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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I don’t think number matter at all because you could have thousands of followers but only a few actually interact with you.
I’d much rather have a smaller community that is almost fanatical about you in which you can easily work with them and help promote each other.
@Murlu
To some, they would prefer as what you said, but I have seen many internet marketers out there that are so fanatic about ‘numbers’, the number of visitors per day, the bounce rate, etc. but comes at the end of the day, they fail to realize that their blog lacks of communication and interaction.. not numbers.
cheers
Very well written. There is no alternative to good written and rich content because in the end its the people who are going to read it. And when someone reads your work and praises it, it gives you eternal happiness.
@Umair
thank you,buddy.
you gave a powerful ‘speech’ there. indeed true, i believe the happiness that you can get from blogging is to know that you have make a difference in somebody else’s life.
cheers
I agree that the content of a blog is a must in blogging. It must be informative enough and interesting as well. There are some blogger who just put their links and no more. That is not a manifestation of competence in the field!
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.
@Erakmanlar
I couldn’t have said enough myself =)
You are right about that. Are the numbers to be proud of now?
cheers
It’s totally true…writing good articles about topics that interests you is a good measure of your value and worth as a writer. Even though you do not have thousands of readers as long as you did your best to write these articles it’s enough and you should be proud of what you’ve done. Eventually if you keep writing quality articles your readers will grow in numbers.
@Hannah
thank you for your comments, hannah
you are right. writing and improving your knowledge and skills in your proficient field of interest enables you to expose your expertise in the eyes of the readers.
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yes,traffic, potential readers as well as well worth potential customers will eventually present itself when you write something that is truly of value
cheers
having quality content that engages the readers are essential in all blogs and even commercial sites, especially if what you have is an affiliate marketing blog which should be able to build rapport among potential customers and turn them into actual buyers of the product that you are promoting
Writing an article is not as easy as what other people think even if they say that they are only writing whats inside their mind..it requires proper declaration of words and it must communicate with the reader..also, I agree that even if you do not have that huge followers as long as you write a good and quality blog that gives exact and accurate information which would be useful for the readers then you are as good a “pro”…And if you think you are capable of all that qualities, then I can say that you really are “WORTHY” and “CREDIBLE” blogger..good day…
Hi
I am totally agree with you. You should not measure a blogger by numbers.
I specially think that, you should be confident and keep faith on your work before posting any blogs on the net for the business purpose. This two things are very important. It comes into positive thinking.
For any successful business, you should keep positive mind.
Hi Febap! I’m at your side. If you put your entire heart with what you are writing people could feel exactly the way you do. Writing is also a form of communication and through it you can impart your thoughts and emotions to the entire world. Through writing, a lot of people can be inspired with your work. So, isn’t it good to feel that you touch someone’s life with your articles? It’s more than a thousand of bucks if you come to think of it.