After posting the “Seven Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers”, I thought I missed out some of the little-known, secretive habits of the successful bloggers. So, here we go:
1. Volume blogging:
Can you guess how many blog posts a typical ‘A’ list blogger publishes every week? 7 or 15. No, the average is about 28 (that is 4 posts a day). When you post in such great volumes and regularly paced out publishing, the search engines take note of your blog’s update schedule and revisit your blog more often. When you publish a post, say every 6 hours, you attract visitors from every time zone – so, the chances of getting new readership is very high.
2. Value blogging:
Once in few days, they write a blog post that you can not resist reading it at once. That’s value blog post. It might be a collection of tips or resources from the web; you would love to blog about it in your blog pointing to it (that’s link bait).
3. Establish the brand
Successful bloggers place a high emphasis on personal branding. They have a distinct logo, favicon and they brand the RSS feeds – which strongly puts a credible image for the viewers. With a good branding, the marketing is easy. The first-time visitors will always become loyal readers if they ‘see’ a good, branded blog.
4. Run blogging contests
Blogging contests are a good way to create a buzz. The contest participants (who are bloggers) will mention in it (that they are participating in a contest) their blogs to inform their readers, that is a sure way to attract first-time visitors.
5. Encouraging guest posts
A professional blogger gives room to another blogger to write fill-in posts. It is a WIN-WIN situation, where both the guest and the host bogger will reap benefits, because, the readers of one blog would visit other blog and each will showcase their blog in front of a large number of new audience.
6. Two-day, intensive blogging
This is the single-most secret that every professional blogger doesn’t want to reveal. Successful bloggers allot one or two days (just that) for intensive blogging ideas and posts. They develop their ideas and write the posts and schedule their blog posts for publication and forget them. In addition to these scheduled posts, when they come across ‘current events’ - something useful for their readers- they write at once and hit publish. Now, you know their secret of volume blogging.
7. Revenue streams
Every blogger depends ‘Google Adsense’ for making money (that’s the easiest passive money making option for anyone). A successful blogger has at least 10 different revenue streams apart from Google adsense.
My wishes to you for a blogging success.
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