Blogging Elements

10 Step Blog Action Plan

Posted on 06. Jul, 2008 by Mike J in Blogging

1.Grow Your Subscriber Base

If your blog’s subscriber count is growing, even a little bit, you are making some progress. Earning the trust of your subscribers is not always very easy, so try not to get your expectations unrealistically high in the beginning. If you have realistic attainable goals for subscriber growth you will most likely be able to feel good about your progression and stay consistent with your blogging.

2. Increasing Your Inbound Links

Links are important for any blog. They help with click-through rates, search engine rankings, and overall recognition. For bloggers, incoming links are also representation of how well things are going for you in your industry. The amount of links will grow as you start to become recognized as an authority in your niche.

3. Growing The Number of Good Comments

When your blog is receiving a decent amount of quality insightful comments, that is a good sign that people are reading and paying attention to you. Comments are the bloodline of your blog, and those that have a lot of valuable comments from readers become even more useful. The reason is, this usually gives more info on a given subject from the comments.

4. Increasing Visitors Traffic and Page Views

Many bloggers love their stats. While growth in traffic isn’t always representative of attaining or surpassing your blogging goals, it certainly isn’t bad. Hopefully, over time your blog stats will increase because more and more readers visit and subscribe to your blog.

5. Be Consistent With Posting

If you are posting consistent quality content on your blog, you’re already one step ahead of a large portion of bloggers. It sounds pretty easy, but consistent quality posting is a big obstacle for many. If you’re able to keep posting consistently with good informative posts, good things are most likely to come your way.

6. Maintaining Quality of Articles

Quality is always going to be a somewhat touchy issue, but I think most bloggers can take a look back at their archives and get a good accurate idea of how the quality has tracked over the life of a blog. I know that most bloggers look back at their first few months of blog posts and get a little embarrassed at the low level of quality. Growth in quality is normal as you will gain more knowledgeable about your topics and as you learn about blogging in general. Take a look back at how your quality of writing has improved and I think that you will be encouraged, that will keep going to see how much better you can get.

7. Clearly Define Target Niche

One of the most overlooked items when starting a new blog is to clearly define your target audience. As you gain an audience, you’ll learn what types of content your readers appreciate (and what they do not) and you’ll most likely get a better idea of how you fit into your niche. Knowing your place is very important for branding and creating a blog that is appealing to the readers that your blog is targeted for. If you know precisely where you fit into your niche from the start, you’re one step ahead of the rest.

8. Increase your Network of Bloggers

Networking is probably one of the most crucial parts of blogging other than content creation, and in some cases it maybe even more important. If you are continually meeting new bloggers and building the relationships that you already have, you will most likely be in a better position for the future. Creating a network will help you to learn from others, get valuable and loyal readers, increase your inbound links, increase votes at important social media sites, and much more.

9. A Knowledge of at Least 1 Specific Way to Get Targeted Readers to Your Blog

As you continue with blogging, you will learn more and more about traffic generation. Also getting people to read and recognize what you have written. If you have even one specific method that consistently helps you to reach your target audience, you are better off than many bloggers. Maybe it’s the time you have spent writing guest posts on other blogs in your circle or niche. It maybe success with leaving intelligent and insightful comments on other blogs, or maybe you’ve developed a strong profile at a specific social media website. If it’s something that you can continue to use in the future, that brings you one step closer to blogging success.

10. Achieving Goals

Many bloggers have long-term goals, such as making a living with their blog or blogs, or getting to the 5,000 subscriber point. But what most bloggers are lacking are the short-term goals that will help them to take the necessary steps towards those long-term goals. If you are setting monthly goals for blogging revenue, subscribers, traffic, etc. thats great but you should break them down even shorter. Try to set some daily and weekly goals as well. Don’t give up because you are not getting to the long-term goals fast enough. Take pleasure in meeting your short-term goals and keep pushing yourself each and every day.

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