Why I am Still Feeling Like a Baby Blogger?

July 14, 2010 - Last Modified: July 14, 2010 by Hesham Zebida

So many bloggers out there, but who is who? I really want to know! This post saw the light because I was inspired by the recent post on FB by Donna @DonnaFontenot about how to impress longtime jaded bloggers with a comment, that was her entry in our contest, so be sure to read it. Donna is a nice person, a blogger and she is also an awesome E-business Coach who knows about engaging.

You might have some questions for her, visit her blog and just talk to her!

But, I am going to talk to Donna here this time, mmm.. maybe because I think I can talk to my friends on my own blog.. Hey Donna, even when we published that awesome post of yours just few hours back, it’s on the TOP of Google’s first page right now by searching the team “jaded blogger”! Amazing! Yeah?!

Thank you for the feedback!

I remember when Donna contacted me right after she registered to FB to submit her post, and she said.. that there is a virus alert on the top of the dashboard, so.. I replied to her and told her that this is my AntiVirus plugin for WordPress, it actually remind me everyday to check the blog, and some times I don’t because my hands are inside the blog almost everyday, so there no chance for a virus to hit us! I must say .. Thank you so much Donna for contacting me that day! (Do anyone trust any other AntiVirus plugin? Plz let me know!)

You to?.. If you find anything that you don’t like, something suspicious or the blog is acting like crazy, I really appreciate if you contact me! It’s better to have more than one eye watching these 334 bloody awesome articles full of benefits that we have published together so far during the last 9 month on this blog!

I am actually terrified just by thinking that we could lose this amazing content one day if something wrong happened, and because of that, I sleep with both eyes open!

Oh! by the way, I don’t mind to lose the very first blog post on FB, I was taking a look to check the date today, and I found that post was dated 11 Aug 2009 when I was setting up and testing the blog, it has no one commenting or replying, but only me.. replying to myself 🙂 well.. yeah! Maybe I should update that post and say something nice! Or what?

Why I have that feeling?

I have been blogging for almost 3 years now, and I still feel I am a “baby blogger”, newbie from the best kind.. What about you?!

About Hesham Zebida

Follow @hishaman

I create websites with WordPress, and I develop Schema Plugins to help SEOs. I am a social network lover. I am also the night creature who works hard to keep this project up. Owner and founder of the Famous Blog.

{ 46 Responses }

Tinh says:

I have a simple thinking that baby blogger has more things to do and brain is still fresh for more ideas to come :-)
Julie-Inspired to Write says:

I absolutely feel like a baby amongst the thousands of teens roaming around in the blogosphere playground! I think you on the other hand have grown up into well past the teen years. I think it takes hard work, lots of marketing, patience, and of course good content! But, it probably takes more than that just to get into the toddler years! Thanks for the post!
- Hesham says:
  
  Hey Julie, nice to hear from you, and yes.. I agree with you have said here! I wish you great blogging moments! By the way, thank you tons Julie for he great Scribina review , I really appreciate that, and I am trying to fine myself again so I can return the favor! that was super cool!
Thu Nguyen says:

Baby Blogging?! What about shy? :) I think once you've actually made it pass the first post at least some muscles are build be it they are small, but they're growing. I just wrote a recent post on overcoming shyness and for me personally it's been quite a journey. But compared to you, I'm the baby! :)
- Hesham says:
  
  lol! You know that I meet with a lot of shy bloggers in the community, and I think they are losing big chances being shy of sharing their opinions and thoughts, and engage with others!! That's a good point! Thank you a lot for stepping by :)
Stacey Cavanagh says:

I think that blogging in general changes so often that it's actually healthy to always feel a bit "noob." The moment you think you know it all is the moment you become complacent. With new networks to explore, new tools, constantly growing communities and an increasing number of social media platforms to integrate our blogs with, we could argue we'll always be newbies.... ....and I kind of like it :)
- Hesham says:
  
  "The moment you think you know it all is the moment you become complacent".. This is it :)
Kevin M. says:

