This is a guest post by Febap Liew from Blogxic.com who is today telling us about measuring your true value in this blogosphere.
In terms of blogging and having your own internet business online, providing valuable information and content is inevitably very important when it comes to building your personal credibility and of course expanding the tracks of your blog and internet business exposure.
However, have you ever come to wonder how you are able to provide such content? How others could write life-changing articles that could possibly challenge the test of time? No it is not by running through endless books or informational sources to gather points, sum it all up and present it to readers.
Instead, I believe the amount of worth you deliver depends heavily on how you measure your personal self-worth and value.
Note that when I meant self-worth and value, I do not mean how much you are ‘financially’ amounted to but how significant are you when it comes in believing yourself and what you can ultimately achieve when you give out.
It is only true that blogging can at times seems like a very stressful activity to comply especially when we tend to compare ourselves with other bloggers out there with the similar niche.
You have a blog that started out within the same time as they do but you noticed them reaching far greater success as compared to yours. You begin to question yourself. You start to have doubts in your ability as well as capability of managing a blog.
Questions Like:
“What is it that they are doing and I am not?”
“Why are they getting a heaps amount of subscribers and comments where else I am struggling even to achieve 10?”
“How are they even possible reached such an impressive rank whereby they started out within the same time as I do?”
Very often time, I believe many bloggers are inclined to be caught up in the ‘number game’ when it comes to blogging. Admit it, who doesn’t? Who won’t be prone of improving the numbers within their Google Analytics, Alexa, Site meter and comparatively other metric tools available?
More often, you are constantly checking on its readings and stats. All in all that you have come to believe that the better the number gets, the more convinced you are that you are eventually doing something right. As soon as you found out a discouraging “lump” on the scale, you quickly began to question about your self-ability, that you are most probably not doing ‘enough’, that you should put more effort in writing very highly packed keyword content based articles.
You work your nuts out, just so you could improve such numerical stats. You ‘abandoned’ the attempt of having to connect with the rest of your fellow bloggers.
“A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.”
– T. Boone Pickens
Therefore, maybe it is time for you to step-back and re-evaluate. Shouldn’t blogging be fun and rewarding at the same time? Shouldn’t blogging be an activity where you get to speak your mind, educate people based on your expertise and connect with the rest of the similar minds alike?
Therefore, how can you truly measure your “worth” and eventually the value of your blog?
By how you rank? By the numbers of subscribers you obtained? By the amount of comments you received?
No. It is the ability for you to immerse yourself in writing rich content and focus on writing what will be worth reading. A drive that will be able to articulate your voice and belief strongly across this platform – whether you are heard by 10 or 10,000 people. Numbers does not matter anymore as numbers will eventually be just numbers. They will without doubt not be able to associate your self-worth and value as a blogger and certainly not for your blog as well.
However, do not for a second think of even trashing the numbers. There are many benefits you can possibly obtain when it comes to determining your site’s performance and how to properly market them. What I am emphasizing is that you should never measure your worth against these numbers. Spend your time planning on meaningful words and contents instead of catching up with the numeric.
Ultimately, your true value as a blogger is based on consequential context that at the end of the day may change the way how people think. – 1 person or more. Does the number even matters? Let me know by commenting below.
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Hi Febap,
I agree with you.
“No. It is the ability for you to immerse yourself in writing rich content and focus on writing what will be worth reading.”
This business does have it’s advantages, and one is enjoying what you truly do and showing your true creative side. You can show your own talent and creativity to the world.
While numbers are very important, they are not everything.
Kindest,
Nabeel
@Nabeel
thank you for your comments =)
true, enjoying what you do is very crucial in determining your success in the long run.
you are right, numbers are important in determining your site performance latter on but it is eventually not everything .
keep up the good work, my friend
cheers
Hey Febap – I agree. You shouldn’t measure your own self-worth as a blogger by numbers, and you shouldn’t value numbers over content or meaning.
Confidence is a key factor here. When you are confident in what you are doing, numbers follow eventually or you eventually find yourself investing more time in something more rewarding for you.
That said, numbers are encouraging, and being encouraged is always a good thing!
@Tia
thank you for your comments =)
yes confidence plays a very important factor here. In fact, I believe confidence is one of the most crucial aspect one should carry when it comes to succeeding. when you are confident, your work and results will ultimately somewhat shine through the rest.
being encouraged is good. it gives us the push we needed to strive further. but encouragement can come in many forms and numbers are indefinitely just one of them.
cheers
I don’t think you can trash numbers. At the end of the day with whatever content you create you want to know how many lives you’ve changed. – “1 person or more” – there’s the number again.
Business is not an art and it is not a science. In fact its a combination of an art and a science. Yes you need quality but if you only focus on artistic quality you can’t run a successful business. On the other hand if you are totally focussed on the numbers, you will lose the human touch with your customers.
