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While you are busy blogging, there are times when you are bound to make changes in your blog. It is either you are too busy with your blog, or you are too busy with other areas of your life. You will start to make amendments to your blogging career as time goes by. This is so true to any business out there as well. While you may make promises to start a business at the beginning stage, somehow it always has changes along the way. Changes are good. It can mean changing to make more money, changing to do a better job next time, or changing to be more effective in time and effort.

The Huge Growth of New Bloggers
Along the path of blogging towards my fourth month, I see new bloggers coming in along. Some are blogging their way through their first month with lots of contents, and are missing in action in their second or third month. Some became stronger each day with a huge surge of traffic, probably because this isn’t their first time working out a blog that makes money. Some went on and on with the patience of blogging with almost no traffic coming in.. And because of traffic, we can make lots of changes along the way directly or indirectly with our blogs.

Quality of Contents Affected by Quantity?
The quality and quantity of contents can also make some changes in your blog frequency as well. Along my path of blogging, I saw many bloggers writing good contents only in their first month. Some copied and pasted other people’s quality contents, and published it as their own. Some simply make the effort to post quality posts on a routine basis. Some simply gone missing-in-action for a few days and post quality posts in between. Whatever the reason can be, I do hear people saying this phrase commonly “I would rather not publish any post if it is not of quality.” Whether it is of genuine case or not, they have at least a reason of defending themselves.

A topic of no topic
Sometimes, we wanted to write a post everyday. But we couldn’t think of a topic to write. At the end of the day, we talk about “What to post when you have nothing to talk about”. While it looks pretty professional that you know what you are writing, it surely gives me an idea that you had nothing to write about so you wrote about this.

To monetize or not
While we are blogging at the very initial stage, we often ponder whether to start monetizing our blog or not. Some simply go ahead with the monetization because it is going to be there anyway, hence there’s no reason not to make some money possibly. There are some who maintain their standing that they have to hit certain number of pageranks before monetizing it meaningfully. I even hear some saying they are not going to make money out of their Make-Money-Online blogs because of different reasons. Whether they are true or not, or whether they succeed or failed in their initial monetization strategy which caused them to do such thing, they are always right in their own blog anyway.

Face-Lift Trend
This recent, I saw many probloggers having the trend of doing face-lifting for their blogs. Cashquests.com, JohnCow.com, JohnChow.com, Problogger.net, Shoemoney.com, etc. And now, the infamous mystic theme for wordpress is now being “abandoned” by the probloggers. The trend now is with Nate Whitehill and his famous unique blog themes. People seem to be rushing their way to him for blog-face changes.

Conclusion
No matter where you stand, I think it is all to do with standing by what you are doing, and make your blogging career a much smoother one. I was facing lots of “barriers” along the way. Barriers of using WordPress for the first time in June 2007, barriers of writing what kind of contents, barriers of what social bookmarking is, barriers of understanding the blogging culture, barriers of blending my way into the bloggers’ community, and many other barriers etc…

By the way, I admit that I also wrote a post about “What to write when you have nothing to blog about” too!