Anyone can take up blogging as a full time profession provided he is willing to work hard and help people in need. Every blogger dreams of becoming a top blogger in his area of expertise but only a handful of people succeed in making it a reality. Having high expectations from your blog at the initial stage of blogging can demotivate you and make you quit blogging. Another reason why bloggers fail is due to their lack of planning. If you want to make money online with your blog, you need to have realistic expectations with your blog. For example, my goal is to increase my followers and page views by 2% every week. Does it sound very difficult to achieve?
In order to make money online from your blog, you need large readership. Gaining large readership count is not an overnight job; it requires lot of hard work and determination. The amount of money advertisers pay is directly proportional to the number of daily visitors of your blog. Having great content is not enough; you need to be able to market your blog successfully. Let us see the things you can do in order to be a successful blogger.
1. Content Writing
Content planning is very important part of long-term strategy. You need great content on your blog in order to be successful. Plan your posts and post regularly to build your audience base. While writing a post you need to consider the audience, importance of the post and length of the post. Not all posts can be of same length. Having a few written posts in advance helps you to bail out in case of situations like ill health, writers block, etc.
2. Marketing your blog
After you have written your blog post, the actual work of a blogger begins. You need broadcast your content to maximum readers in your niche. In order to achieve this you need to have a solid marketing plan in place. In some cases, you may need to use unconventional methods in order to market your content to the audience. Building relationship with bloggers in your niche is one such strategy where you can use the audience of other blogger for your benefit.
3. SEO
Consistently create content that ranks higher in search engine rankings in order to boost traffic to your blog. Target long tail keywords that are having less competition and write content accordingly to attract search engine traffic. Avoid keywords that do not bring any traffic to your blog and help you rank well in search engine results. The major source of traffic for all high traffic blog is Google search engine. Thus, SEO is necessary for long-term success of your blog.
4. Setting goals and deadlines
After you have planned your posts, it is necessary to define short-term goals. Following these goals or deadlines are necessary in order to be successful. You need to set up weekly goals and review the progress of your goal mid-week. Setting up deadlines will help you remain dedicated towards your goal and achieve them on time.
In order to make your blog a great blog, you need to be immaculate in planning, strategy and execution of your target milestones. Are you prepared to work hard, take your blog to the next level and be successful? Do you have a long-term strategy for your blog? How successful is your long-term strategy? Please share your experience with us by leaving a comment on our blog.
