8 characteristics that make bloggers Successful

Becoming a successful Blogger is something that every Blogger dreams about. Internet records about few millions of new blogs submission globally everyday . But the amazing fact is that the percentage of successful Blogger only few about 10% – 15%. This little percentage is really shocking looking at the huge percentage of daily emerging bloggers. So, what the others have missed which lead them towards failure in compare to those bloggers who have achieved success.

In this post I have discussed about few of the characteristics which few bloggers have in them which makes them successful in their blogging career.

Characteristics of a successful blogger

Bloggers need to be proactive.

A successful Blogger always seems to remain proactive. Pro-activeness is the best learning tool of every living being. For example you can have several ideas developing in your mind to be a successful Blogger but you can’t guarantee that all the ideas have equal ability to take you to success. You can’t even imagine that the idea which you were thinking as best way to achieve success can even turns into biggest flop and that which you have ignored may turns into greatest hit. Without implementing anything you can only guess about something but never guarantee anything. So be proactive as a Blogger. don’t ignore anything as your blog content, blog design, promotion strategy only because you have heard from someone that this does not work. May be it would be perfect for your blog career.

Friendship quality to develop Bloggers Community.

A successful blogger always has a friendship quality within them. They think a different way about other bloggers in their own niche. They never consider them as their own competitor rather they praise each other’s quality content and never forget to refer or mention about each other’s blog in their own site. They use to suggest each other for better development strategies, developing blogging qualities, exchanging quality back links. They use to comment on each other’s blog thus get benefited from each other’s online traffic to visit their own blogs too.

Unique style of presentation.

A successful Blogger has unique style of serving everything to the world. They never use to copy or any plagiarism strategies to present views over any topic. This is very important among all other Blogging etiquettes. Be orignal, be informative and be accurate and true about the information you are sharing with the world. This serves the purpose in atleast two ways. First of all, it reflects your hold on the topic that you are writing about. So, your readers start trusting your blog as they have not read the same article anywhere on the web, so they will start coming back to your blog again and again for new content. They may even share your queries in your mail box and will wait for reply from you. So, you should have enough hold on your niche to reply your reader’s queries. By being orignal, I don’t mean that the matter over same topic should not be re-written. Instead by being orignal, I meant that though you are writing about something written before you should express your own experience or personal views over it rather than just copying the matter from here and there and paste it in your blog or just making some changes here and there in the orignal content being copied from somewhere and republish it as your own content. Secondly this unique style of presentation helps making the web a better place for varied informations from different point of views being published by different authors from their personal experience instead of making web a place for just repeated contents.

Consistency in posting contents

Blog is more or less like any news magazine. The consistency of new matters being added is just like supply of fresh oxygen to a blog to keep it living otherwise soon the blog will feel shortage of fresh oxygen and die of suffocation. There is a simple reason behind this activity. Suppose you have purchased a news magazine today and completed reading it. Soon you will expect the release of new informations or articles from the publisher of the magazine. If the publisher being unable to fulfill the readers demand, the readers will soon switch over to other magazine. That’s being the logic. So, the successful bloggers use to post new matters consistently. Many professional bloggers use to post even several times a day to fulfill the reader’s demand.

Posting content is as per reader’s demand.

The most important characteristic of any successful Blogger is that they use to publish new contents keeping in mind what readers want to read instead of what they themselves want their readers to read. This increases the readership of their blog. The readers on the other hand get more and more attached to such blogs as they find the solutions of the problems they are facing in those blogs. The impact is not only restricted to their own readership but they use to refer their friends and family to those blogs they trusted most. The readers of these blogs also post comments and mail to their publishers what they want more. This not only increases the interactivity between the publishers and their readers but the help the publishers to have their next topic to write upon. Thus they never get rid of topics to write about unlike unsuccessful Bloggers.

Developing relation with their blog readers.

The successful bloggers never forget their blog readers and always try to develop relationship with their readers who use to comment on the blogs. The successful blogger always either reply to their comments on the same blog or send personal mail to their reply their comments by thanking them. The readers thus develop a relationship with the author of the blog and this helps the blog author to make his blog popular.

Ready for getting change .

A successful Blogger never turn around when it comes for change to get better. A successful blogger always bent on providing better quality content to their readers. Since online is a dynamic world so a successful blogger have an eye always kept on future aspect of the niche development and always makes necessary changes required for keep the blog update and most relevant.

Learning from own mistakes.

