What is Your Greatest Struggle Online?
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I remember the days when I was first beginning how to blog effectively. In those days, I was constantly searching for solutions to problems that I was facing or ideas to improve my overall success. But as I look back, I realize now that my challenges then were very much different than they are today.
But as I continue to grow and move forward, I don’t want to forget the struggles that I faced because it’s those people who are at that stage in their own blogging journey that I want to help the most. My goal is help bloggers take themselves to the next level in their online journey. I want to help people accomplish their goals whether that includes making money, connecting with people, building readers, or helping others.
I’m enjoying my growth through the blogosphere but it’s not enough for me. I want to bring you with me.
Today I’m asking you to help me as I try to help you. Share with me what your greatest struggles are right now. Tell me what questions you have and what obstacles you’re working to overcome.
I’ve already overcome many of the set backs that hinder new bloggers and now I’m at war with mediocrity. In other words, I have a passion to help you be the absolute best that you can be.
As I continue to develop articles and content for this site, what would you like too see included? Is there a tutorial, some advice, some references or anything else that you would like to hear? What article would you like to see posted on this site next week? What topic would you like covered?
Nicholas Cardot
Nick uses his blog Site Sketch 101 to express his passion for helping bloggers and webmasters connect with real people through brilliant designs, unique content, and genuine creativity. Nicholas Cardot has 198 post(s) at Site Sketch 101
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Liane said:
My greatest stuggle has always been to strike a balance. I’m not yet working but school can be twice as tough (talk about midterms and finals). Other than that, blogging has been the best thing I’ve ever had… so far
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King Sidharth in Meditation said:
Hey Liane!
Yea that’s so true. I mean I can hardly keep up with highschool, god knows what will happen when finals are on my head.
Effective Time Management for bloggers????
Liane said:
Wait till you get to college. The pressure’s harder when it means getting a diploma.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
King Sidharth in Meditation –> I’m probably going to do a whole week of Time Management issues. It seems like a lot of people deal with that issue.
King Sidharth in Meditation said:
Please Do! Lemme know if you need real stories to give as an example I’ve many.
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chandan said:
My greatest strugle is I am not able to build lots of link, for which I am not getting much search engine traffic. My aim is to bring my blog on top for keyword “work at home jobs”, I do not know how much backlink I have to build for bring my blog top ten.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
chandan –> I’ll be sure to put some material together on this subject.
King Sidharth in Meditation said:
My biggest problem is marketing to right people. Being a student I don’t have huge budgets. I rarely have a budget, free marketing anyone?
Secondly, making the readers comment, interact and stay. How about that? How should I do that?
Third, Creating a ‘responsive’ community, I reply to every comment and still don’t get many.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
King Sidharth in Meditation –> Those are all big things that I dealt with when I was starting out. I’ll be sure to get something up for you.
Blog Handbook said:
My biggest problem is just the same as the prementioned ones. I work normal 8 hour days and then I blog at night.
Better time management might help, but there is so much to do that you simply need all the time you have. Prioritizing could probably help.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Blog Handbook –> I feel your pain. As you know, I’m in the same situation. I’ll be sure to work out some good advice on this subject. I’ve got some good stuff planned on this topic.
Lee Ka Hoong said:
The greatest struggle online of mine will be lack of time spent on blogging, as I’m a part time student (in Construction field), a full time worker (in Construction company) and a part time blogger. I used to have only 3-5 hours online a day to manage my blog and other of my websites, I hope I can have more time for them.
Time management is what I like to learn and need to find out a solution for a busy people like me.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Lee Ka Hoong –> Time management seems to be one of the major issues that many people seem to be dealing with in terms of their online goals. I think that I’ll be able to help you out on that.
Lee Ka Hoong said:
Oh really?? Any suggestion that you would like to give me based on my situation? I used to do my blogging thingy till late night and sometimes I have little outcome. Everyday, I’ll set only a task for myself since I’ve limited time online, if the task can’t be completed in a day and I’ll spend 2 days time. In this way, I’ll need to take few days to complete complicated task.
