What makes successful blog successful

[Rajec]

Hi I want to start non english self development blog. I was curios what does makes great blog great. What are differences between StevePavlina, ZenHabits, pickthebrain and others blogs.

I would be willing to create some comparison if you will give me advice what to compare.

[AfteraDream]

Why do you visit Stevepavlina.com or Zenhabits or any other blog? Answer this question for yourself and then make a list of what you like in those blogs (content, design or anything else).

[AGBourne]

They all speak from experience and their own passion.

[Savage]

Knowing how to spell success is half the battle.

The other half is being honest and direct (truth), being passionate about your topics and your visitors (love), and empowering people with disciplined action (power).

[supertom]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Knowing how to spell success is half the battle.

The other half is being honest and direct (truth), being passionate about your topics and your visitors (love), and empowering people with disciplined action (power).

well your aligned with the first two, but we gotta work on the last one, hard cause your hogging all the power how bout sending a little self-discipline this way

[jthomson71]

Bring value to people through your blog. People are looking to grow or be inspired or think a little differently or perhaps read insight from someone else that is thinking like them. But for any of these things to happen the reader needs to perceive some value for spending the time reading your blog so you really need to bring your best when you write your blog to ensure you are providing that value each time you write.

[Rajec]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Knowing how to spell success is half the battle.

The other half is being honest and direct (truth), being passionate about your topics and your visitors (love), and empowering people with disciplined action (power).

I will If I were able to edit thread name .

Things you wrote are important but I don't that those make difference. Many bloggers out there are honest,direct and passionate but still aren't successful.

Scot H Young suggest and I agree that you power are about topics you write and the way how you can explain them + I love your podcast, you should do them more often.

I would add that your topics are more advanced and unique, I think it is because of level of your awareness(not sure if I used right expression).

Leo is great writer with lot and lot of experience in writing but his topics doesn't seem much special to me. His article aren't that advanced and unique as yours. I would say I could find topics Leo is writing about on other blogs, but still he is more successful.

[Brutha]

Things you wrote are important but I don't that those make difference. Many bloggers out there are honest,direct and passionate but still aren't successful.

A lot of people in the internet marketing field aren't honest.
Some blogger write there paying and think during that time mainly on how google will read the page instead of how humans will read it.

A lot of people care more about making money than about bringing their visitors value and therefore don't love their visitors.

[Rebecca800]

Originally Posted by Rajec

Things you wrote are important but I don't that those make difference. Many bloggers out there are honest,direct and passionate but still aren't successful.

A blog needs to make compelling reading. You have to be interesting enough to make readers give up their time and stick with you. It's all about creating value for the reader.

Before you publish an article, think like your reader: "What's in this for me?" Someone will not spend 10 minutes reading a blog that leaves them feeling lost / bored / uninspired...

How NOT to create value:
- write purely for search engines
- write badly (bad grammar, etc)
- be boring
- be unfocused
- be unoriginal
- only be in it for the money

I know I'm focusing on the negatives to make my point... I shouldn't be posting while I'm in a bad mood

Anyway you get my drift...

[michaelandrews]

Hi,

I agree with many of the posters here that you have to write about subjects that you:
a) love or are passionate about
b) have knowledge of
and
c) that you have a continued motivation to write about.

This is a great start but then you also have to create value for readers, like 'jt' says above. And then learning the 'craft of writing' and how to best express all those things you want to talk about. I'm still learning that.

Best of luck,
Michael.

[Rajec]

Originally Posted by Brutha

A lot of people in the internet marketing field aren't honest.
Some blogger write there paying and think during that time mainly on how google will read the page instead of how humans will read it.

A lot of people care more about making money than about bringing their visitors value and therefore don't love their visitors.

I agree with that. I wrote that many bloggers not all of bloggers.

[Rajec]

Originally Posted by Rebecca800

A blog needs to make compelling reading. You have to be interesting enough to make readers give up their time and stick with you. It's all about creating value for the reader.

Before you publish an article, think like your reader: "What's in this for me?" Someone will not spend 10 minutes reading a blog that leaves them feeling lost / bored / uninspired...

How NOT to create value:
- write purely for search engines
- write badly (bad grammar, etc)
- be boring
- be unfocused
- be unoriginal
- only be in it for the money

I know I'm focusing on the negatives to make my point... I shouldn't be posting while I'm in a bad mood

Anyway you get my drift...

Thats great question and know it but thanks for repeating to me.

[Some Random Loser]

Chances are, if you have 2 ask, you lose. Next!

[Matt Willard]

Originally Posted by Some Random Loser

Chances are, if you have 2 ask, you lose. Next!

Do I really have to say it?

All right...

"Asking questions is a good way of finding out things!" - Sesame Street

[Some Random Loser]

Hey, Matt... I'm with you on that!

