HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL BLOGGER

I have spent more than 2 years in
Blogging. During this Period, I committed
many mistakes and also learnt to correct
them so I know, What mistakes are
normally committed by a new Blogger. I
also receive lots logging relatedQuestions from Bloggers via EMail. Till
now, I have answered most of their
question by writing Posts like - what is the
meaning of original content for bloggers?
, What is Domain Authority? Why it is
important for SEO?
etc.
In Last 2 week, I received more than 20
Emails from different kind of Bloggers who
asked me to Review their blog. Actually,
they were not making money from their
blog. Most of them informed me that, their
traffic was not so bad and their blog posts
were also receiving lots of Comments and
share. However, They were still not able to
make even $100/month. It was a bit
strange for me so I decided to review their
blogs.
Why you are not
making money from
your blog
After reviewing their Blogs, I noticed that
they were making lots of mistake. I will
discuss all reasons in this post. Actually,
It’s a misconception of bloggers that they
will start making lots of money just for
writing contents. This method doesn’t
work any more due to the large number of
Quality Blogs on internet.
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Top Reasons Why you are not Making
Money from your Blog
Normally, Blogger fails to Make money
from their blog due to below given
reasons:
1. You don’t know your Readers
If you don’t know the answers of below
given questions, It would be difficult for
you to Earn money online:
Who are your readers?
What products do they like?
What kind of contents do they like?
Which is the best time for them to Read
your contents.
Income totally depends upon your Traffic.
It means, If you have huge traffic, You will
earn more money and vice-versa. Have a
look on Pro-Bloggers. They are successful
because they know the taste of their
visitors. Their articles are liked by their
visitors because they know, What their
visitors actually like. Let’s consider a
simple example- You are an owner of a
blog whose visitors are those people, Who
like stuffs related to SEO because you also
write articles on SEO. Next day, You
decided to write a quality article on Mobile
device. What will happen? You won’t get
any benefit(I guess). What do you say?
Same is the case with Products also. You
can only earn affiliate commission for
selling or referring products, which are
useful for your readers. If you don’t know
your readers, affiliate marketing will also
fail to work for you.
Majority of people read your articles in
their Free time so you must try to know
about this period. In order to get maximum
user’s engagement, You must Publish your
content during this period.
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2. You Never Make Plans
For getting success in any kind of
business, You must make proper plans.
Most of the bloggers fail because they
never make plans. Promotion and Branding
should be in first place of your plans.
Make a step by step Goal for yourself and
try to achieve it.
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3. You never Considered your blog as
Business
Most of the blogger fails because they
don’t take blogging seriously. If blogging
is fun for you, stop thinking about earning
money. Pro-bloggers are earning huge
amount of money because they considered
their blog as their Business. They invested
Money and Time.
If you really want to earn money from your
blog, Consider it as your business and
start taking it seriously right from today. In
real life, You do everything to bring your
business to the Top which includes-
Advertising, Promotion, Investment etc.
Follow the same tactics for your blog as
well.
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4. You never use Affiliate Marketing
One of the major misconception of new
blogger that, they can only make money
by using Ads on their Blog. This is
probably the reason why, Most of these
bloggers do everything to get the approval
of Ad networks like Google Adsense or
Yahoo Bing Contextual Ad Program . Many
of them even invest money for purchasing
an Adsense account as well.
They do so because they don’t know
about affiliate marketing, Which is much
better than Adsense or any other Ad
networks. First of all, Try to provide
complete information to an user about any
specific product which can be useful for
them. At the end, Use your affiliate link.
Whenever, They will purchase that product,
You will get your share. That’s easy. Isn’t
it?
5. You only believe on Ad Networks like
Adsense
I don’t know about others but I don’t rely
much on Adsense or any other Google
Adsense Alternatives. Ihate Google
Adsense because, They can disable your
account anytime. I have seen so many
bloggers losing even $1000 due to this.
