Seven more Secret habits of Successful Bloggers

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.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers:Tips for becoming a Problogger

Who wants to earn a five figure income by blogging? Who wants to quit the 5-day job and work only few hours a week? And who else wants to retire early and rich?

Yes, every blogger aims to achieve all of these and more (money and fame) from blogging. We want the benefits of being a professional blogger - but, do we do exactly what probloggers do?

Here is the habits of highly effective bloggers who earn the money and fame in the blogosphere.

1. Professional bloggers are honest in their dealings: Yes, they understand that you can not mock around if they aim to earn money and fame from blogging. They are very serious about their blogging and they work hard something unique for their readers. Be it the blog's design, content, search engine optimisation or marketing - they give their heart into everything. No pain, no gain.

2. They give before they get: Every successful blogger would agree that there is a certain period of time - where you are expected to give all your energy into your blog. You can not expect your blog to earn bucks in the early days. Those who wait, shall reap big rewards.

3. Probloggers are not afraid of mistakes: Everyone makes mistakes (or shall we call them as experiments or trials?) when we venture into an unknown territory. The mother of all mistakes is 'not learning from your mistakes'. They experiment boldly - try new methods and techniques to improve their blog, different sources to build traffic, readership. They constantly get feedback and quickly learn and adjust their strategies.

4. They have set clear goals: What you want to achieve through blogging? How much readership do you want to build? How much you want to earn? What is the time frame to achieve? Do you have a blogging schedule? Very few bloggers are very clear about what they want to achieve with their blogs. Set realistic goals for your blog - think on them.

5. Money comes last: You get paid for the work you already did. This truth applies to blogging as well. It is very common that blogs do not earn much money in the initial months - but once you have the content, readership and traffic, you will get plenty of money. Probloggers understand this. Do not stop if your blog does not earn quick dollars.

6. Probloggers read a lot: Books. Blogs. RSS feeds. They follow, skim through every possible reading material in their specialty (niche) area. They meet fellow bloggers, attend conferences and learn outside the online sources to inform their blog readers. Unless you read, you will not have authority in your writing. Read more.

7. They understand users: They follow what users like. They track user behaviors on how they respond to a new design, a blog post and quickly adapt to the readers. If you are not in touch with your readers, then you are already lost. They send out newsletters, freebies to reward the users. With readers, you grow.

More importantly, they are passionate about blogging. They strive hard to reach new heights. They would sacrifice anything for the sake of blogging (at least till they retire).

What do you think the essential quality of a professional blogger? Have I missed anything? Comment on.