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Becoming a successful blogger hinges on asking the right blogging questions.
Acting on the right answers points you in the successful blogging direction.
You can waste a blogging lifetime asking the wrong blogging questions. I know. I asked way too many. Struggling bloggers consistently ask me a few if not many of the wrong blogging questions.
I just scanned a post detailing frequently asked blogging questions. Dozens popped up on page 1 of Google.
Think through this scenario. A heavy volume of aspiring bloggers believe that asking the wrong questions points them in the right direction. I do not condemn Google nor the blogger who published the post but need to point out blogging inefficiencies.
I thought to myself: “Imagine how many bloggers ask all of these questions?”
Picture a blogger asking 20 plus blogging questions pointing them in the wrong direction. He or she wants clear answers to each question. That’s all well and good…..but do you realize how much time it takes to ask 20 plus blogging questions? How long does it take to get answers to the questions? How long does it take to put the answers into action?
Even worse?
All of the time is wasted because the questions and answers push bloggers away from organic traffic and blogging income.
As you waste time chasing windmills, it is like digging a tunnel to reach blogging failure versus stepping up the ladder of blogging success.
You are the one who chose to dig versus climbing.
The frustrating process begins when you ask the wrong blogging questions.
Examples of the Wrong Blogging Questions
Imagine a blogger who asks:
- What blogging plug-ins should I use?
- What blogging plug-ins are free?
- What blogging plug-ins are cheap?
- What blogging plug-ins make my blog look pretty?
- What blogging plug-ins drive traffic to my blog?
The individual asks these questions believing a plug-in to be a critical traffic-driving factor.
At a minimum, this blogger spends hours researching after getting the questions answered.
Are these the right blogging questions or the wrong blogging questions?
Should the blogger invest 4 precious hours researching the cheapest plug-ins?
No.
Asking the wrong questions about plug-ins wastes your time.
Plug-ins are aids; nothing more.
Highly successful bloggers know that detailed content – not cheap plug-ins – drives targeted traffic.
Consider asking the right questions:
- How do I drive targeted traffic?
- How do I generate blogging income?
- How do I build a loyal blogging community?
- How do I pick a blogging niche?
Notice the links above.
I published detailed content to answer these critical, frequently asked blogging questions.
Bloggers need these answers.
Bloggers need to act on these answers to become full-time bloggers.
I consider these to be the right blogging questions.
For time purposes, I shall not cover all required blogging questions today but you get the picture.
What makes sense? Asking about a plug-in to drive blog traffic for you or asking how you can drive highly targeted traffic?
Bloggers who ask the wrong questions seek shortcuts. Asking how to get something to do the work for you is the wrong question. Asking how you can do the work to succeed is the right question.
Why Do Bloggers Ask the Wrong Questions?
Unconscious self-sabotage rules the world.
Everything here occurs on an unconscious level until one peeks inside of the mind. Bloggers are not immune from this mental malady. You and I do things like a robot until peering into the mind.
Querying the wrong topics is a delaying maneuver. Think about it; seeking not to find guarantees blogging failure or at least further delays blogging success.
Few bloggers unconsciously believe themselves to be deserving of success. Barking up the wrong tree allows the unconscious pattern to manifest.
Stop asking unnecessary blogging questions.
Ask the right questions.
Journey into the mind. Spot fear. Seek motivators. Assess worthiness issues.
I struggled for a bit because I felt unworthy of freedom.
I know this through old-fashioned mind training.
I looked into my mind to see the silly beliefs motivating me to ask the wrong blogging questions.
Looking for shortcuts revealed a form of self-punishment.
How the cycle played out: I asked unintelligent blogging questions to waste time which delayed success, prolonged failure and prevented my freedom, amplifying my struggles and suffering.
The entire process unfolded from within.
I had to look at my mind to understand why I asked silly questions versus digging into the essentials.
The world is basically a robot.
Looking into the mind encourages you to choose once again after spotting sick unconscious thought patterns.
Practical Tips for Asking the Right Blogging Questions
Look into the mind consistently to sport unconscious self-sabotage:
- meditate daily
- practice observing your thoughts during the day
- identify worthiness issues
- seek motivators behind blogging questions
Ask yourself: “What will answers to these blogging questions ultimately lead to?”
For example, will one specific plug-in genuinely drive blogging traffic? Do you think that experienced professional bloggers have foolishly missed out on that plug-in and wasted 20,000 hours publishing detailed content over decades?
Think through this fool’s gold scenario. No plug-in drives traffic. Bloggers who write 100’s of detailed posts consistently spanning 1000’s of hours drive traffic.
Surround yourself with professional bloggers.
Network with full-time bloggers.
Pros keep you on the straight and narrow.
Re-read this post. Will you ask yourself the wrong blogging questions after reading this post a few times? No you will not because an experienced pro reminded you in no uncertain terms what the right blogging questions and wrong blogging questions seem to be.
Replay this scenario if you network only with struggling bloggers. Struggling bloggers typically ask all of the wrong questions to go on wild blogging goose chases. Wasting hours, days or weeks in blogging nonsenseville keeps you busy but never nets organic blog traffic or blogging income.
Put struggling bloggers in your rear view window.
Network only with successful pro bloggers to emulate their ways.
Ask the right blogging questions by surrounding yourself with bloggers who asked the right blogging questions.
These folks did not go pro by accident.
Conclusion
Ask the right blogging questions to get on track.
Succeed by blogging intelligently.