[rmuller965]

Originally Posted by Rajec

Hi I want to start non english self development blog. I was curios what does makes great blog great. What are differences between StevePavlina, ZenHabits, pickthebrain and others blogs.

I would be willing to create some comparison if you will give me advice what to compare.

Hi,

Following are few tips for the successful blog:
1. Blog because you really want to
2. Offer feeds and syndication
3. Publish regularly
4. Write about what you know
5. Write well
6. Make a good first impression
7. Let visitors participate
8. Personalize your blog
9. Promote your blog
10. Offer a good interface

On the basis of above mentioned points you can analyze that StevePavlina and other successful blogs follow the same points.

I hope you got your answer.

Thanks

[Antarananda]

Read what Mark Joyner has written (The Irresistible Offer, The Great Formula) about how mass psychology works (especially in sales and marketing), and how to push people's buttons to get them to follow you. This may sound devious or unethical, but it need not be. I guarantee you Steve is well aware of his readers' collective mindset and works that knowledge to his advantage.

Dave Lakhani covers some similar concepts in his books, about how you can position yourself as a Guru, an authority, in your field. It is a carefully and intelligently crafted strategy. Once people start respecting you and following you, you can create powerful networks (a Mastermind, as described by Napoleon Hill). I am sure Steve's future plan is to have such a network, where people will be promoting him and his works because it is a win-win situation. Already, Steve doesn't need to promote himself anymore. The growing ranks of followers will do his bidding

[vMike]

I actually thought ZenHabits was great until I saw StevePavlina.
Quality, style, energy. Many of Steve's posts carry a lot of energy with them.
That said many of them don't appeal to me at all - just shows you can't please everyone

[Gazzali]

Originally Posted by vMike

I actually thought ZenHabits was great until I saw StevePavlina.
Quality, style, energy. Many of Steve's posts carry a lot of energy with them.
That said many of them don't appeal to me at all - just shows you can't please everyone

I will like to add one more... that is integrity Steve practice what he post.. especially the 'diet' thing.

[Some Random Loser]

Here's something which would relate more to Mr. Pavlina's "power" and to some extent "love" concepts.

One thing I've found in many "weak blogs" is a very weak web presence in general, or weak social presence.

If you "put yourself out there" via many channels on the web, not by mere promoting, but by interacting, and get together with people off the web as well, you tap into the power of the social order. You also do this by helping people out here and there, one on one. A budding relationship with just 1 person can easily lead to relationships with 12 others, and on, and on.

Back when I got fired from a job I worked at for nearly 4 years, it was the social connections from that job that kept me with work and an income, as well as opportunities for more social connections, which would lead to other income opportunities. I've spoken with a few people who wanted to go into business and were interested in having me work with them. And I got all this just for hanging around and talking!

Starting from scratch is a ♥♥♥♥♥, and requires a greater level of fortitude and determination. Building up social power from what you already have, tends to be more of a day in and day out habitual interaction, carefully filtered to make sure it's in the direction one wants. It's really a no brainer.

If you do not have the power of the social order backing you, your blog is at a severe disadvantage. If you do not have the power of the social order backing you, your ability to get money from people is at a severe disadvantage. It's hard walking the world alone, though some people are talented at such, and enjoy it. But walking the INTERNET alone, is even MORE difficult.

I've even seen people on the net who DID form many social connections, but would periodically "flush" these connections, and form completely new identities online. Some of these people had extremely profound things to share, which were certainly not the usual cookie cutter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that gets spouted verbatim by everyone. The "problem" was that when they started up their new sites, what would inevitably happen, is that the content they shared, which really should have been seen by millions of people, if not billions, instead led to a community of perhaps 8 people, which would eventually fizzle out, due to waning interest from all parties.

I can commiserate with them though. I believe the people who flush social connections and identities completely, tend not to be very charmed by humanity as a whole, and who can blame them?

Basically, most of the "weak" blogs tend to be a phenomenon in which the man or woman, or child, making the blog, doesn't really put themselves into it. You don't really get a feeling for who they are, or what they're like. You don't even have a picture of them. They almost never tell you about what's going on in their life... instead preferring to tell you "how things are." There's something very impersonal and disconnected about them.

Generally speaking, it is much more difficult to earn a passive income from a web site if it doesn't have "mass social appeal." It's even MORE difficult to earn passive income from a web site, if it doesn't have ANY social appeal.

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[Halffull]

Being as I've set a goal to grow my blog to 500 subscribers in the next six months, I've been doing a bit of research on this myself. Based on what I've found, there are five things that make a blog successful(in no particular order):

1. Accessibile
2. Well Written
3. Promoted Well
4. Good (Commercial and Useful) Content
5. (Relatively) Frequent Content

I then broke each of these areas down into specific projects I could accomplish... you can check out more in the blog article.

I'd love to collaborate with you on growing our blogs. PM me and let me know if you're interested.