My blog is new. I need 10 article posts for my blog. How much should I pay for it?

Every day, around 7 million blog posts are published on the Internet. You’re fighting for attention and breathing space even with a voice.

Your blog’s editorial window (“niche,” although that’s the wrong word) — what your blog is generally about or tends to focus on

YouTube: xxx

What do you think of Andrew Tate?

the blog’s launch date and time

the blog’s main language

The first placeholder post is typically headlined “Hello, world!” with no content. Leave it alone. This is your blog’s birth certificate. It helps the search engines to ‘notice’ the launch of your blog.

What happens when your partner doesn't see the value in you and continuously hurts you by searching for something in others knowing it hurts you?

Your contact details (email at a minimum)

I am the author and owner of Ramen Freak. I work in Windows and Linux mobile computing for a boring, colorless, publicly listed corporation in East Coast USA. I live with Janet (my wife since 1985) and two whimsical cats the size of battle tanks in the lush concrete suburbs of Anytown, Anystate. My wife isn’t ‘big’ on noodles though. Oh well…

The About page will always be your blog’s most-viewed item and click magnet.

Why is it after eating almonds when I’m occupied, I don’t feel mild itch, but as soon as I have nothing to do, I feel mildly itchy?

UH-OH…

There’s no point in backtracking. Don’t bother to re-create those placeholder posts.

Example:—

NYC Renters Brace for Price Hikes After Broker-Fee Ban - Bloomberg

your general commenting policy

This is your first actual post — the first piece of ‘meat’ for your blog. Open it and fill it with pre-prepared copy.

The 4th, 5th and 6th placeholder posts

What is the Abu Shusha massacre in Palestine?

If you’re running a hobby-horse blog, you generally don’t pay because then you’d be inviting people to guest-post out of interest.

Whatever the editorial window or niche, your blog has a ‘voice.’ That voice is you.

On the balance of all practical probabilities, it’s easier (and cheaper) to write your own stuff.

What are some ballbusting stories?

Email: xxx

THE 2ND PLACEHOLDER POST

Open it for editing. Fill it with your own text on:—

How do I write a character’s physical description without it feeling unnatural and clunky? I’m able to describe their hair and body relatively easily because my writing puts emphasis on small movements and fidgeting, but I can’t describe faces.

Who you are — you don’t have to disclose your identity, but there must be a person even with a pseudonym (not anonymous) for attracting readers and subscribers

This blog was born on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at 7:21 p.m. EST (23:21 UTC).

I welcome submissions of recipes, stories and photos. Please discuss with me. I am prepared to pay US$1 per word for unique, eye-catching pieces.

How could NASA possibly land on the moon when it's impossible to reach the moon through the Earth's dome? Why are they making up such an obvious lie?

Once you’ve done the above, copy and paste the above into a new static page (“About”), edit it here and there, and publish. Add a link into your blog menu for the About.

Who your blog is aimed at, or who might be interested

(All images via my blog)

At what point does trespassing become self defense? What are the necessary conditions for this line to be crossed from trespassing to self defense?

I hope you didn’t delete them.

The biggest mistake any blogger could make is producing a blog that has no voice — no persona, no personality, no flavour and no perspective behind the words.

Oh, well done, bruv. You’ve made the second biggest blogging mistake.

Everyone says the pet population is out of control. Everyone says you MUST spay or neuter your pets. No one wants to talk about how its almost $1,000 to spay or neuter a pet. Why is it so expensive if its so necessary? Animal shelters do it for free.

Your writing doesn’t have to be perfect for a blog. It only needs to be reasonably readable — and reasonably formatted (which you still have to do anyway even for a piece written by someone else).

If you succeed, you succeed. If you fail, you fail. It doesn’t matter either way because you still have to do some elementary things.

The 3rd placeholder post

This blog updates every Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST (midnight UTC, Wednesday).

Even news agencies like AP, Reuters, AFP, etc (with hundreds of reporters each worldwide) have their own overall ‘corporate’ and ‘news’ persona or voice.

English is the blog’s language, but other languages may appear occasionally (hopefully with an English translation).

Just carry on from where you are. Stay on target, Luke.

It’s that straightforward.

Contact me

Addressing your question more directly:—

The Ramen Freak is about all things ramen and noodles, Japanese or not. It focuses on traditional as well as “new wave” or “fusion” recipes and discusses protips for creating the “perfect” noodle dish for the noodle aficionado.

[photo or artwork of yourself doing something other than work]

If you’ve just launched your blog, it should already have 3–6 empty placeholder posts autogenerated by the platform or system.

“Administrativa” like:—

Open them and fill with pre-prepared copy.

Comments close on all posts after 28 days. Comments should be in English as far as possible, although all languages are welcomed. Comments once posted cannot be retracted or removed, so please comment at your own risk.

John “Ramenista” Smith

Facebook: xxx

Never mind what the Internet is telling you. The starting rate is US$1 per word for a 300–500-word piece (with minimum 3 photos) that’s unique and exclusive to your blog — with a 30%–50% kill rate for submitted but cancelled acceptance.

This is because you’re meant to fill them with pre-prepared copy (text and pictures).

You need to understand why you yourself should be doing the writing for your own blog — certainly for the first two years.

how frequent the blog is updated (i.e. what is your posting day — every Tuesday at 8 p.m. is a good starting point)

You can expect to pay up to US$7 a word with experienced writers or bloggers (with 10+ years’ experience) — same as magazine writing rates.

THE 1ST PLACEHOLDER POST: ‘Hello, world!’

Twitter (now X ‘ecks’): xxx

You can contact me below (for blog and off-blog matters) or use the Contact Form (click here).

“What if I’ve already deleted those placeholder posts? What if I’ve posted a few posts already?”

The second placeholder post is empty. Use it to introduce your blog and yourself.