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What does it take to become a successful blogger?
Going pro never involves doing a single thing.
This is why the popular but not truly helpful expert round ups posing the question:
“What one thing should you do with your blog to become successful?”
confuse bloggers with misinformation.
Blogging involves integrating many moving parts.
Keep these ideas in mind to become a full-time blogger.
A1: Developing Emotional Intelligence
Developing emotional intelligence is the most challenging aspect of going pro.
Becoming self-aware is not easy.
Facing fear feels uncomfortable.
Owning mental blocks? Nobody loves doing that.
However, pros go pro by experiencing something: external blogging struggles begin and end in the mind.
Losing Google traffic overnight reflects an internal psychological attachment to Google combined with taking disastrous blogging shortcuts. Why did you become attached to Google? You developed the attachment in your mind. Google did not hold a cyber gun to your head. Why did you take SEO-optimization shortcuts? Fear in your mind fueled delusion backed by greed and desperation.
Every blogging struggle is mental even if it appears to occur outside-in. Nobody is a victim. Even if someone appears to be a victim life is a mental process because we think, feel and act based exclusively on mental choices.
Before you believe this to be a callous statement (in clearly extreme examples of victimization), the mental process occurs unconsciously for most of us until we delve into the mind.
Thank goodness we’re just talking about blogging and not the seeming madness of this world requiring a far deeper dive into the unlimited power of the mind.
Anyway…..
Practical Tips to Develop Emotional Intelligence
- meditate for 20 minutes daily
- observe your thoughts and feelings from time to time as you blog; how do you feel predominantly?
- look closely at how thoughts and feelings motivate blogging actions
- breathe deeply for 10 minutes daily to expand your awareness
Few bloggers go pro because few possess deep awareness of the mind.
The few who bravely slow down their mind to observe its contents go far with blogging.
Do the inner work. You will thank yourself later when everything comes together with greater ease.
The analogy to keep in mind: old Abe Lincoln explained how if he had a set period of time to chop down a tree he’d sharpen his ax mostly to ease the heavy lifting. Do the same with your mind. Awaken the inner world. Get mentally clear. Make the blogging heavy lifting easier.
As a practical example, as someone who meditates diligently and sharpens my blogging ax I wrote this post in 17 minutes flat.
I wrote my ass off for years to practice consistently.
Yet quieting my stoked my prolific nature.
The thoughts go from:
- mind to
- fingers to
- laptop to
- WordPress Dot Org back office
swiftly the moment you remove mental blocks from the process.
Writing practice? Yes it is required.
But never underestimate the power within.
The mind has not limits.
The body does yet a trained mind does astounding things with the body.
1: Service
Becoming a successful blogger means serving one reader consistently.
Publish detailed blog posts. Aim for one weekly. Write 1200 words – or so – per post. Step readers from problem to solution.
Cover one subject. Develop topical authority.
Solve common niche problems. Listen to readers. Follow top niche bloggers. Expand on similar topics if it feels right. Top pros may have their finger on the cyber pulse. Let your gut guide you in this regard.
Be a servant. Pro bloggers serve freely. Helpful content earns credibility. Practical content establishes trust. Readers dig helpful content as does Google.
Provide value. Become valuable.
Becoming prolific lays a strong foundation for any blog.
Jog the blogging marathon. Invest time. Build assets. Engineer your blog into a trusted niche resource.
Create content offsite through:
- X
- Blue Sky
- Mastodon
- Threads
- YouTube
Connect your blog with the outside world.
Share practical content to solve reader problems.
Open multiple traffic channels. Think cumulatively. Insulate your blog against fickle algorithms.
Google can disappear tonight. But who cares if readers find your blog through 20 different channels?
Be abundant. Never think through the pinhole of Google.
Google is just one game in town.
Open multiple traffic channels by publishing practical content along many streams.
Succeed by blogging intelligently.
Fish with twenty rods not one.
2: Being Consistent
Aha!
Being consistent is the cost few bloggers pay. No one expects the journey to be this long. I did not. You did not. Nobody knows what to expect but certainly no one assumes the long, winding, challenging blogging journey awaiting everyone.
Remember why you blog. Tie the reasons to fun, freedom and the love of helping people. Be consistent by remembering who you intend to be truly helpful for.
Keep readers in mind. Think about how good it feels to help people with practical solutions. Allow this emotion to drive you through thick and thin.
Consistent bloggers thrive.
Everyone else vanishes.
Practical Tips to Be Consistent
- remember why you blog; tie the reason to freedom
- study how pro bloggers ooze consistency
- set a realistic publishing schedule of one post weekly to avoid burnout
3: Being Patient
Patience, my Young Blogging Padawans.
Patient bloggers become pro bloggers.
Develop blogging patience. Do the work of pros but for free. Build an asset. Do it the right way. Add necessary details. Share helpful tips. Publish consistently to develop topical authority.
Build your blogging reputation one post at a time. Do quality work at every turn. Never let impatience guide you. Defeat delusion. Conquer fear. Destroy greed. Put your cyber foot on the neck of desperation.
Be patient. Relax. You will be here for a while.
Practical Tips to Be Patient
- surround yourself with patient pro bloggers to learn through osmosis
- treat your blog like an asset not an ATM
- slow down and calm down; breathe deeply
4: Adjustment
No joke.
Adjusting the blogging sails feels difficult at first.
You did one thing to become successful. But as your success grows it may be time to adjust strategies.
For example, driving heavy organic blog traffic amplifies success. That’s a good thing. But in a world of duality the sweet arrives with the sour.
Generating heavy traffic means manifesting heavy spam. How do you handle a spam tsunami? Adjust. Tweak. Change.
The effective spam plug-in may handle the deluge. Or not. See what happens. Does closing comments after three months make sense for you now?
But wait a second….opening comments for all posts brought you to this point. Do you fear that closing comments will dissolve blog traffic dramatically?
Crap.
This is the tough part.
Let go what needs to go.
Amplify success.
Experience exponential success.
Learn what to shed.
Keep what works.
Change what works. Modify. Tweak.
What about the plug-ins you loved that misbehave? Clear the cache. Still acting up? Disable then activate. Still acting up. Trash ’em. Adjust. The plug-ins served their purpose. But the purpose ended. Move forward. Grow by letting go what needs to go.
Conclusion
Pay the blogging toll.
Going pro comes at a cost.
Pay up to play up.
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