Differences Between “A Blogger” And “A Successful Blogger”

This is a guest post by Gagandeep Singh of Landing Page Design.This is a follow up of the article “7 Tips To Improve Your Chances Of Being A Successful Blogger!“. In This post, you will find the reasons which differentiate between a blogger and a successful blogger.

When thousands of blogs are being added daily to blogosphere and each blogger want to get heard and earn a decent income from his blog; only a tiny fraction of blogs become successful. Then it becomes really important to analyze the qualities which turn a blogger into a successful blogger.

So in this article I would be writing of some qualities which are present in successful blogger but not in a blogger.

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1. The Purpose Of Writing

A blogger is a person who writes mainly for purpose to earn money as primary purpose and don’t enjoy writing or take it as Passion. But a successful blogger loves writing and always keep the money as secondary goal and content as primary goal.

2. Helping Nature

A Blogger is a person who is more interested in taking from his readers rather than giving but a successful blogger is always very generous. He is always ready to help his readers by providing them great content and try to win respect from them. A successful blogger always believe in “sharing with community”.

3. Importance Of Readers

A Blogger is a Person who uses his blog as a medium of one-way communication. He just posts his views and don’t care about the opinions of his readers. But a successful blogger is a person who always interacts with his readers by replying to his comments and is easily accessible to his readers by email, twitter etc.

4. The Craze For Making Money

A Blogger is a person who doesn’t try to improve the user experience and fill his blog by Useless affiliate programs and irrelevant ads which don’t enhance the user experience but a successful blogger is a person who makes a perfect balance between the free content and advertisements. He only accepts ads which are relevant to blog and enhance the user experience on each visit.

5. Honesty In Opinions

A Blogger is a person who never gives honest opinions about product he is recommending to his readers and influences them to take a wrong decision but a successful blogger always gives his honest opinions to his readers because his readers trust him. A successful blogger always tell about both Pros and cons of products he is recommending to the readers and disclose his relationship with the product by telling readers If he will be getting any compensation for this review or not.

6. The Proof For The Information

A Blogger is a person who never backs his content with evidences, in short people can’t trust him but a successful bloggers provides lot of evidences to support his content so that his readers can take a right decision.

7. Patience & Focused

A Blogger is a person who is impatient and get frustrated when he can’t see quick results. He thinks he is an expert and don’t learn from his mistakes. But A successful blogger is a person who has patience and knows that being successful takes time. He is always ready to accept his mistakes and keep learning from them. In short he is focused towards his goal and keeps working on it.

Conclusion

There are other factors too like Frequency to update blog, participation in Social Media etc which could be included in the article but I tried to focus mainly on the qualities which are related to reader experience. For me each blog where a reader learns something new which helps him to improve his life irrespective of the traffic that blogs get would be a Successful blog.

For Example: I won’t feel that a blogger who get 1000 hits everyday on his blog full of ads but no quality deserve to get called himself a successful blogger. On the other hand a blogger who gets only 100 hits each day on his blog but help readers to enhance their knowledge could be called a Successful blogger according to me.

I would like to hear about your opinions so feel free to share your valuable opinions in the comments and also let us know in which category you feel you are – blogger or successful blogger?

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87 thoughts on “Differences Between “A Blogger” And “A Successful Blogger””

  1. Really nice post Gagan, I think that most bloggers are successful because of the craze for money. They have that vision of making money which drives them to their success.

    3. Most bloggers think that it’s easy to earn money from blogging. It is easy when you already build your site and target a niche. You must have passion for what you are doing to be successful and earning money is just a bonus.
      .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

    4. Most of bloggers thought that it is easy to earn money through blogging. Yes it is, but it’s when you already build and target a niche. You must work hard specially when you are just starting. Successful bloggers are the one who have passion of what they are doing and earning money is a bonus for them.
      .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

        1. That’s why i’m always get motivated when read some successfull internet businessman biograph. Their way is not always straight, there is so many experience of scammed, failed product, wasted time, etc….And also about hard time when their were newbie. It’s so interesting when their find a mistake, do an action, and begin to success. And the way which “What makes them success” is mostly stated on this article already.
          .-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.

          2. Experience build up our success and mistakes are part of experience. I love reading success stories too, I feel inspired whenever.
            .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

      1. Dont worry friend…. Its happy to hear that your going to launch your blog next year… With your great writing skill you will definitely become a successful blogger… We are all waiting for your new blog in this new year.
        .-= Deepika´s last blog ..How To Comment On Other Blogs =-.

      2. What? You’ve no blog but guest posting on some blog?
        First of all, it’s OK and good luck on your plan for making own blog.
        Second, with writing guest post on some blog when you’re have no blog, it’s help you to get credibility and name first. When the blog is launch, i’m sure there will be successful. And actually your blog is not start from zero.

        1. Wow, there is guest post offer already..!!! Gagan, it’s seem you’re a candidate of future successful blogger. Well, we’ll see.

