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.
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?
I can say for certain that successful bloggers are actually making money from their blogs – a feat that most bloggers will never achieve in their lifetime.
.-= Blogger Den´s last blog ..13 Ways To Encourage Blog Comments =-.
So you’re in side “money as indicator”? Well, ok just state the reason :P. Mostly people here will not accept it 🙂
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
I’d like to highlight the interaction part, because ever succesfull blogger is highly active in his community. Interaction and socialising is one of the best ways to promote a blog and this is in my opinion the measure of a great blogger.
.-= Blog Guide´s last blog ..Introduction to Blog Communities – Beginner Guide =-.
Because keep loyalty is harder than to get it, right? How much % of blogging time do you think a successful blogger spend to interact with reader per day?
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
Hi Gagan
I guess that we all want to be successful bloggers, that’s why I’m reading this post.
Has to be a topic that you are passionate and knowledgeable about and that lots of other people are interested in.
You have to know how to put together a well written post with great graphics.
Then you have to know all the technical stuff with WordPress and themes.
Finally… you have to know how to get your message out and visitors coming in… SEO if you like.
Put all that together add a dash of luck… and you might be a successful blogger!
.-= Keith Davis@Public speaking and Presentation Skills´s last blog ..The eyes have it! =-.
Some great tips here. The quality of your content is very important, but you must be able to present the content in a very reader friendly way plus you must be able to get out there in social media and start connecting with people you target. All in all, a nice way to become a successful blogger over time.
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Agree. That’s also a difference of successful blogger and blogger. Successful blogger successfuly make their reader understand all content even the topic is a little bit complex, but blogger can’t do it.
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
Good points on being a successful blogger, but Iwertainly think you should come up with a different pohrase for “a blogger”.
If you’re sitting in a bar and someone asks you, what do you do? Are you going to answer, I’m a successful blogger, or I’m a blogger.
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Lolz , In my area people are not much aware of blogging , Successful Blogger is a blogger only but one which keeps user ahead then any kind of money .
So I am a blogger but Ethical one
.-= Gagan´s last blog ..30+ principles to a better landing page design =-.
Successful blogger always bow the head and saying : “I’m blogger” when actually their can produly say : “I’m successful blogger” 🙂
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
Exactly my point. The way you have it phrased in the article, saying “I’m a blogger” is a bad thing.
.-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..The $10 Winner And More Good News….. =-.
Already answered on gagan comment, but i find one more opinion :
A successful blogger even don’t want people know that their is successful blogger for some reason.
Now, you’ll get no confuse when answering that people on bar question, right?
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
Yep, I’m just a blogger. 😉
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Thank you for elaborating the difference, yes all are some good point, successful blogger do not think for money they just want to give lots of resource to his reader, a successful blogger need not think for money, their success will bring money to them.
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That’s true. A blogger who truly loves blogging can do it for years and years. Those who are in it only for money can’t last long.
.-= scheng1´s last blog ..Something’s down there by Mickey Spillane =-.
And it’s too bad, mostly newbie have no “successfull blogger” mental 😛
How to build successful blogger mental since newbie? Because in fact, the change from money-oriented to customer-oriented is happen after blog is running and not all blogger success on that changing proccess, some of them is ended as blogger.
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
Thank you Gagan bhai! interesting results to the survey. I think the sentiment about “it is not about you,” makes a lot of sense. Really it is about realizing that social media is a different way of conducting business where there is a possibility of having a dialogue with customers in a public forum. So that the relationship is on equal terms. That public forum will keep both parties honest and shine a light on either a company or customer that does not treat the other party with respect.
I think the interaction with the readers should be of utmost importance to become a successful blogger. I have recently read some great articles referring to some “A-List” bloggers who seem to have forgotten that (Chow was mentioned several times).
.-= Keith@Business3.0´s last blog ..Do-Follow Comments and Comment Luv =-.
It’s so shame if we’re listed on that list. I would like to know, can you search it again and post here? I’ll appreciate it.
Wow, chow again? He is successful blogger but now i think we should thinking it again, as for me :
1. If money still an indicator, he is successful blogger
2. If indicator is all listed above, he is a blogger
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
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