by Ryan Biddulph | Blogging |
This is a guest post by our top contributing author and travel blogger Ryan Biddulph. He is the founder of Blogging From Paradise, his course 11 Fundamentals of Successful Blogging and the author of more than 126 eBooks.
Do you seem to slam into the same blogging problems again and again?
One confusing aspect of blogging failure eludes you.
First off, lighten up! Bloggers tend to beat themselves up for struggling and not pinpointing the cause of failure. But why would you waste energy in self-loathing when finding the solution to your blogging ills seems like the best use of your time, talents and skills?
The confusion: bloggers fail again and again because bloggers do not face fears in mind fueling failure.
Bury fear. Failure continues. Duck fear. Failure repeats. Be aversive. Blogging failure seems as predictable as the movie Groundhog Day, greeting your depressed blogging eyes again, and again and again.
But cutting through confusing failure with the clarity of facing fear instantly changes your blogging strategy.
Bloggers cannot get over what remains within.
Working 18 hour days for 7 days weekly stretching 6 months does not dissolve the fear in your mind. Observe bloggers who work long and hard for years yet fail. The fear in mind induces self-sabotage and failure no matter how much the blogger works.
Bloggers who face, feel and release fears in mind proceed from a success conscious mindset. Success-focused bloggers think, feel and act successfully to succeed. As within, so without, the talisman of wisdom states. Go within. Observe your mind as it is. Change your outer experience.
Face fears now. Dissolve the fuel for your blogging failures. Position yourself to succeed.
For example, imagine setting an intent to be in a billion places online. Even if the premise sounds completely unrealistic, observe how most bloggers who cling to similar lofty intents, behave. Most write and publish a few blog posts and guest posts then quit on fulfilling the intent.
Fear in the mind of most bloggers holds then back from being in 1 billion places online. Being in 1 billion places online is not impossible but attempting to do so with fear in mind is impossible because fear anchors you, holds you back and prevents you from being the person who appears to be everywhere.
However, gradually facing, feeling and releasing fears slowly but surely goads you to think, feel and act like a billion-place blogger. Perhaps you write and publish 1 blog post today and 3 guest posts today. Maybe you follow a similar strategy tomorrow. At the end of one month, 30 blog posts and 90 guest posts with your name attached pop up online.
A growing legion of bloggers promote each post, mushrooming your presence. After one month you show up in 5,000 places online. Digging deeper into fears in mind allows you to appear in 15,000 places online over your first 2 months.
Blogging struggles are in mind. Blogging success is in mind.
Everything is in your mind. Even the actions you take or do not take are in your mind because humans act based solely on their mindset. Someone appears to inspire you but you mentally chose to be receptive to their inspiration, first.
Truthfully, understanding this confusing but powerful blogging truth feels overwhelming at first because you observe your limitless potential on journeying deeper within your mind. I set a billion-places-online intent a while back. Slowly but surely the intent is manifesting as true.
52,000 backlinks point to Blogging From Paradise based on one web service. But I appear in far more places. Why? I gradually, patiently and persistently delve deeper into my mind to face my fears. Ferreting out fears allows me to be the blogger who appears in more spots. Note; appearing in more spots is not really for me but rather to be truly helpful for you. Intent counts!
Face fears in your mind. Clear the source of continued blogging failure. Free yourself to succeed.
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by Ryan Biddulph | Blogging |
This is a guest post by our top contributing author and travel blogger Ryan Biddulph. He is the founder of Blogging From Paradise, his course 11 Fundamentals of Successful Blogging and the author of more than 126 eBooks.
Pros like Anthony Gaenzle know; blogging intelligently promotes success.
Blogging from ego creates failure.
He published a comment on Blogging From Paradise a few moments ago explaining how 50,000 monthly visitors who bounce from your blog within 30 seconds doesn’t mean anything because they do not talk about your brand.
Ego makes blogging tough because it seeks:
- big numbers
- vanity metrics
- meaningless markers of alleged growth
- untargeted alleged success
50,000 monthly blog visitors sounds impressive but numbers cannot do anything. Imagine 50,000 humans walking past a brick and mortar store, spanning one month. Perhaps 50,000 humans stop for 30 seconds to do some window shopping. But every single person moves on without:
- buying anything
- noting the store name
- referring the store to a friend
- browsing around the store for a potential future purchase, based on their keen interest in what the store offers
The store owner’s ego celebrates such a fabulous milestone; 50,000 humans forming such massive store foot traffic sounds inspired! But actual intelligence knows 50,000 untargeted humans with zero interest in your store do not increase:
- referrals
- significant foot traffic
- business
- brand awareness
Brand-wise and business-wise, 50,000 untargeted, disinterested people who visit your blog equates to zero humans visiting your blog because casual traffic does not build business. But 1, 5 or 10 highly targeted people who visit your blog daily do everything for your business because the 30, to 150, to 300 highly targeted people who visit your blog monthly:
- become brand advocates
- promote your blog tirelessly
- buy your eBooks, courses, audio books and paperbacks
- hire you
- comment genuinely on your blog
- lower your bounce rate
- increase time spent on site
- improve your Google ranking by boosting critical SEO factors
Tap into your limitless, clear-thinking, powerful intelligence. Think this through! I learned this lesson of hyper targeting readers versus chasing worthless metrics the hard way. Big numbers are as useless as zero if none of the people seem interested in your blog topic, brand or business.
