Exclusive Community of 19,000 Mom Bloggers

If I could start my blog all over again I would....

What would you differently if you could start your blog all over again?

- register a domain name?
- hire a designer?
- not blog about my family?

What would you do differently?

1 member likes this

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Caroline Lewis on October 25, 2009 at 10:22pm

I would have focused my topic more . . . my blog tends to cover the spectrum of everything from news and politics to religion to motherhood . . . horrible way to gain an audience when you don't have a target audience!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Smitten by Britain on October 30, 2009 at 9:01pm

Probably start on WordPress but I love Blogger so much now I don't want to leave.

Melissa
www.smittenbybritain.com

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Rachel Miller on November 4, 2009 at 11:20am

Pick a layout that is easier to adapt. Research SEO and put myself on a time limit!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Shelly Martin on November 7, 2009 at 1:16pm

get paid - http://www.77survey.com

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Anastasia Borisyuk on November 19, 2009 at 5:21pm

Wish I bought my domain name right away! Oh, and it would have been nice to spare my readers the pain of seeing an ongoing blog redesign, I still don't like how it looks and am finally thinking of hiring a designer!

www.eco-babyz.com

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jenny on November 30, 2009 at 12:22pm

If I was starting my blog over again, I'd make it a small photo blog. I just don't have an exciting enough life to post about much lately. Photos say more then I could right now.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jessica Rummer on December 2, 2009 at 12:46am

If I could start my blog all over, I would write daily & hire someone to make a design for my blog (But moneys not there). Tho I would love to learn how to make them myself. & of course join blogging networks alot sooner.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Erin Tales on December 4, 2009 at 1:14am

I would have started with Wordpress. Moving over was a pain and I lost my comments. There was some glitch that just wouldnt move them. Sad.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Angie on January 6, 2010 at 2:36pm

I just started my blogging life all over again. I had a blog that was private and I sent out to all my friends. It had over 300 posts. I changed my focus, and then contributed another 50. I lost those 50 posts when I tried to archive my blog. I just feel awful about it! I wish I had some of those posts back :(

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by wendiwinn on January 6, 2010 at 7:39pm

i would have started out writing longer titles. instead of one word post titles. dern my need to be simple. i must embrace my high-maintainability...

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Danielle @ Hello Owl on January 7, 2010 at 1:57am

I'm not sure I'd do anything differently. Maybe register a domain name and make it a bit similar for people to find me. use spell check more would be a good one and the spacing of the paragraphs :p

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by This Mama Works It! on January 14, 2010 at 7:54pm

I just started my blog about 3 weeks ago and I did a ton of research before I jumped into the blogging world. But I think if I had to start over I would have started off with WP. I started with blogger then decided I hated it and went to WP. I got real caught up in the technical stuff which got very frustrating.