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Why do you follow your blogging plan?
What motivated you to follow your blogging plan?
Why do you follow your blogging strategy?
Initially, I blogged because someone told me to blog.
Sound plan, eh?
I had no clue in Hades what a blog was. Someone told me to buy my domain and hosting to begin blogging.
So….I did it.
I gave little initial thought to why I blogged or followed my haphazard, poorly-thought-out, non-targeted blogging strategy.
Money largely motivated me even though freedom played some role in goading me to blog.
I slammed into early blogging resistance because I did not get clear on what motivated me to follow my blogging strategy.
What Motivated You?
Currently, I blog to have fun helping highly targeted people keenly interested in blogging tips. My motivator brought me to where I am today.
Blogging From Paradise readers crave blogging tips. I publish content for them daily and share posts in highly targeted spots.
This motivates me. I do what I do to help a highly targeted reader.
Finding this motivation allows quality blog traffic to flow to Blogging From Paradise.
Unfortunately, I did not always blog this way. Being motivated by fear steered me towards making foolish blogging errors during my aforementioned newbie days.
Blogging sans targeting drove low quality traffic to BFP for a bit; nothing much happened for me because disinterested people do not grow blogging communities.
Facing, feeling and letting go fears moved me in the proper direction.
What drives you?
Do you want more traffic?
Or do you want targeted traffic?
Do you want to be popular?
Or do you want to build a loyal blogging community?
Each goal rests on different motivators.
Fear motivates bloggers to gain popularity.
Love motivates bloggers to build loyal blogging communities.
Consider your driver to move in the right direction.
Be inspired by the fun of helping targeted people to thrive.
Do You Blindly Follow Mentors?
Blogging mentors point you in the right direction.
But blindly following mentors without running advice through your intuitive filter makes no sense.
Some pro advice fits your campaign. Other pro advice does not fit your campaign.
Blogging is not a one size fits all deal. Different strategies work for different bloggers.
Following some professional advice does not mean following all professional blogging advice. No human behaves effectively as an automaton.
People possess difference passions, loves, talents and skills. Do what matches your passions and let go all else.
For example, I do not SEO-optimize posts thoroughly because my passion, time and talents best fit other blogging strategies. Our readers verify this. My best work flows to people through my passion; that work best benefits our community.
Imagine if I strained, struggled and strived to do something I did not love – SEO-optimizing posts – solely because pros often advise to follow this blogging strategy? My best SEO work would not inspire anyone. Even worse? No one would benefit from *my unique talents, skills, abilities and passions*, all of which make Blogging From Paradise what it is.
Stop Trying to Force a Square Peg into a Round Hole
Do you dislike some aspects of blogging?
Either cultivate passion within these strategies or let ’em go to do what you love.
Stop attempting to force a square peg into a round hole; it never fits.
Follow your passion to solve a specific problem for targeted readers.
Find your match.
Pick a strategy resonant with your passion, skills and targeted reader needs.
Do You Robotically Follow Tactics with Your Head Buried in the Blogging Sand?
Far and away, mindlessly following professional blogger tactics without:
- assessing your passion
- observing reader feedback
- measuring the effectiveness of your blogging campaign
sits near the top of the most common blogging errors.
Bloggers struggle because few mindfully follow fun-feeling, beneficial, targeting tactics that slowly but surely drive quality blog traffic and blogging income.
Stop being a blogging robot. Successful bloggers think before acting.
Thinking through your blogging campaign reveals what to take from pros and what to leave behind. Blindly doing all a pro blogger advises never takes your intuition, skills and enjoyment into action.
But thinking through strategies seems to be just step 1.
Step 2 demands you to be highly aware of what gradually connects deeply with readers to manifest slow, steady metrics increases.
For example, being passionate about publishing targeted, detailed blog posts lays a strong foundation for your blogging campaign. But you need to see if the tactic actually hits the mark or comes up short over a sustained time frame.
Typically, passion-infused blogging strategies slowly increase traffic and income because your joy inspires you to practice patiently until you profit.
Basically, you blog for free for a bit to gain skills, exposure and credibility enough to earn blogging income.
You need to stop blogging, take a deep breath and assess whether or not the blogging strategy seems to be working.
Pull your head out of the blogging sand. Spot patterns. Gauge metrics. Note an uptick in blog comments. Observe an eBook sales boost. Note more clients or more customers flocking to your blog.
Search Your Blogging Plan for Holes
Look for holes in your blogging plan.
What needs to change?
How can you improve your blogging strategy?
How can you better target blog readers?
Perhaps you can publish more on-topic updates to social media and less off-topic updates. Maybe you draw low quality traffic and need higher quality traffic to build your blogging business.
Honestly assess your strategy to look for weak points.
Be open.
Poke some holes in a plan if need be.
Stop preserving your ego.
Begin succeeding.
Conclusion
Changing blogging strategies can accelerate your online success.
But everything changes only after you ask the question:
“Why do I follow this strategy?”
Stick around for an honest answer to move in the right direction.