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…
If you want to be smart blogger, before it you have to be hard working blogger. Because only experience could help to be THAT one!
And someone mentioned rule, which I say almost every day which says 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts. So if we expand on the 20% that is most productive and effective while putting less emphasis on the 80% that is not we can essentially get more done, be happier doing it, and create more time for the important things that make us come alive. So only hard working + talent could create a good results!
This blog post rings true. A few high quality blog posts always beats out multiple, yet average, blog posts. Readers want to read good writing. Readers are also attracted to good writing. Taking time to make sure your blog is in top shape–through interesting topics, great writing, etc.–will help tremendously in the long run.
I like your list of “The Goal of Any Blog Post.” These are a few things I need to remember–and to share with other fellow bloggers! We need to remember that we write for readers as much as we write for ourselves.
Work hard still a good way to reach your goal. Doing research about what you gonna post next in your blog, writing a good article, promoting blog is a some part of work hard. But, i agree with you in work “too” hard. It’s much like you eat “too” much often, and ended at hospital with obesity or heart disease… So, i would like to say: work hard and smart… 🙂
I can completely understand where you are coming from. I too have recently experienced burnout whist trying to promote my website. I too have become obsessed by Google Analytics, and its not healthy. My wife has now advised me to not check it for an entire week, apart from one each morning, rather than the 10-15 times a day previously. Also, google does not appreciate too many links too quickly as it looks unnatural. Slow & steady, drip feeding is the way to go.
I think too that you need both approaches to be a successful blogger…
Part of the process is hard, you read different sources|blogs|magazines to keep your ideas flowing, and then, it comes the smart part.
I personally feel that smart blogging is far better than hard blogging. Most of the smart bloggers can earn more money by following tricks. Thanks.
You should also pay particular attention to the flow of your article. Ascertain it to be comprehensive and coherent. Overall the article should be a balanced, well rounded piece of blog writing. If you want to be successful with blogging you need to work smart not hard. It took me a while to catch on to this concept.
I think your article about the opening of knowledge of good blogging techniques. I want to be a smart in blogging but I know one thing, it takes hard work to get that position.
Those who succeed in life are usually the ones who work smart. I remember a guy in college that was seemingly goofing off all the time but he would always ace his exams, because while he didn’t study much, when he did study, he did it in the most optimal way possible.
Similarly, in a competitive arena like blogging, working smart in the ways that you have suggested is more important than ever as the number of people simply willing to work hard is huge.
-Jean
I would say am currently blogging hard and smart at same time as i just started a new blog but i know hopefully soon the story will change, i do understand that when your blog gets authority you then reduce in blogging hard and then blog smart, agree?