Blog With Passion
Some bloggers think they can choose a topic and start writing about it and that will gain them an audience. We know from experience that this strategy is unlikely to succeed, because those types of blogs lack passion. Our advice to both established bloggers and wannabes alike is to let the topic choose you, not the other way around.
You would think that we know ourselves best about what we are passionate about, but that’s not always the case. A useful technique to discover what you are really passionate about is to ask your family and friends what they think you should blog about. While this may produce several different answers, it will definitely provide insight that will be useful for you to choose the right topic to blog about.
Look at someone like Donald Trump, you may think he is passionate about money? Although money is probably a top priority for Mr. Trump, I doubt it’s his core passion. Instead, I think he’s passionate about being part of successful ventures that involve high profile people. By surrounding himself with celebrities and other influential people, Trump himself has become a celebrity. He clearly likes to be in the public eye and has cultivated his image as a world-class businessman (whether he is making money or not). Trump builds overpriced condos that he sells to wealthy folks who admire him and has earned a reputation of success. If Donald Trump were a blogger, he would be blogging about making genuine relationships with wealthy people and how to cultivate them for a sale.
Another fine example of a passionate individual is John Chow, who is a truly successful blogger. For those of you out there who think John used secretive evil techniques to get where he is, you would only be partly right. Mr. Chow, from Vancouver, Canada is personally my favourite blogger. Even after a bitch slapping from Google, John continues to dominate the blog world with his record breaking traffic and profits. John, like me is committed to blogging in a very big way. His commitment to provide his readers quality and relevant information on how to make money online has earned him a solid place on the Internet. While I enjoy the vast amounts of information available on John’s blog, I do recognize that he provides only part of the equation to making money online. John’s blog is a must read for the intermediate to advanced blogger. The techniques he talks about will only be useful if you have already found your blogger self.
Conquering the technical side of having your own blog can also be a challenge. Fortunately there are many options available today that allow even the most technically challenged individuals to have their own blog. Websites such as blogger.com, wordpress.org and several others provide a free blogging platform and hosting to anyone who wants to have their own blog. If you desire a more distinctive approach to blogging, then you will need some essentials that include a domain name, hosting account, graphics library, etc. At BloggerBible, we explore everything you need from beginning to end, browse our categories and read the articles that best suit where you are at. If we’ve missed a step, let us know. If our information needs correcting, you can let us know about that too, it’s all very much appreciated when our readers provide us feedback.
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I Think, Therefore I Blog
If you think you can blog, than you can. But not everyone will become the blogger they set out to be. Much like any ambitions one has in life, becoming a successful blogger depends on how much effort that you put into it. For those of you who think it’s a magic formula made up of little known techniques, I’m here to tell you its not. Instead, the recipe to become a successful blogger is available for anyone wishing to learn. If you have a vision to share information that is meaningful and choose to do it through the blog medium utilizing common techniques, then you will be well on your way.
Some people define their blog’s success in terms of how much money it makes or the amount of traffic it receives, but these factors are only the tip of the iceberg as far as defining one’s blogging success. Depending on what your primary objectives are will define your blog’s level of success. If your blog’s objective is to make money and you are making money, does this mean your blog is successful? Well, that depends on how much money you planned on making, if you have reached your goal and what you did to get there. If you had to work twenty times harder to make one tenth of the amount of money that you had planned, then that would be called “limited success.” If your goal was to have one hundred thousand unique visitors to your blog and you paid for half of them through advertising, then that isn’t being successful either.
My point about successful blogging is to ensure that your success is not tainted with dissolution. Anyone can buy inbound text links from higher ranking websites to increase their traffic and blog’s rank. Anyone can spend money to make money and put in hundreds of hours without ever being compensated, but if you are putting more in then you are getting out of it, then you are not successful.
I would like to highlight some very important aspects on how to gage the success of your blog. If you receive new blog traffic periodically and it is on the rise, then that can be considered a successful trend for your blog. Identifying that your blog has the ability to pull readers in is a powerful idea that helps you focus on providing more relevant content. The basic rule is relevant content brings relevant traffic. Some bloggers never understand fully what this simple rule means, but those of us who use it know that it is profoundly effective.
If you are a half assed blogger, then chances are that you receive half assed traffic. I know that statement is going to offend many of you who just realized that maybe you are a half assed blogger, but it’s true. If you are looking for a quick buck, then blogging is not for you. If you are a passionate person with ample time to share your thoughts using a blog, then perhaps blogging is for you.
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