Establishing
a successful blog is not an easy job. As a
blogger, when you succeed, you enjoy a manifold benefits. If you are a
businessman, you will succeed in gaining online exposure to your products or
services. If you are a blogger blogging only for making money online, you will
earn a handsome income. If you just want
to share your ideas and thoughts in the online community, then your blogging
success will help you gain self-actualization. The question is how you can
establish a successful blog. Right? Just avoid the mistakes a blogger makes
while blogging. The most common mistakes you should avoid establishing a
successful blog are:
Niche
Selection:
This is the
first mistake a blogger makes. You know how important the niche selection is.
Never select the niche that you are not passionate at. Always give priority to
your passion. If you really love a niche, you will be able to write one article
after another. Your blog will never fall short of quality contents.
Inconsistent
Blog Posting:
A successful
blog always requires consistent postings. Most of the bloggers who fail, write
very inconsistently. If you post, for example, one article today, and then
another one after six months, you will not succeed for sure. If you do so, your
visitors will consider your blog as dead. So regular updating is a must. Try to
post at least once in a week. Of course, you should give priority to quality
over quantity.
Immediate
Result:
This is
another mistake most bloggers make. Success never comes easily. I believe you
will agree with me that your blog will get a lot of visitors only after a
reasonable time. There is no trademarked time-frame though. The number of
visitors will increase gradually over time with the smooth functioning of your
blog. Only continual endeavor can ensure your blogging success. So concentrate
on developing your blog, not on success.
Writing
Style:
Writing
style is a crucial point in successful blogging. Keep in mind that not all of
your visitors possess the identical proficiency over the language you write in.
People will read your blog only when they can understand your writing. So keep
simplicity; use commonly used words; avoid ambiguity. Pick a relevant title to
your article that gives an idea what about you’re going to write.
Neglecting
Audiences:
You
can establish a successful blog only when you take care of your visitors. We
all know that there is a common term “Content is the King”. I think visitors
are also the king. They have a lot of options in their hand to collect
information for their purposes. If you don’t answer to their queries, they will
never come back and read your blog posts. So try to build a long-term
relationship by responding their queries.
Promoting
the Blog:
This
is the era of hyper-competition. Thousands of scholars are competing there to
attract the visitors. Never think that visitors will automatically find your
blog. So promoting your blog is very important. Concentrate on both on-page and
off-page search engine optimization. Always follow the natural ways to optimize
your blog.
Blog
Design:
Don’t
overlook the importance of your blog design. This is another cause why most
bloggers don’t succeed. If your blog takes so much time to open, visitors will
just click the cross symbol on the top-right corner of his browser and switch
over to another source of information. So make the blog user-friendly so that
the visitors never become annoyed at it.
Money
Making Machine:
Avoid
thinking your blog as a money making machine. If you over-emphasize on money,
you will not be able to provide your readers with the quality contents.
Ultimately, your entire endeavor will go in vain. Continually develop the
quality of your blog; success will come true for sure. It is known to all that
money is the natural flow of the successful blog.
These
are the common mistakes a blogger makes while blogging. Avoid making those
mistakes and create a successful blog.
Thanks for sharing your post. Good points.
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Deborah H. Bateman-Author
These are all excellent tips. Along with posting regularly, I like to schedule each posting so it comes online at an expected time every post day. In this sense I think of my blog as being like a TV show or a newspaper. My regular readers have an expectation and know when a post will appear. If you're the sort of writer who likes to post whenever writing inspiration hits, I recommend writing up the posts and scheduling ahead of time (unless you're doing a news blog or something that requires immediate attention. Less stress for the blog owner and more regular readers who come know when to come visit.
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Thanks Arlee! Oh! that's a great point. I will follow your tips.
DeleteAwesome post with excellent points. Well, writing style is indeed crucial. Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThank you Lorna!
DeleteNice tips you got there.
ReplyDeleteI am still learning how to run a blog properly and one of the things I need to fix is my inconsistent blog postings.
Thanks a lot for sharing..
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