Stop chasing big metrics. Publish highly-targeted, helpful content designed to solve one specific problem originating in a single niche. Stick to that niche. Give readers a chance to see you as the authority in that niche. Become a niche authority. Intelligently draw a highly-targeted collection of human beings to you who love your blog content, want your insights, buy your stuff, hire you and promote you.
Think targeting over chasing big numbers.
Targeting readers grows your quality traffic, brand advocate base and business. Big numbers do nothing.
One of my harshest blogging lessons consisted of spending years working hard to attain big numbers but struggling blogging-wise because few to none of those human beings seemed interested in my blog, brand and premium offerings. The ego imagined some lofty number of blog visitors as being the answer to blogging struggles but numbers cannot:
- promote you
- endorse you
- buy your offerings
- hire you
Feeling the sting of failure and being fed up with working like a blogging beast alerted me to using the power of intelligence to think through my blogging campaign. I slowly but surely began to target my readership by writing and publishing blogging tips themed posts on Blogging From Paradise.
I also began guest blogging mainly on respected blogs from the blogging tips niche. Thinking through my blogging campaign to laser target a few highly interested, loyal readers changed my blogging trajectory. People who loved my content and business offerings began to follow my blog.
A small group of loyal people do the work of a disinterested, largely unengaged, 50,000 subscriber email list.
Bloggers often scramble to gain 30 to 50 email subscribers daily but struggle because the numbers 30 or 50 cannot do anything. Hyper targeting your blogging campaign to attract a few highly-engaged, loyal humans does everything for your blogging campaign because these folks promote you, endorse you, hire you, buy your offerings and grow your business.
Plus, hyper targeted readers add a strong passive element to your blogging business. My loyal, targeted blogging readership promotes me around the clock whether I am online or offline. You cannot beat that!
by Ryan Biddulph | Blogging |
This is a guest post by our top contributing author and travel blogger Ryan Biddulph. He is the founder of Blogging From Paradise, his course 11 Fundamentals of Successful Blogging and the author of more than 126 eBooks.
Do you suffer through a blog traffic drought right now?
What channels can you work?
Do you guest post? When is the last time you published a genuine, in-depth comment on a top blog from your niche?
Broadcast live on Facebook or Twitter. Record and upload videos to YouTube, Rumble, and LinkedIn. Promote fellow bloggers through your blog and social media.
Any struggle dissolves the moment you identify, seize and use blogging channels to help people.
Working channels demand a certain willingness to be open to these strategies. Bloggers usually resist guest blogging for a few common fears promoting closed-mindedness. Some fear being rejected. Others fear being criticized. Most fear their guest posts falling on deaf ears. Yet more bloggers fear wasting time guest blogging for readers unfamiliar with their blogging voice. Either you feel the fears to open to the channel or you resist fears to close yourself off from the channel.
Assess Your Blogging Stage
New bloggers generally encounter guest posting difficulties for a lack of:
- skills
- experience
- connections
- credibility
one gains after 100’s of blogging hours spanning months. But new bloggers can comment genuinely on blogs after reading posts to work this channel. Beginner bloggers can easily share blog posts on Twitter and Facebook to plant seeds for prospering blogging friendships.
Assess your blogging stage to find appropriate channels to work.
Advanced bloggers boasting large, loyal friend networks the byproduct of diligent blogger outreach can easily submit and place guest posts if the individuals display writing clarity, confidence, and skills.
Work without a Taking Energy
Bloggers often make the critical error of working channels with taking energy, being hellbent on squeezing as much traffic and profits as possible. Every blogger seems entitled to drive ample traffic and profits through efforts but trying to take or get adds fear-based energy to your work. Bloggers and readers sense the fear and largely stay away.
Work with a giving energy in mind. Be unconcerned with your needs but exclusively focused on the needs of fellow bloggers and readers. Feel free to promote yourself via an eBook link drop or course mention but focus your efforts on generously offering true help to experience the greatest success online. Cultivate an abundance mentality to work a series of channels generously, patiently, and persistently.
