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

YouTube: xxx

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.

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

Is it possible to become homeless after being released from jail or prison in the United States?

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

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

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.

Your Camper’s Water Tank Could Be Carrying Serious Diseases, Here’s How To Fix It - The Autopian

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 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.

Trump and Washington Are Making Tons of Noise. Why the Stock Market Will Be Just Fine. - Barron's

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

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

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

Do married men know when their wives are having affairs?

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.

your general commenting policy

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

Rangers' Zibanejad pens heartfelt goodbye to Kreider after trade - NHL.com

It’s that straightforward.

(All images via my blog)

Twitter (now X ‘ecks’): xxx

McDonald's shares slip after downgrade spurred by weight-loss drug popularity - CBS News

“Administrativa” like:—

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

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…

Solar Storms Are Pushing Elon Musk’s Satellites Back to Earth - Gizmodo

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.

UH-OH…

Marco Rubio sanctions ICC for targeting US and Israel - BBC

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

The 3rd placeholder post

the blog’s main language

Diabetes drug shows benefits for patients with liver disease - Medical Xpress

John “Ramenista” Smith

Facebook: xxx

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

If freedom of speech is absolute, how come it's not applied for private spaces and for the Internet?

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

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

Europe will have to be more Tenacious to land its first rover on the moon - TechCrunch

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

the blog’s launch date and time

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.

Why do liberals have a problem with masculine men like Andrew Tate?

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

Your contact details (email at a minimum)

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

How do you know when your skirt is too short?

Example:—

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

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

Winners & Losers From The 2025 NCAA Baseball Tournament Regional Round - Baseball America

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.

Email: xxx

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

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.

Open them and fill with pre-prepared copy.

The 4th, 5th and 6th placeholder posts

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

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

Contact me

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 2ND PLACEHOLDER POST

I hope you didn’t delete them.

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

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.

Addressing your question more directly:—