My early blogging career felt like an uphill climb.
Everything felt difficult.
Following a few steps changed things.
Blogging feels like a downhill journey after doing specific things consistently.
Change your mind about blogging.
Mindlessly charging forward with hard work makes no sense. I thought working hard was the answer. Thinking along these lines made me feel stressed because I followed an unsuccessful strategy from a frenzied state. Working harder made no difference.
I changed my mind about blogging to change my direction. Following a proven strategy calmly while trusting the process felt like cruising downhill to me.
My organic traffic increased by doing less work. At first it seemed impossible but blogging is an inside game.
Keep these ideas in mind.
1: Create a Vision
Create a vision for your blog.
See your goals clearly in mind.
Know where you want to go.
Lay out how you want your blog to be.
Set aside time to build your vision. Add details. Paint a clear picture.
Let your vision guide you.
Build a vision to know what to do. The vision lays out practical steps to follow in order to succeed.
Creating a clear vision makes practical blogging work easier to do.
2: Pick One Niche
Develop topical authority.
Become the go-to guy or go-to gal in your blogging niche.
Do one thing to do it well.
Specialists cover one niche thoroughly. Google gives exposure to bloggers who cover one niche because experts build authority.
3: Sell What You Achieved
Sell products based on what you achieved.
Be authentic.
Create based on goals that you attained.
Sell with confidence.
Let readers bring you product ideas based on feedback. Remove friction from the selling process.
I sell only what readers tell me to sell.
4: Network with Resonant Bloggers
Hang out with like-minded people.
Network with resonant bloggers to engage in powerful blogger outreach.
Drop comments on blogs from your niche. Build strong friendships with like-minded people.
Let bonds build organically. Make networking feel like a blogging party.
Befriend people who think like you to blog downhill.
5: Trust Your Content
Trust your content to work for you.
Optimize blog posts to reach your targeted readers.
Drive organic traffic by developing posture.
Believe in your posts. Do a thorough job. Trust your work.
Treat your blog like an asset. Do high quality work consistently. Build something that works for you around the clock.
Blogging feels easy to bloggers who trust implicitly in the quality of their work.
Go above and beyond to believe in your blog.
6: Learn from Pros
Learn how to blog successfully from pros.
Follow successful strategies from blogging leaders.
Cut your learning curve.
Do what works.
Blogging felt like scaling Mount Everest during my newbie blogger days. I surrounded myself with struggling bloggers. No one knew what they were doing.
Engaging in failing beginner strategies like sharing threads didn’t help matters.
I blogged downhill after I networked with successful bloggers. Pros rubbed off on me. I cut through resistance by thinking like successful bloggers thought well before I went pro.
7: Choose a Minimalist Theme
Choose a basic blogging theme.
Simple wins.
Focus on the user experience. Clean themes lower your bounce rate.
Emphasize seamless navigation. Give readers what they want.
Link all blog posts through a functioning scroll bar.
Reach page 1 of Google by never underestimating the importance of blog design.
8: Cull Low Quality Content
Trash low quality content.
Delete what no longer serves you or your readers.
Every blog post influences your full body of blogging work.
Make a strong first impression. Delete off topic content. Remove posts that do not build strong topical authority.
Publish only quality blog posts.
Delete everything else.
9: Update Old Content
Update your blog posts at least once a year.
Delete irrelevant content. Leave evergreen references. Remove dead links; replace with relevant links.
Blogs are news portals. Old news becomes irrelevant quickly.
Keep readers current.
Google and readers assess your full body of blogging work. One irrelevant post can reduce your credibility.
Stay on the blogging ball.
Performing blogging maintenance diligently is almost as important as publishing new content consistently.
10: Review Your Blogging Strategy
Do a thorough review of your blogging strategy periodically.
Does it work?
Do you need to tweak it?
Blogging feels more fun if your work pays off.
Be honest about your results.
Admit mistakes. Make corrections.
Blogging resistance dissolved the moment I followed a smart strategy. I blogged intelligently by reviewing my failed blogging plans.
Park your ego at the curb. Swallow your pride.
Review your strategy to move in a successful blogging direction.
Conclusion
Blogging downhill removes stress from the equation.
Doesn’t that sound peaceful?
Remove resistance from the blogging process.
Follow the basics to enjoy a seamless blogging journey.
Ryan Biddulph is the owner and creator of Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.