Last week, I pitched a few bloggers which are in a position where every blogger will dream of with the question below:
Which blog post of yours that you think lifted your blog off the runway and become successful as it is now? Also, what will you recommend bloggers out there to do or to have so that their blog can take off as soon as possible?
Some of them which had inspired me in some way and I hope they can do the same to your blogging "career" as well.
Read on and tell me which one of them is your blogging idol and what you have learned from the quotes below.
Yaro Starak, the blogger who focuses his blog, Entrepreneur’s Journey on Internet marketing, business ideas and blogging responded in detail that a series of post actually got his blog kicked off:
One of the very first successful blog posts I published was my
business timeline series. This series chronicled what I had done with my life since I was born and provided an introduction to what businesses I had run. It served and still serves to introduce me and my blog to a lot of people and they get to know me better than reading just a few paragraphs in an about page. The series also attracted attention from other bloggers, bringing in new readers and links.Forget about anything other than two things
1. Write content people benefit from in a compelling style
2. Build communication channels (marketing) that bring people to that content.
Do BOTH things well or your blog won’t get anywhere. You can read my Blog Profits Blueprint for more on this.
Steven Snell, blogger of Vandelay Website Design which is not even one year old but his success is something that I admire and always try to emulate. His response is as follow:
My blog really took off after I posted 77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer. It was my first success with Digg and it also did well with several other social media sites. That experience taught me a lot about social media and what it could do for my blog.
I think there are several factors that have helped my blog to develop. Networking with other bloggers is probably the most important, but writing for other blogs is in a close second place. My advice to other bloggers is to get involved and start networking and building relationships. There are so many benefits to having a strong network that it really should be a priority.
If you are looking for quick growth and traffic boosts, social media is what has worked for me. Find a few social media sites that are a good fit with your target audience, use those sites and get to know them well, and try to get some of your content promoted that way.
Leo Babauta, the productivity expert, whose blog is at Zen Habits, replied me with a somehow inspiring answer as below:
It wasn’t one post, but a series of posts that got popular. One of my most popular early on was my "Top 20 Motivation Hacks", but it was only one of many. My goal is not to have one post that draws readers, but many.
Have patience. Blogs don’t normally take off immediately. But the more useful stuff you put on it, the better it will do.
Seth Godin replied with one but enticing and inspiring sentence:
the big news is that it wasn’t one post, it was 100, bit by bit
Writing and blogging expert Skellie who wrote for Skelliewag, AnyWired and also the staff writer for Problogger replied me with the following:
50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog. It was the first post I did that had a lot of social media success and, as of today, has 77 inbound links!
I pitched about 20 bloggers with most of them enjoying an established base of readers and a steady flow of traffic. Readers will never get tired of their contents and it seem like their contents is the one element that rocked them off the starting point. Due to the fact that I am not close with any blogger in the niche, the 5 bloggers that replied had been featured above.
Guest-posting is a really powerful strategy for blogs hoping to take off. That, and StumbleUpon. Focus on those two things and you can grow very fast (at least, in my experience.)
If you read through the quotes carefully, some admit that it is really one post that kick start the whole blogging campaign for them and for the others it is a series of blog posts that bring their blog to the success today.
Your Say On This
Which do you think will work out for bloggers today?
If you will be having the chance to start things all over again and chose the one post to fame path, what will you do to make sure that one post will be the killer post for you?
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January 24th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Some insightful inputs there. I would also agree with Seth Godin, it isn’t a single post that propels you into the A List. You won’t get much if your posts on your blog get popular on social media just once. You have to keep churning out posts that will keep getting popular in social media…
January 24th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
As always, his writing is always straight to the point without much elaboration.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
My blog is quite new but I still get about 70% of traffic thanks to my first post:
http://nikitaknysh.blogspot.co.....rvice.html
(I advertized the post only in two places: Digg and dZone).
I think this demonstrates that a quality post is better than 10 not so interesting ones. And that spending more time for each post is better than posting too frequently.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
If 70% of your traffic is from that particular article, it should be immediately be recognized as an pillar article which is the main puller of a blog.
Quality post is a vague word to use because sometimes, a simple post can open up discussion among readers compared to a long and detailed post.