rather keep all my writing on my own blog quite honestly, with the exception of a couple blogging friends that needed help with articles during a time crunch or two.
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12:18 pm
December 7, 2011
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If I could go back to October lol.. I would definitely have 5 guest posts running a month on other blogs. I would also probably make my site a niche site rather than a broad personal finance site. My next blog will definitely be a niche site.
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12:52 pm
December 7, 2011
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People have had huge success on niche sites, but I enjoy the blog myself.
5 guest posts? not bad. haha. ;)
YourFinancesSimplified said:
If I could go back to October lol.. I would definitely have 5 guest posts running a month on other blogs. I would also probably make my site a niche site rather than a broad personal finance site. My next blog will definitely be a niche site.
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1:02 pm
December 7, 2011
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20sFinances said:
People have had huge success on niche sites, but I enjoy the blog myself.
5 guest posts? not bad. haha. ;)
YourFinancesSimplified said:
If I could go back to October lol.. I would definitely have 5 guest posts running a month on other blogs. I would also probably make my site a niche site rather than a broad personal finance site. My next blog will definitely be a niche site.
I'm trying this out for the month of December/January. We talked about this.. instead of writing 7x a week.. I will write 5x and give 5-8 posts aways for guest posts/staff writing.
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1:11 pm
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Nice! I usually try to "jump start" a site with lots of guest posts towards the beginning and then will usually write a couple a month to keep links coming in. We'll see if it works across the board.
YourFinancesSimplified said:
20sFinances said:
People have had huge success on niche sites, but I enjoy the blog myself.
5 guest posts? not bad. haha. ;)
YourFinancesSimplified said:
If I could go back to October lol.. I would definitely have 5 guest posts running a month on other blogs. I would also probably make my site a niche site rather than a broad personal finance site. My next blog will definitely be a niche site.
I'm trying this out for the month of December/January. We talked about this.. instead of writing 7x a week.. I will write 5x and give 5-8 posts aways for guest posts/staff writing.
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2:09 pm
December 7, 2011
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Hmm good plan.. If I start a new website I will definitely use the guest posting approach to build links. But, when I started YFS I didn't know anyone. It took me about a month to establish the little relationships I have I still have a lot of networking to do
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7:50 pm
December 7, 2011
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Yes I would. Money Reasons seemed like a good name, but really it has a bad vibe out it as in "He did it for money reasons, etc"…
Then for the first few months I just blogged and did nothing to promote it, waiting from google to recognize me (which of course the didn't). Then there is the theme that I have… it's a beta version, and recently I've discovered some bad SEO stuff within.
So yes, I would like to start over, but it's my flagship blog. So I will slowly fix what is wrong and hope for the best…
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8:48 pm
December 7, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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Jeff @ Sustainable Life Blog said:
I wouldnt change what I write about – i'm a fairly boring person on a good day, so no one would want to read if I wrote about anything else. I'd probably handle a few things differently now though – like my transition to wordpress.
Me too. I would have made some technical changes and worked on building readership sooner but otherwise I have been pretty happy.
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