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Simple Steps to Blogging Success – 10 Essential Blog Habits

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Blogging Success

Habits, Routines, Patterns and Cycles. Success is not a one step phenomenon, it’s built upon the actions you take over time. I like to sum it up like this:

Success Is Not What You Do, It’s What You Do Daily

Think Bruce Lee became a Martial Arts genius without diligent repetition and practice? Michael Jackson learned to do the Moonwalk one rainy Sunday afternoon when he had nothing else better to do?

Think again. Mastery take practice.

Consistent effort compounded over time leads to results.

10 Simple Habits for Blogging Success

The First 5 Habits… 

#1 Read Other Blogs

Pick blogs in your niche. Even add the odd one which is successful in other related or interesting niches.

Don’t just stick with the obvious ‘niche leaders’. Check out forums sich as Blokube and Blog Engage to discover new blogs. Look for interesting comments on blogs you read already and follow the links back to the commenter’s blog.

Apart from the networking potential, the blogosphere offers an endless supply of ideas and inspiration for your own posts.

Keep an eye out for opportunities to do guest posts or Joint Ventures…

#2 Comment on Other Blogs

Since you’re reading them, stop and leave a comment. Threefold advantage:

  1. Will give you a backlink. Dofollow blogs with CommentLuv and Keywordluv installed (like this one) offer the most benefit from this perspective. Make a point of visiting some high PR blogs on your commenting rounds too (SEOQuake is a good free tool to help you check website stats)
  2. Good comments (especially on popular, high traffic blogs) will attract traffic via your link and CommentLuv – helped by delicious, irresistable headlines of course…
  3. It’s a great way to build relationships and network with other bloggers, and you’ll often find they reciprocate and comment on your own posts

Find a number that works for you. 5 a day is a good number to start with. Consistency is good, and within reason, the more the better – just don’t be one of those spammy types who leave brief comments based on the key post idea without actually reading it (you’ll get tagged as a spammer if you do)

Read more about the phenomenon of WordPress Spam Comments (and how to deal with them)

#3 Feed Your Head

“If you think Education is Expensive, try ignorance” ~ Derek Bok

Study Stuff. Feeding the old grey matter and you’ll increase your value. The more value you have to share, the better your blog will become.

Even beyond your niche – learning about Blog Optimization, Copywriting, SEO and Marketing will give you skillsets with which to improve your blog. Education is not an expense…

#4 Analytics

Any idea who’s reading your blog? Where did they come from? Ehat’s working and what’s not?

Keeping some kind of a track on your visitors and readers is essential, and easier than you might think.

Read my post on Blogging Analytics for more on the why and how of analytics.

#5 More Spokes for Your Online Wheel…

I’m sure most people don’t need any more encouragement, but I’m going to recommend that you spend some regular time on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, G+ and/or other relevant Social Media platforms.

Strategically of course.

Every time you write a post, make sure you share it as widely as possible. Link your profiles and integrate them with your blog to make it easy for people you connect with to find your blog and content.

When you read other posts you like, share them too. Sharing relevant, quality content (not just your own) positions you as a source of useful information, which builds trust and authority.

Not to mention, you’ll often get shares and votes back from the people you’ve been supporting in this way.

 5 Simple Habits for the Dynamite Blogger

So that’s the Elementary 5 Blogging Habits. The next 5 however, are where the real blogging magic starts to happen. Implementing these will set you apart from the majority of other bloggers and really set you up for success.

You can read about them in my recent guest post over at Mavis Nong’s AttractionMarketingOnline.com:

Blogging Success – 5 Simple Habits of the Dynamite Blogger

Check it out after you’ve shared this post and left a comment below.

What are your blogging habits? What do you do daily to support the growth of your blog and business?

To Your Abundance, Freedom and Blogging Success…

 

Image: Adapted from “Dance! The Moonwalk” (Goma Fotos) Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

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  1. Jac Evans says:
    February 5, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    Hi
    I must follow these rules. This is beneficial for us. We can get the benefit from this post.
    thanks,
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  2. Joseph from Vert Studios says:
    September 17, 2011 at 6:11 am

    You make great points, I think it’s very important to read other blogs as it helps keep you fresh and take in others writing styles which will only help grow yours.

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  3. Sandipan says:
    September 12, 2011 at 6:01 pm

    I find that you reply to every comment that is posted on my blog. Now that’s Leading by example. Keep up the good work.

    Regards
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  4. pengirl22 says:
    September 9, 2011 at 1:22 am

    You really laid it well. Looks like you are teaching a toddler but truly I appreciate it. Newbies like me cannot grasp anything.
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  5. lloyd christten says:
    September 4, 2011 at 10:27 am

    Awesome Blog Post can’t wait to read More of your Information… Keep up the Great Job… I will be back daily and will share the blog with my list of followers…Thanks for the great Value…

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  6. Christian Hollingsworth says:
    September 3, 2011 at 9:06 pm

    What a grand reminder to take time for the little things each and every day. The continued effort each day is what brings grand success in the long run.

