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Every blogger wants to know the secret to a successful blog. That there are so many blogs about blogging is a sure testament to this fact. Searching the web for advice, you’ve probably come across no small number of posts, sites, and forums, which offer tips, tricks, and pointers to bloggers at any level of advancement. Most of this knowledge is helpful, and some of it has probably even boosted your SEO ranking or number of followers.
What you probably haven’t come across, however, is THE ONE BIG SECRET to a successful blog. Unfortunately, there is no one big secret. And if anybody is telling you different, they are probably trying to scam you.
Successful blogs are like successful companies: Research and interviews with CEO’s of successful companies show that there isn’t one particular facet or strategy that them more successful. More often than not, it is the combination of an array of coordinated efforts that finally pay off at the same time.
So too with blogs.
Trying to find one thing to rocket your blog to fame probably won’t work. Yes, there are some tactics you can employ to improve a certain aspect of your blog, but any one of those tactics alone won’t be enough. You need to find the right keywords for your pages to improve your SEO ranking; you need to consistently write great content; you need to network using social media; and you need to do a hundred other things, all in concert.
The best, most popular blogs come from months of hard work, staying active in the blogosphere, posting on relevant blogs, uploading your articles to social media sites like Reddit, writing content that is for a specific niche and always helpful, and many other things. It never happens overnight, and there isn’t just one strategy or trick that the blogger behind it suddenly discovered that transformed it.
Probably the hardest part of blogging professionally is sticking with it when you have no signs that you should continue. Like the movie industry, the blogosphere is insular and hard to break into. In the end, though, the sum of a blog is greater than its parts, and the little opportunities turn out to be more important than the big ones. If you miss all the small things, the big things won’t ever come. So keep blogging, keep networking, keep keyword-ing—you’ll see your success.
Author Bio:
This is a guest post by Nadia Jones who blogs at online college about education, college, student, teacher, money saving, movie related topics. You can reach her at nadia.jones5 @ gmail.com.
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The use of different strategies plays an important role in making a better blog. Providing a great content with targeted keywords is the initial process. Then followed by right marketing strategy using free or paid tools just like social networking sites.
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Exactly, Greg! Blogging is a multi-faceted endeavor—if you spend too much time following one strategy, other areas of your blog might be weak. Keep spinning those plates!
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That’s what happened to me I fell into that trap of just using A handful of strategies to promote my blog. But now I have been using some other strategies like guest blogging and relationship building with other blog owners to boost much Traffic.
Great blog by the way
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Agreed, there are many important techniques on which you need to work continuously to get your desired result and achieve success. You need to decide what is important for your blog and according to that you can select useful techniques to achieve your goals.
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Great point, Aaron. Some strategies might not work for your blog, depending on your target audience or content. It’s important to reflect on the nature of your blog before deciding which path to take to get more followers. Thanks for the feedback!
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Very true, but I also think that you need to take a look at yourself and realize what YOU are best at and naturally talented at. If people in your niche like video and several leading blogs do a lot of video, but you aren’t comfortable with it… you can be just as successful by doing things from a different angle that you’re comfortable with. Maybe you become known as the funny infographics gal or the controversial straight-shooter. ~David Walker
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Hi Nadia you are right it is a very hard thing to break into. It’s funny everyone goes on about how easy it is to create great content and people will notice but it’s no where near that simple. It takes time and as you say a lot of effort spent on the right tasks.
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No doubt that good blogs comes after days and nights of hard work; there is no magic to bring your blog on top, else then choosing right keyword for your blog, I like your great tips on better blogging, if you are updating your content and providing information which reader want from your blog then no doubt you will be famous this is only secret of better blogging. Thanks for nice share.
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Thats true, the best, most popular blogs come from months of hard work, staying active in the blogosphere and other blog sites.Thanks for posting this kind of interesting blog.I am looking forward your next post.
Lots of good points here. It would be great if there was some magic secret that would make any blog a huge success, but unfortunately it’s just not the case. It is worth picking a niche that you’re passionate about, so that the blogging still interests you even during the long, dark periods when it feels like nobody is reading you.
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Agreed 100% that there is no such secret. Yes secret is that one have to do all required hard work and gain all required knowledge concern to this like you says that – keyword research, quality, unique and informative content, using social media etc. and inorder to do all these accurately we must have complete and accurate knowledge about this.
So as per me secret is – Knowledge,Hard Work and Patient.
Thanks a lot for this. Like it very much.