One of the greatest characteristic any successful Blogger have is that they are always ready to learn from their own mistakes. They never remain on back foot when any new idea comes in their mind to do better for their blog. They always do changes to their blog as they realize the importance of analyzing the shortcomings of their implemented ideas. They would rather like to fail first and try to learn what mistakes they have made and eventually succeed than never try at all.

So, you should have to develop these characteristics within yourself to be next successful blogger in your niche.

Patience and Bloggers

The three characteristic that anyone should have to be a successful blogger is patience, patience and patience. Do you know why? The answer is very simple. This is the only thing that about 90% of all the bloggers lack and ends up their blogging career with an interesting misconception that they are not inborn bloggers, so they can’t get success in blogging.

Let me show you an example – Just look around the whole web through any keyword you are searching for. Right now while I am writing this blog post, I have done a little research about a very popular keyword “BLOG” , of course this keyword belongs to my niche too that’s why emphasizing on it. The search result is amazing. Guess what right at this moment – it is 2,690,000,000. So, what’s new in that.

Relation between 2,690,000,000 and Patience

There is a close relation between this figure 2,690,000,000 and patience. Let me confess first that I have also gone through this stage at my initial stage when I hardly had any patience for being a successful blogger but thanks to one of my dearest Mr. Onkar Choudhary(webmaster) who was there behind me for my today’s success as a blogger. So, what do you think about this figure? Is that much websites and blogs really have all the important informations regarding the keyword “BLOG”. The answer is obviously not.

Below is the list of the types that you can divide the current search into -

1. The top results from organic search are really best information blogs to follow.
2. As you proceed through the inner search pages you will find many of them have only few pages of informations that had been updated at their early stages.
3. Lots of them have been uploaded where you will get instances of plagiarism.
4. Lots more are nothing but copied matters from another blogs/ websites.
5. Proceeding still further will help you to find many blog sites with only domain names and nothing information inside.
6. Even you will get even more and more blogs that you can categorized in other several types.
7. The worst among them is that few best bloggers started their blogs with best orignal content has left blogging midway.

So, why it is so. The answer is again the same “Lack of patience in bloggers”. Most of the bloggers have either lost interest midway blogging, or have no time to research themselves over the topic they are blogging about, so they either copy it from other sites or use plagiarism technique to republish the other’s content with slight changes made here and there. The only thing they all have common in them is that they have lack of patience in them. You should remember one thing that patience should be with you since you have decided to start your first blog on the net and should be with you through out your life. Its important for blogging.

Why this patience is so much required through blogging career?

This is really a best asked question among all the questions that only 10% of today’s successful bloggers might have asked themselves or to some experienced bloggers. The fact is that blogging can be divided into several steps since you have decided to start a blog. About 90% of unsuccessful bloggers use to start their blogging career no sooner they hear that they too can publish their own views in front of whole world or some of his friend or someone is making thousands of bucks every month by blogging even for free. The basic thing about start blogging is that you need to hold on your temptation with patience to follow through all the steps. When you are not giving yourself enough time to decide over various aspects before starting something, the obvious result will be nothing other than failure. No one had achieved success in any field just by trying jumping from one step to another escaping some steps in between and you too are not an exception of this general rule.

Blogging needs patience. Explained!

Check out the list of steps to know why Blogging and patience has deep relations.

