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Have you worked hard blogging-wise and still struggle to drive traffic and blogging income?
You my friend may focus on doing the wrong blogging stuff.
What Is the Wrong Blogging Stuff?
Examples include:
- using your blog to only pitch business
- using social media to only pitch business
- spamming social media users your business via comment or inbox
- sharing updates in groups outside of your niche
- rarely if ever engaging people on social media who engage your content via Likes, retweets, Shares and genuine comments
- publishing thin, 400-500 word blog posts
- volume publishing thin blog posts 30-40 times daily
- covering multiple blogging niches to be a jack of all trades versus mastering none
- showing up to blog as frequently as Haley’s Comet blowing through
These are only a few examples but all lack value, or helpfulness, for a singular, targeted reader.
Two Choices
Either you do what lays a strong foundation for driving quality traffic and income or you do something else.
Evidence of what you do mirrors back to you as sustained results spanning hefty chunks of time.
In laymen’s terms, I mean that the results you appear to see over months then years suggest if you predominantly do the right blogging stuff or the wrong blogging stuff.
Working Hard at the Wrong Blogging Stuff Brings Failure
Working long and hard at the wrong blogging stuff brings failure.
Bloggers who spend 15 hours daily copying and pasting business pitches to 1000’s of spots online will always fail over the long haul.
Why?
Each does the wrong blogging stuff.
Imagine the 1000 daily blogging business pitches possessing a shelf life of 5 minutes. After users scan the updates for 5 minutes the pitch becomes extinct. This is because the pitch adds no value, Asking people for business does not solidify a lasting spot online via Google, organic searches on Twitter or LinkedIn or Facebook and never sticks around niche-specific forums for long, either.
Blasting 1000 daily business pitches nets the odd client or customer – rarely – through the brute force approach but never creates exponentially increasing business success. Blogging parasites desperately try to get money with this tactic. Getters disappear because getting strategies lack value.
As long as you do what does not work blogging-wise it will not ever work.
Doing the wrong blogging stuff leads to failure because each scheme lacks value.
The right blogging stuff bleeds with value.
Examples of Doing the Right Blogging Stuff
Writing and publishing this targeted, long form blog post is doing the right blogging stuff.
Bloggers hellbent on scoring smart blogging tips will come across this post via all of the right blogging stuff I did for the prior 16 years.
Bloggers who want blogging tips will see this post via:
- my email list
- Facebook Groups
- LinkedIn Groups
- potentially any backlink pointing to Blogging From Paradise
The right blogging stuff yields:
- value
- helpfulness
- service
- targeting
Basically guys, when you truly help a pinpointed individual highly interested in your niche with targeted content it is always the right blogging stuff.
This stuff lasts; it possesses a shelf life of years or even decades because it helps people and people want help.
Examples include:
- writing and publishing targeted, long form content
- tweeting text-only updates
- sharing text-only updates on Facebook and Facebook Groups
- sharing text-only updates on LinkedIn and LinkedIn Groups
- recording and uploading short-form videos to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter
- guest blogging
- engaging in genuine blog commenting
- engaging in genuine blogger outreach
Review the bullet point list above.
Each activity leads to quality blog traffic and blogging income.
But following each strategy patiently for quite a while yields the quality traffic and blogging business. No one can pinpoint the specific time frame but rest assured, it’ll be awhile. However, since you plan to be around for a while you may as well do what works and leads to worldly freedom.
Discomfort May Arise
Admitting your guilt in terms of doing the wrong blogging stuff can trigger:
- shame
- embarrassment
- rage
- hopelessness
- anger
Typical emotions include the depression of seemingly wasting years of your blogging time, rage at struggling for so long and hopelessness at seemingly starting from square 1, now, to do the right blogging stuff.
Face, feel and look past each fear. Typical reactions are normal and even seem natural although feeling fear never proves to be pleasant.
The Right Blogging Stuff
Move on to doing the right blogging stuff which involves:
- learning how to blog successfully from pro bloggers
- studying their guidance
- following their guidance
- developing blogging skills
- helping your targeted reader
- building relationships
- opening multiple income channels
- developing emotional intelligence
Follow these steps and you cannot lose. Doing the right blogging stuff lays a strong foundation for your blog.
Each blog post, genuine blog comment, guest post and detailed answer you offer someone is in essence forever because it bleeds value and remains. Each behaves like a brick laid for a large, impressive-looking mansion. You just keep building by helping targeted people patiently and your mansion will get bigger and bigger. However, this mansion can reach the sky and beyond because the online world has no limits. The cyber world is virtual; no limits to your helpfulness and success exist, save in the adventuresome nature of your imagination.
Doing the Right Blogging Stuff Is a Skill to Patiently Develop
Be gentle with yourself.
Exhibit patience in doing the right blogging stuff. This is a skill to develop and becoming skilled takes ample practice.
I can sit down and write this 1000 word post in 40 minutes flat because I have 16 years of blogging practice and experience under my belt. Genuinely, it took me 16 years, not 40 minutes, to write a long-form post pressing on a real need in the blogging tips niche.
Take your time. Baby step your way from doing the wrong blogging stuff to doing the right blogging stuff.
Conclusion
Own doing the wrong blogging stuff now.
If it ain’t helpful for your targeted reader it ain’t gonna help you.
Be truly helpful. Develop the skills required of successful bloggers. Target everything.
Do the right blogging stuff patiently.
Lay a rock solid foundation for your blogging strategy.
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