Posts Tagged ‘professional blogging’

I experimented with few things on this blog – I outsourced the blog to guest writers. With that, the blog’s Alexa Ranking and number of RSS subscribers have increased dramatically.

But I am not happy with that improvement. Here’s why:

I thought of writing about New Year’s Resolution for my first post of the New Year but I guess that is too late now. We’ve already kicked in the first month of the New Year. Instead, let me talk about the path that I want this blog to take. Let me make it clear, though, that the main theme of this blog will remain as is – productivity at work and home office. But I want to expand the scope of this blog into few things I am interested in.

If the reason why you are blogging is to establish an online identity, then you must register your unique domain name and sign up for a self-hosted account for your blog site. You must own the site as it will be identified with you – the blog is you, you are the blog. There is nothing wrong with the third-party free blogging platforms such as Wordpress.com and Blogger. One factor you need to consider is the professional look of your blog. The domain name has a lot to do with this.