1. Patience while taking first decision to start Blogging. – It is very important to hold on your temptation to start blogging as soon as you have heard something about it. Your patience will help you here. You should first start asking yourself “Why you are about to start blogging? What would be your blog about? Do you have learned about blogging? Do you have any earlier experience about blogging? There might be few more questions that you should answer yourself before start blogging.
2. Patience while selecting a Blogging niche. - Some bloggers just start blogging about anything as soon as they think of starting a blog. The result is very obvious is certain failure in sense of blog popularity, continued blogging, making money from blogs and other aspects of blogging. The all you have to do is finding a suitable niche that interest you otherwise you will soon end up with blog contents in your mind. Just ask yourself “What you are searching most of the time in search engines”. The topic or keywords upon which you mostly search upon over net is probably the niche or topic that interests you most and you have much grab over the subject to write about without pondering for matters to write about. Of course, if you are blogging for money then you should consider few other aspect of the niche you have selected, such as whether there are sponsors to help you monetizing your blog over this niche or not. If the answer is no, then you have to expand your range of the niche to a broader view in your area of interest.
3. Patience after selection of Blog niche. – Once you have selected a proper niche in the area of your interest, you may start writing the first content for your blog. But it is better to gather a little more experience from those who have already blogged over the niche you have selected. Just go for reading through few popular blogs in the area of your niche, not to copy their matters but to have an idea about how they have served their contents to readers. This is necessary because these bloggers have already learned from their experience what how they should serve to their readers to make their blogs popular. So, will get a clear idea about that from experienced bloggers without having to waste time on your own content creating what the readers does not want to read. It will help you saving your time in giving your best effort from the beginning.
4. Patience for getting Blog popularity. – Blog popularity has a far deeper relation with patience. Popularity never gets achieved in days. It takes time that you have to wait with patience and of course with consistency of blogging. You have to develop credibility for that with your content. The content should be your orignal creation with something that people would really get benefited from. This will increase the reader’s faith upon your content over period of time and obviously they would inturn refer others towards your blog which gradually increase the popularity of your blog.
5. Patience for earning money from Blogging. – Making money from blog has become a successful way for survival money these days. But this success has got limited to only few percentage among total bloggers and webmasters who are trying to make money from their blogs and their website. So, what’s the reason for such a huge failure? Unfortunately the answer is again lack of patience for learning the correct way of monetizing the blogs or website. Either bloggers adopt the illegal ways by clicking on their self ads to make money or get themselves engaged in click exchange communities or start spamming and ultimately get banned from making money. The better way to make genuine money is just to go through all the available resources to gather knowledge about what are the legitimate way of making money from blogs or websites. Engage your time in creating really helpful contents with holding patience for earning money.

So, patience and blogging have to get integrated with each other to achieve success in blogging or make a living from blogging.

Blogger or Blogspot, WordPress, Livejournal, Myspace, Today.com etc are few among lots of blogging platform where you can Blog. But hold on your temptation a little before you start blogging. Though there are lots of place to start free or paid Blogging each having their own benefit yet it is very tough to decide a correct blogging platform that works for you. The right blogging platform that works for you depends upon your motivation behind start blogging.

This article will help you in detail about how to select the correct blogging platform for you along with the reasons behind it.

The first thing you have to do is to decide yourself, “What is the purpose of your blog? or What motivates you to start Blogging? “

This decision will help you to make a clear mind set about whether you are looking for free blog or like to earn extra cash from your blogging skill or you have decided to be a professional blogger. Possibilities are there that you would like to share your views with the rest of like minded people of the world or trying to vent and blow off some fuss. You may be interested about spreading your business online or write a review about a product you are using or about the movie you just watched. So, there are endless possibilities about why you are going to start blogging. So, these are some basic questions that you should answer yourself before starting blogging.

Blog websites are basically divided into 3 main types. Free Blog, Paid Blog, Get Paid for Blogging.

Here are some websites where you can start blogging based on what fits you. This list is not complete as available options are endless with ever increasing blogging services. This list barely scratches the surface of available options as they are a few of most popular blogging services.

Blogger or Blogspot – This is one of the free Blogging platform by Google. It is either known as Blogger or Blogspot. Blogger.com is recommended blog for all types of bloggers. The best thing for using this service is that is FREE and needs no web designing knowledge. It is easy to setup and takes 5 minute and domains are available with “.blogspot.com” as extension. It has also has template library available for selection. There are lots of gadgets available to use here. The best thing associated with Blogger.com is that you can earn money by using this blogging service as it can be integrated with Google Adsense. You can also add your own Chitika, Kontera ads, Yahoo Publisher Networking Ads, Infolink ads to start your earning from your own blog. So, its free, its easy, no need of any technical knowledge and you can earn from it. So, the all you need is having a Gmail account and start blogging with Blogger.com

MySpace.com – Blogging on MySpace.com is really a great experience as it is free and the best thing about it is that the blogging is integrated seamlessly with your profile there. This platform serves a great way to share your blogs with your friends, family and co-worker. They can subscribe to your blog to get instant notification about your blog whenever you update your blog. A little HTML knowledge will help you to do better on this platform.

Livejournal – This is another most popular blogging service having both free and paid categories. It is more or less similar to MySpace. You can also get some readymade templates by various LJ communities to use for free.

