Have you ever heard the term that something “is a marathon and not a sprint”? Well, that’s certainly the case with blogging and it is a point that every beginner blogger and podcaster should be made aware of.

It is also the reason a large portion of blogs fail, dry up, or are deleted by their owners.

If you read some of the various money-making blogs around the web you might be lulled into a sense that you can start a blog, immediately make buckets of money from it and retire happy within a few short months.

The reality is that it might take you months to turn a few cent from your blog, even longer to attract regular readers and longer again to attract any kind of regular comments or feedback on your blog. There is no quick fix in this and that’s why you can look on blogging as a marathon - it takes a great amount of time to get where you want to go.

The thing is to stick at it though. Once you’ve started, don’t be disheartened if nobody leaves a comment. Don’t be disheartened if your feed or email subscriber numbers are low. Don’t be disheartened it takes you six months to get an Adsense cheque in the post (if you’re blogging to make money). Keep providing the content on a regular basis and eventually these things will fall into place.

I know one blogger alone who, despite regular posting, didn’t get a single comment on his blog until almost at the 12-month mark. A year on from that and he’s got a few hundred RSS subscribers and regular commenters to each blog post - all it took was time.

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