Allow yourself to ferret out fears fueling taking, getting, or scarcity energies. Be with trying to take to move on getting fears. Let your natural state of abundance to dominate your work ethic. However, giving freely morphs work into play because giving to give removes the strain and work of giving to get.
Problems Represent Shortages
Blogging problems seem propped up by the idea of shortages in mind.
For example, imagine working a guest blogging channel. Traffic and profits gains sit at zero after 2 weeks of guest blogging. However, a deeper analysis reveals a guest post shortage since you only published 2 guest posts during the 2-week stretch.
Everything improves as shortages disappear into giving fests. Let this concept enrich your mind.
If you intend to turbo-charge your blogging campaign, work multiple channels generously. Consider blogging, guest blogging, genuine blog commenting, and video marketing to optimize traffic and profits gains through the concept of establishing tributary-like streams flowing to your blog.
Picture your blog being a massive river. Imagine a collection of tributaries flowing far and wide, allowing the mighty river to flow hundreds of miles to the east, south, and west. Each brand behaves like blogging channels to work in order to increase your exposure, skills, credibility, traffic, and profits.
Slowly and steadily add channels to your campaign as your skillset expands.
Patiently establish a viral online presence by working each channel generously.
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by Cori-Leigh | Blogging |
Many bloggers ask me how they can learn to write blog posts at a faster pace! If you’re a new blogger it will take time and practice. Do this enough you’ll be posting content consistently to your blog like a pro!
Writing your blog content shouldn’t be a stressful and anxiety-producing activity. If it is – you’ll continue to struggle with improving your writing speed. A large number of beginner bloggers think they have to frantically rush the post-creation process.
I used to take too long to write and publish my blog posts. They never seemed good enough. Fear crept in and held me back from publishing what I wrote. As a result, I made creating blog content a difficult and unenjoyable challenge. Finally I worked on releasing my writing and blogging fears.
With practice and attention to releasing my writer doubts and fears, I eventually improved! It took time to turn what had become stressful into fun again by making a few changes. There are a number of ways that you can learn how to write your blog posts much quicker!
Show up to write daily.
Keep showing up to write and watch your blog post creation speed improve! The path to succeeding in writing your blog post quicker requires you to show up and write! If you don’t you’ll struggle to write and publish anything at all. The more you write daily the faster your writing routine develops.
Once you do this enough it will feel strange to not write every day. Doing this helps you to form habits to ultimately increase your blog post creation process.
Every pro blogger I know became an influential blogger by showing up daily to write. Each one is committed to writing and publishing content to their blogs.
Let go of the perfect post mindset.
Perfectionism will rob you of time and cause frustration. Blogging fears cause the focus to be on perfectionism. When we change our blogging mindset we release the fears that limit our blogging success. This includes areas we get stuck in creating our blog posts quicker and more consistently.
Your post won’t be perfect because nothing is perfect. The reality is our blog posts don’t need to be perfect. In fact the best posts you’ll ever write will be on the other side of fear and perfection. This is where writing freedom is found. When you are aware of this then you’ll speed up your writing flow.
Create a list of blog post ideas.
Not knowing what to write about will absorb your time and slow you down. Daily activities we do provide countless blog post ideas! Creating a list of blog post ideas that helps you always know what to write about for your next post.
In the backend of my WordPress blog here I have a list of blog post ideas. These are ideas I jot down into my phone, tablet or notebook. I add collected ideas to my post list. You’ll never run out of what to write for your next post! When life gets busy you can be blog post prepared!
Reduce unnecessary distractions.
Eliminating or reducing distractions will help to keep you writing at a steady pace. While it may be impossible to remove all distractions there are some that you can change. The internet is a busy and often distracting place for many writers and bloggers.
Pay attention to how much time you spend on social media platforms and other online activities I achieved incredible results when I began being more intentional about where and how I spend my time online. This is also true for everything we do daily.
It’s important to be aware of your writing distractions. Know what they are so you can focus on what to do about them. Doing this also helps you save time so you can accomplish more! When you minimize distractions you’ll increase the speed of your writing flow. Reducing distractions also works free the mind and allows you to focus your thoughts on writing quicker.
Practice free writing.
When writing our blog posts we often get in our own way. Get out of your own way to allow your thoughts freely flow! Many bloggers and writers restrict their writing flow. I enjoy free writing it allows me to write without restriction.
Doing this removes the pressure of your own expectations. Allowing you to unlock your mind for your thoughts to flow freely. Doing this allows you to ease into a writing flow. Allowing for your words to pour out of you. This helps to get your writing process moving.
