Are you taking blogging seriously or are you just having fun with blogging? If you are treating blogging as a serious business, you should know it’s not easy to make it a success. There are a lot of tasks that you need to complete and a lot of work to be done in blogging. First of all you need to select a niche, brainstorm a domain name, get a web host and select a theme. Then you need to do your posting. Is that all?
No definitely not. There is a lot of things that you need to do. You need to update your blog, pay attention to your readers etc. There is also a lot of things you can’t do. You can’t steal content, making personal attacks and have a bad attitude. But there are also nine things you can’t stop doing. What are they?
9 Things You Can’t Stop Doing In Blogging
1. Keep Writing
Yes you need to keep writing to maintain your blog and you need to write your content with good quality. More writing will actually improve your sentence structure and make you a better writer. I remember a post title in Copyblogger named 10 steps to become a better writer. It’s an interesting post which is short but straight to the point. The whole concept is just to write. Feel free to drop by and have a read.
2. Keep Reading
From young my parents had been advising to read more. I listened to them. Just that i like to read everything outside of my school textbooks. Bloggers need to read. More reading will update you the latest news of your niche. It can also help you to get new post ideas for your next post. Do not restrict yourself to read blogs of your niche. Try to read other niche blogs, you will probably able to think outside of the box. Read up this post on How Reading Can Help You Become a Successful Blogger.
3. Keep Learning
No bloggers can raise their hands and declare that they know everything. One of the virtues A-List bloggers have is they are humble and they are not afraid to admit they don’t know. It’s absolutely fine to don’t know about something but it’s definitely not right if you do not take an effort to find out the answer. Learning is the only way to keep your knowledge evolving.
4. Keep Interacting
Your blog is read by people. You yourself are reading people’s blogs too. It will be very dull if there is no interaction between people. When people leave comments on your blog, you need to respond. When people send you a question, you need to answer. Make sure you keep your interaction alive within your blog and other blogs.
5. Keep Investing
You are already investing if you have a self hosted blog. You need to purchase a domain name and pay for the web hosting. But that’s not all. During your blogging journey, you will probably need to fork out money to purchase ebooks, courses or even membership sites. Be sure to set aside some budget to purchase anythings that will help you to achieve your blog targets. There are of course freebies that works as well but you can’t rely on freebies all the time.
6. Keep Promoting
Besides writing great content, you need to promote your blog as well. If you do not do any marketing, nobody will know you have written a great post. Make full use of social media and optimize keywords for better search engine traffic. Read up this post How to Build a Solid SEO Foundation for Your Blog by my friend Onibalusi. No matter what, just keep on promoting and make sure you do not scam while promoting.
7. Keep Testing
There are so many strategies and ways to run your blog. Which one is suitable for you? Well, you just have to test it out. By testing, you will know which strategy works. This is especially important if you want to make an income with your blog. There are many ways to monetize but not all is suitable for you. By trial and error, you will understand which of the one gives you the best result.
8. Keep Earning
This is by far the most hardest to achieve. One aim of bloggers is to earn an income and ultimately able to live a comfortable internet lifestyle. But before you are able to do that, you need to keep earning. Not only that, you need to be earning consistently. You can’t be earning few thousand dollars in this month and only few hundred in another month.
9. Keep Blogging
Yes you need to keep on blogging. Turn every ideas of yours into a blog. Keep on repeating 1-8 to turn every of your blog into success. Remember blogging is our passion, we need to keep on blogging as long as we can. Don’t even think of stopping if you can.
Share Your Thoughts
Do you have other things that you can’t stop doing in blogging? Share with us your thoughts. I will be glad to see you in the comments box.
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Awesome post Lye,
This post is so true and any blogger who stops doing any (or all) of the above is signing the death warrant of his/blog.
There is no point writing without promoting.
Thanks a lot for the great post,
Onibalusi
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Hi Oni,
Glad you resonate with me. You are right about promoting. It’s actually much more difficult to promote than writing.
Thanks for your comments Oni.
You make some very good points here Lye. I see you up late just as I am working on your post and your blog to get success.
You are so right; we have to keep going and that is what I intend to do. It is so important to interact with other bloggers as it can be isolating just blogging away and nobody to talk things over with. Other bloggers understand as they are going through the same thing.
Even when success comes, we still need to keep going and I am so glad to have found others to encourage and help me along the way.
Patricia Perth Australia
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Hi Patricia,
That’s the only time where i can keep working on my blog. I agree strongly with you. Even after we tasted success, there is no room to slack down. We still need to keep on doing all the things listed above.
Thanks for dropping by and the support. Talk soon.
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Hey Lye
Wow. You had a great write-up! The 9 things every blogger want to become more successful (like you) have to do 
I like the point you bring up about ‘Keep Learning’. Yea. No bloggers can possibly say they know everything, and many pro-bloggers invest money on their education too:)
Love this post. Straight to the point too
Ding
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Hi Ding Neng,
Great to see you back. Keep learning is the only way for us to absorb new knowledge and improve ourselves.
Thanks a lot for loving this post and the awesome support.
Great post. Those are definitely somethings every blogger should keep doing. It’s not easy to start a blog. During the first couple of months I have been investing a lot of time into blogging but, I have seen satisfying results fromt it.
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Hi Mandeep,
If you are seeing satisfying results, that means you are doing something right. Keep it up.
Thanks for visiting and the feedback.
Hi Lye,
I agree with each of your tips.
Persistence is the one quality successful bloggers never lack. You can’t make it until you keep at it and practicing each of your exercises daily builds strength of character which breeds persistence. Keep on keeping on
Thanks for sharing your blogging insight.
Ryan
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Hi Ryan,
Glad that you agree with me. Persistence is something that we much have to ensure things keep going.
Thanks for the support and comment.
Hi Lye
Yes, these are all things we need to be doing and keep doing, To be a successful blogger you have to have persistence, patience and realistic goals. I like all the points you have listed here, especially ‘keep reading and ‘keep learning.’
Thanks for sharing.
Michael
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Hi Michael,
You are right. You have pointed out three factors that all bloggers must have to be successful as well. Thats what i like too, beside that i also like keep writing.
Thanks for your input bro.
And keep fighting. We need to keep on working towards making ourselves better and be ready to challenge the other bloggers out there.
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Hi Peter,
Great added point. We mustn’t lose any fighting spirit as we have a lot of competition including new ones.
Thanks for your feedback.
Nice post, Keep writing and keep promoting the best way to get success in blogging.
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Hi Sahil,
Welcome.Great to see you here. Thanks for visiting and commenting. Talk soon.
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well written and perfectly posted.. just love your thoughts on the post .. you rock completely .. flattered .
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Hi Srivathsan,
Welcome. Thanks for visiting and the kind words.
Great post. It’s important not to get discouraged at the beginning. If you keep creating great content, blog on a constant basis, and interact with other bloggers you will see your blogging community grow.
Thanks again for your post. I look forward to reading your future posts.
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Hi David,
Welcome. Definitely that’s the basic if we want to have a successful blog. You are spot on.
Thanks for visiting and hope to see you again.
Lye
i think writing is important for a blog..
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I’m really starting to like your posts, Lye. Besides running a blog you make your readers focus on personal development as well and this makes your writing style very unique. Someone rightly quoted that that education is a learning process from cradle to grave. No one can suppress us from thinking and learning, no one can suppress a writer from writing. Good thoughts!
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