The correct stand on this is I believe, the right proportion of qualitative and quantitative parameters. As in life, there is no right answer. There is only the right mix.
@Sammy
hey sammy,
thank you for your comments 🙂
as I said,
” do not for a second think of even trashing the numbers. There are many benefits you can possibly obtain when it comes to determining your site’s performance and how to properly market them.”
striking a balance indefinitely is very very important..but as human, we tend to be ‘biased’ one way or another…if numbers matter more, then it will be so. If content and quality wise matters to you , then your articles will show. One way or another, it plays a part in encouraging yourself to strive harder.. which is good =)
cheers
I have seen some blog sites in which the owners themselves post an article about the “stats” of their blog sites and says how cool it is to be one of the “most visited” sites online, but I can clearly see some of their articles don’t have much importance to the reader at all. I believe that if you write an article for your blog site, the thing that matters most is the overall worth or value that you can learn from that particular article and how it affects one or more persons.
@Felicia
Hey Felicia,
thank you for your comments =)
indeed, there are blogs/sites that are proud of the number it generates but nevertheless holds less value in terms of content.
but at least we are able to determine a fine comparison of what we ought to achieve within our blog / site. Do we just want numbers ? content value? Or subsequently a balance for both of them?
cheers
Hi Febap,
I have my own personal blog site but since I don’t spend too much time on it yet, there are not much articles written there. If ever I would make my blog site as vast as yours (wishful thinking, LOL), I personally think that the value of the content is what would matter to me most, then comes the numbers. Well, if my goal is to generate income, then I guess that numbers would be my priority. Then again, maybe balance of both aspects is the most suited option for a well-rounded blog site. Thank you for sharing your insights, very interesting topic indeed!
Hi Febap,
I totally agree with you on this. You can truly measure your value and worth with the quality of your content.
Many people think that in internet marketing, it’s a number’s game. It’s true, to some of them. But in blogging, I believe that it’s still quality over quantity, just like if you’re doing article marketing. You don’t want hundreds of non-sense posts, instead you want few but valuable posts.
Kind regards,
Gary
@Gary
thank you for your share =)
i started out with affiliate marketing and blogging comes next later on.
even thou both will be able to ‘make me money online’, nevertheless, it takes different marketing strategy to reap its potential.
as you mentioned Gary, blogging does plays a different kind of game as how I have compared it with affiliate marketing .
depending on what we needed to achieve out from it, out attempts will vary.
cheers
Very well said. Number of subscribers can even be manipulated though it still important but not as important as how you pour yourself out through your writing. You communicate well with your readers. I love your style of writing. Kudos.
@Christina
thank you for your comments, Christina
i am glad that you have enjoyed reading =)
cheers
i agree Febap, i see alot of blogs with a high number of subscribers and very little activity. You will get much more out of having a blog were the readers actually care for you.
@ Peter,
thank you for your comments, Peter.
Indeed, it is very important to keep the conversation and ‘life’ of your blog going..really there is no point in having loads of subscribers but little in activity..
🙂
have a good day
cheers
Febap….what I think many bloggers do not understand is that their self worth is more indicative of how their content is perceived. As you mentioned, they are show pre-occupied with the numbers game, their competing blog sites and what those bloggers are doing. Instead, if you want your blog to be seen as a shining start in whatever niche it represents, the blogger should “focus” most of their efforts in providing content that “adds value” to the readers experiences. Engage and debate with those that comment also and not let conversations stagnate. If they do that, their blogs will be tweeted and listed on other blogs as backlinks which will bring traffic and ultimately success.
@Doug
thank you for your insight, Doug
you are right about that. Eventually, how much value your self worth will subsequently present itself from the way your content is formulated.
engaging with bloggers and other commentators is crucial. This ensure that your blog has visible activities going on. in a way or another, this will encourage passive individual to start commenting as well.
🙂
cheers
Very good Febap. For us, at the end of the day, what matters are the sales numbers. We blog for business, so if we are not creating business, then our blogging efforts are useless.
@Collen
thank you for your comments , Colleen
you are right about blogging when it comes to business and numbers are important to determine the ‘value’ of it.
However, we shouldn’t run away from the fact that we blog because we enjoy doing so.. we blog because we don’t want to end up working as if like we have a 8-5 full time job,aye. 🙂
cheers
keep up the good work
Agreed. Blogging allows for working during non-business hours. How many jobs can generate business in the wee hours of the morning, or the late hours at night, or when watching Tv! 🙂
@Colleen
you are right .. the great thing about working online or the fact that you blog to make money doesn’t limit you to when and what time you can earn. =)
true enough, how many jobs out there that allows such freedom?
cheers