7 Secret Ingredients To Make You ASuccessful Blogger

These secret ingredients are:

1. You have to keep working at it

You just can't give up. Not now and not ever.

When you give up, you are giving someone

else one less spot to compete for. Successful

bloggers have learnt to keep pushing until

they achieve their goal. Life would happen.

Anything that can go wrong will possibly go

wrong but it is only when you are persistent

that you can truly be successful.

2. Learn to promote others but promote

yourself more

As a buddy blogger, you may think the secret

to success is to talk about other people but

you are wrong. When starting out, you need

to get word out about your blog. This means

focusing greatly on promoting your blog

because you need to establish yourself as

someone to reckon with. Granted you need

once in a while to promote others in order to

build relationships with them but do not

make it an obsession or focus more on it.

You are building your own reputation so talk

about your stuff more.

3. Do not ignore all other marketing

channels

One grave mistake most bloggers make is not

leveraging other marketing channels to grow

their blog. Once they push the publish

button, they run off to start writing the next

post but you cannot grow your blog that

way. You need to drive traffic to and through

your blog using various other means. Paid

advert eg Facebook ads, can quickly give

your blog post traction. Social media

presence is a necessary evil and SEO is a

must. For SEO, we do not mean all the

advanced stuffs like link building etc but the

most basic stuffs like including your keyword

in your title and naming your images with

the alt tag.You can download the Google

SEO ebook to master the basics.

4. Be yourself

You must understand who you are and learn

how to turn it into an advantage. What do

you know best? Are you better at creating

graphics? When and how do you write best?

What kind of articles comes easily to you to

write about? For examples, blog topics hit

me at any time so immediately this happens,

the first thing I do is to write down my first

draft using my smart phone. When I think I

have the skeleton of the post written only

then do I transfer it to my desktop to

complete. This has worked so well for me

that I rarely ever sit down at my desktop to

try to write a new post.

5. Identify your niche

Another grave mistake bloggers make is

trying to be everything to everyone. Just

because entertainment news is hot cake does

not mean you should join the bandwagon.

When you do that you can get lost in the

crowd. To truly make a name for yourself,

you need to identify which niche makes the

most sense for you. It could be because of

your passion. It could be that you are

knowledgeable about the niche but you must

pick a particular niche and stay with it. If

you are writing about technology, write

technology. If you want to focus on food,

focus on it. Don't be a jack of all trade and

master of none.

6. Start Collecting emails as soon as you

can

Okay, these may sound a little advanced but

from the very first day you start your blog,

start thinking of how you intend to collect

emails from your readers. Eventually these

emails are going to remain the only medium

by which you can build a lasting relationship

with your readers. Not everyone will visit your

blog every day and yet they would not mind

hearing from you. So get into the lead

generation game early. For starters, you can

add Feedburner email subscription form to

your blog.

7. Find a mentor or steal one

If you are lucky you may find someone to

mentor you but that may not be the case

especially if you are a newbie. What can you

do? Steal one. Identify two bloggers in your

niche that are successful then make it a

point of duty to study them. Visit their blog

every day. Follow them on social media.

Understand how to write, what they write

about and who their audience is. Then go

replicate them only do it better.

To wrap it up the only difference between a

successful blogger and the average blogger is

the persistence, dedication, amount of time

you put into your blog and the ability to keep

going when everyone else gives up