Write what you know.
It takes time and practice to freely unleash your unique writing voice. Another way that you can write and publish your posts quickly is to write about what you know. You won’t be an expert on every topic.
There is no need to try to be someone you are not. If you aren’t sure of what you’re writing about this will dramatically slow you down. You’ll spend more time researching topics you’re not experience in writing about.
Instead, be you bringing your unique and genuine self into your writing. Writing about what you already know based on life experience and knowledge in your niche area helps! You will write higher-quality posts too!
Create a quick blog post outline.
Blog post outlines or templates help you to save time and create your blog posts quicker. Write down the main points that you want to cover in your blog post. Creating an outline is nice, as it allows you to spend more time writing and less time thinking about what you want to write about.
Even a blog post you wrote previously can function as a great blog post outline. You can use your post outline as a template for future posts. Filling in the areas is easier and before I know it I have the beginning foundations to a great post!
I start with the following;
- Have a basic general idea as to what I will write about in my post.
- Basic title to tweak later.
- Subheadings to fill in with content. These headings can be worked with more later.
- Short conclusion – doesn’t necessarily have to be written yet but I at least have the subheading.
- Encourage my readers to join the conversation by asking a few questions consistent with the post topic.
Resist the urge to edit too early.
While writing resist the urge to critique and edit. Editing your written work is a separate process. Let go of perfectionism in the blog post writing process. Resist the urge to edit while in the flow of writing your post. Doing this prevents your mind from the distraction of focusing on mistakes. Allowing for free writing and an easy quick flow of thought.
While I’m writing I never interrupt the writing process to edit. This creates a mental distraction as you’ll look at what you wrote with a critical eye. Doing this blocks writing flow.
Keep writing until you have more than the amount of content you need. Take out what you don’t need. If you are a beginner focus on writing shorter posts starting out. This will make the process easier.
Writing and publishing your blog posts at a quicker pace;
Is the result of time spent being aware of where you get stuck. Often it is just a few changes consistently implemented that produce results more rapidly.
You can also try writing shorter posts which can help starting out. With practice and consistency you’ll soon be writing and publishing your blog posts faster!
Let us know in the comments what helps you to write your posts quicker?
by Ryan Biddulph | Blogging |
This is a guest post by our top contributing author and travel blogger Ryan Biddulph. He is the founder of Blogging From Paradise, his course 11 Fundamentals of Successful Blogging and the author of more than 126 eBooks.
I spoke to one of my friends the other day.
He is quite well-known in the world.
Being the first out college basketball student-athlete, my friend has also become a professional baller who plays overseas.
The old me would have likely never bonded with him because I shrunk down in fear any time someone of renown reached out to me. How could I ever envision myself as being on their level? Why did I bother to think the individual would want to connect with little old me? Of course, blogging and life, in general, become painfully difficult if you shrink down into miserable comfort versus leveling up into freeing discomfort.
Success sits outside of your blogging comfort zone. Influential bloggers who promote you, endorse you, buy your offerings and hire you to sit outside of your comfort zone, too. How can you succeed if you scramble back to failure the moment you have the opportunity to level up?
Level up!
Move into higher blogging circles. Network with professional bloggers. Comment genuinely on top blogs related to your niche. Learn from pros. Gain exposure in front of their prospering communities. Leveling up gives you access to serious bloggers and readers who do not make excuses usually made in lower circles, said lower circles being the realm of bloggers who shrink down.
I have joined a few communities over the years I had no business joining. But shrinking down immediately forced me to face my mistake in the form of red flags popping up in these groups. Nobody seemed to have money to buy my eBooks or courses. Even more telling, strangers reached out to me asking for money. Others demanded that I help them for free via various favors. I quickly left these lower blogging circles because shrinking down delays greater success from flowing your way.
Leaving these circles made space for me to level up. I began guest posting on top blogging tips blogs in my niche. I also promoted respected, professional bloggers through:
- my blog
- guest posts
- Facebook
- Twitter
- LinkedIn
because blogging birds of a feather need to flock together. Success finds bloggers who hobnob in successful blogging circles. But moving into successful blogging circles demands that you level up, even if doing so feels highly uncomfortable at first.
Nerves ate away at me the moment I considered guest posting for a respected blogging tips blogger. He lobbed an invite my way to level up, unlike any opportunity I had received up until that point. Sure enough, my fears screamed at my consciousness to shrink down from the prospering opportunity. I attempted to reason why he would:
- reject my guest posts
- criticize my guest posts
- tell me how inviting me to guest post was a waste of time after he scanned my first guest post
I am not kidding; each one of these thoughts and feelings passed through my mind. But I decided to level up by allowing my love for freedom to guide me through the minefield of fears surfacing in my mind. Before he sold the blog 5 years later I wrote and published 1200 plus guest posts on his blog.
