7 Tips To Improve Your Chances Of Being A Successful Blogger!

There’s about 250,000+ bloggers blogging everyday on WordPress.com with each creating, on average, 1-2 posts. Some of these are bloggers, while others are successful bloggers. The successful ones are those who have a dedicated group that follows them, interacts with them, and keeps visiting them over and over.

Being a blogger is not difficult; being successful requires hard work. Countless individuals set up blogs everyday. They spend hours upon hours customizing them, and installing all sorts of gadgets and plugins. But what they lack is the determination, direction, and will. Over 90% of bloggers will generally give up their blogging hobby after just about a week or month.

If you’re someone who’s thrilled by the whole ‘blogging’ theory and would love to start and be successful, here’s a few tips that should REALLY help you improve your chances of being successful. Just remember though, there’s no barrier to entering the blogging world. But it’s dominated by a lot of very successful bloggers. So if you’re going to make a name, make sure you’re dedicated to doing it.

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1. Establish a purpose

Don’t just jump into the blogging world. Ask yourself WHY you want to start blogging. Is it for personal satisfaction? Is it to make money? Is it because your friends do the same? Or were you inspired by some popular blogger? Regardless of what your choice is, make sure you have a ‘purpose’ for blogging (even if it’s pointless). When you have a purpose, you naturally tend to work towards it and everything you do is a lot more systematic and organized.

2. Create a schedule

People tend to wander off their real aim when they don’t have a schedule to guide them. A schedule sets a deadline for a particular task and can help prevent some of the laziness that most of the people have in them naturally. Grab a piece of paper, and write down the date and what you plan to do, besides that date. Look at the schedule time and again and follow it like any other official timetable. You’ll get more work done 😉

3. Establish a direction

You’ve already got your purpose of blogging. Now ask yourself what you should blog about. You could be completely random and spontaneous, but you’ll lose direction very quickly and it won’t be long before blogging gets boring. So set yourself a direction. And follow that direction strictly. Plan out sequences of content that you would like to create and get them done.

4. Be creative

Monotonous blogging is not the best thing, really. Your aim should be to create content that you enjoy reading. Put simply, if you’re going to blog about something that does not relate with your interests, then you’ll only end up creating posts that are not interesting for your visitors, either. A blog can only get as interesting as the author wants to make it. Give your blog a ‘life’. Write about stuff you enjoy. Don’t consider blogging a ‘job’. Consider it a ‘hobby’.

5. Engage your readers

Interact and engage with your readers. It helps build a dedicated following. Try organizing competitions, etc regularly. Do regular Q&A sessions on your blog. Get to know your readers personally. Refer to their blogs (if it’s interesting and if they have one) from time to time. This not only helps build a regular following, but also compels your readers into promoting your blog. Word of mouth, blogging about it, etc.

6. Be unique

I’ve seen countless individuals simply copying other successful bloggers. Being inspired by successful bloggers is one thing. Blatantly copying them will get you nowhere. Put simply, be unique. Be yourself. Let your blog be a medium that communicates your personality to your readers. They don’t want another ‘Successful Joe’. They want ‘Unique Sam’. So give them that. When you blog as yourself, you blog naturally. And you tend to produce high quality content 🙂

7. Innovate, but not too much

Bloggers think it’s cool to implement/install every new plugin that is released. To be honest, this kind of attitude will only get your blog EXTREMELY messy. You don’t want that. You want your blog to be presentable. Something that calms your visitor. If the first thing a reader/visitor sees is a whole load of useless stuff being jammed on his face, he’ll be sure to click away and never come back. You don’t want that. User-friendly, That’s the keyword. Install only the necessary plugins, or those that enhance the user experience but without the overhead of the extra mess.

Conclusion

I mentioned this earlier, and I’ll say it again. Being a blogger is easy. Being successful requires hard work. So make sure you put in that extra hard work in your blog. All it takes is effort, dedication and will to do it. That’s how the pros do it. There’s no secret to it. Only dedication. So do you have any more tips that will help a blogger be successful? Wanna share it with us? Comment using the comment form below.

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207 thoughts on “7 Tips To Improve Your Chances Of Being A Successful Blogger!”

  2. I think the biggest problem most of bloggers face is lack of time and lack of ideas to produce a unique and quality content for their blog readers

      1. It’s hard deepika, because there is many thing unpredictable on online/offline which can steal our blogging time. For example, you planning to make article on next 10 minute and then publish it, but your sister fall in stair so it’s need to leave your blogging activity to help your sister.
        .-= akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review =-.

    2. Lack of time is big problem, i think it can’t be helped except you willing to sacrify something maybe time of sleep, or playing time, etc…
      About lack of ideas, there is good article discuss about how to solve that problem on this blog (about creativity block).
      .-= akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review =-.

  4. thanks you for your useful article. I blogging to make money. and i spent 30 minute for 1 day. You have good article in your blog. I will bookmark your blog because your article add my knowledge. And i will visit your blog regulary.
    .-= irfan@cinema bioskop´s last blog ..the road movie trailer =-.

    1. Yeah, even I know it, you know it, my friend knows it, my dog but the main thing is that due to some problem we are not able to follow them all and that’s the difference(even I am not able to follow all the rules continuously for 2-3 months). If you follow them all without any problematic reason then you will see yourself a successful blogger for sure.

      2. And if it’s me, it’s #2 (i can’t follow it coz my busy activity and some reason). Well, i’m know i have no succesful blogger mental yet, but i’m always try.

        The list is about fundamental to be succesful blogger, but i wanna add some things :
        Fundamental + Experience while you do all fundamental = Succesful blogger.

        And also, success in my definiton can be divide into 2 type : success on financial and success on build reputation. Both of it is great things.
        .-= akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review =-.

  6. Us bloggers always want to find new ways to improve our sites/blogs and it takes a lot of hard work. If one can be unique and offer different content, then one can thrive on traffic and build a decent community which would lead to making your site/blog better.
    .-= George Serradinho´s last blog ..Serious Monday Roundup #21 =-.

    1. Anyway, and just to remind, “Unique” is not same with “Strange”. When you try to giving something different in your blog, give it but still think of the comfortability of reader, common sense, etc…

      If someone can making the blog commenting shown a different font type and size for each different comment, it’s not unique but strange, and also not comfortable.
      .-= akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review =-.

    1. Nice blogging spirit. Keep yourself like that. Yes sometime i get boring, and get my blog is not updated in a long time. But it’s not mean the blog is closed (even there is an experience about stopping some blog also, but it’s my another blog story). It’s better to have a holiday for blogging activity than to stop.

      When i returned for no update in long time, i’m always make article such “Sorry, for being inactive” or something like that.

      Maybe i will not stop blogging until my purpose is reached 🙂
      .-= akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review =-.

  9. Quick Summary
    1. Establish a purpose –> long and short term, needed to make you awake when you fall
    2. Create a schedule –> and consistence with it even sometime it’s hard
    3. Establish a direction –> so you will not take a wrong way
    4. Be creative –> creativity blog is on there, read article about how to solve it on this blog
    5. Engage your readers –> give thanks for first commentator, give appreciation and bonus for them
    6. Be unique –> and unique is different with “strange”
    7. Innovate, but not too much –> Or your blog will messy.
    .-= akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review =-.

  10. May be all the points sound cool, I particularly like the two points, create a schedule and engage with readers. I think if we are stuck to these,we can have great improvement in blogging.

    P.S:How did I miss to see there is new post at SB. I am late to comment and Akira has dominated commenting in this post too. OMG.
    .-= Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..How To Use Facebook Effectively =-.

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