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Maybe the title should be “successful blogging is not easy,” but we do need to cut down on words in a title.

As most of you know, blogging is not that easy to maintain. There  is so much to do in so little time and people can become overwhelmed with it. If maintaining a blog seems to stressful to you, I advise you don’t keep a blog.

First of all, you have to have the motivation to start a blog. You all should start a blog by the way, and if you are all newbies, I will write a small guide like everybody else does to get you started. Now mind you, this is the niche “blogging tips” which deals with tips for blogging, not starting a blog :). Some people start off thinking it will be hard to maintain a blog, which can be right, but also blogging continuously could be easy for them, and they miss out on their chance.

Once you have a domain, hosting, theme, and every other little piece to get that website off the ground, then you have to deal with content and promotion.

Content - content can be very hard to think of at times. The content you find and choose and write will develop your niche, or you will specifically have a niche in mind while starting the blog. Content can be the biggest trouble of some bloggers, especially if in a niche with not much to talk about.

Promotion - it doesn’t matter if “content is king” but the bottom line is you have to promote. There are many ways to promote your blog, such as blog commenting, guest posting, forum posting, advertising, contest sponsoring,  and social sites. Any of these work, and there are many more beyond. Some people get tired of promoting, but they have to keep going, just like they have to keep the content flowing.

The hardest part of it all, balancing time.

Balancing offline - Besides just balancing the time you have on the net, then you have to balance that in with other things you do in your day. If you have a day job offline, then you have to be at that and only have so much time to be working n your blog. If you are lugged around by your family all day, the same thing applies.

Balancing online - you also have to manage your time online, which can be just as difficult as offline. You do have to create a balance between writing and promoting, and we will count blog reading as promoting because essentially it is. You also have other things to do I’m assuming, and those of course take time. If you spend a lot of time on social networks you might have to give those up if you want to blog.

In the next few articles, I will talk about how you can manage and balance time, so stay tuned!

I was wondering when to post. They all have different effects on the post and writing style itself, and the traffic, the topic, all kinds of things. Sometimes it’s hard to think of what to write, and that may be at certain times of the day. It’s happened to me! So I was going to ask you guys another perspective of when to post. First let’s give a guideline so that you can make a good decision.

Morning (about wake-up to 11), on weekdays is eliminated because of school. But on the weekends it’s an option, why not? Usually I don’t write in the morning, and am tired, try to sleep, play a game, don’t go on the Internet that much, don’t have much inspiration.

Day (about 11-4), here again it is mostly eliminated due to school. I could write when I got home, at about 3:15-20, but I usually work on my homework then so as not to have any later. On a weekend, this is usually the time I play outside.

Evening (about 4-8-8:30). I didn’t mention this in the title, because 3 sounds better. (~And that just reminded me of a riddle: What is 4 in the morning, 2 in the day/evening, and 3 is 3 at night? See if yo can solve!~). So in the evening, on a weekday I am either still finishing up my homework or watching TV and having dinner etc… On a weekend I may be surfing the web a bit, but mostly I am doing ninja/Jedi training again etc…

Night (until I go to sleep). In the early part of this approx. 2 hour range, I will be FINISHING my homework if I am unfortunate enough to have so much to do. Then the web is mine! Practically all I do. This is my normal time for posting, looking for a job or whatever, anything over the Internet. At my dads it is not a very good place to post . (period). Sometimes I do manage to squeeze one in, but I’m not in the right state of mind. And guess what time it now? 9 something! I hope you got an overview to make a good decision!

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So! I hope I get an idea of when would be the best time if I’m not using it already. I know I keep talking about, “Oh, what can I do?” But I am just trying to get the opinion of the readers so I can make this blog a better place. I’ll hopefully see you tomorrow!

Yes. It’s true. Today I was sick. I had to stay home from school. I could not exactly walk. Blah blah blah. You do NOT want to know all the details. And guess what? It snowed today too. I can tell you about that.

While I was feeling in such bad shape I didn’t notice much. I had a nap and that really helped strengthen me. I went downstairs and at some point my dad said, “There is an early dismissal today.” And I was thinking, early dismissal? Why. I found out it was because of snow. At that point I suddenly wished I was at school then, but I thought of myself suffering in certain ways and knew my choice was right. All the day it snowed, I swept, (the snow) and at 6:00 we ended up going to the library to return 2 of the 4 star wars movies that I watched in 2 weeks. At this point the snow seemed dangerous, and it was, but we managed through it.

I don’t know why I was telling about all this gibberish. I want to be useful but right now I’m being a piece of junk. (Please don’t agree with me no matter how much it’s true)

Yes, now I am trying to get on the express, but that is different than just getting on the train . Now I want to make some money, but that will not be easy. Carlocab dot com has helped with this, but I still have to get through the crowd to the express. Do you guys have any other ideas? I have a few myself, but some additional thoughts would be nice too. I hope this will be successful! (since this was a post people waited for,  link to the ninja training). But before I completely go for a while I will explain my barriers. (1. I am a kidblogger more or less and don’t know how I can be payed. (I have to make the money first, though!). (2. There are so many ways I don’t know what to do. That’s why I asked for some advice. (3. I don’t have enough TIME! I’m telling you, I NEED that time thingy that lets me control it. And other than those there’s not much else.