After almost 3 years of blogging I too still like a baby blogger too! I still have some much to learn. :)
- Hesham says:
  
  lol yeah Kevin.. this is exactly how I feel! thanks for stepping by!
Charles says:

If I was to describe my place as a blogger, I would have to say I am somewhat of a newborn. Although I have been writing articles for several years now, my blog was mostly locked inside of a site where mostly members of the site were the only readers and commentators. It wasn't too bad but it was like being stuck on an island with 100 people and only these 100 people were the only customers you have for a product you may have invented. I only started to use my blogspot blog less than a month ago. I have only written and posted a few articles to it so i can understand why it's still not showing much life. But finding Famous Bloggers and other blogging tips sites have given me the chance to expand my reach to the Internet community and have also given me a reason to dust off my Twitter and Facebook account and put them to good use. I still have a lot to learn, my blog site, facebook blog page and Twitter account still have some work to be done on them but I am persistent and I will not stop till I get these sites just the way I want them and grow my readership as much as possible. Apart from Famous Bloggers amazing help with this, I will always advise to anyone that wants to find ways to make a better blog that Google is your best friend. With it I have found all kinds of tools and sites to improve my blog and myself. That's how I found Famous Bloggers after all.
element321 says:

Hesham, the site is taking off, soon you are going to have to get help maintaining the site and making sure all the posts that need to be submitted daily are the best... As for being a baby blogger, I haven't been blogging long but, even if I had been blogging longer, I probably still feel like a baby / young blogger... As long as you are doing backups daily of your database and all your comments/content you should be fine. I am using a pretty good backup plugin. During my transfer my hold host decided to kill the account early when they heard I was leaving. I lost all the data before HostGator get logged in and move it over. Luckly My backup emails me 3 times daily with backups. I sent them that file and only lost for hours of content and comments....
- Hesham says:
  
  Yeap, we are firing all engines my friend lol! and we need a good backup! Glad that you saved your content while moving to your new host, it's one thing that I am considering.. backup and more backup! good you told me about the 3 times a day backup.. I am just doing it once a day! maybe I will put the volume more higher as we could receive a guest posts during any time in the day! Nice.... I need that!
CJ says:

I definitely still feel like a baby blogger haha, but then again I only started blogging a few months ago! lol CJ CJ's last blog ..25 Hot Article Sites - List of Top Article Directories To Increase Your Site's PageRank!
- Hesham says:
  
  Time will pass very fast, and I wish you all the success CJ, you are a very nice person and talented blogger... keep it up buddy!
Julius says:

I think it's just okay to still feel like a baby blogger, as long as it stays just like a feeling. As for the articles here in FB, I visit your site right after I've open my email, and I read my mails almost everyday... need I say more? :) Just continue the good work guys! Who knows, maybe someday I'll come up with something worth publishing and muster the courage to submit it here on FB. :)
- Hesham says:
  
  mmm... So.. you exactly do the same I do... god then lol! I also open my email while having my morning or some times midday coffee (in case I slept late at night) then I head to FB to release comments if there is any caught by my spam plugin, then ... the day start after that :) By the way, never hesitate to submit your post here on FB, it's just simple as blogging for your own blog! so.. just be yourself.. trust me on that ;)
Gary David says:

Hi Hesham, Thanks for sharing this. It's really good to see your progress when it comes to blogging. Well, for me you're not a baby now.=) It's really good to take a look back where we came from. When you checked your FB post on Aug 2009, and no one is commenting, try to do it right now, I'm sure several people will recognize that. Keep it up! Kind regards, Gary
- Hesham says:
  
  Thank you Gary, it's just a feeling and I like to write some times about my feelings, it's one good thing of motivation! That first page will be something to remember for ever, it's the past and it's also where I can go to see the future!
Nabeel says:

Hesham, I just want to congratulate you for your blog. This is just an amazing blog. You have really worked hard to bring this blog to the front, in less than a year! I wish you even more success in the future with this blog! Kindest, Nabeel
- Hesham says:
  
