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.

John “Ramenista” Smith

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

Are you struggling with weight loss and finding it hard to stay consistent? What’s your biggest challenge when trying to lose weight at home?

your general commenting policy

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.

Facebook: xxx

Has anyone tried bestiality and been caught?

YouTube: xxx

THE 2ND PLACEHOLDER POST

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

Where is best free porn?

UH-OH…

the blog’s main language

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

Overthinking is killing me day-by-day. What should I do?

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

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

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

Why would the state lie about the Earth's shape? We know that it's flat, but why do they lie and tell us that it is a sphere?

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

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

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.

What kind of pleasure do gay men get from being bottom? The idea is very appealing to me but in practice it's quite painful.

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.

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

Addressing your question more directly:—

Jenny from Perth writes – my partner is the life of the party, women and men adore him. But at home, he gets angry at us for the silliest reasons and never nice words me or our kids, always putting us down. Should I stay or leave him?

The 3rd placeholder post

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.

The 4th, 5th and 6th placeholder posts

If everyone in Russia dropped into holes in the ground only never to return, would that be good for NATO and international peacekeepers? Can we convince Russians to be less diabolical, so they coexist? Does Putin stink like doo doo in the commode?

Open them and fill with pre-prepared copy.

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…

Your contact details (email at a minimum)

If I get served by someone else's papers, am I legally required to inform the person that they got served, or the court that they served the wrong person?

Email: xxx

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

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

When sharing a wife, is it best with your buddy or a stranger?

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

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

“Administrativa” like:—

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.

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

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

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

(All images via my blog)

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Example:—

I hope you didn’t delete them.

It’s that straightforward.

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

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

the blog’s launch date and time

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.

Contact me

Twitter (now X ‘ecks’): xxx

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

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.

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

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).

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