    For example, blogging. One way to develop a strong following and be recognized in a niche is to post quality comments on many blogs – and converse actively. You do this daily, every day, and you’ll be surprised at what you can accomplish.

    You can’t expect grand things to happen with commenting though if you just place a random comment here and there every few weeks. That just doesn’t work well.
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  7. Azhar from medical billing services says:
    September 3, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    CoomentLuv and KeywordLuv are very supporting keywords to the blogging community.As these both have gift for the reader.

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  8. Kristen says:
    August 31, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    Thanks for the post. I am following tip # 2 by commenting. I am also going to try out CommentLuv. I am looking forward to more comments!
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  9. Grant says:
    August 31, 2011 at 5:05 am

    Thanks for the advise on commentLuv and keywordLuv I am going to add those to my wordpress blog- does this make the blog do follow?
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    • Jym says:
      September 4, 2011 at 4:56 pm

      You’re welcome Grant.

      CommentLuv comes with options to make the CommentLuv links dofollow or not (mine are set automatically to dofollow).

      KeywordLuv allows commenters to add anchor text keywords after an @ symbol, much as you’ve done in your comment. It doesn’t make the link dofollow though.

      For that you want to install a dofollow plugin – my favorite and the one I’m using here is called ‘No Nofollow’

      More info on all these in my post on the ComLuv link below
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    • Grant says:
      September 5, 2011 at 12:17 am

      So I can make my commentLuv links do follow but have to add the plugin to get the keywords to be do follow- if someone puts an contextual link in a post does that become do follow as well or is it nofollow again by default on wordpress?
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  10. Lisa Kanarek says:
    August 30, 2011 at 11:43 pm

    These are all excellent and doable ideas. I especially like the idea of reading blogs outside of your niche. Thanks for the helpful links. I’m going to check out SEOQuake.
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  11. Jamal from broccoli soup says:
    August 30, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    The best way to be master in blogging is to read other blogs and write comments.If we read 20 post on different blogs,it mean we getting knowledge from different 20 peoples.
    I consider all experienced bloggers as online teacher that educate their read free.They spare each day a time for their readers.

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  12. Sheila says:
    August 30, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    Great article (and it’s only half of it)! I love the simplicity of your message. It has more impact than any other “detailed” articles I’ve read about the same topic. Now, I’ll go to the next half of this article…
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  13. Ryan Biddulph says:
    August 30, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    Hi Jym,

    Simple and oh so powerful tips.

    I agree heartily with Yomar. I’ve made so many great friends, have attracted many wonderful readers and business partners through commenting. It’s fun, free and can add immense value to your blogging buddies’ posts.

    You can achieve so much in this world if you simply take the time to make a positive impact wherever you show up.

    Thanks for sharing your insight Jym!

    RB
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  14. Yomar Lopez says:
    August 30, 2011 at 4:51 am

    These are all simple yet HIGHLY effective tips. The biggest one I can speak to from personally experience is commenting. It truly is fun, mutually-beneficial, and a great networking opportunity!

    I love commenting and participating in discussion boards/groups because you add value to the core content, engage others, and really help each other out. It also builds credibility so you can’t go wrong!

    The analytics part makes the data nerd in me very happy. I just posted a blog entry about something similar today: digital footprints. I think it builds upon the wonderful points you have already made here.

    Thanks for sharing and I hope you’ll visit my Unbounce.com guest blog/contest entry and share your thoughts. Please like and tweet too. =o)
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    • Jym says:
      August 30, 2011 at 9:36 am

      I agree Yomar, the process of commenting is valuable on so many levels, it’s worth taking some regular specifically for that task.

      The best thing is – everybody benefits from genuine comments and discussions…

      Glad I made your inner nerd smile – I’m about to do a series about analytics, the first post is the one in my ComLuv link below.

      Thanks for coming by
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  15. Ann says:
    August 30, 2011 at 3:21 am

    I guess I have read a lot of blogs without even thinking about leaving comments. Now I know what I have been missing. Thanks for the great information.
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  16. Evie says:
    August 30, 2011 at 2:27 am

    Great tips! I especially agree with “Feed Your Head.” I get so busy doing the day to day business stuff, I can forget to take care of me and make sure that I’m growing! I believe that my business can’t go to new levels if I can’t :)

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  17. Deeone says:
    August 30, 2011 at 12:52 am

    Awesome post Jym.

    Being a pretty new blogger, I practice most of these daily. I will say that I probably need to step up my game a bit about understanding SEO and getting a better grasp on how to use the analytics aspect of my blog. I check out my site stats a couple of times a day, but I think it may need to be more detailed then that. Definitely somethings to think about. I’m constantly trying to learn more about the craft though. And article post such as this come much in handy. Thanks for sharing. :)
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  18. Larry Lewis says:
    August 30, 2011 at 12:40 am

    Agree with all of these. I would add to your daily blogging task list – write a post. I have found since posting daily (excluding sundays), my bloh has seen a big increase in traffic, and rating.
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