  Thank you so much Nabeel for your kind wishes, I believe it's a cooperation work who made this blog stand out! The really good thing that happened, is people was listening and taking an action and this is very hard and so rare! Thank you for stepping by into this baby post ;)
Colleen says:

"...I found that post was dated 11 Aug 2009..." Yikes Hesham! I would have guessed this blog was started years ago. You've done really well to get this blog to this point in only 11 months!
- Tushar says:
  
  really man hesham..... you have done a very commendable job in these 11 months.... i tried out the archives page but never got it and now you told it is 11aug 2009...great work man
  - Hesham says:
    
    I know it's kind of hard to find that post, unless you use the default WP short URL to jump to the post 1 if it's not deleted by the blogger ;) Anyways.. yeah it was good work and it's not by me alone! it was a work of more than 100 Bloggers who wrote here!
- Hesham says:
  
  Actually .. you can say that was the day I bought FmaousBloggers.net domain name! but the real work started exactly 9 months back!
  - Colleen says:
    
    9 months? Even more impressive! :)
AJ says:

3 years is a long time...But anyway in the blogging world every is a baby and we will always be babies. why? Because blogging methods, SEO, web trends...basically everything is constantly changing. Everyday we learn new things and there is always room for improvement. If you think otherwise - get out!
- Hesham says:
  
  AJ, I started to feel that success will be for the one who can last longer! it's like.. the person's history could lead to success! Yeah, every blogging method is changing, and because of I think we find the joy! new challenges all the time and we have to deal with that to keep going!
  - Aj says:
    
    Agreed...There are millions and millions of blogs out of which not so many are actually successful. The last one standing always wins!
    - Hesham says:
      
      You know.. some times I miss some of my blogger friends and I say to myself let me check what he/she is doing... so.. I was missing someone and I want to visit his blog, and oh my.. it was so sad moment for me! I was shocked because I found the famous hosting page instead of his blog! That was the reason I put that reply above when I read your comment! I know that people are coming and leaving.. and I really don't want this to happen to the nice people!
Shawn McConnell says:

I have been blogging and designing sites for three months now and I am confident in my skills but I always know there is something new to learn each and every day, hopefully after three years I will still feel the same way, That way i know I'll never get bored like my 9-5 Shawn,
- Hesham says:
  
  Shawn, confident is a wonderful thing, but we have to deal with care! I am designing sites for more than 6 years! and still think I just a simple guy! I put in my mind that if I am good, there is always someone better! There is a lot to learn in this life, I hope we can take the best of it! Thanks for stepping by, and I wish you all the luck!
ashok says:

Just responding to your last question - yeah, blogging still feels new to me. There's so much to learn and so much more of the Internet to discover. I wonder what exactly maturity in blogging is, though. I suspect that if we are to continue the analogy, maturity is the realization of what doesn't work well. Which can lead to something nearly paradoxical: it is possible to be a baby blogger and very, very successful without realizing exactly what happened.
- Hesham says:
  
  With something new everyday, and thinking of the capacity of our brains as humans! also the person age play some role! And yes Ashok, some times success happen suddenly! the thing here is are we ready for the success?!
Joe says:

Hesham, feeling like a baby is a good thing. That energy, that curiosity, that wonder and awe of it all. Babies soak it all in like sponges. Teenagers? I've had 5 of them. All that attitude and posturing. May you never lose that twinkle in your eye and sparkle in your smile!
- Hesham says:
  
  Thank Dr. Joe for stepping by! I find inspiration all the time by reading these nice comments! I can imagine how it's hard to deal with 5 :)
Robert says:

I can't say I feel like a baby blogger. More like a teen blogger who's learnt a ton, thinks he knows it all, and then realizes he doesn't. Up to now I've never even considered antivirus for my wordpress blog, I didn't think wordpress get's viruses like that to be honest.
- Hesham says:
  