Do you have any suggestion for me Nicholas? Appreciate it!
Cheers,
Lee
Dana @ Online Knowledge said:
My greatest struggle is to optimize social bookmark to gain traffic. I do not know how to do it yet.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Dana @ Online Knowledge –> You mean like Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon and other similar sites, right?
Deepika said:
I struggled for traffic and choosing next topic for the blog… As i am not doing marketing i am free from that. But getting traffic to the site is the toughest job.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Deepika –> Traffic is tough. I know a lot of people who really struggle with the traffic issue.
Mary E. Ulrich said:
My biggest struggle is to try and figure things out on my own. I’m 60, not 16. I’m not a “digital native.”
I don’t have a coworker or group of friends to talk about which sites, information, how to…
Nicholas, that is why I like your site. You seem to have an intuitive way of explaining things. Keep up the great work.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Mary E. Ulrich –> One thing that you need to do is add me to your Google Talk friend list at holas84 or to your skype friend list at NCardot. Then whenever you have a question about something just hit me up and I’ll explain it to you. Then you’ve instantly got a friend who can help explain things.
Mary E. Ulrich said:
Thanks Nicholas, but I don’t know what Google Talk is, and don’t have Skype. Geez, am I pitiful or what?
Nicholas Cardot said:
Go login to your Gmail account. You should find a chat section in the lower left portion. I just sent you an invite to allow me to chat with you. Click the approve button and then we can chat directly.
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Chad said:
My biggest challenge is simply having the time to dedicate that I know is required to be successful. I wish there was an easy solution, but we all know there is now.
I’m a student of GTD and other productivity/organizational methods, and that helps. But, it’s more just the idea of not having enough hours in the day.
Aside from that, it would be nice to get some Adsense Clicks.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Chad –> Those are all great ideas to discuss: Making the most of the time we have and directing users towards advertisments.
Jim Clary said:
Looking at the comments here tell me that most people, including myself, seem to have a hard time juggling life and blogging.
I never seem to have the time for both. I think this would be a great series of articles on solving this problem.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Jim Clary –> Yeah. Me too. I think that people could be really helped with a series on that.
Eric B. said:
Like some other people have mentioned, I sometimes find it difficult to balance my time between school-related stuff and blogging. Sometimes, it’s only possible to get one of those two things done.
Except, you can’t really finish blogging. After you’re done with one thing, there’s always a bit more that you can do.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Eric B. –> That’s true. But you can finish your daily tasks for a blog if you have goals and tasks set ahead of time.
Glen said:
Greatest struggles and questions (at the moment)
-continuing to write when few people are reading
-I have a .ca domain name. I can purchase the .com domain. Should I do that.
-how can I use Twitter and/or Facebook effectively to drive traffic to my blog.
-are having links listed on a page or sidebar something I should do or is it better to link in some other format
-it will sound silly but I really would like tips on how to interview people.
-should I have another blog to separate my personal thoughts from the stories I tell
-I write stories. I struggle with telling them as me, as a real person, or as a character, which can be any man.
Posting as a character( no actual photo of me) lets people who read the stories imagine me as anything they wish.
Posting as me (the person) would allow me to do video or audio recordings of the stories.
Auuugggghhh…
Anyways, thanks for the article. It made me think..And write,ha,ha..
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Glen –> Those are all great questions and issues that many people face. Thanks for bringing them up here.
Anthony said:
My greatest struggle at the moment is with Twitter – im not sure the time I put into the site is really worth it
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Anthony –> I really felt that way a lot at the beginning. It was actually your comment here that made me post the article that I just posted today. I hope that it’s helpful.
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izzat aziz said:
my struggle for now is i don’t what should i concentrate on.. I currently do design here and there for wordpress themes.. and also busy with my new project.. hence i have no time to update it.. but i do read your post before about how to balance thing, my life is not a problem.. my desire is my problem.. i have so many thing to do at so little space of time, hope you can help more about this topic as an extra to your previous post about the same thing.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
izzat aziz –> I sure will. I really think that I’m going to focus an entire week on time management as it relates to building an online presence.
