5 Habits of Successful Bloggers

Jan 08, 2007

Blogging is a serious, and sometimes an agonizing commitment (in the beginning, especially if you keep a close eye on your daily traffic stats). You have to stick to your ground for a long, long time and you have to be really consistent with your postings. Along with that, you have to keep interacting with other bloggers as a quintessential part of your blogging effort. But once you can pull through the initial stage (it might last for a few months) and as people gradually begin to know you and start linking to you, it’s a genuinely rewarding experience, both in terms of fruitful interactions and monetary benefits (ad revenue, relevant traffic to your actual business website, etc.).

Tony Hung, a guest blogger at Problogger has written about the 5 Prerequisites For Blogging Success; that is, 5 regimes that you can follow in order to become a successful blogger. They are:

Time and commitment: Blogging takes time, whether it’s writing quality posts everyday or interacting on other blogs. I can very well relate to problems faced by many bloggers. I have to juggle between my profession work (content writing and copywriting), my family (my wife and my baby daughter) and blogging and whenever there is a pressing problem, blogging takes a beating.
Constant marketing: Along with regularly writing new posts, you have to market your blog, and the best way (without costing you money) is to interact on other blogs and online forums. Make sure your contributions are valuable. Also, link to other blogs as much as possible — this too brings lots of traffic through trackbacks and general referrals.
Sounding interesting: Nobody likes reading boring stuff. As Tony rightly says, you don’t have to be overtly “funny” or “clever”; your content should be “fresh, unique, passionate and relevant.”
Putting your readers first: If you want your readers to take interest in your blog posts, you should focus less on “me” and “I” and more on “you”. Talk about what’s good for your readers. Share with them something that they can find useful. Put a smile on their faces.
Focusing: Be sure of who you are, what you want to write, and whom you want to target. For instance, I constantly write about blogging, content writing and sometimes, copywriting because these are areas of my interest and I’d like to share my ideas and resources with people having similar interests.

Among the 5 points above, the least I’m focusing right now is marketing. I don’t interact much on other blogs and forums. This is something I should take care of these coming months. What’s going to be your blogging focus in the coming times?

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2 Responses to “5 Habits of Successful Bloggers”

John Tan
January 14th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Hi,

Blogging indeed is an skills. To write useful content really need time to research and creativity to write up and interesting content.

I totally agree with your 5 point that we need to focus on what is the topic of our blog or else the people visiting your blog will find that your blog topic is all over the place.

Cool information.

John Tan
Amrit
January 16th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Thanks for the words of appreciation John :-). I’m been a bit away from blogging (lots of work) so this delay in responding.