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Becoming a successful blogger depends on doing simple things patiently, persistently and generously.
Failing always indicates some complexity, impatience, lack of persistence or stinginess infecting a blogging campaign.
Blogging is not as difficult as most bloggers claim. Most just skip the successful steps.
The few who follow these steps with a long term vision in mind thrive over the long haul.
Freedom awaits bloggers focused on following the below tips.
Follow these steps to become a successful blogger.
1: Follow Your Fun
Follow your fun.
Frame blogging as the reward. See traffic and money as bonuses.
Do not blog mainly for money or fame because money or fame arrives after many years of patient work. What happens during those years of work? Money and fame seekers quit blogging.
Blogging mainly for fun stabilizes your energy for a sustained blogging journey. Doing it for fun anchors you during inevitable ups and downs on the long haul journey.
Practical Tips
- pick a niche that you feel passionate about
- enjoy the process of helping people through your blog
2: Blog with Love
Blog with love to:
- help folks
- feature other bloggers
- become prolific
- become patient
- become persistent
Blogging with love sets a granite-like foundation for your campaign.
Loving creations and connections boost targeted traffic and blogging income.
Do things with love.
Be truly helpful.
Enjoy featuring other bloggers on your blog and through social media.
Create and connect with love to succeed.
3: Publish Detailed Content
Publish detailed content through a wide range of targeted online channels.
Help people through:
- long form posts published to your blog
- Quora groups related to your niche
- Facebook Groups
- Subreddits related to your niche
- social media direct messages
Being helpful attracts helpful people to your blog.
Loyal readers, customers and clients love to be helped.
Helping them goads loyal followers to help you with blogging sales and referral business.
As a general rule, the Google algorithm and a hefty chunk of readers prefer long form content. Many expect a blog post to be 1200 to 1500 words or longer to fulfill the title promise. Short form content can hit the mark but rarely for meaty topics requiring far more details, tips and steps for a complete resource.
4: Promote Other Bloggers
Promote other bloggers as freely as you promote yourself.
Mention bloggers through your:
- blog
Help bloggers to build relationships.
Blogging friends amplify your success by promoting your blog through a wide range of online channels.
Being promoted through channels far and wide lets your blog pop up on the radar screen of high level bloggers.
Consider opening your blog to guest bloggers. Interview bloggers from time to time.
Collaborate to become a successful blogger.
5: Learn from Successful Bloggers
Successful bloggers know how to BE successful.
Stalk my blog comments. You’ll find rocking bloggers there.
Search Google for top bloggers in your niche.
Pro bloggers teach you how to succeed.
Follow their lead to succeed.
6: Invest Money in Premium Courses and eBooks
Successful bloggers pay money to get solutions to their problems, quickly and easily.
Pro bloggers save themselves month’s and year’s worth of struggles by buying robust courses and thorough eBooks.
Resources
Invest in your blogging tuition.
Buy courses and eBooks to thrive.
Hire coaches to point you in the right direction.
Bloggers have much to learn. Invest money in the experience of professional bloggers to shorten your learning curve substantially.
7: Do NOT Hold Back
Do not hold back. Holding back from energies of fear and stinginess leads to oodles of blogging troubles. Hold back, and it will be held back from you, per ancient wisdom.
Giving freely of your time and talents opens a world of opportunities because if you give freely you position yourself to receive freely, too.
Give to receive. In essence, since we are all connected, anytime you give you actually give to yourself.
Allow this concept to sear itself onto your mind.
Be as generous as possible.
Blogging will be incredibly generous with you.
8: Invest Money in a Theme
Plunk down some cash for a theme.
Brand yourself effectively. Create a professional-looking blog. Promote your blogging success.
Experienced bloggers don’t mind spending a few bucks to gain some instant credibility.
Like it or not, some readers judge a book by its cover.
Your theme is your blogging cover.
WP Beginner explains the differences between a free and premium theme.
9: Build a Brand Not a Blog
Struggling bloggers are….solely bloggers.
Successful bloggers build brands.
Think about your brand before diving headfirst into your blogging campaign.
Brands make blogs memorable.
Branding allows you to stand out from the blogging crowd in a major league way.
See your brand in vivid detail.
Build your blog around that brand to stand out from the crowd.
10: Infuse Stories into Your Blog
I rode a bicycle through the largest Buddhist temple complex during my trip to Bagan, Myanmar.
One part Indiana Jones, one part Pee Wee Herman, I pedaled my way through ancient ruins, not unlike a fit explorer hellbent on getting some sweet Blogging From Paradise branded shots.
Story Lesson: All branding gold resides in areas where few bloggers want to explore.
Your personal stories separate you from every blogger on earth. Tell them. Do not be shy. Let loose.
Share your story to inspire like-minded bloggers.
We all have genuine stories to tell.
Build a one-of-a-kind blog by sharing personal stories no one else can share.
11: Guest Post
Guest post like a freaking boss.
Guest posting simply expands your online presence outside of your blogging community.
A large group of highly targeted readers awaits to meet you through your guest posts.
Leave the comfort zone of your blogging community.
Guest blog to accelerate your blogging success.
Build relationships with bloggers to gain guest post invites. Follow their guest blogging guidelines to place posts.
Guest post on blogs from your niche for optimal results.
Readers who enjoy your guest post will be more likely to become loyal blog followers if you stick to your niche.
12: Blog Comment
Comment on top blogs from your niche.
Create a 1 to 3 paragraph, personalized, helpful blog comment.
Comment on popular blogs related to your niche.
Blog commenting is underutilized because few see the indirect benefits of commenting genuinely on blogs.
Bloggers befriended through authentic blog comments amplify your success by promoting you, endorsing you and becoming customers or clients.
At the very least, many of these bloggers comment genuinely on your blog to foster a sense of community.
13: Train Your Mind
Train your mind to get through mental blocks that will surface during the sometimes challenging blogging journey.
Meditate. Do yoga. Pray. Read and apply A Course in Miracles.
Choose one predominant strategy. Go deep.
Training the mind guides you to blog with love – not fear – to enjoy the ride.
Enjoying the process of being helpful precedes increased blogging success.
14: Create Your Own Products and Services
Create your own products and services to stand out in your niche.
Establish your online authority.
Expand your blogging success by creating your own stuff from a premium perspective.
Ideas
- write and self-publish eBooks
- create and self-publish online courses
- coach
- consult
Capitalize on the idea of offering specialized services that only you can offer. Other bloggers may sell their eBooks but only you can sell eBooks written in your genuine voice.
Your Turn
What tips can you add to this list?
How do you increase your blogging success?
