5 Indepth Blogging Tips
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When I put together 23 Things I’ve Learned Blogging (with Carl‘s help) I received a lot of great comments. One of the comments was by George Manty of Can I Make Big Money Online. He stated that there were 5 of those blogging lessons that are most important.
1. What’s In It For Me?
For a blogger possibly the single most important part of running a successful blog is to set yourself apart. With millions of blogs on the internet, you HAVE to be different.
When I first started blogging and really learning (I’m still learning) how blogging worked I talked with my girlfriend about it a lot. How I could be better, reach more people, and in the end, make more money. She gave me golden advice to live by.
Why should someone read YOUR blog?
Since then I’ve done my best to set my blogs apart from the rest. This has involved promotions, giveaways, advice, information, advertising, guest posts, and probably even more.
2. Always Show Big Numbers
This is especially important when your main goal is to sell advertising or make money. In a niche like blogging or making money online, this also holds true. In this niche I wouldn’t show a RSS subscriber count under 100.
It may also be wise not to show how many visitors you get or how much money you make. I’ve followed some bloggers who have made a goal of it to make more money, which is okay. However, it’s almost embarrassing to display that you have made 14 cents on Google Adsense.
3. Act Now, There Is No Later
This is a perfect example of the John Cow blog that is now on the market for a buy now price of $45,000. I’m pretty sure they never thought such a silly idea would make them so much money.
Acting now could be anything from a new blog or design to learning about something that could benefit you. Since PayPerPost and Text-Link-Ads business going down the drain, I’ve had to learn about and join lots of affiliate programs to try to make up the difference. We’ve also explored ways to optimize for search engines.
4. Make A-List Blogging Friends
This is something I haven’t been able to do effectively, yet. You won’t see me in any pictures with John Chow or Shoemoney at a conference. Why? Because I have never been to one. A lot of the A listers that you know and read already have made money online, now they just put their face and content on a blog. I haven’t made my money, yet.
Even though you may not have A list friends either, there is no reason you can’t start getting in contact with them or any company for that matter. I have open communication with many different bloggers and company’s that have not only given me great opportunities, but a few awesome contests as well. All it takes is one message or email to get the ball rolling.
5. Make People Feel Important
I enjoy blogging and Blog about your Blog is by far my favorite blog, website, and/or idea. Our readers are great and I love every comment I get. 5,278 comments later (show BIG numbers right?) I still get excited reading each one. That’s why Comment Friday has to be my favorite.
I’ve gotten a little off-topic, but since I enjoy it so much, I want other people to as well. Often times simple questions from readers get turned into an entire post. Or comments get featured into a post, or mention. Anything really to show that my readers are important to me as well as what they have to say.
An interesting post that I put together was How They Started Blogging. I asked bloggers how they started blogging. They left comments, so I then took those comments and put them in a post. Interesting stories of how they started blogging.
If you had to share 5 blogging tips, what would they be?
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George said:
If you find it hard to make friends with A-listers then do what I have done and make friends with people you think are going to be A-listers. It’s much easier to feel comfortable with bloggers who haven’t yet made a big name for themselves, but who have the potential to make it big one day.
PS. Thanks for the link.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:50 pm -
blogengage said:
Overall you have some pretty good ideals here!
I’m most interested in hearing the “Golden Advice” your woman gave you. Did you mention it? if so I think I missed it in the read!
I think a good way to do well is to focus on your blog and not blog about how you can make money!
These guys all made money promoting to young “not yet” bloggers right? So these not yet bloggers clicked their ads, “Start a Blog” or Make Money ” on your blog links and ta da… so surprised they made money!
See all these people try and do the same thing but the market is a lot smaller now and the competition is harsh!
one turns into three and three turns into nine and nine turns into 27.. you get my point!
I stay away from trying to make money! Don’t get me wrong I have ads on all my blogs and at blogengage but it’s not to make money from bloggers it’s to make money from my reader of Google visitors.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:04 pm -
Matthew Henrickson said:
she asked me
“Why should someone read YOUR blog?”
so I’ve tried to do things to be unique etc 🙂
April 16th, 2008 at 7:55 pm -
Felex Tan said:
Thats is question we should ask ourself always”why should someone read my blogs”if i am just a norm out of million bloggers ,readers just stay less than a sec or even don’t visit my website again.I am still learning everyday to be a better blogger.
April 17th, 2008 at 5:41 am -
Travis said:
I have no idea why someone should read my blog. Back to the drawing board! Great post you’ve got here.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm -
Gary said:
The A-list blogger suggestion is a bad one. The fact that you haven’t done it should be an indication of the quality of the idea.
They already have tons of wanna be bloggers trying to kiss their ass.
Make friends with blogs your size or slightly larger.
April 18th, 2008 at 5:39 am -
Geoserv said:
STUMBLED!
I am a blogging newb., its hard to get a traffic base when you first start out.
Thanks for tips.
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George said:
Matthew,
You have a big SQL error up at the top of your blog.
@Gary – I have seen quite a few people successfully do this. Just don’t kiss up to people. Participate in the conversation on their blogs and become an active part of their community. They will notice.
April 18th, 2008 at 12:23 pm -
blogengage said:
I don’t see any errors and I’ve been here about 5 times today!
April 18th, 2008 at 12:31 pm -
Matthew Henrickson said:
I don’t see any errors either :-\ Is anyone else?
April 18th, 2008 at 12:40 pm -
George said:
I am using firefox if it matters. Here is the error message I see.
ezSQL (v2.03-firestats) Debug..
Last Error — [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ 359843, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, ‘US’ ‘ at line 6]
Query [16] — [INSERT IGNORE INTO wp_firestats_hits (ip,timestamp,url_id,referer_id,useragent_id,session_id,excluded_ip,excluded_user,user_id,country_code) VALUES (‘70.139.215.105’, NOW(), 6592, , 359843, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, ‘US’ )]
Query Result..
No Results
April 18th, 2008 at 12:56 pm -
Matthew Henrickson said:
hmm i turned off that plugin, do you still see it?
April 18th, 2008 at 1:25 pm -
George said:
I don’t see it anymore. It’s odd that I was the only one seeing it.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:27 pm -
blogengage said:
I was just thinking the same thing. I even launched the website using Fire Fox and didn’t see it!
April 18th, 2008 at 1:28 pm -
work at home business ideas said:
Excellent tips here. I’ve just written a post on some mistakes newbie bloggers make that can be avoided. Take a look at what are the top 7 mistakes newbie bloggers make here:
Top 7 Mistakes Newbie Bloggers Make
Peter Lee
Work From Home Business BlogApril 23rd, 2008 at 9:19 am -
Cosmetology Schools said:
Thats is question we should ask ourself always”why should someone read my blogs”if i am just a norm out of million bloggers ,readers just stay less than a sec or even don’t visit my website again.I am still learning everyday to be a better blogger Great point!
August 19th, 2008 at 2:47 pm -
First $100 said:
The Why should someone read your blog is a very tough question, hence it should be answered directly through the blog we create. there must be a distinct purpose on our blog so that the visitors will surely realize our blog’s purpose.
March 9th, 2009 at 7:49 am -
Jane @ Limoges Boxes said:
I’m a great believer of #3 tip. There would be a several questions that need immediate answers when you are just starting. You don’t have to answer them all for you to start. Answers will come your way while you are blogging, it is a continuous process of learning and changing. Therefore, instead spending your time thinking, act now to produce an output.
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