Welcome back to Source Blogger. I want to thank each and every member of the Source Blogger community for their gracious support during 2009. We could not have done it without you! It has been a pleasure to become your friend and serve you.

2010 will be another exciting year for Source Blogger. Wait until you see what we have in store for you! You may not have the tendency to follow many blogs. Perhaps you feel that many blogs have a short shelf life and content can be inconsistent. We agree! Which is why Source Blogger was created. If you are new to Source Blogger, we want to help you become a more successful blogger. We’re determined to make this happen! So, at least consider becoming a new member of the growing, Source Blogger community, won’t you? Give us 30 days. We’ll gladly prove it to you.

For our final article of 2009, we’re going to leave you with the sobering: Why You Should Not Become A Blogger -The Truth About Blogging.

Source Blogger, wait, I thought you were encouraging and supportive of new bloggers? How long did you think we were going to read your blog and not be inspired to start putting your advice to good use?We appreciate the sentiment. And please don’t be fooled by the article’s title. Our goal is to try and prepare you for entering the blogosphere.

Unlike other sources online, who promise you vast sources of wealth and fame within days or weeks of launching a blog, we feel obligated to share with you the stark realities of what you will face as a new blogger.Source Blogger, this is not helping!

It will. relax. We feel that the more you are informed of what you will endure in your first year, the least of a likelihood you will become frustrated and abandon your blog.

A fresh, sexy WordPress theme can run you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars over its lifetime, considering the price many companies offer to support you in mobilizing these complex, attractive themes. Not to mention the price of hosting your blog.

The trend in blogging is towards cleaner, less obtrusive themes. Your goal here is to become a substitute for the online news reader. As both print media (newspaper, magazines) and their related online content struggles for viability, why not appear in a manner that is similar, in form, to theirs? Your blog is more than capable of becoming a “satisfying source of media, can’t it?” We have no doubt you could be just as competitive.

Like any business, a significant raising and deployment of capital is typically followed by a period of working to recapture the initial investment.

As a new blogger, can you accurately predict when you will recoup these initial costs? Of course not. Blogging is a new arena for you. Have you seen the stats? Even we were shocked to read that 80% of blogs were abandoned after their first 3 months!

If you are uncertain about how money bloggers make online, you must read this!  How Much Money Do Bloggers Make Blogging?

The adage, “you have to spend money to make money” is just as true in blogging. There are hundreds of advertisers online, all with varying degrees of reward. Conventional methods of marketing and promotion may not begin to yield any measurable methods for years.

As your blog increases in popularity, so does the responsibility to manage it. It’s that simple. Your blog is not a newsletter. You have a target market (hopefully) that you should be directing your contend towards.

Creating an online identity, branding your blog’s concept, and interacting with other bloggers and readers among numerous blogging communities and social media avenues, will cost you many days of lost sleep and time away from your family.

As you amass more and more blog followers, the demand for more concise, relevant, and dynamic content can be overwhelming. Blog traffic can be very critical of what you provide to them. Have you planned on writing hundreds, if not thousands of articles on your blog’s topic? ii.) Technical Problems

Difficult challenges will eventually arise. Many of these occurrences can cripple your blog and/or make it unavailable. From analyzing what went wrong, to finding the best outlet to receive the best answer on your unique problem, may take some serious time. Time that impacts your subscribers and present blog traffic. How are you going to handle this?

How will readers find your blog? Blog traffic is not based on a blog’s quality, it’s based on the effort a blog’s author makes in regards to both organic and inorganic strategies for driving traffic. You will be shocked at the number of followers other blogs in your category/niche have. Your blog is more attractive and has better content. But, how will you capture the audience you wish to deliver to your blog.

One method will be to drive organic traffic to your site via search engines. In order for this to happen, you have no choice but to convert your writing style in a fashion that appeals to Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Ask.

SEO is a complex science that requires a great deal of experimentation to perfect. And even then, results are not always guaranteed.

You can expect to blog in near obscurity in your first year. And after reading How Much Money Do Bloggers Make Blogging?, you know what to expect in regards to revenue.

It will take at least six to nine months before your blog articles are able to saturate into search engine results pages (SERPs) with any regularity.

Happy Blogging?!