  Thank you Robert! That's a true feeling comes to be almost everyday twice lol! to me.. it's kind of a daily change in the carve depends on the whole situation, this happen only when I take a moment with my self thinking about what I was doing and what I have to do! The idea of that plugin is checking all important files, and also theme files, if the the file changed then it will worn you! this means you have been hacked and at least you will get some help to know what file are infected! actually it makes more sense if you think about it like : the blog is a set of files on a computer (server) that could be hacked at any time!
The Bad Blogger says:

Well, I don't really feel I'm a baby blogger like you, I feel like a "young dude blogger" who had the mindset to fight his own time out of almost everyday to connect with the online marketing world although I had to work and take some time out to be with my wife so she doesn't feel she's left out. Anyway, I did rather be a young blogger forever then being old, although we can get old, but there's one sentence that really is true which is..."Always be an empty cup, so you can fill more ideals of water into the cup." (Sorry baby doesn't know how to drink himself... it needed to be feed...)
- Hesham says:
  
  Well.. family is important thing to take care of, I am actually spending much more time on work (thank you for reminding me with that) lol I think Old has nothing to do with age of the person, but that's a nice one! you are right! baby blogger can not feed himself, but when it's about learning in this life... I think we are all still babies till we leave life safe ;) The sentence you have put here is so true! thanks a lot!
DazzlinDonna says:

Heeeeshaaaam - got it! :D
- Hesham says:
  
  lol exactly... this is the right way ;)
Kristi Hines says:

I think feeling like a beginner blogger is a good thing in a sense that you don't feel like there's nothing left to learn. One of the exciting (or maybe scary, depending) feelings of being new at something is the fact that there is so much to learn and put to use. I enjoy learning, so for me that is exciting, and I always feel like a new blogger simply because I accept that technology and blogging as a whole changes regularly, and if I want to be successful, I need to keep up with that change.
- Hesham says:
  
  Good to know that! And, yeah.. blogging is changing regularly and there is always new things to learn, this makes it fresh almost the time and give space for creativity! or then we will be old bloggers lol
DazzlinDonna says:

Totally awesome that "jaded blogger" holds the #1 spot in Google right now. Woot! Bing also has it at #1, but Yahoo apparently hasn't picked it up yet. Oh well, Bing will be supplying their search results soon, so no matter. Don't spend sleepless nights worrying about all the great content here. Just be faithful with backups (and backup the backups...and backup the backups of the backups). I'm a fanatic about backups, but I sleep well, knowing my babies will be fine. I am envious of the fact that you still feel like a baby blogger after 3 years. I wish I still had that newborn feeling. I sometimes do, like when I start a brand new site. At that point, the freshness returns for a little while at least. It's a great feeling. I really appreciate you taking an interest in me, and in all of the people who post here. I find that to be incredibly refreshing. Many thanks, Hesham. It means a lot. BTW, I'm curious. How do you pronounce Hesham? I say it in my head as "heshum" in a way that it would rhyme with "fresh um". But am I saying it wrong?
- Hesham says:
  
  Yeap! I think Yahoo is sleeping lol! I am doing backups of the backups of everything, but still have the suspect, but I will try to relax my nerve system! If I lost that feeling then maybe a lot of things will change, I maybe like to live with this baby blogger feeling! nice moments! Almost all of my friends pronounce my name the same way like "heshum", and some different ways lol! so.. it's OK, I am good to go with any possible way just by knowing it's ME! .. really I don't mind, but let me try ... I would say in a slow motion "Heeeshaaaaam" lol, I am not sure you will get it like this way, but it's all fine thanks for trying :) Thank you so much Donna for the good work, I hope you are having fun with your commenters, and good luck!

Why I am Still Feeling Like a Baby Blogger?

Thank you for the feedback!

Why I have that feeling?

About Hesham Zebida

Our Newsletter

You have Successfully Subscribed!

Thank you for the feedback!

Why I have that feeling?

About Hesham Zebida

Reader Interactions

Related Posts

{ 46 Responses }

Our Newsletter