This is a guest post contribution by Muddasir Ahmed. Mudassir is the founder of his blog at BloggingExplained.com. He has already helped dozens new bloggers get started blogging. His step by step guide to starting a blog is a must have for every new blogger. In this post, Mudassir shares helpful time saving blogging tips
Every single day, there have been aspirers attempting to start a blog, hoping to become a hustler. However, most of them might quit after a few days, weeks or months because of being unable to see the traffic and money.
Time’s changing; if you think you can make passive income from a blog by initially publishing a few posts, running ads and placing banners, then you’re wrong. You can’t expect overnight traffic spikes or hundreds of loyal followers despite never being consistent in publishing and falling in love with the process.
In this blog post, you will learn about 3 C’s that every new blogger must highly focus on in order to become a successful blogger. Let’s start!
1. Create
Creating content should be your core strategy to build a successful blog. Without high-quality content, no matter what you do on your blog won’t help.
A blog with no clear goal or no helpful content to offer to its audience would be marked as ‘thin’, while a blog with consistent content production on a specific category will surely make its presence in the blogosphere.
Don’t try to attract multiple groups of audience with one blog, most bloggers fail for this reason. You may be a jack of trades but the modern audience prefers a specialist who is a master at a single niche. Understand this easy logic to divert yourself from the crowd of struggling bloggers.
Know your audience, understand their intent behind search query or visiting your blog and fulfill it; write a 500-word article or a meaty 3000-word SEO optimized one; it must help your readers. Along the way, you may want to consider tools like Grammarly to create winning content.
Also it is equally important to update your old blog posts frequently to give your readers the accurate information and build trust over time.
2. Connect
Connections are really important to grow in blogging. They tend to get you the guest post opportunity on even top publications like Forbes, Entrepreneur, or bigger and introduce you to tons of new readers. The more you build connections, the easier the blogging journey becomes. You never know who can change your blogging life for the better.
You maybe are holding yourself back from connecting with bloggers because you feel fear and inferiority in your head.
I’ve so been there.
Here’s the deal:
Shortcuts often fail. Don’t reach out to an unknown blogger for collaboration in the very first attempt. High chances are that you get a response with a link to their “advertise” page or don’t get at all. There’s a little success ratio in this way.
SO first connect with niche-relevant or like-minded bloggers on Twitter or Facebook, engage and share their content, mention in your content, or even buy their eBooks/courses consistently. Promote them without expecting anything in return.
Your efforts don’t go in vain; sooner or later they will start recognizing you and might pay interest for possible collaboration. That’s the modern social strategy you need to adapt to befriend bloggers.
3. Commitment
Commit yourself to:
- spending tons of hours to learn skills like researching, writing
- building social connections
- working on blog’s SEO
- helping your fellow blogging buddies
- contributing to the community
Committing to your goals definitely helps you thrive. So surround yourself with pro bloggers and people who are willing to grow.
I can’t stress enough how crucial the 3 C’s are to become successful in the blogging industry. By all means, I don’t ask you to focus on these elements at once; going one at a time could also drive better results. Most importantly; you need to enjoy the process more than anything.
It is now up to you to keep the pace, do well and join the pro benchmark.
I hope this content has found you great! Do you have any points? I’d love to hear in the comments.
Hey Mudassir, You shared mind blowing hacks. Yes it looks simple but very effective and result oriented if we execute them.
Yes content creation is very important this in blogging. without high quality content we can’t anything with our blogging.
Next networking is very important. We have to network with other bloggers in our niche.
Yes, we have to commit to tasks and schedule.
Thank you Mudassir for this amazing post.
Keep post such helpful content. I like your blog bloggingexpalined a lot.
Hey Venkat, yes, while these tactics are familiar and been well-known for us for a long time, it is important that we should thrive to focus and work on them consistently.
Content creation, networking, and committing to a calendar can impact in a big way for bloggers.
Thanks for your love and support, I really appreciate reading and dropping this beautiful comment.
Mudassir, dead on bro, dead on. We need these 3 C’s to succeed because creative, connected bloggers who see the journey through gain enough skills, exposure and credibility to go pro. Blogging really is doing simple things generously for a long time. Few see the journey through. Those who commit for years are the bloggers who go pro. Excellent post!
Ryan
Hey Ryan, thanks for being so helpful all these times, the journey has been fun and productive for me with you and friends like cori!
Thanks so much cori for this great opportunity again 🙂