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Blogging distractions pull you away from a successful blogging career.
As a rule of thumb, bloggers distract themselves into failure.
Spending hours, weeks, months or even years chasing the wrong numbers dampens your blogging spirit.
Blogging became frustrating for me during extended periods because I distracted myself with ineffective activities versus blogging effectively. Blogger burn out followed because I had wasted my time doing bone-headed stuff. Doing silly stuff pulls you backwards toward blogging failure.
I patiently improved my blogging focus by:
- identifying
- owning
- letting go
blogging distractions to focus on what genuinely accelerated my blogging success.
For example, I gradually realized how much work I put into trying to generate a hefty volume of blog comments until noting this absurd distraction.
Shifting my focus away from trying to get comments let me concentrate on driving targeted traffic and building my blogging business.
Do you distract yourself with these blogging activities?
1: Daily Stat Fluctuations
Blogging metrics fluctuate wildly during 24 hour periods for new bloggers.
Blogging metrics fluctuate semi-wildly during 24 hour periods for veteran bloggers.
Blogging stats fluctuate on a day to day basis for highly experienced, professional bloggers.
Stop judging your stats every 24 hours because each period varies dramatically for all save the most successful bloggers.
Daily stats distract you from your long term blogging vision because you will panic, fail, quit then repeat the process again and again if you judge your campaign on 24 hour intervals versus 3, 6 or 12 month intervals.
YES…..12 MONTH INTERVALS!
Who thinks like that?
Wildly successful bloggers think in 12 month statistical intervals well before going pro.
These pros thrive while daily stat checkers disappear into oblivion.
Focus heavily on the blogging process of creating detailed content and building friendships with successful bloggers from your niche.
2: Number of Blog Comments
Blog comments indicate readers want to share their thoughts in response to your blog post.
This is good.
But trying to encourage a high volume of readers to publish comments to your blog distracts you from targeted traffic and income metrics.
People who publish their opinion do not necessarily:
- promote you
- endorse you
- purchase your blogging courses and blogging eBooks
- hire you
Blog comments can boost engagement. Engaging readers can build blogging business.
But never wildly obsess over generating blog comments because targeted, buying traffic, not blog comments, forms professional blogging careers.
3: Number of Blog Posts
The number of blog posts published only suggests that you wrote words and tapped a publish button for a specific number of times.
Never distract yourself with this mechanical process because publishing detailed, quality, targeted content first and foremost precedes your blogging success.
No one pays you per blog post. No advertiser pays you per blog post. Customers do not hire you based on the number of posts published to your blog.
First, publish one detailed, targeted blog post for your ideal reader. Patiently and persistently publish your second detailed, targeted blog post for your idea reader one week into the future. Publish post #3 two weeks into the future.
Repeat this simple process for years.
Organically, you will publish a high number of detailed, targeted posts over years, not weeks or months.
Don’t worry about publishing a specific volume of blog posts.
Publish one detailed, targeted blog post at a time.
Try to publish such posts every 1-2 weeks spanning years.
4: Quantity of Blog Traffic without Considering Quality
High traffic blogs successfully draw a hefty volume of human beings.
But do each of those humans:
- want your content?
- want your courses?
- want your eBooks?
- want your services?
- want to promote and endorse you?
Blog traffic is a vanity metric. Blog traffic is nothing more than numbers on a screen.
Highly targeted blog traffic is:
- blogging income
- blogging business
- blog fans
- blog communities
- referral business
- freedom
Target every single piece of content you publish. Create each post around a niche-specific keyword, key phrase or particular question your readers bring to you.
For example, our Blogging From Paradise community repeatedly brought the idea for this blog post to me. Publishing this post serves your needs. Serving your needs guarantees that highly targeted traffic flows to Blogging From Paradise.
Even 5-10 highly targeted readers can make an astounding blogging difference because if 5-10 human beings:
- buy your products
- hire you
- endorse you
- promote you to their tribes
you lay the foundation for a profitable blogging career.
5: Quantity of Email Subscribers
I recall observing bloggers boast of nabbing 50 email subscribers daily.
But none netted millions of dollars in blogging income.
50 people may sign up for your email list daily but if none want your:
- content
- products
- services
the 50 subscriber number is a vanity metric.
50 email subs per day sounds good but serves as a blogging illusion because the 50 untargeted humans simply offered their email address but will never:
- read your blog posts loyally
- buy your products
- hire you
- become brand advocates
Hyper target blog traffic and traffic generated through social media. Publish only targeted updates for your ideal reader everywhere online.
Guarantee that almost all email subscribers want your blog posts, products and services.
Ensure that people who sign up for your opt-in want your blog content and business offerings to lay a strong foundation for your blogging business.
Conclusion
Highly targeted, quality blog traffic precedes your success.
Stop chasing everything else.
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