5 Habits Of Successful Bloggers
NO FARTING AROUND!
Here are the 5 habits that will make YOU (yes – YOU) a successful blogger.
Success Habit #1
Posting Frequently To Your Blog – if you have built up a strong readership to your blog, you want to keep your readers entertained with new and useful information. They will not mind funny stuff, but you want to keep them entertained. To do this, you must blog frequently – depending on the type of blog probably 1-2 times per day is reasonable. Any more and you may scare your visitors away, and any less and they’ll figure you’re not keeping your site updated and they will drift away.
Success Habit #2
Adding The Personal Touch – are you making use of ghostwriters? Do you use article writers to write posts? Yes? No? Are you adding YOUR personal touch to your posts? TELL A STORY! You are telling a story, so add something personal to your posts. Entertain your visitors! Look at your writing. Does it sound like your blog entries are meant for your companies corporate site? Then it’s probably too bizzy.
Success Habit #3
Commenting On Other Blogs & Taking Part In Your Own – commenting has been talked to death. If you still don’t get it – you’re hopeless. Sorry. Enough said.
Success Habit #4
Patience Really Is A Virtue – be patient. Your blog will not attract droves instantly. Some bloggers have been able to pull the rabbit out of the magic hat, but they had a plan in place before they started. If you don’t have the luxury of quitting your full-time job to become a professional blogger – no worries! Take your time at it, the money, fame and fortune will follow. It will take at least 6 months for your blog to gain a loyal following. No, you don’t get groupies out of the deal.
Success Habit #5
Link To Other Blogs – this helps spread link luv, it lets the other bloggers know that you appreciate them and their work and in 99.99% of the cases they will probably link back to you at some point. Don’t be stingy with the links!
Success Habit #6
Advanced Posting – since you’ve been good, here is a bonus tip. Post in ADVANCE. If you can, sit down and do some research, brain storm then write 3-5 posts and timestamp them for future dates. Trust my, you’ll thank me!
There you have it 5…er, well 6 habits of highly successful bloggers! Do you have others that you care to share? Please post your comment here and I will include it in a follow-up post along with your sites URL.
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Nice article, what else could I add? Maybe a “habit” of keeping it clean, be it your sidebar, header, footer or posts. Many many times I’ve come across blogs that are so cluttered that I just have to navigate away, the ads, flash, banners, etc. just make my eyes hurt.
Sorry, my previous comment was linked to the wrong blog. I don’t know why every time I change my URL and it just goes back to megavegalicious.
5 very valuable tips, excellent!
However, 1-2 posts PER DAY?!?!? Considering 90% of the blogosphere has issues with even 1 per day everyday, I really don’t see that as reasonable…..perhaps if ALL YOU DO is blog, then maybe. problogger Darren Rowes does it, I don’t know many others.
I personally set myself up to blog every 2-3 days and promote like heck in-between…my comment ratio over the past couple months says it’s working just fine
All in all, a fantastic post. Thanks
I especially agree with #3
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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
@Anca – indeed! I had my previous sidebar loaded with junk, and then slowly got rid of all the excess. I like the odd items that add value, but if it’s not adding anything why keep them? So many addons add extra overhead, especially those cute chicklet buttons that have a ton of javascript in them.
@Dennis – Welcome! You know, it is VERY tough to post 2-3x per day everyday. I can usually post 1x per day, consistently. If I need to step it up to 2x or 3x it becomes difficult – but not impossible. But I agree with your analysis – post every few days, then promote in between. I saw several of your posts, and it obviously works very well. I will try this out and report back. Thanks for the GREAT TIP!
@MoneyBlog – Welcome! Thank you very much! I appreciate the kind words.
Regards All – Mo & Robert