LIFE-CYCLE OF A BLOG !

Creating a blog is one thing but continuously improving it and turning it into a money making machine is something completely different. If you created your blog just for fun then its ok, go on do what you want.There's no one to stop you. But, if you want to become a serious professional blogger and make a living out of it, then you will have to put in the hard work.

In this article i will try to explain the life-cycle of a blog to you:

1. Development: This includes setting up a blog. Initially most of your efforts should be concentrated on the design,theme and over-all layout of your blog.Focus on producing more and more unique content to interest your readers. Spread the word through social networking sites to generate some traffic and try to promote your blog.You should not be worried about monetizing your blog at this particular stage.
2. Growth: Once your blog has been setup, you have to focus on generating traffic.Focus on your content and try to attract new readers.The growth stage is a continual and an on-going process that can take up to many months or even years.
3. Maturity : Once you cross a certain threshold and start getting a decent number of visitors, you can declare your blog to be mature enough to generate some sort of income.It is now that you should focus on monetization of your blog. Reaching the maturity stage does not means that you should stop working on generating new traffic. Remember your blog gets only as popular as you want it to be !
4. Maintenance:You have to continually generate quality content to interest your readers and to maintain your readership.If after reaching a certain income threshold you stop putting in 100% efforts, your readership is definitely going to go down and that will show on your paycheck.Most blogs become self-sustainable after reaching this stage...

As i said before, blog about something that really interests you otherwise you're likely to become discouraged and give up blogging. Going through all these stages will definitely take time so be persistent and keep up the hard work !