Of course! The core strategy should honestly be the same—I recommend treating a personal blog like a business if you want to grow & monetize it, so all of these principles remain super relevant. Building backlinks will be a natural part of growing any blog… with a budget from an existing business though, you should be able to ramp up things like guest posting and building links.

Agreed! Good luck with your blog, Carola 🙂

It definitely takes time to find your rhythm, so don’t feel alone in that, Desmond! What you’re looking at today on my blog, is the culmination of years of work coming together that allows me to write & publish content at a pretty quick pace (and I have some help as far as writing/editing for much of my content along the way in my editorial process these days). Be patient and kind to yourself as you’re just getting things up and running with your blog—you’ll keep making progress if you continue to write & promote your work 🙂 Ultimately though, for a ~3,000 word article, that’s usually done over the course of a few days… totaling between 5-10 hours most of the time.

I thought I’d get started on a blog, so I jumped into getting a domain, but I’m now bombarded with so much information and getting overwhelmed… I may have made a decision too quickly just based on all these encouragements online. So I hope I could stick to it and go step by step.

Thanks, Jim! 🙏 good luck with your blog