WordPress.com -.Those who demands little more customizable blogging feature should go for WordPress. There are lots of pluggins, lots of templates to pick for your blog. Even you can make modifications in those available templates. Despite of its advance customization option,Wordpress is still free to use and offers great level of support for any problem with your blogs. Its popularity among all is due to its optimized characteristic. As per my view, I have noticed that the wordpress blog itself has been so much optimization at its source code that even a new blog gets noticed by Google within 24 hrs. of creating a new blog with even a single post on it without any promotion or submission in Google or other directories, which otherwise takes months to get in notice of Google. Those who are comfortable with HTML, PHP language and interested in purchasing personal domain and host blog in own server can enjoy even more. You can also add your own Adsense code, Chitika, Kontera ads, Yahoo Publisher Networking Ads, Infolink ads to start your earning from your own blog. WordPress.org offers the same great blogging system and software absolutely free for this which often gets released with its newer upgraded version for making blogging a better experience for them.

There are lots more in the free blogging list some of which also provides upgrade option facilities to get even more customized features of blogging. Some are mentioned here. TypePad.com, Blog.com, Blogster.com etc.

Get Paid for Blogging

There is another interesting aspect about blogging is that you can earn from blogging in various ways. Apart from Google Adsense, Chitika, Kontera ads, Yahoo Publisher Networking Ads, Infolinks etc advertising solutions you can also earn directly by posting your blogs on some blog websites.

Yes there are many websites which helps you to avoid the long waiting till Google Adsense or other advertisement services starts generating earning for you, instead you can just start posting on these blog websites based on their terms and start making money for you. I have presented below the list of some Get paid for Blogging websites.

Today.com – This is a Get paid for blogging website, where you can earn money based on the number of words used, number of unique page views, referral blog earning. So, this may be an easy way to make money if you have ability of developing quality in your blogs.

Getpaidfrom.us – This blogging service use to pay their bloggers 50% share of their Adsense earning from your blogpost every month irrespective of whatever the payout amount is. This helps you to get rid of long 6 month waiting of New Adsense account creation and waiting till the amount collected in your account reaches $100 for payout.

Orble.com – This is another get paid for blogging service which pays to 50% from their Adsense commission generated from your blog along with 10% for referring others to orble.com . So, this way you will get a chance of earning a bit more.

So, the above mentioned blogging websites are only a popular small list from what you will get online when you have decided what you are blogging for. So, just start blogging.

What is Blog? or what is Blogging? are the questions that really interest me to browse the web to read the answers by experts to know about What really different people think about Blogs and Blogging. There are tonns of expert’s views exixts in the web about this very basic question, “What is BLOG?” You can easily get this answers by simply typing the question in Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. or you may type the question alternatively as “Define Blog“.

What is Blog

So, avoiding the technical jargon about Blog and Blogging I would rather like to explain Blog and Blogging in very simple language.

A blog is like a personal diary published online

A blog is basically an online journal maintained online. Its just like keeping a diary online expressing your views in text along with audio, vedio, images about anything. Blogging is nothing but updating that online journal.

Creating a blog is easy compare to website
Most of us are not web masters to create a beautiful website but we all can have a blog. The all we need is to know typing on computer and basic knowledge about intenet. But it is almost like a website readymade to non technical persons. Posting any article to the blog is as easy as writing an email and sending it with the click of a button.

Blog has some important features- like
Blogs are capable of being equipped with several tonnes of contents with them. The contents are arranged in reverse chronological order. As the contents gets increased each time, the older entries get positioned below the newer one.The home page of the blog has customized number of post displayed there. The archive is the most distinctive place to find the heaps of contents in the blog.

Interactivity of blog
The best thing about the blog that I like most is its interactive feature with the readers of the blog. The interactivity takes place through comment enteries in the blog. Your blog readers are allowed to express their views on what you have written about along with their name and email. This helps increasing the blog readership by exchanging the views between the author and the readers of the blog.

Subscribing a blog
Blog also allows its readers to subscribe to it through email and readers so that they will get instant notification about any new post added to the blog.

Blog also helps its readers to get updated.
It may be possible that you are searching some peice of information and get on a website to read it. But the main problem about the website is that it doesnot tells you about when it has last been updated where as blogs have an intrinsic feature of stamping the published date along with the post, so that you can easily trace about when the information has been updated last.

So, a little summary about “what is a blog?”

1. A blog is a readymade website for all.
2. Posting to a blog is as easy as writing an email.
3. The blog is an easy medium for interchanging the views between the author and their readers.
4. The readers can subscribe to the blog to get notify about the new posts there.

This is what a blog is in my own simple language.