This is a guest post by Mohd Aktar from web designers Taiwan.
We’re often advised that hard work will get us ahead. That’s correct to a certain extent – Working too hard can have a very negative impact on you, as well.
Long hours and the strain to keep doing much more can result in anxiety, depression, burn out.
Rather than just working hard and getting into a lot of hours, why don’t you try to find ways to work smart?
Why?
Simply because smart work indicates you’re prone to get to your goals.
In the early days of my blogging, I devoted my precious time to writing terrific blog posts and attracting visitors.
I was thrilled by every new comment on my blog and spent lots of time checking out Google Analytics.
It was all exciting and helped me grow my blog and my audience, but there was no large picture or a whopping plan behind all this effort.
Professional blogging can be quite rewarding if you have used your blog smartly. For reaching these goals, all you want to do is to work smartly and build a highly effective blog. Some methods behind successful blogging are listed here…
THE GOAL WITH ANY BLOG POST
Always consider what you want to gain from your blog and with a particular person’s blog post before you decide to write and publish it. Some of the goals you might be working towards:
• Attracting brand new site visitors
• Building a community
• Retaining existing visitors
• Starting a conversation
• Selling your own personal product/affiliate product
• Building a contact list/Twitter followers/Facebook likes
• Attracting clients
A few posts that I’ve made since I started blogging strategically are created to get viewers to take action I want them to take, such as, “like” on Facebook, browse the affiliate product recommended or sign-up to the subscriber list.
I REST MORE TO GET 100%
I’m often a bit doubtful about testimonies of people working on 3 hours sleep while they develop their blogging business. Certain, they might gain something fantastic – but I wonder if they’d have done better still with a full night’s rest.
If you’re doing anything remotely innovative or which needs focus, you’re not likely to be at anywhere close to 100% if you’re not relaxing enough. That doesn’t simply mean finding a good night’s sleep – what’s more, it implies taking time off to rest and play. That isn’t “wasting” time – it’s making certain that you can perform BEST in your blogging hours.
SMART BLOGGING TOWARDS SOMETHING GREAT
It is crucial to consider the objective of your blog and what you need any visitor to do when looking at your website. So, refocus your header, navigation menu, sidebar along with other key areas of your website in the direction of that goal.
Carrying this out tactically and implementing strategically can get you from the blogging mode and can make you more targeted towards attaining something great together with your blog. You will spend your time and effort blogging smartly rather than working hard.
If you are a blogger and are asking yourself what you should do precisely, to make it large, don’t get worried; all you have to do is to take the time to check out the successful bloggers in the community, and study a lot of things on the web to have a hang of it.
I hope you like my ideas; it has helped me become a better blogger, and wish it works for you too!
Do share with us your tips or suggestions towards blogging hard or blogging smart…
What is different between SMART blogging and HARD BLOGGING? i don’t get it. so many people do blogging but some time the content is not good for reader are they called NOT SMART BLOGGING? but they do Hard Blogging to post so many article on their blog…
I think that even though being smart can reap you huge results, it still takes time and energy to effectively link build and extend your network. This is especially true when starting a blog: there is no substitute for writing lots of quality content and fostering relationships with people in the related field. That being said, at a certain point, every blogger should reflect on his or her strategy and make sure it’s optimized for success.
Blogging is one place where you require both hard and smart work. I have lot of friends who work very hard but have not tasted success and then disappointed they have left blogging. Your article will help these people to recognize what is true blogging.
Working hard and playing it smart at the same time are both important aspect of being successful. No matter what kind of work it may be, we got to have the passion to bring something that can contribute a lot and touch people’s lives. In doing so, we must also not forget to give ourselves some time off to refresh, re-charge and think of new ideas.
Both these aspects, hard and smart blogging are useful at their own place. Once you start a blog, you need to hard blog, you need to write posts, create bulk backlinks. But once you have a descent number of articles and a base of backlinks, the only work remains is the popularizing of the blog, that is kinda considered in Smart Blogging zone.
blogging smart is always good than blogging hard… for example blogging 5 posts without SEO, keyword analysis, etc… is equivalent to a single post with these and this single post would get more traffic than those 5…
Thanks Mohd for sharing this great post…
Yeah we really have to learn how to be smart bloggers and not just hard working bloggers. You have to be smart in the blogging game to be able to soar high.
Thanks
Till now I have been blogging hard because I created a checklist of several things like Publishing article, Commenting, Tweeting, Facebook sharing but all seems to be waste now I am going to blog smartly and hope to get better results.
Sometimes, I think that it is hard to attract new visitors even we have good quality blog posts. People will just read and leave. It is harder to get people to subscribe this day. I am not sure why.
It is important to learn from those who have done things before us. In the blogging world, it is essential that we take note of what other popular bloggers have done. We will not reinvent the wheel but by learning from others, we have the chance to succeed in a similar fashion.