20 Things All Bloggers Should Do
If you’re new to the world of blogging and you want to have a successful blog, whether that means making money from it or just helping others and creating a following, then follow the steps below. I’ve listed 20 things that all bloggers SHOULD do to help them be successful. If you haven’t done one of these things, I suggest you start now! Take action!
1. Write Quality Content – This is the most important thing about making a successful blog. You have to have quality content so people will read it and subscribe.
2. Use your own site – If you want to have a successful blog that you plan on making popular as time goes on, you need to have your own host and blog instead of using free hosted sites like Blogger.
3. Have an attractive, unique theme – Try to impress your new visitors with a nice attractive and unique theme to make a good first impression.
4. Have a logo – You should really have a logo. This makes your blog unique as well as having a nice theme. Try to make your blog different; better than the other blogs. Be creative.
5. Sign up for Twitter – This is a must for bloggers. Twitter is great and I definitely recommend it. It’s my number one traffic source and it’s the easiest traffic to get to your blog fast.
6. Sign up for Facebook, MySpace and other Social sites – By using Facebook and Myspace or other sites similar, you can make friends and share your stuff with all of them. This makes it easier to get loyal readers and subscribers.
7. Create a mailing list – If you plan on making money, creating a mailing list is going to be very important. If you don’t have a mailing list, I suggest you start one right now and get people to sign up.
8. Be consistent – When posting, try to be consistent. Don’t go posting every day for a week then leave and not post for 2 – 3 weeks. Try to be consistent. If you notice all of the successful blogs out there, they’re consistent and keep updating with quality content.
9. Teach others – Teach others what you know. By doing this you gain loyal subscribers and people who like you. You can teach others what you know either for free maybe in return of signing up to your mailing list. You could also make a product teaching what you know and sell it to your readers and make some money from it. If you don’t teach your readers anything they don’t really have a reason to listen to you.
10. Be positive/optimistic – I think this is very important. Successful people have successful mindsets. You have to think positive. Tell yourself your blog will be popular and make you thousands of dollars in the future. If you don’t plan on making money from your blog then that’s cool too, but you still have to think positive to be successful!
11. Offer your readers content in forms of eBooks – Like earlier when I said teach others, you can teach them things through eBooks. You can sell eBooks or give them away for free and get people to sign up for your mailing list to make more money in the future.
12. Use media (video, audio) – Like using eBooks, using media is also very important. Everybody likes videos. Think about it. If you visit all the very successful blogs like David Risley, John Chow, Problogger, Yaro Starak, they all use media. You will find a video of something on every single one of those sites. Videos are what’s in these days. By using media you can also get more traffic to your site by spreading videos around.
13. Comment on other blogs – Commenting on other blogs is a good way to get some traffic when you’re first starting your blog. Interact with others and be an active part of the community. You’ll become more widely-known and get more traffic.
14. Make guest posts – Make guest posts on other successful blogs in your niche. This is a great way to become more known and get traffic to your blog.
15. Hold contests – Hold contests on your blog. This is a great way to get more subscribers for your blog. You can give away cash or cool toys like phones, cameras, etc. You can get traffic this way. For instance, telling your readers that in order to join the contest, they have to retweet something, or they have to subscribe to your blog, and so on.
16. Get involved in forums – Getting involved in forums can bring you some decent traffic to your blog. I suggest creating an account at Digital Point. You will learn a lot here and get traffic to your blog. Interact with everybody. Help people by answering questions and being nice. You will make friends this way as well and they could become loyal readers to your blog.
17. Help other blogs or people – Help other bloggers or people in your niche. By helping others, good things will happen in return. More people will do things for you.
These last three are very important to success online.
18. Set goals – In the world of the internet, if you want to be successful you need to set goals so you know where you’re going. Set goals of how many subscribers you want, twitter followers, how much money you want to make. Set these goals and try your hardest to achieve them. This makes things a lot easier.
19. Take action – Once you’ve set some goals, take action! I even have problems with this. I think this is the most important step online to be successful. Take action! Don’t tell yourself, “Oh, I’ll start a blog this summer,” or “I’ll do it tomorrow or next week.” No! Start now. You can get your blog up within a few hours! Stop being lazy. You won’t get anywhere putting things off online. It’s that simple.
If you’re planning on writing an eBook or doing something new to make money online, just do it. If it fails, then you’ve only learned how not to do it. Start over again and keep trying. Don’t give up.
20. Work hard – And of course, work hard! Once you decide to take action, you need to work hard to get things done. The harder you work the easier things will become and the faster you’ll see results.
Think there’s anything I left off this list? Add some things below.
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Setting goals and taking action to get your name out there and move forward is extremely essential. I agree with all 20 of these points, as they are all essential for getting your name out there and building a great brand.
well its all right, but the crucial part I think is doing each in the right time…
You’ve covered all that I’ve learnt in the past 2 months of my blogging experience
Agree with Melvin, that it should be done right each time!
Cheers
Sandeep
You pretty much cover almost everything in this one post. For number 20 you forgot to add work smarter. Find ways to make things easier.
Keep up the awesome content.
I think I need to do some things !
I need to redesign the logo !
Is it nice ?
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That is certainly a lot work for a blogger
This pretty much sums up the life of a dedicated blogger. Now who say it was easy? ^^ I need to show this to all my non-blogger friends. But yet again, I doubt they would ever understand. =P
Thanks for sharing! Stumbled.
@wchingya
social media/blogging
Wow, this post is so motivational!
And especially this about setting goals and then working hard to achieve them.
That’s definitely the most important part of all!
btw, Stumbled!
hi, i have enjoyed reading this post very much. i have retweeted this post. following and subscribing.
anyway, you have given me an idea. i have a personal fb account. i also have a myspace account which is not so personal. i might use that to promote my blog.
thanks.
@Gennice, Thank you! Glad I could motivate you.
@Ching Ya, I know what you mean. My non blogging friends don’t really care so their loss
@S.Pradeep Kumar, I think your logo is nice. I like the text
Great tips thanks
your all twenty points are very effective and impressive. you have described very well about the way of blogging. Really that things should be follow.very helpful post.
Definitely agree with all 20..as obvious as some of them are, a lot of people don’t even think about them. Always need constant reminders
Nice post, straight to the point, no unnecessary writing. Keep it up!
Each one of the twenty points is so incredibly valuable for people like me who are just starting. THANK YOU so much!
Another thing what bloggers should do is writing reviews. I think that reviews are very popular among blog readers, if the review is made about a product or service that is similar to the blogs niche.
I’m not sure if it really is that important to have a mailing list. What can you make money on through this list besides the methods on your blog?
Great list. The 17th, “help other blogs or people”, this is really a nice point.
I think a unique theme is really important, not only does your visitor feel more of a connection but you also learn a bit of HTML, CSS and maybe even PHP which can’t hurt.
These 20 things are really effective and helps to increase traffic. I’ll do these for my blog. Thanks.
I think every newbie blogger should this post, It is really helpful. For me quality content matters a lot because it can give you good ranking on google
I added your blog to bookmarks. And i’ll read your articles more often!