Categories: Blogging

This post is my contribution to Problogger’s Group Writing Project, where readers are asked what they would to if they could start their blogs all over again. If you want to join in on the fun, click here. As for me, I’m pretty satisfied with my blog as it is, but if I told you I had no regrets, I’d be lying. Here’s what I would do if I could borrow Doc’s ride.

1. Get my own domain – I first stared blogging as a hobby, but if I knew what a big part of my life it would become, I would have gotten my own domain. Blogger is fine, and has few problems, but when they occur, they are very inconvenient. And I don’t want to start now, as I’ve invested too much time in this blog to start from scratch.

2. Use a picture hosting service – I usually host my images on Blogger, but I realize that Google doesn’t seem to include them in its image search, and that brings lots of traffic. And Photobucket wouldn’t help, as I post an image on most of my posts, and that would exceed Photobucket’s bandwidth easily.

3. Use Bloglines sooner – I use Bloglines to keep in touch with my favourite blogs. I would have used it sooner so that I could maintain relationships with my readers and their blogs. As my blog became more popular, I found that I couldn’t keep track of commenters and their blogs the old fashioned way (by remembering the URLs). As a result, I have lost a few of my readers.

4. Read Problogger sooner – Yeah, it kinda sounds like I’m sucking up, but if I did, I would have known the tips and tricks that I know sooner, and it might have advanced my blog further in the blogosphere.

That’s it. I don’t have much regrets. My blog is ok as it is. Not perfect, but ok.