Walter said:
I’m hoping you could share the best affiliates to use on a blog and how to use them. This is my greatest concern as of the moment.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Walter –> I get that question a lot and I definitely want to help all of you make as much as possible online while still adding value to your readers and followers so I’ll definitely see what I can come up with on this for you.
ecommerce software said:
My struggle is to get my site top the search engine with the targeted keywords. I have a tight budget so i want to use the free ways, which i know it will involve spending more time and as you know time constraint is a factor itself!
Nicholas Cardot said:
ecommerce software –> SEO isn’t something that comes overnight and there are a lot of misconceptions about SEO. I’ll be sure to focus on this more in the near future.
scheng1 said:
I’m a computer idiot, so my greatest struggle is at the very beginning when I dont know how to add gadgets!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
scheng1 –> There’s certainly a learning curve when you dive into something new, but the best way to overcome that is to read and to stick with it.
Ron Leyba said:
Greatest struggle is to balance personal blogging, business blogging and corporate blogging. Its just, I dunno what should i do or what comes first.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Ron Leyba –> Combine them all into one blog and rally around a common topic.
John Samuel said:
Nicholas. Great to see such a post. Though I have somewhere around 150 articles in my site and my alexa rank is ~100,000. But traffic to my site is quite low. And it is more than a year that I started blogging in the domain I am using to write this comment
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Keith @ Business3.0 said:
Again with time management, I work full time, have an online store with a blog, plus I just started a new blog. I write down a new task list almost daily transferring tasks that haven’t been completed (yes I still use pen and paper!) and seem to have problems actually completing tasks before moving on to another. Sometimes this is due to my tasks actually having more than one task involved in completing it….
My attention Deficit Disorder might be part of the problem too!
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Anthony V. Gibby said:
Well lets see, my struggle is providing content. I’m loving the entire blog movement, however I’m finding it hard for my self to provide some quality content. I have a general idea of what it stems from, my lack of reading and writing while I was growing up. The two was just not me. I have been a audio/visual person my entire life, and now I’m suppose to start writing. But not only write, write quality content. So thats my struggle, however I am determined to not give up. I just signed up Posterous.com, so I’m using it as a means to help my situation. I’m trying to update there daily, to get into the habit of posting, since my post really don’t have to be of real quality or a specific topic.
Anthony V. Gibby
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Self Improvement said:
I felt as if I was struggling before coming onto this blog, but now I feel as if anything is possible. I saw your success and it inspires me. I’m sure the same goes for many of your other readers. Thanks so much!
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Anthony V. Gibby said:
I can to the realization that another problem I had with entire blog/website is one simple thing. I never planned! I think I’m going to fail my blog and start over. New domain name, new content, and a strategy. But I’ll continue to keep my posterous because I get to post “ME”.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Anthony V. Gibby » That might be a great way to grab a fresh start. Sometimes that’s what it takes to hit it big. Just start fresh and move forward with your new level of knowledge on blogging. Best of luck.
Derek Jensen said:
Nick,
You know of course that I refocused my blog on providing life tips for college students. Well there are many students that don’t feel like leaving a comment because they see it as pointless.
For instance some of my friends will tell me their comment to my face and I would be like you should post that underneath that specific post to allow others to think about what you just said to me. But, they don’t.
So I would like to know how to attract a ‘picky’ audience to comment and participate in group discussion?
Julius Kuhn-Regnier said:
Hey Nick nice post
My greatest struggle was how to get people to comment on my blog and also how to grow traffic. But I think now I have managed these issues.
To get people to comment more for example is pretty easy. You simply have to be genuinely interested in building a relationship with them.
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Jan Kasal said:
Nicholas,
Before I start reading, I have one comment. Your posts are not dated. Is there a reason? I guess the date from discussion.