by Ryan Biddulph | Blogging |
This is a guest post by Ryan Biddulph. He shares smart blogging tips at Blogging From Paradise.
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 Ryan Biddulph. He shares smart blogging tips at Blogging From Paradise.
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.
by Greg Narayan | Blogging, Get Blog Traffic, How to Start a Blog That Grows Itself Someday |
This is a guest post written by Greg Narayan. He is a blogger, teacher, and web designer. Beginner bloggers think that getting organic blog traffic is a process that comes later on in your blogs life. After you write posts, choose the imagery, craft your about page, etc etc. The truth is that getting organic traffic starts the moment you start a blog in the first place!
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by Ryan Biddulph | Blogging |
This is a guest post by Ryan Biddulph. He shares smart blogging tips at Blogging From Paradise.
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.
by Ryan Biddulph | Blogging, Guest Posts |
This is a guest post by Ryan Biddulph. He shares smart blogging tips at Blogging From Paradise.
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:
Top 6 Blog Mistakes for Online Business
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:
3 Ways to Improve Site Content with Online Video
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!
by Ryan Biddulph | Blogging |
This is a guest post by Ryan Biddulph. He shares smart blogging tips at Blogging From Paradise.
Me and my wife just arrived to our new travel location.
We will spend 2 weeks by the Jersey shore.
But this Jersey shore is quite different than the Jersey Shore much of the world knows. Before you picture Coppertone, characters and club kid crazies, we are spending time in one of the more exclusive regions of zip codes in the United States. Bruce Springsteen lives a few minutes from us on his 400 acre farm. One farm close by just got listed at $28 million USD.
As a rule, people who live in this area became highly successful not solely by working hard but by letting go whatever held them back. Massive success meets people who release old ways of thinking, feeling, acting and living.
Paying close attention to happy, thriving individuals reveals an evolution from holding on to much toward releasing much. Success tends to be more about releasing than acquiring. For bloggers this means releasing old states of mind, old ways of thinking and old, worn out strategies to accelerate your success.
I vividly recall attempting to drive heavy blog traffic solely by volume publishing 20 to 30 thin blog posts daily nearly a decade ago. My failure consciousness dominated decisions during my early blogging days. I released the volume publishing approach to publish more robust, thorough content less frequently to my blog.
But I eventually released publishing posts solely to my blog. I decided to publish posts on Blogging From Paradise and other blogs related to my niche via guest posting. Gradually I released using social media heavily to engage in a prolific, genuine blog commenting campaign. The process continues; I routinely let go in order to grow.
Letting go precedes acquiring.
Allow this idea to sear itself onto your mind. Picture someone using a branding iron to impress the concept onto your consciousness.
What can you release to accelerate your blogging success? Asses ego for excuses. Observe limiting beliefs stifling your blogging growth. Let go worn out habits. Release unintelligent strategies. I formerly published blog posts and guest posts linking to one blog post, eBook or course. However, releasing this less abundant approach goaded me to link in and out multiple times through each blog post and guest post.
Why not promote a high number of helpful posts via a single blog post or guest post?
Google loves rich links in and links out of course but readers also appreciate thorough resources to add credibility and increased research materials to every post you publish. Skipping this step hurt me in the past but adding this step greatly benefitted my blogging career.
Blogging becomes easier by letting go what needs to go. Blogging feels tougher by clinging to what seems to be outgrown.
Assess your blogging campaign.
Do you need to release publishing posts only to your blog to make room for guest posting? Perhaps you need to move higher in blogging circles by releasing struggling bloggers from your network. Bloggers tend to bond with struggling bloggers during their beginner days. But some stall while others flourish. Toss your uncomfortable feelings aside to let go anyone who either appears to hold you back or does little to accelerate your blogging growth.
Surround yourself with successful bloggers. Release failing bloggers. Learn from the best to become the best.
Letting go feels scary. Releasing feels highly uncomfortable. Will the new strategy work? Will you waste time? Or will you waste money? Will bloggers prefer your new theme? Will the developer hit the mark? Doubts arise on releasing the old and worn out but growth is in release, not in holding on or clinging to what needs to go.
Trash blogging garbage. Seize blogging treasures.
Grab opportunities for growth by emptying your hands of stale blogging activities.
SEO-optimizing long-form posts felt good to me for a bit but turned stagnant recently. I released the tactic. Guest posting popped up in my mind as the prime idea to explore going forward. But I never would have pondered guest posting if my blogging hands were full with SEO-optimizing long-form blog posts.
Let go to grow.
