Happy New Year!

I know it’s a bit late, but better late then never.

I know new year was like 6 days ago, but thought I’d just make a post to wish everyone a happy new year.

I hope everyone had a great holiday and of course a fantastic new year.  I for sure enjoyed the new year and saw lots and lots of fireworks cracking in the sky. Did you do any crazy things on new year? Or was it just a boring day?

Anyway here we are in 2010.

Looking back at 2009 I had great times and especially loved to see that I have progressed with this blog.

I mostly like to look back on last year to and take a little moment to reflect back on 2009 and see if 2009 was considered a success or failure. If you didn’t accomplish your goals now is the time to set your new years resolution and work towards it.

A look back at 2009

I personally think 2009 was not too bad, as we all know this blog was launched on the 1st of September, so it makes this blog a a bit older then 4 months old. In these 4 months I’ve tried to set some goals and work towards these goals, although I did suffer a few setbacks, I’d like to think positivly and think about the things I’ve accomplished.

Build Relationships- One of my main goals was to go out in the blogging world and try to get to know as many people as possible and although at first things didn’t go my way I tried harder and tryed to build relationships and network with other bloggers and people. I’ve came to know about lots of different kind of bloggers and people. We all know that it takes time to build contacts if you’ve just launched a new blog, but untill you start getting more popular over time, you will need to put effort to try networking and contacting other blog owners and people. A good and effective way to do this is by leaving comments and doing link exchanges with other related blogs. Participating on forums is also a good way.

Knowlegde is Power- I’ve been reading and researching a lot of things and have been able to expand my knowlegde about certain topics. By reading other blogs, not only do I read because I enjoy, but I also read to expand my knowlegde, it’s like doing your homework, but instead of hating it you enjoy it. By reading other blogs, It has become much more easier to write about some topics. There’s also some topics I can write about without researching anymore which makes life much more easier.

Build Backlinks- I think building backlinks are a very importent aspect of developing  a blog as the more backlinks you have the more higher you will rank and the more traffic you will get. Over the past 4 months I think I’ve done a decent job on building back links and have been spending most of the time building backlinks for about 1 or 2 hours a day. I now just need to continue building back links and then I think it’s just a matter of time before your blog will climb up in the search engines, Alexa rank wil rise and of course your blog will get a high pagerank.

These where the main goals for me and as you can see money is not really a goal I focused on. What I actually did was set some personal targets that were realistic and achievable, because I don’t see the point of setting really high targets that are  unreachable. I like to take baby steps and work myself to a higher level.

Another point I focused on was traffic, but I decided to skip this part as getting traffic is every bloggers goal.

Get ready for 2010 and start setting your goals.

So then how did your blog do in 2009? Any milestones? What are your goals for 2010?

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Merry Christmas everyone.

I hope everyone had a great christmas and enjoyed every part of it.

I actually myself had a nice christmas, although we had some problems cooking the turkey, christmas still ended up being fun as after a very long time we were able to celebrate Christmas as a family. Now then long story short, I woke up at 12 o’clock, yes I know it’s a bit late on a beutiful christmas day, but I was very tired and in need of sleep.  After I woke up we all decided to open the presents and to my surprise I received more then I expected.

To be more exact I received a £ 50 note from my parents and I also got a £ 50 Amazon gift card, my grand parents bought me a new Ipod Touch and a £ 25 note and £ 200 to buy new clothes. I know grand parents love to spoil their grand children.

Anyway the main thing was we all were happy. After opening all the presents we watched Hancock and Ironman as these movies were the Christmas special that were shown on TV.

After the movies we started to cook turkey and that was a bit of a funny and pain in the ass experience. Well, the problem was that we lost the turkey, I know it sounds to stupid to be true, but someone thought it was funny to hide the turkey and the silly thing is that we still dont know who did this. After a lot of time we finally found the turkey.  So we got back to cooking the turkey.  Anyway the other problem was that the oven stopped working. Thank god we were able to fix the oven and still enjoy the turkey.

Further, I hope everyone enjoyed Christmas.

Let me know how your Christmas day was and which gifts you received?

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While visiting some blogs yesterday, it made me think why most bloggers start a blog? Although it may seem quite logical why most bloggers start blogging, I would still like to tell you guys why I and most of you started blogging?

Money-Blogging is  lucrative and offers a way to make some cash.

Fun-Blogging is fun as you can express your opinions, and the fact that you could make some extra cash makes it even more fun.

Interaction-I love surfing the internet and the chance getting to know different kind of people from different places interests me. Getting regular readers to my blog also makes me feel good.

Challenging-For me blogging is a challenge and makes me put my mind to something useful. It also makes me strive to be successful and  keeps me motivated.

These are my main reasons why I blog. All these reasons combined make me blog. Every person has different needs and reasons to blog. Some people only blog for the money, while others do it for fun. As all these reasons are different I will go into more detail .

Blogging For Cash

Oh yehe…The ultimate reason to blog. Now I’m not going to lie to every one of you, the main reason why I started to blog was because I saw that blogging was a good and steadily increasing business with a lot of potential. After reading other successful blogs time after time I decided to start one myself. Inspired by the fact some blogger´s were making some good money.

Although I don’t only think about making money with this blog, it is still a important part of blogging and definitely one of my long term goals I’ve  set for this blog.

