The Dreaded First Post

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The Dreaded First Post

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Welcome to DUH Web Marketing Insight (duhwebmarketinginsight.com). This is a new blog which makes this – the proverbial “First Post”.

The first post of a blog can be difficult. Even if you start off breezing along, it’s common to quickly hit a speed bump. After I sat at my keyboard staring at my screen for a while waiting for words to come to me, I started wondering how other people handle the first post of a new blog. The answers I found were fairly interesting. Not only that, but it gave me something to write about. Let’s go!

I found a number of sources that say “Tell your visitors about yourself some more. Use your first post to share more info about yourself in addition to what you have in your ‘About’ page”.

Other people say – “No, no, that goes in the About page, not in your posts. If you want to share more about yourself you should make your About page longer by adding that information there”.

Well, to be honest, I think most people do what I did in the past on my little Blogger blog and my WordPress.com blog, which is to just jump right in as if they’ve been posting on that blog since the beginning of time. In all honesty, those blogs I mentioned were supposed to be about hobbies and just learning about blogging, but they had no focus and I didn’t stick with them or develop them into anything. Anyway, the “dive in and go” strategy is probably one of the easiest ways to start blogging. You just point yourself in the direction of your Blog’s topic or niche and start going. Then it’s just a question of persistence and how many posts per week fit into your schedule. But it’s still hard for a lot of people to start putting words on paper…or in this case on the screen.

One of the best tips I know is to write like you talk. When we speak with others, we don’t say perfect sentences. So you don’t have to make all your sentences on your post grammatically perfect. But if you feel you need some help in that area, you should check out Grammerly.com. I use the free version of Grammarly and it’s pretty helpful.

Besides, let’s be honest. Once a blog is established and has built up a list of posts, almost no one goes all the way back to the first post. Do you do that?

When this blog eventually has 20 or 30 posts, I doubt anyone will ever see this particular post again. It’s likely no one saw this post when this blog site had 4 or 5 posts. Heck, it could be that you are the only person on this planet to ever read this post.

I hope not.

As for those Blogger and Wordpess.com blogs…I guess they’re still out there. Maybe I’ll go check when I finish writing this.

So the thing to remember when you are starting a blog and having trouble coming up with the words for any of your posts in the beginning – you will get better at it if you persevere. But when you first start, it’s unlikely anyone is going to find you in the search engines, or stumble across your site by accident. Once you have enough content built up for the search engines to notice you, your material will be more polished and you’ll be a more proficient writer.

Before you go – don’t forget to check out Grammarly. And if you don’t have a blog yet, get one set up and start writing!

Do you already have a blog site? Tell us about it in the comments.

Thanks for stopping by.

‘Til next time,

This is Dave

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