2 Secrets To Building An Insanely Popular Blog
I never listen to the “big” bloggers. All they do is stomp on us and mock us by giving us false traffic generating techniques, and other strategies that may have worked when they first started out, but now it’s completely useless!
Blogging in 2003 was a breeze. Set up any type of blog in any niche, and watch it grow up overnight. Back then all you needed to do was write halfway decent content, publish it, and share it with some friends. It was too insanely easy! There was no competition, and no chance a new blog would go completely unnoticed. Everyone was given a chance to become successful.
WELCOME TO 2011
The internet marketing niche, along with a few other popular topics on the internet are exploding. There are thousands (possibly) millions of internet marketing blogs!
Competition has gone through the roof! New bloggers no longer can share their blog with a few friends and have it go viral.
Now, the days of sharing your blog with 10 friends might not even give you 10 visits!
In order to market as if you are marketing in 2011, you need to follow two simple strategies.
CAN 1 BE BETTER THAN 1 MILLION?
Your blog was just hit by a roaring 1 million visitors from all of the social bookmarking sites (Stumble Upon, Digg, Reddit, etc.). Each visitor stays an average of half a second. (Horrible traffic)
Your server ends up crashing and you check to see how much money you made from Clickbank and AdSense. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
But, one visitor, one visitor, one visitor is all it takes to sell one product. One highly targeted visitor, only one highly targeted visitor!
WRITE LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Writing is one of the two secrets to creating an insanely popular blog. I’ve learned that the longer I spend writing my posts, the more effective they become.
Makes sense right? A highly targeted post is better than one million terrible posts. Sound familiar?
One highly targeted post, only one highly targeted post!
I’ve spent days, literally writing one article. After all of the hard work, it finally pays off. You will realize how much work you put in compared to the result was nothing, as soon as you start writing amazing content!
How will writing super amazing content work? Look at the biggest blogs in the world. The content they produce is the best in the world (That’s why they are the most popular in the world).
If one of the biggest blogs in the world wrote an article in 30 minutes like you do, then yes they would lose readers because readers want good content, not bad content that was slapped together last night at 1 am.
Slow down! You don’t need to post every day. There are many popular blogs that don’t post an article every day. If you can’t write for at least two hours a day, then don’t!
Use your own voice. Don’t try to copy someone else. You have to be unique in order to succeed.
Hiring a writer is fine, but all of us can’t do this… yet. It would be awesome to hire someone (a professional) to do the writing for you too!
GUEST BLOGGING
Guest blogging has been around since 2008, but most marketers are just too lazy to do it.
When you start to guest post, you need to stick with the “write like never before” tactic.
Why should you still spend a lot of time writing articles for other blogs?
Some blogs may not even accept your guest post if it is not good, and the blog that does accept your horrible guest post will give yourself a bad impression to all of your very first readers.
There are many different ways to guest post. First (my favorite is using a guest post exchanging site like Who’s Your Blogger?) Second you can contact the blog owner by his email or contact page.
Who’s holding you back? Stop reading and start guest posting! It’s for your own good.
What do you think? How do you guest post? Do you contact the blogger directly, or use a Guest Blogging exchange site? I’m dying to know…
Author Bio: Joe Burnett uses the all in one guest blogging strategy to drive thousands of visitors to his website and blogs. He shares even more of his secrets at his Guest Blogging Secrets fan page
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This is not a secret from now on because its already revealed and will being discuss later. This is very informative one and sharing this is a great part of yours. Know we know the secrets. I’m looking forward to it.
Agreed!! Marketing techniques totally changes from 2003. There is huge competition now in every niche and you have to provide something unique every time to stay in the market.
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1 million visitors sound great! I think that once you really hit that number, it should be a motivator to continue writing and developing as well
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I’m not agree with your conclusion …….New bloggers no longer can share their blog with a few friends and have it go viral….. as all the wise bloggers mix up and share their vast experience with each other.
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That would be cool to have an insanely popular blog, but as you said, targeted traffic driven to quality content is what converts the best – when speaking about affiliate sale, pay-per-click advert revenue, and so on.
I must say, I’m yet to give that guest blogging a try. I know it is one of the best ways to gain links back to your website, but I like keeping my content under my domains so I will always have full control of it.
You made a good point about writing better content. There are still many of those folks who slap together loads of quick, senseless blog posts and expect to become popular overnight.
Good luck with the online revenue, fellow bloggers. Cyber-space is very competitive nowadays…
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Sorry, Writing quality instead of quantities is no secret, it is one of the basic rules to keep readers.
Guest blogging is nothing new either. There are lots of people does it every day to draw traffic to their blogs.
I never listen to the “big” bloggers. All they do is stomp on us and mock us by giving us false traffic generating techniques, and other strategies that may have worked when they first started out, but now it’s completely useless!
I totally agree that writing is key. Without written content what would your visitors want from your blog anyway? Also make sure the written content on the blogs are definitely quantity! Then you should start having a following for sure.
Targeting your market is becoming more important than before. I like to go to blogs that write on the same subject and study the folks that visit them to see what type of people are reading the content. This gives me a better idea of my targeted market.
As for guest blogging, I love to do it—but I find it hard to write for other blogs while still keeping the quality content of my blog intact.
Guest Blogging is immensely important today.It helps yourself get familiar with other Blogger and thus creating a network for you which will help you in the long run.
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These 2 secrets are so true! Every successful blog needs unique and top quality content, and the only way to do that is to write like never before. Guest blogging is very important to bring in more traffic.
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These secrets are really true..and writing has always been a key factor in making a blog unique from any other blog..that’s quite important
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INSANELY popular! An attention grabbing headline.
It’s funny to think of 2003 as the beginning of blogging, the good old easy days. I’m not sure that just anyone could get hits in 2003. I remember having a website in 1997… things have changed a lot but I tend to think of it as “post-2001″.
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As for guest bloggin, I can tell that I am trying to find the revelant to my site blogs and send them my articles to consider and sometime I directly address the blog owner.
These are great secrets you have shared here. To build an awesome blog you have to satisfy your readers and this is giving them what they want. By doing this you may not be the best out of a million bloggers but hopefully you will be among the best.