Building and maintaining a blog that attracts and retains readers is not magic. However, it does require a persistent focus and must be incorporated into your professional life.
A journalist discovers and sculpts stories. The stories must have channels in order to get the words and images from the source to the reader. Use your blog as one of those channels.
Tom Hung presents the five prerequisites for blogging success on the site, ProBlogger.
Author, Ted Demopoulos, presents tips and guidelines blog for serious bloggers on his site, Blogging for Business.
See the Demopoulos post on why most bloggers NEVER get much traffic.
Also, Demopoulos presents the guidelines for acquiring and retaining readers.
Journalism and Blogging 
Those links answer plenty of questions. Thanks
I enjoyed reading the information on this blog post especially Tom Hung’s five prerequisites for success.
Hung makes some good points as does Ted Demopoulos. And yes, it does take time to make a great blog post, but why not put your best writing and accurate information out there.
Thanks for the valuable information.