Bloggers Diary: The thing about consistency

      Consistency is the keyword in blogging, this i've come to understand from all the blogging how to's and blogging do's and don'ts that I have read online. I started this blog in November, I remember it was the same day I also got a shitty Job and I needed to write to make myself feel better, writing has always been my way of venting or finding closure.

      Technically speaking I started blogging in 2013, reticentamnot.wordpress.com was my first blog but I lost it sort of. I started africacanread.blogspot.com but I decided to change the domain name becase a lot of people were having problems remembering the name and I felt the name was confining and boring.

        So I came up with shinkafa.blogspot.com

Why shinkafa?
       shinkafa is rice in Hausa, Rice is something that every race in the world eats and can relate to. I think it is the most commonly eating food in the world. This is not a food blog if anything it is the farthest thing from a food blog. But rice is more than Just being food it is habit, it is a culture, it is something that will never go out of time, there is something comfortable and reassuring about rice. Rice is something that you find in any part of.the world,  rice is something that you would feel comfortable eating even if you found yourself in the Northpole or in Atlantis. When there is rice it feels like you have a bit of home with you.

        Thats what shinkafa.blogspot.com represents, its home, that part of the internet that anyone can go to and they would find a bit of themselves there, were they can relate to something in the content that has been writen or posted.

        shinkafa.bogspot.com is also gives me a voice, I can tell my stories here and may be just may be someday I would find an audience that would find my stories appealing.

       Getting my blog out there and getting an audience has been a major challenge, I have read all the material I could possibly read on Content marketing and SEO optimization and I understand that to get an audience you need to put your self ou there.

        "putting yourself out there" doesn't work so easily for everyone especially if you are me, I am the most introverted and solitude loving person you will ever meet. I share my content on Facebook and Google+ but from what little research I've done i'll have to do a lot more marketing than that.

       I'm also learning how to be consistent, considering the fact that I am phlegmatic and INFP that has been a tad bit difficult but then again I really have no excuses.

       I also have kogiproperties.blogspot which I plan on making a website. owning a commercial real estate website has been a long dream of mine. I hope that in the short run I will be able to put measures in me place for both sites to have authority on the web.

     I hope that may be 4 years from now I can look back at this post, smile and thump my chest and say that I did it.