Live positive way is a blog of mine (Jagan Krishnaraj), which is aimed at spreading some sort of positive message to people with its every post.
It Supports & Spreads a social cause - Green Living
It Supports Optimism in your lives- Positive Living
This blog LivePositiveWay.com has now became a community of positive people. It is a culmination of powerful positive force. In this post I wish to share how & why I started this blog & What inspires me to blog more.
Live Positive Way is a blog now became a brand. LivePositiveWay blog now (24 June 2012) has
5144 Facebook Fans
444,444 Page Views Till this date
Over 60,000 page views per Month
Over 900 Twitter Followers
Over 250 Feed burner email Subscribers.
Apart from these I receive many testimonials & appreciations from users through email
These numbers are not a joke, For those who are into blogging better knows the pain of getting one induced subscriber or reader to the blog. I spent countless number of hours to build these audience to the blog. There are plenty of resourceful bloggers out there who create beautiful content and still struggle to build audience, For those bloggers I'll share my road map how i built audience to this blog in my other tech Blog.
I wish to share to my audience of this blog, how and why i started blogging, What induced me to blog more.
The Spark
One fine day in the beginning of march 2011, I was happen to write a creative writing test, I scored on the top 20% out of 10,000 professional freelance writers online. It was a pleasant surprise.
Oh!!! Do I really have writing skills? I thought why should not I give it a try. So on my search to find something to write on... to test my skill, A beautiful dream which i had last night came into my mind. I thought to describe the dream i had in written words. I begun forming a imaginary story & characters to describe the 2 minute dream i felt.
I couldn't believe the power of my imagination. The 2 minute dream turned out into 21 page plot with 10,500 words. It took me 5 complete days to complete writing the plot.
I shared the story on Squidoo (At that time I don't own a blog). The plot i posted there in ranked 1700 out of 800,000+ lenses. The story was featured in squidoo home page for some days.
Now i wish to save the story in some safer place, so i saved in my mail labelled beloved. There was already plenty of mails flooding my inbox daily. So i wish to save and share the plot in a better area.
My First Blog
So I created my first Blog jagan2explore.blogspot.com. The blog is not very impressive, I can't create content to the blog on a regular basis. So my first blog was a failure.During the same month i got a chance to read all my mails labelled beloved. There was more than 30 in the list. I had a habit of reading self improvement books and i was a big fan of The Secret to Teen Power Book, so i usually collect all the mails that deliver some sort of positive message. I felt really happy in reading all those emails in one place. I thought it will be better if all the mails are available in one place. Those mails are collected over period of 12 months, I also had over 200 inspirational wallpapers which i usually have in my desktop background collected over a period of 12 months.
I thought to share those with the world. So my first real blog came into existance at the end of march.
live-positive.blogspot.com
I named it as Live-Positive because the blog is aimed at spreading positive message. I setup the blog, I converted every mail i had into posts, and uploaded all the wallpapers i collected over a period of time. The blog has exiting inspirational content that anyone love to read and share.
A month passed by, there has been no readers to my blog. Obviously the only genuine reader & Subscriber of my blog is myself. I Still happily continued the good work of sharing positive message through my blog because i love doing so. An other month passed by and my blog has 40 posts and still no big difference in readers and subscribers.
Building Audience.
Building audience to the blog is not at all an easy task. It requires long term commitment and hard work. I shared the technical secrets behind building audience to any blog in my tech blog, I created Facebook fan page to my blog, I usually share the posts of my blog on Facebook. day by day fans of my blog got increased and so is my interest and enthusiasm to blog more. My blog reached 500 fans on June 2011. My Happiness knew know bounds when i reached 500 people. People happily like, share & comment on the posts on my blog. People actually love the posts i create. My fan page reached 1000 fans at the end of July 2011. The fan base hit 5000 on may 2012. Facebook plays an important role in generating initial level readers on my blog. My subscriber count slowly increased day by day.
Is it worth for all the time being spent into blogging??
That was a million dollar question probably everyone have. Yes, it definitely is... I loved doing blogging, because it brings me happiness.
Apart from happiness, I..
- I had a voice
- I can establish an online presence.
- People really listen to my words.
- I can have a relationship with fellow like minded bloggers.
- I have the power at my finger tips to reach the world with my written words.
Apart from all these, People actually look back when it generate revenue. When all my time being spent will be converted to real cash.
So i decided to give it a try. I signed up for Google Ad-sense on August 2011 and started displaying ads on my blog. For the first 2 months there was no revenue at all.
At the time i was using default blogger template under blogger sub domain. It seemed very unprofessional. So i moved on to custom template with custom domain. I changed my blogspot URL to Custom domain www.livepositiveway.com & with custom theme. Live positive way blog got its exiting look on october 2011. I mentioned it the post Live Positive blog is Upgrading
I had a pleasant surprise & a worst shock when i performed this upgrade. The surprise is the amount of daily income through ads increased from nothing to something.
The worst shock is All the traffic to my blog got tremendously decreased. All the Facebook comments disappeared. All my countless hours of work to bring traffic to my blog wasted for nothing. But what i seen from the subsequent months is a magic.
My First Cheque From Google. Yaayh !!!
The pleasant surprise is traffic to my blog increased at an incredible rate than i couldn't imagine. With this traffic the daily earnings in my adsense account got increased from nothing to something, I got my first adsense cheque in the next 3 months.
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| Adsense Cheque |
Apart from earning potential, My blog can able to make with in 100 position in the indiblogger during April 2012 out of 2500 blogs from chennai.
In May 2012 my blog hit 43 place out 3000 blogs listed in the city. Many thanks for Indiblogger for recognizing my blog.
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| Indiblogger position |
Alexa global traffic Rank fell down within hundred thousand.
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| Alexa Statistics- Livepositiveway.com |
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Blogger Meet @Hyatt Regency |
After attending these meets I had come in contact with many real blogger who produce awesome content and who have real deep passion for blogging. After attending this blogger meet, it created an impact on me to create content rather than just sharing it. I will sit down many times with strongest hope to write content for this blog, but i don't know why most of the posts will always be in the drafts section. I hope to publish it all in the near future. Then i realized i have plentiful of technical skills that are worth to be shared. This inspired me to start a technical blog in the beginning of 2012, called TheProgrammersGuide.com, The tech blog is the culmination of entire technical knowledge i have, shared in the good will of helping fellow people. I reserved a dedicated section called Blogging Tutorials in my tech blog, where i share my knowledge about blogging. For those who need to know about the technical secrets behind achieving traffic to the any blog, You can find my experience here in my tech blog as RoadMap for increasing Traffic to your blog.
Apart from all these i receive sponsors from many organizations, They happily provide unique content to my blog, Send positive books, T Shirts, Promotional Materials etc. There are the things that inspires me to blog more.
Blogging which i started accidentally now had become full time hobby and passion. It has a purpose of good will. I take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to every reader of this blog. I will do it forever.
Lots of Love,
Jagan Krishnaraj