Guest posting on the blog increased my exposure, fortified friendships with influential bloggers, and helped my blog perform better on Google through the high domain authority backlinks I scored on the website. I received these sugary sweet benefits only by choosing to level up versus shrinking down from opportunities. Nothing would have changed if I decided to play small. I played big by making freedom more important to me than ducking an opportunity based on my fears.
Play big. Level up. Move higher in blogging circles to accelerate your success. Resist urges to shrink down from prospering opportunities to sprint back into your comfort zone of outright failure or muted blogging success. No one becomes free by sprinting away from freedom toward a fear-filled comfort zone. I could easily eat my dinner now and watch basketball for the rest of the evening to keep my blogging campaign exactly where it is, right now. However, my intuitive freedom nudged me to level up by writing and submitting this guest post. No one grows by ducking growth. Bloggers who grow level up across their blogging campaign to move higher in blogging circles, to be of greater service to fellow bloggers, and to walk the extra blogging mile so rarely traveled by most bloggers.
Step it up. Level up. Accelerate your blogging success as you free yourself one limiting belief at a time.
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by Ryan Biddulph | Blogging |
This is a guest post by our top contributing author and travel blogger Ryan Biddulph. He is the founder of Blogging From Paradise, his course 11 Fundamentals of Successful Blogging and the author of more than 126 eBooks.
Bloggers often scramble to publish their next guest post.
I am all for being prolific.
But before you submit your next guest post do you intend to:
- improve the domain authority of the blog?
- link out to reputable sources and link in to rich blog posts?
- increase the reputation of the blog through your content and links?
Admittedly, I have not always kept the concept of boosting blog credibility in mind for my guest posting campaign. But honestly owning this oversight goaded me to begin guest blogging with increasing the blog DA through content but more importantly, linking to high DA, authority blogs in the niche. I hate to say anything is easy in blogging but spending 10-20 seconds to:
- Google a search term
- pick a blog post from an authority blogger in your niche
- copying and pasting the link as an outbound reference via your guest post
is easy.
However, your intent needs to be clear in wishing to improve the DA, credibility and overall trust factor on a blog through which you guest post.
Helping Other Bloggers Succeed Helps You Succeed
Moss Clement has published at least 2 guest posts on Blogging From Paradise that have ranked on page 1 of Google:
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5 Powerful Steps that Will Help You Build a Loyal Blogging Community
His blogging success is not difficult to understand. Moss goes above and beyond to publish detailed posts both on his blog and through guest blogging opportunities fulfilled for other bloggers. He helps fellow bloggers and readers generously to experience blogging success. He helps me. I help him. I help Cori. Cori helps me. None of us help each other with heavy expectations, harsh demands or strong attachment to outcomes. We each know that being helpful:
- feels good
- seems fun
- eventually leads to blogging success even if we are not expecting any specific outcome
Never have I felt any of my blogging buddies need or demand anything from me. My blogging friends help me generously and genuinely. I happily help them as best I can based on our harmonious relationship.
At the very least, submit guest posts with an intent to preserve the credibility, domain authority and overall trust factor aligned with the blog. Link out to trusted, relevant blog posts. Link in to valuable blog posts. If you really want to increase the depth and number of your blogging friendships hold an intent to improve the credibility, domain authority and overall trust factor aligned with any blog through which you guest post.
Bloggers deeply appreciate guest bloggers who do an excellent job publishing helpful content. Even a short-form, 600-800 word blog post that hits the mark in solving a specific problem and sports links in and out to trusted content can help fortify blog credibility. Google loves reputable links out and links in. Readers enjoy clicking through to trusted resources both onsite and offsite. Spending a few moments to link properly for boosting credibility goes a long way for improving the user experience.
Guest blogging with an intent to improve blogs also rockets you higher in blogging circles. Successful bloggers feel when guest bloggers genuinely want to help these pros achieve more success based on the generosity and mindfulness of the guest blogger. Moss and Cori are two successful bloggers who are awesome examples to follow in this regard. I’d add Zac Johnson as another high profile blogger who embodies this concept because he routinely shared his platform for over 14 years to aid fellow bloggers and to promote their success. He helped me move higher in blogging circles by mentioning me on John Chow’s blog:
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Once again, his worldly success blossomed from his generous, genuine, helpful spirit to empower and accelerate the success of his fellow bloggers.
Being generous has its benefits!
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