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Blogging successfully requires far more time than you expected.
I mean actually driving organic traffic and blogging income.
I sat down to blogging work at 1:17 PM Pacific Time today.
I fired up my back office to write this post at 4:10 PM Pacific Time now.
What did I do during the prior 3 hours?
- check email (1 minute)
- promote my eBooks, online course and text-based practical tips (3 hours)
Damn.
Why did it “take so long”?
Correction, you Young Blogging Padawan, you.
It did not take so long. I invested 3 hours of my time to do it right. I sent a steady flow of blogging tips hungry bloggers to my blog through:
- my email list
- X
- Blue Sky
- YouTube
- Rumble
- Mastodon
- Threads
- genuine blog comments
I published dozens of updates over the past 3 hours. I did it right. I shared helpful blogging tips. I shared blog post links. I shared links to my online course for sale and eBooks for sale.
Posting text-based content and links to five marketing channels at a minimum takes ample time. No blogger expects to spend that much time doing something that most try to complete in a few minutes.
But this is why pro bloggers go pro.
Full-time bloggers overcome the big surprise of,
“Oh my goodness this takes a long time to do it right!”
to do mindful blogging work consistently.
Pros add the details others miss. Pros connect the dots others do not see. Pros promote content across 5, 10 or 15 channels consistently to send signals to Google. This is why pro bloggers earn blogging income. Experienced bloggers do all the work others skip to drive pure organic traffic.
The Time Element Will Surprise You
OK.
I am still a little surprised at the time element.
Look at the sea lion bull I photographed for this post. I snapped the image at La Jolla Cove California. He snoozed for 3 hours. Good for him. Idle rest. But I just worked mindfully for 3 hours. Big difference. Sleeping ain’t working effectively, focusing heavily on the details, folks. In blogging terms…..ya snooze ya lose.
Where did those 3 hours go?
The devil is in the blogging details.
Here we go. Get into this frame of mind….or be left behind.
Practical Example
I promoted my new blog post to each channel listed above. I shared the link to my 11 blogging tips themed groups on Facebook. I shared the link to my 5 blogging tips themed groups on LinkedIn. I recorded and uploaded videos to:
- YouTube
- Rumble
- X
- Blue Sky
- Mastodon
sharing my blogging tip of the day, too.
Promoting the post and:
- recording
- optimizing
- uploading
the videos took a decent chunk of my time. I invested roughly one hour to meet both of those goals. I proceeded to publish text-based content and to share old blog posts for the remaining hours.
The amateur blogger approach means trying to reach those goals more quickly. But amateurs usually do a shitty job, struggle, fail then quit for being in a massive blogging rush.
Amateur bloggers say, “There has to be a way to do that quickly. I’ll try to find the shortcut.”
Pro bloggers say, “I better invest the time to do the job right the first time. How else can I consistently drive organic traffic and blogging income?”
Failures skip steps.
Full-time bloggers calmly take all the steps necessary to drive organic traffic and blogging income.
But with that in mind, the time aspect of blogging like a pro surprises everyone from time to time.
Adding critical details takes a significant chunk of time.
Detail-oriented content drives targeted traffic and blogging income.
You must set aside the time to do it the right way or else your blog will be ignored.
Looking for shortcuts buries your blog in the cyber graveyard.
No one will find it because poorly-planned content possesses the shelf life of ice cream in the tropics.
Train Your Mind to Think this Way
The more details you add to content the more organic traffic and blogging income you will slowly but surely generate.
Adding details consumes greater periods of your time. But the time serves as an investment in freedom from time and location. Invest significant time now to do the job successfully. Enjoy freedom from time and location as your blog generates passive traffic and passive income around the clock. Yes, even as you sleep, per those lame ads we all know and either love or detest.
The amount of:
- intelligent work
- time
- mindfulness displayed
- detailed-oriented content published
is enormous.
I need to tell you the truth. I am straight with you to dissolve any delusions.
It IS so much time.
BUT if you do it any other way you cannot make money through blogging.
Thin content disappears. Weak distribution strategies draw no eyeballs to your blog. Lazy, scatter shot distribute strategies send strangers to and from your blog as if each plows through a revolving door.
Driving heavily interested:
- readers
- customers
- clients
to and through your blog requires a significant work and time commitment.
No other way exists.
Never trust bloggers who claim to offer shortcuts through this process.
Greed knows no bounds. Nor does desperation. Never underestimate the delusion in your mind or the minds of mentally injured bloggers.
What Is the Upside?
Putting in the time – and work – builds content into assets which work for you around the clock.
The 3 hours I invested earlier today sends blogging tips hungry bloggers to Blogging From Paradise Dot Com:
- this afternoon
- tonight
- tomorrow
- days, weeks and possibly years down the road
I will eat dinner in a few minutes. Bloggers will continue to find my blog.
I will do 2 hours of cardio tonight after doing 2 hours of cardio this morning. Bloggers will continue to find my blog.
I will sleep for 8-10 hours tonight. Bloggers will continue to find my blog.
What’s the illusion here?
I have blogged intelligently for thousands of hours. The smart work compounded into exponential growth.
The 3 smart hours of work I did today does not necessarily carry my blog forward for weeks or months. Or maybe it will.
But the prior 18 years of blogging work I executed – some stupid and some smart – collectively carries my blog forward for months then years.
Here’s one example:
11 Successful Bloggers to Follow
I spent about 5 hours writing the original post. I spent 5 hours updating the post a few times over the prior 12 years.
The post ranked #1 or #2 on Google for:
“successful bloggers to follow”
from 2014 to today.
Does dominating page 1 of Google for 12 years sound good to you?
Focus heavily on the blogging details.
Being detailed-oriented appears to be time-consuming.
But isn’t achieving freedom from time and location over the long haul worth it?
Conclusion
Put in the time required to do detailed-oriented work consistently.
Enjoy the sugary benefits of freedom from time and location.
Call to Action
Do you need to think like a pro blogger now?
Check out my eBook:
Creating the Mindset of a Successful Blogger eBook
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