This is a guest post by Karimium, a tech geek and blogger from OnlineBackupServices.co. Find out 5 key-points which worked for Karimium in attaining online success. Following these 5 things could greatly help you to improve your blogging.
With some many A-list bloggers making 6 figure sums on a monthly basis, the prospect of blogging as a career is indeed an attractive one.
I get asked on a daily basis by peers with 9-5 jobs, how I managed to succeed online. I can nail these down into 5 key points, which worked for me, which I’m willing to share with you.
1. Find Your Specialty Area
One of the main reasons for why so many blogs fail to take off is that they fail to serve the core market they initially set out to get. Visitors go to a SEO blog to read the best posts on SEO, visitors go to an android blog to read the latest and best information on android phones.
For instance, there are many general blogs out there that cover a topic loosely, such as tech, and host content ranging from gadgets, web hosting, SEO etc. The problem this “generalism” creates is that a visitor interested in gadgets may not be interested in SEO, and vice versa.
A blogger should attempt to absolutely dominate a market, by becoming the authority and having the best possible content out there. As a generalist blogger you make it difficult to attract the industry experts, or the enthusiasts who only want information on the target niche.
2. Money is great, but shouldn’t be your only motivator
Let’s face it, most of us blog because we can or we aspire to be able to make more money doing less work than a 9-5 job. Blogging is like any industry, there are A-list bloggers who can command 6 figure sums on a monthly basis, and there are bloggers who can just about replace their 9-5 income.
Regardless of that, when starting out, for the first 6 months to a year, you’re probably not going to make a significant amount of money, if at all. For many bloggers it’s an uphill struggle, and can take months of working 14 hour days, 7 days a week to build momentum.
It’s times like that; when if you’re only doing it for the money, you’re going to get disillusioned. Learn to love the process and blog because you love writing and creating great content that helps others.
3. Find your style
There are different strokes for different folks, and different audiences will appreciate different writing styles. A professional legal crowd will need more well written and professional writing style, where as a consumer gadget crowd will tend to appreciate an informal and casual writing style.
However, there are no real rules set in stone. A gadget blog can either be informal or professional, to target different audiences, but not both. Decide on the style of writing you want and be consistent with it.
4. Structure your content
Even as a blogger, sometimes I come across a blog post from a blogger or writer I trust and enjoy reading. But the entire post is just large paragraphs of text, without any bullet points or subheadings.
I can’t help but wonder what direction the post is going, or if I will enjoy it. My general rule for writing for the web is, if a point can be made using bullet points then it should. If it’s appropriate to use a subheading then it needs to have one.
Segmenting a page down, allows the reader to skim through to get an idea of the content. It may be the case that the reader is only interested in one subsection of the content, using subheadings allows the user to find that segment better.
5. Keep going and keep improving
Blogging is a never-ending process, like any art form, you get better over time, and you never stop improving. There are no special tricks or tactics, it’s all about being persistent and sticking to the basics. Writing great content, winning over subscribers, rinse and repeat, it never ends, but it sure is rewarding and a great way to make a living.
That brings us to the end of this post. How do your find this post? Great, bad? Let me know this by using the comment form below.
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nice post Karimium . one should not forget the main motive of helping readers keep that in mind every time while writing
Great post…we should start blogging in the field in which we are expert or have good knowledge…
The most important thing to make a good blog is to love what you are doing. This is actually the most important thing for everything you are doing because if you love what you are doing you will certainly become succesful at this.
The five points you have discussed here are of great help for the success of maintaining blogs. Thanks for sharing this here and will definitely implement them in my blogs.
My advice to bloggers is that they shouldn’t quit their day job no matter what happens. This will give them all the security they need to build a solid income online. Thanks for the advice
Simple but useful tips…the conclusion of this whole article is that make your design user friendly and post quality content on that and update your site with the time.
I have to agree with all the virtues you’ve shared most especially virtue no. 2. Money is a good motivator in the beginning but it never lasts. Passion and love for blogging makes a blogger mark on the web.
Excellent advice, I hate reading entries without any proper spacing – they make me dizzy! I would love to join the ranks of people blogging full time – maybe one day 🙂
A lot of bloggers don’t understand how to be great bloggers because they don’t understand what their users actually want
Money always motivate, but you have to bear in mind that it is not a secure income, remember that sh#%t happens.