The Most Important Lesson I Have Learned As A Blogger (So Far...)

For many years I had wanted to blog, and I dreamed how it would turn out. I had a number of topics which I felt reasonably comfortable with handling. After many attempts at starting I achieved this dream in 2013. I have not looked back since.

The result of my persistence is naijaGRAPHITTI - a blog about CREATIVITY and INNOVATION.

naijaGRAPHITTI's evolving mission is to promote a culture of enabling CREATIVITY and INNOVATION in private and public spheres in Nigeria, empower individuals, organizations and public institutions with information and knowledge that will increase their capacity to CREATE and INNOVATE. This blog will deal with the subjects of CREATIVITY and INNOVATION in an engaging and exciting manner until creativity and innovation become more exciting than gossip and scandal in the Nigeria learning space!

NOW HERE IS WHAT I LEARNED

I found out while studying other blogs that my own blog was not search engine optimised, BECAUSE I WAS WORD PROCESSING MY POSTS BEFORE PUBLISHING THEM ONLINE. I would type out my thoughs in MS Word and then copy and paste the write-up in the fresh page of a new post; I had done about 30 posts in this way.

To my greatest surprise whenever I GOOGLED blogs on creativity and innovation, my blog would not come up. It was only my promotional mail to some friends and colleagues that actually advertised the postings.

Until this morning when I discovered that if I do not post directly on the blog post page, my blog post would not be validated and thus cannot be optimised by any search engine.

HERE IS THE LESSON.

Whatever you wish to do, and make impact, LEARN ALL YOU CAN ABOUT THIS AREA AND KEEP ON LEARNING . . .

ACTION STEPS.

This is the first post I am typing directly into the blog post to see if I have learned correctly.

LET US SEE. . .!!!

P.S.

IT WORKED - I FOUND OUT TODAY MONDAY 24TH FEBRUARY 2014

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

1. Always type you posts directly into the post page for validation of your posts.
2. When you like to write in manuscript fashion like I do, then use your MSS to input your posts by typing rather than copying and pasting.
3. Search engines depend on keywords when the engine bots are crawling through the internet. My own keywords include CREATIVITY and INNOVATION. I will be using them very liberally from this point forward.
4. Even though you have followed all the above the steps, your blog would take some time to be discovered. Use other methods to promote while you wait.
5. Do not fear to fail and try again.