Blogging is no longer a mysterious word for people on the web these days.
Since 2004 we have got millions of blogs and bloggers. Now a days blogs and Social media websites are dominating internet world. We’ve got so many pro-bloggers in past few years reason behind this is curiosity.
Homo Sapiens (Scientific name of Humans) easily attract towards a stuff which is new and which gave success to others.
As I’ve mentioned above that we’ve millions of blogs but only thousands of bloggers are active and passionate about blogging.
Some bloggers complain about not getting interaction on their blogs and part of the reason they are so unsuccessful is that they are not willing to put in the hard work it takes to engage their readers.
They just got messed up between their responsibilities and blogging and lost it. At the same time we are also having some bloggers who have much passion of blogging so that they are ready to face any hurdle, ready to quit anything for blogging. And trust me these kind of guys definetly get the success and dominates the blogging world.
I’m not saying that those who are doing part time blogging are not getting success. It simply depends on their smartness, knowledge and word power. But on comparison with passionate and hard working bloggers they are little bit low.
Before proceeding further let me tell you one thing that don’t relate the success in blogging with money :
Never do blogging for money because it creates a bad impression among your community.
There are numerous benefits of blogging which takeover the money. Simply do hard work, money will not have any other choice instead of trailing you. Well from a long time I’m continuously saying that Do Hard work! Do Hard work!
You definetly have a question that what is hard work in terms of blogging? What should you do to have success in blogging? Points given below will answer these questions.
Improve your Search Engine Optimization knowledge
Search Engine Optimization a well know word for all bloggers plays a vital role in the blogging. As there are millions of blogs and websites on internet the competition among them is tough. The key point to get success in this field is SEO.
If you are well known with SEO strategies you will survive otherwise you will have lots of difficulties. So let me tell you most appropriate and useful SEO tips.
Use Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions
Meta Keywords and Meta descriptions are the major part of SEO. Now What is Meta Keywords and Meta descriptions and what is their use?
Meta Keywords and Description are the useful tools to get good rank in Google Search result. Its all about Google Search algorithm.
To make you understand better let me tell you about Google search algorithm. Suppose you are searching for a keyword “tech blogging”.
To give you the best search result, first of all Google spiders(bots) will search the pages which have keywords “blogging”, after keywords they will check the descriptions. After that they consider various factors like page rank, on page optimization and lots more to rank your page in search result.
So I think you have came to know why Meta Keywords and descriptions are useful.
Remove Useless pages from Google Index
In initial update algorithms it was good to have many pages indexed in Google. But now Google wants Quality over quantity. That’s why Google has introduced Panda Update.
Panda Update is a domain level penalty update which means that your single low quality content can degrade your whole blog reputation. So I will recommend you if you have low quality or useless pages indexed in Google then remove them by Webmaster tools.
By the term “Useless pages” I mean that the pages like Disclaimer, Privacy Policies, subscriptions, page archives, category and tags author bio page and such kind of stuff.
Write Epic Content
Original and Quality content is the key of success.
Not only Google give reward for original content even your readers impressed with this act. If you copy the content from somewhere makes you part of plagiarism act.
And trust me getting involved in this act is a serious issue and can ruin your whole blog reputation.
Do Research before writing
Before blogging about any content make sure you have complete knowledge about that. Never do acts like rewriting because sometime if you missed any point in the article the whole article may have completely different meaning.
Initially I did the same. I was passionate about blogging but didn’t have enough energy to write long articles. So my articles were had meanings like out of the world.
Never write anything about which you don’t complete knowledge.
Suppose you are writing something with incomplete knowledge and your readers doing cross questions on that article then it may be a problem for you. It may ruin your blogging life.
So these were some basic tips on basic blog tips of hard working. These acts are part of hard working and trust me without this kind of hard work you are not going to survive in field of blogging.
If I have missed any point or if I’m wrong at any point let me know in comments.
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Hi Rudraksh,
I think it is the goal of all the bloggers to be perfect in the blogging world and getting these tips would definitely be a great help for all the bloggers. I like the point that you have suggested of researching before writing a content. This is definitely important because a sincere research on a content would definitely makes it more effective and interesting too. Also we need to think that content should be written in an unique way so that it attracts the interest of readers. Thanks for the share!!
Thanks for your feedback Aditi
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Hi Rudraksh
Nice post, I think work hard smartly.. then you will reach your goals faster, and now a days social media influence is also important for blog owners.. organic traffic can reduce one time but social media traffic will never goes down..
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You are right Nishant. Social media is very important for growth of blog.
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I totally agree that one of the most important things to remember as a new blogger is that you should be legitimately thinking about your readers before making money. Don’t worry about monetization yet if you have 5 visitors coming to your site per day. Don’t fill your entire blog with huge blocks of AdSense ads – that’s a huge reason for me to leave right away, no matter how great your content is. Build up your audience, THEN start worrying about monetization. It’s not worth losing lots of potential readers just to make a few cents per day.
Thomas
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If you are writing quality content then definitely money will follow you
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Hi…
Content is King, Excellent lesson about blogging. Use Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions both are important major part in SEO for a blog Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions must relevant for a Blog. I believe Content is king but Meta Keywords & Meta Descriptions important factor in SEO.
SEO is an endless process and you need to update yourself more frequently than others to get ahead of the competition. Working smart, perseverance and determination will help you reach your goal
Absolutely right Penny. Really SEO is an endless process. Even no one can understand it completely.
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Now a days it has became big challenge to get good PR in Google. But it’s not impossible if you want you can do it easily for that you need to just do all things in right way and on right time.
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Few days ago I met some Googlers in Google gDays event in India. I ask them about the improvement in PR. They didn’t disclose all the things but they said quality content and backlinks plays an important role.
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Hi, Rudraksh! You wrote a very useful article. I don’t know is SEO is the key point for a successful blog – don’t get me wrong, I agree with your ideas, I just add my two cents on this matter. In my opinion good quality content is far more important because it brings visitors (in worse case scenario from mouth to mouth recommendations) and creates you a good image.
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I welcome your feedback Cristian. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. SEO plays a major role if you are opting blogging as a carrier whether full time or part time.
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My pleasure, Rudraksh. I agree with you on this matter.
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Hey Rudraksh..nice article however I feel that the tips and points explained here are quite obvious and are explained in most of he articles around. Well I liked to style of writing.
Thanks for your feedback Shiwangi. I promise you an unique article next time.
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i would say brother be a Smart worker…..
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ya bro, you need to be smart while doing such kind of work.
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Hi Rudraksh,
I have been bloging for the past five years now and although I do not earn as much as those professional bloggers, I do manage to earn more than my previous day job. The panda and penguin updates made by Google has been a bane for many bloggers who concentrate mostly on backlinks, plagiarized content, excessive keywords, and other SEO loopholes. However, if you have doing your blog how you were supposed to, then you wouldn’t have suffered as much as others and would not even be worried about future updates either.
Hey Felicia. Earning money with blogging is an easy task if you are socially available. Suppose you are engaged with some bloggers now if an internet marketer wants to publish sponsored posts with any of your friend and your friend doesn’t want to do it then he may refer you and you will have a chance to make money. In the same time you also have to maintain your blog performance. There are lots of factors when it comes to improvement in blog performance like site design, navigation, Page rank and even more.
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Stopped reading after this one…
“Never do blogging for money because it creates a bad impression among your community.”
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Hi Rudraksh,
Generally all bloggers wish to be their blogs number 1 at Google, but patience is really a virtue and your right hard work with perseverance on work is the key to success. Working smartly as blogger is great career in life and needs full time.
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