Habits of Highly Effective Newbie Bloggers - Or Not

As a rank newbie to the world of blogging, I’m going to take a stab at “revealing” what I’ve learned so far.

Perhaps these are even my habits… though calling me “Highly Effective” may be a bit of a stretch. I feel as disciplined as a string of overcooked spaghetti.

But perhaps if you’re a newbie like me, this will help you attain critical mass.

1. Blog what you’re passionate about. Sure that’s trite… but true.

If you jump into a field simply because the earnings per click are astronomical you’ll soon burn out and feel yourself to be a pathetic sham even if you’re readers never find out. The more you follow habit #2 - blogging regularly - the more important passion is.

2. Blog regularly. The discipline of posting 5 entries per day on every business day on average is a good one for any blogger. It’s keeps the search engines coming back for more and eventually readers.

The blogosphere - the internet itself - is about providing instant information relief. Blog readers want new input constantly, not the same old rehashed news they can get anywhere.

So having a constant stream of new information is crucial to success… your customers demand news/stimulation/Brain CPR and it’s up to you to provide it if you’ve chosen to be a blogger.

3. Feed your blog from every food group constantly. Keep looking for new sources of information to spur your blogging. If you keep writing about topics that just one or two news sources provide, your readers could just go there and you become a useless middle man driving up the cost of real news. So be an investigator… blog outside the box by bringing unexpected sources of information to bear on your writing to expand your readers mind. Automate the process as much as possible by having information sent to your blog aggregator or email box.  Force inspiration to strike you as often as possible. Don’t leave inspiration to chance… your writing is too important.

4. Help other bloggers. They need thoughtful comments besides “Cool blog man, here’s my link!” It’s sad how many times I feel the comments that I leave on someone else’s blog are better than what I post on my own blog… isn’t that sick?

But if you do that enough and help enough people, you might develop some relationships that help you on your way to becoming one of those vaunted “six figure bloggers”.

That’s not me of course - I’m writing for the newbie guys and gals remember? - but it did get me an invitation to join a premier blogging network www.business-opportunities.biz and advance my writing career.

5. Balance shameless self promotion with integrity. This can be so hard. You see the blog slime automating so many things and creating blogs that will never help any real person but feed their pay per click accounts. Some of their techniques can be emulated. For instance, you really CAN benefit by retooling your posts and turning them into articles to be posted all over the web linking back to your site. But you’ll fight the demons that whisper “there’s an easier way”.  But the easier way takes you back to sensing how pathetic you’ve become and you’ve prostituted your art and passion. I cant’ say I haven’t erred here from time to time. But that’s what confession and absolution are for my friend!

Finally,

6. Don’t give up.  I’m saying this as much for myself as for you. I keep telling myself I’ll break those traffic plateaus and earnings per post barriers. You will too… hey remind me of that tomorrow.