    1. And just to notice. Proper response is about replying question, thanks for first commentator, open to critique and respond it wisely.

        1. We can also reward the customers by writing a post regarding them…

          For example:

          Once in a month you can write post about who comments regularly in the blog and you can also mention their blogs in that post.. This gives encouragement to that blog and also motivates others to visit our site more….

          In One of my friend blog they are encouraging the blog customers in this way.. Really i got motivated through that.
          .-= Deepika´s last blog ..7-Sureshot Methods To Increase Your Blog Readership =-.

  8. Most of bloggers thought that it is easy to earn money through blogging. Yes it is, but it’s when you already build and target a niche. You must work hard specially when you are just starting. Successful bloggers are the one who have passion of what they are doing and earning money is a bonus for them. (:
    .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

    1. Earning decent amount from Blogs is never an easy task especially for small bloggers when they have to compete directly with big media giants

      1. Americans don’t have perfect grammar as well. Just be confident in what you say and use simple words, don’t push yourself to more professional words yet complicated. Anyway, if you still worry with your grammar, practice is what I can suggest. Use the language more often, read english books, watch english movies.
        .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

          1. Yes, the most important thing is that your readers can understand what you are trying to say. But of course, you must try to make your grammars correct.
            .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

          2. We understand your english man, don’t worry. It’s a nice practice to interact with the international language.
            .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

  9. Whatever you say guys i believe that the internet runs because of the craze for money, no one would put up information online with full soul if they had no benefits from that. Have any of you read John Chows disclosure policy if you haven’t please do read it, then you’ll have a perfect idea who makes more money ” the people who want to share or the people who take their share”.
    .-= Vishal Sanjay´s last blog ..‘A bloggers guide to profits’ ebook for free =-.

    1. I am not a fan of john chow , May be you should try searching on google for Jhon chow Scams and you will find some good posts about him and his company ttz media . some recent results are

      http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1601238

      http://bloggerunleashed.com/bloggers/john-chow-unclogged/ (its from 2007 actually)

      His disclosure policy is

      * I make money from every post I put on this blog. If I’m not making money from every blog post, then it was an oversight on my part and it will be corrected soon.
      * Every link on this blog is a paid link. If it is not a paid link, then it was an oversight on my part and it will become a paid link soon.
      * Every product I write about on this blog, I get for free. If I didn’t get it for free, then there was a miss-communication with the company that sent it and I will be billing them for the cost so the product becomes free.
      * I make money from every tweet I send out on Twitter. If I didn’t make money on the tweet, then it was an oversight on my part and it will be corrected soon.
      * If you email me, all of the information in your email is mine to do with as I please, such as exploit for financial profit, use as blackmail, or quote on my blog.
      * The T-shirts you see me wear at trade shows. I get paid to wear them. If I didn’t get paid to wear them, then it means I ran out of paid shirts and had to wear a free one. In which case, I will go to the company that gave me the free shirt and ask them to sponsor it.
      * If something on the Net is making a lot of money, you can bet I will be in on it. If I’m not in on it, then it was an oversight on my part and it will be corrected soon.
      * Just because I get paid to blog, tweet, wear T-shirts, etc. does NOT mean I will give you or your company a positive review, blog post or endorsement. As a matter of fact, chances are pretty high that I might slam you.

      I don’t know whether he makes more money or not and even i don’t care about it . Click any of his link and you would be directed to join a program under his affiliate url

      Its up to you what you think and what your priorities are. So Best of Luck

      2. Whatever you say Gagan, just look at the bottomline, all of us know that he is mean and unkind but can we do anything, he has still made a lot of money and if he wants he can easily sue me. In this world there is no justice or injustice, there is only power and weakness, rich and poor.
        .-= Vishal Sanjay´s last blog ..Attracting traffic through comments =-.

        1. I am not sure whether he make money or not because i don’t know him personally. On internet lot of things are just fake. Why every strategy which so-called Gurus Share with us , don’t work for us but work for them , Its simple because 99% of things are just crap .

          i don’t say he is fake or don’t earn lots of money but Do I really care ?? Answer is No ?? I am not sure what you mean if he sue you ?? why he would sue you lolz ?? are you doing something wrong or illlegal ??

          I don’t want to say anything about justice or injustice, I was just trying to say that keep money as your secondary goal and thats my personal opinion

          Regards

          Gagan
          .-= Gagan´s last blog ..30+ principles to a better landing page design =-.

      3. I have no knowledge about John Chow, I just heard his name usually mentioned by bloggers. All I know about him is he is a successful blogger and earns lot of money but I didn’t know that he is mean and unkind.
        .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

  10. You’re right. successfull blogger love writing and money is secondary. A succesfull blogger make good contact wih they reader and other blogger. a successfull blogger always learn new thing about blogging world everyday. a successfull blogger know how to make traffic to their blog. thanks for article above, it’s useful for me.
    .-= irfan@slumdog millionaire movie´s last blog ..slumdog millionaire movie trailer =-.

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