Other Adsense alternatives doesn’t pay
much. It means, If you don’t have large
number of traffic from countries like US,
UK, Canada, Russia etc, You will never earn
$1000/month.
So many bloggers including me
recommend other bloggers to offer their
service. Believe me, If you really good in
your field, You would be able to earn 10
times better than Adsense or any other ad
networks. Even I earn more by offering my
services like – SEO, Joomla to WordPress
Migration, Web designing etc rather than
Adsense.
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6. You don’t want to Invest Money
If you are not investing money for the
betterment of your blog, You will either fail
or will have to wait to see everything
happening according to your expectations.
99% of successful bloggers are successful
because they invest money on different
products and services, Which seems
useful to them. In above step, I asked you
to consider your blog as your business.
Just answer my simple question- “Have
you seen any successful businessman,
Who hasn’t invested even a single penny
on his business?”. I think, Your answer will
be “No”.
So start investing money at least on
following:
1. Design and Loading time of your
blog
2. SEO(If you don’t know).
3. Content Marketing
4. Email Marketing
7. You always look for “Free Stuffs”
“Free” is a word which brings excitement
among New bloggers. If a particular
product is “Free”, they will definitely try
that particular stuffs without worrying
about its benefit or disadvantage. If you
want to earn money like a problogger, stop
thinking about “Free Stuffs” and start
thinking about “Premium stuffs” because
Paid products comes with lots of features
and functionalities.
In above step, I asked you to give your
own services. If you are not good at it,
Invest money on being an specialist in any
particular field. If you can’t join any
institute, Join Webinar or Hangouts.
8. Your Rates are More than Enough for
Customers
In above step, I asked you to “Sell your
product” or “Service” for making money
from your blog. It would be interesting for
you to know that, Some bloggers are
offering their service or Product on their
blogs but still they are not able to make
Money from their blog. The reason can be:
1. High Rates :Now users are too smart
and they have lots of choices on
internet. If they felt that, Your
charges are too much for them, They
will look for another one. Due to this
reason, Never ask too much for your
service or product.
2. Poor Quality- Sometimes, People
don’t consult you because they feel
that, You are not the right person for
them because you provide poor
service or product.
3. Your Reputation is not Good : Now a
days, Reputation also matters.
Before investing money, People
checks your Reputation. If it’s Good,
You will do better.
9. You Never write Sponsored Post or
Sponsored Reviews
Sponsored Posts and Sponsored reviews
are one of the best way of making money
from your blog. In both of these cases,
Advertisers pay you for writing contents.
However, They expect better content from
your side. If you are a new blogger,
Advertisers will not contact you right from
the first day. To attract them, Write some
quality reviews of products yourself for
free. If you managed to write 10-15 quality
reviews on your site, You will start getting
offers from advertisers. However, If your
technological knowledge or English is not
good, You will not get many offers. Some
of the websites which pay you for writing
reviews are listed below:
1. PayPerPost
2. ReviewMe
3. Payu2Blog
4. SocialSpark
10. You don’t know about Content Marketing
No business can succeed without
Promotion. Same is the case with blogging
as well. Most of the new blogger
underestimates the importance of content
marketing. This leads to their failure. Ask
any problogger about “ Content Marketing“,
they will ask you to utilize at least 70% of
your time in Marketing your content. It
means, Give 30% of your time in writing
your content and rest of your time in
Marketing them. If you don’t know about
Marketing Tactics, You must read our 120+
Marketing Tactics for Bloggers.
It is quite logical as well because You can’t
get success, If no one will read your
content or articles.
From the Editor’s Desk
That’s all from my side. I tried my best to
figure out all mistakes, Which are often
committed by new bloggers. If you have an
old blog but you are still not able to make
money from it, Check the above mentioned
reasons. If it is one of them, Work on it and
fix it.
If you have already fixed all of the above
mentioned issues but still not making
money from your , Ask me to review your
blog. I will tell you the reason of your
failure. If you have any other suggestion,
Let me know.