Making money online with a blog can be a tough and long journey, but if you try and work hard it can make your job easier.

I know for a fact that every blogger would love to make a extra income from blogging, right? Would you still blog if there wasn’t any money to be made blogging? I know most bloggers would say no, but there are a few who blog purely for fun.

Blogging for fun

Ok, I admit I wasn’t the brightest student in the class when it came to writing, in fact I still ain’t, but that doesn´t stop me to enjoy blogging. Anyway, enough about my brightness, lets continue.

The thing I love about blogging is that I can get away from reality and just start blogging, it’s as if blogging opens a whole new world to me. You can express yourself and publish your thoughts. You can write about anything you want. There´s no limit on how much you can write, or what topic you can write. It’s complete freedom.

Another thing why I like blogging for fun is that other people get to read your blog and to be honest I like it when other people read my blog and give their opinion on the situation, because it gives me the energy and drive to continue blogging.

Blogging for your readers

Before I started to blog, I used to read a lot of other blogs and one question that I coudn’t figure out was

Why bloggers considered readers so important?

Well, now that I’ve been blogging for some time now, this has to be 1 of my main reasons to blog. I absolute love it when readers come over to my blog just to see what I have to say, Eventually if they like your blog they will be reading your blog almost on a daily base, just to see what you´ve written on your blog.

To be honest, the first thing I do when I wake up In the morning is switch on my laptop and look if I have any comments on my blog. Getting comments on my blog makes me feel happy, because it shows that readers also have something to say. I understand that everyone loves to get positive comments, but sometimes you will get negative comments as well, don´t get angry when you get negative comments just take it as a critic and try to improve. At the end of the day you will get negative comments or positive comments, but at least you will know that people have read your post.

Seeing my readers go up every week, inspires me to write even more posts. It simply means people like your blog and are willing to read it every day. They become your loyal reader´s no matter what.

What I also tend to do when waking up is checking my Google analytics. By checking this I get to see all the traffic my blog is receiving. I also get to see where my readers come from and which country´s my audience comes from.

Blogging is challenging

Yes, blogging is a big challenge for me. Some of you must be wondering why the heck would blogging be a challenge as there’s nothing adventures about it?

Well, before starting this blog I had already written my goals and what I wanted to achieve with this blog. By writing my long term goals for this blog I personally made a commitment to make this a successful blog.

By achieving my goals for this blog makes it an interesting challenge as I can see what I am capable of achieving. Seeing this blog progress every day, makes me feel as if I’m one step closer to achieving my goals.

After completing a goal I always set my goal even higher than my previous goal.

As I believe there´s always room for improvement. By aiming for high standards you will get a habit to always aim high in life.

The bigger the challenge, the more you will achieve.

So what were your reasons to blog? Did you achieve your goals? What keeps you still blogging?

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Since I’ve started blogging, I have seen many young successful blogger teens.

Some are earning $200 and others are exceeding the $500 mark. When you see these successful young bloggers, don’t you want to be in the same position?

My opinion is that, if you start earning money at an early stage of your life, you will be in a very good position to kick start your life as an adult, because you will be earning a income, you will be able to take care of yourself. As teenagers are curious and always learn quicker than adults I think teenagers have a good chance of being successful at a young age.

Think about it guys, wouldn’t you like to earn a nice income at a young age? Imagine how it will make your life easier?

I have compiled a few of my theories on why you should start blogging for bucks at a young age.

1. Personal Spending

Because your earning your own money you can decide for yourself when, where and what your going to spend your money on. No more asking for pocket money, no more borrowing money. You’re earning yourself a nice income and have complete control. You start becoming more independent and most important, you stop bugging your parents for money.

 2. Teenagers Have All the Time in the World

Fine, I’ve maybe over said this, but teenagers do have a lot of free time, besides doing homework and playing video games. We normally go school and come back around 3 or 4 o clock and then we have lots of free time.  Adults go to work at 9 and come back at 5 or 6 in the evening.

Well it says it all adults have difficulty making free time as they come back from work all tired and exhausted… And yes yes I know that we also get tired and bored when we are at school and if your similar to me you probably hate going to school and waking up early in the morning, In fact talking about school makes me tired already, so lets drop this subject. So in the free time why not try blogging for bucks instead of playing games the whole day?

Prioritize your important things.

 3. Be a Proud Teenage Superstar

Ok, before you start asking what I mean with this, let’s just get to the point. If you’re earning good money from blogging I guess you’ll be proud of yourself right? You’ll probably be ecstatic every time you see your pay check. Imagine how proud your parents will feel. Also if your friends and family know this to, they’ll find it very impressive and will respect you as well.

4. You Gain Experience

One thing nobody ever can take away from you is your experience and knowledge. Once you start blogging you can gain experience. You prepare yourself for the real world, especially with this global recession taking place. You gain experience by making mistakes and learning from those mistakes. When you go for a job interview what is the first thing they ask? Yep, you guessed it right, they ask you for your qualification and your experience.  Now I don’t expect you to put business blogging on your CV if your earning around $200 per month, but if your earning a 4 figure income every month it should be worth putting down.

The more experience you have in life the better it will be.

These are the points I consider to be important. There are of course many more reasons, so if you have any, let me know.

So my final advice is that you should start blogging as soon as possible. What do you gain by blogging? Just comment below.

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