Saving Your Best Articles for When Your Site Has Grown

Lately I’ve been thinking of some really good ideas for articles, researching them and then writing them down. The next minuet I’m thinking, is there any point in my posting this yet? Currently Profit Duck is still quite new and therefore I haven’t got a massive user base yet, and to me that means that my articles aren’t read as much as I would like them to be.

Start Strong, Stay Strong

It’s always been a big point when starting a blog; start off with a means to go on. This means that as soon as you start writing content for your blog, you should make it to your highest standards. This will in turn mean that people will see these posts and hopefully subscribe, leave some comments and most importantly, come back. I know this is important, as if you just post rubbish content, purely to rank high, then people who actually see your blog won’t be interested. But where is the line? What’s the point of posting up something which you feel is the best article you have ever written, when you know not many people are going to read it and it may even be stolen by a bigger site, making yours seem like a copy.

It’s a sticky situation, and one which has only popped into my head in the last half hour.

Start Weak and Grow

The other option is that you start producing articles which are good, but which are nowhere near as good as you know you can make them. This will then mean that once your site has gained a reputation, you have the opportunity to post some really great articles. Not only will this improve your reputation, but it will also make people think that you are improving your writing. Consequently this could also improve your websites image and therefore readership.

The problem? Starting not at your best, may not be good enough. Maybe your uniqueness is because of your great writing skills? Maybe it’s because you put 100% into your articles? If you get rid of this and only put some effort into each article, then readers may be less likely to come back. Most importantly, when you have made a bad impression on the internet, it never changes.

Write Interesting, Good Articles, but Not You’re Best Ones

This is where I think I’m settling into at the moment. I’m still putting all of my efforts into my articles, but I’m not writing the articles which I think are really great yet. I’m doing this for the reasons stated above, I really want my best work to be seen, if it goes to waste I will be a lot less confident in the future and this may harm the websites image overall. Therefore I’ve decided that I’m going to use my good ideas now, but save my great ideas for latter on. Don’t worry, they really are coming!

The Dilemma

Despite my decision, it’s still a major problem when creating a blog, because you really need to get everything right straight from the start. The impression you give a reader on the first view will most likely stay forever. As well as this, with the ever-changing way of the internet, first impressions are becoming more and more important. This is mainly down to Google bringing in ways people can rate websites, determining their position in search ranking and the presence of Twitter updates in searches. Both of these new features require people to have good impression in their mind out your website, as they will be the ones determining how often your website will feature in searches, and we all know how important Google searches are!

So really it’s all about whether you want to make a great impression straight away, or make a good when and then lead into making a good impression. In my personal opinion, I like the second way, as, as long as you don’t make a bad impression, you’re still on the right road.

Your Opinion

It would really be great to learn your opinions on this one.

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