I tend to avoid sites like BloggingPro, as they always seem to have this “get rich quick” feel to them…
For instance, there’s a post titled Blogging Pitfalls: The Six Keys to Making a Blog That Lasts, which is all well and dandy, but really, I think there’s just one key, and I’ll share it with you now:
Keep Posting.
A blog that lasts? Keep Posting.
Oh sure, you’ll also want to make sure the blog exists for a long time. I’d recommend your own domain rather than a flavor of the day, like Pitas, LiveJournal, Vox, Blogger, Tumblr, etc…
But yeah, really… Keep Posting. It’s worked for me since 1997.