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Ha,
I saw the title and I was set to argue the exact case you made, that there is not one single thing but a myriad of little things that make a successful blog.
if I had to list it is one thing, though, I would say it has to be something to do with perseverance. There are so many people that quit just as a blog started to get some traction. It takes a long time to build a successful blog. It’s not an overnight affair. Many people start blogging thing that they will start to rake the money and after three or four months, and this just is not true.
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Couldn’t agree with you more, Steve. Thanks for your insight! I wholeheartedly agree that perseverance makes all the difference. Blogging (or at least the kind that makes money) is a long-term commitment, and one that doesn’t really start to pay off until you’ve been at it for a while.
I completely agree with you that there isn’t any single advice that can certainly guarantee you that your blog will be successful! It depends greatly on general topic to which it will be devoted, it depends on the number of people who can be interested in it etc. Of course, there are some advice that should be taken into account, but there are no rules….
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Thanks for the feedback, Jeanie! You’re certainly right that the topic of your blog will have an impact on your popularity. Just remember: there’s something out there for everyone, so write about something specific that you love, and like-minded people will follow.
One of the hardest things to overcome with blogging is being consistent with good content and keeping at it. It’s sort of a rock sculpture that you don’t know exactly what the end result will be but you have to keep chipping away and then out of nowhere and when you’re not expecting it, success will find you. Thanks for the article!
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I agree, Corey: consistently producing high-quality content is one of the most difficult challenges of blogging. It helps to keep your audience in mind when writing; if you can anticipate what they want, what kind of problems they are having trouble solving, and then solve those problems, you’ll be on the road to success. Thanks for the feedback!
It’s hard to not be on the rush when creating a blog site. So it almost always ends up looking cheap and unstylish (I know it’s not a word, wanna use it anyway). But sharing these secrets will help those that want to start a blog.
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Thanks for the tips and advice. Though as someone who has just begun blogging it does seem a little daunting. The message of keep going and your hard work will pay off donw the road does seem promising though.
Thanks for the post.
Glad it was encouraging, Dave! It may seem like a juggling act, but you’ll get the hang of it. Keep blogging, and best of luck!
I would like to share the story of one of Sweden’s most popular blogs. The blogger started her blog on the same day a new platform was launched (by one of the biggest newspapers). From day one she wrote several posts a day and continued to do so. Because of this she ended up among the top 10 list that every user who logged in could see when they entered the blog platform. This gave her a PR5 and a lot of her posts could be seen through search engines.
It’s always good to be a pinoeer, to be the first to blog about something, the first to blog at a certain platform. It will give you a head start and it’s easier to succeed from there.
We are still in the research stage of launching our own fitness blog. We know the competition is intense so we want to do it right the first time. This was a great post to read.
Hey Nadia,
I agree, there is no one big secret to a successful blog. I think the biggest part to blogging professionally is consistency. Like you said consistently writing great content and staying active in the blogosphere is the key to a successful blog.
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i agree and of course you have to use other strategies there is no science to blogging jst follow a few simple steps and you will be on your way.. consistent action gets your blog the traffic you want
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Good article Nadia!
The biggest secret is that there’s no secret!
It’s one of the biggest true in many business !
To get Victory you need Constancy…if they were two girls, surely many would commit themselves to get them
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I do believe there are things that can be done to make your blog more popular good onsite SEO, guest blogging, or twitter to name a few. I do not think there is just one thing that a new blogger can do that is the secret ingredient to blogging success. Anyways great guest post Nadia.
- Robert
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Personally in order to last in blogging you should keep your articles new and fresh.
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I remember when I first started blogging it was always tough to continue to write content when I wasn’t getting many visitors. I started to question myself and the goal of my blog.
I’m glad I stuck with it, however; as the years of hardwork are slowly starting to pay off. Like anything in life, you have to put in the time and effort to do well.
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I agree that there are many things that go into a good blog. That’s why I think the single most important thing is actually counter-intuitive: learning to make many blogs quickly. First, if you put all your eggs in one basket and something you do gets onto G’s list of no-nos, you’ve had it. Instead, throw the can at the wall and see what pretty splatter marks you make. Spend time developing the ones that perform the best.
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I totally agree, there’s no big secret at all! Just keep everything interesting, unique and always up to date.. That will surely make you blog successful!
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It’s a good thing to know that you are providing more informative and useful information with us.Thank you for including me here.
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Very true Nadia,
The key to be successful with not only blogging but also many other things in life is to be consistent with our efforts. Many people want instant results. That’s why when they don’t have it, they quit with many excuses. And I agree with you that the whole blog is bigger and better than the sum of its small parts.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I really like it!
Duy.
Thanks for revealing the secrete of blogger, really enjoyed this article a lot, thanks for sharing this with the world.
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