I’m finally starting my blog!

The best tip I've heard for blogging is to blog on your own platform, then cross-post it to a big platform - a site like DEV and Medium - stating that it was originally posted on your platform.

Good luck!

One tip from my side: Be consistent in writing and publishing blog posts. As per my experience, it's one of the toughest tasks after starting the blog.

It all depends on your goals, if you're writing as a creative outlet then just write about what interests you. If you're looking to use it to grow your business, I recommend us 😉 https://contentkoala.com we cover it all for you for a pretty reasonable fee.

A good tip is to not over-thinking things for a personal blog. The more authentic you are, the more digest your blog will be.

The best way I found to stay authentic enough and maintaining a steep learning curve while still providing value for readers is to adopt the "Digital Garden" concept.

I've just launched my blog (eldigitalplayground.com) which I consider like a walled off digital playground where I learn in public. What does that mean in concrete terms? Well, I write unfinished pieces and build them up to larger more edited pieces, in public. You can literally access to my drafts and see me writing in live.

Publish unpolished and uncompleted posts is a way for me to post more and get direct feedbacks & help while I'm writing.

I just started blogging two months ago on my personal website and I found that blogging consistently was most difficult for me. Two pieces of advice that has helped me, especially for starting off:

• set aside time to focus on your blog instead of waiting for the motivation to come to you. This helps you be more consistent, which is important in your early days.
• force yourself to come up with 3 blog post ideas a day. Doesn't matter how bad they are, just getting in the habit of thinking about writing will make idea generation easier as time passes.

Good luck!

Hey friend, thanks for sharing your milestone. I'm in that limbo of still figuring out if my writing has enough value before taking writing "seriously" (whatever that means). Super encouraging to see fellows like you facing the same difficulties I am now, and taking the jump to launch. Good luck and I'll be on the lookout for when your first post goes life :)

P.S. would love to read about

• negotiating salaries for your first full-time position (currently a junior and thinking ahead about my career)
• balancing side projects with full-time obligations
• finding the channels that work best for your content/audience

Write it in your own platform usually through WordPress, most commonly used, and then share it through other big platforms like Medium, Twitter, Facebook, etc., etc..

Now a these days you have to share to other platforms, it's not enough to just write it and hope the audience comes to read it.

Content usually needs to have a word count of 1,000 or longer to rank for SEO.

Rank for some of the keywords you are targeting so people know what they are searching for.

I recommend the starting guides from Backlinko, Ahrefs, and Moz. In no order am I recommending them, you can go to each site and check out their guides. It's pretty helpful

I remember someone posting a case study of writing 1 blog post a day and that got a large audience organically but eventually for each blog that he has written not many people were reading it due to his fast posting so eventually he posted one week consistently and has gotten a lot of viewers since they have the time to digest and process the information.

I would say 1) Don't overthink it. Pick a route you'd like to use, Medium, Dev.to, or managed by you: Next.JS + Prismic is a great example 2) Don't be a perfectionist, simple start writing and see where it goes 3) Give yourself grace with your timeline, blogging should be fun

Hi @yehuda,

Here's my two cents on starting a blog.

Don't give up too soon!!! Put some work in and give it some time.

We helped many people to start a blog at https://firstsiteguide.com/ but we see many people give up after one year.

P.S. Yeah, and depends on your goals I would say try to pick the right niche for your blog.

Good luck!

All the best

Starting a blog is a great idea! I launched my blog yesterday (https://jessesibley.com) and I'm really enjoying the feedback.

I'd be interested in reading about workflows for development & marketing products.

I'm not that experienced with blogging (hoping to change that) but people have told me to be consistent and let your blogging be a side effect of things you're already learning or thinking about.

That way you'll always have something to write about and writing about certain topics may help you to understand them better.

Well, good start. I use hashnode.com, they have custom domain option. On a related note, I am working on a blogging research tool, https://writethatup.com which can help your generate blog outline, even draft content. I can give you free access in exchange for feedback if you are interested.

I started a month ago and I think it's the best thing you can do as an IndieHacker.

I use Webflow, I highly recommended it! I followed others' advice to publish on my own website. I didn't find any advantage or using Medium, I managed to drive more traffic to my website. And by using Webflow I can really focus on the content and nothing else.

My blog is minimalist but Webflow is powerful and you can create fancy designs if you'd like

Blog about what interests you, things that you can provide extra value to the reader, put a twist in it, make it interesting.

i've been blogging publicly for 19+ years, every single day.

so, i have thoughts: https://john.do/today/