Have you ever wondered, what do serious bloggers do and why are their blogs more successful than others? Maybe even yours. Great blogging habits and success habits in general set people apart from the rest of us. We’re doing things on a daily basis that helps us achieve a level of success most bloggers dream. And it’s not as hard as you may think.
Attitude and Blogging Habits
Here’s the situation, you may be struggling to keep working on your blog in a manner that makes you have a level of success that you dream. Maybe you have dreams of gaining thousands and thousands of followers, hundreds of comments, and perhaps even a post or two that goes viral. You want to make an impact. And your impact should increase your income. But, you aren’t quite spending the time you need, maybe you’re like many of us, and you’re procrastinating.
But do you know what you should be doing? For example, if you’re trying to gain muscle, are you doing the extra rep? I know that’s an odd analogy, but have you ever wondered, why isn’t your blog doing better? Are you doing an extra rep? Here’s a great article on affiliate marketers failures. And some of the reasons why failure happens. My recommendation, give this a read when you have a chance.
Do You Ask Yourself the Right Questions?
Next, maybe you’re attitude isn’t quite right. And you’re focusing on all the reasons why you are not succeeding. Here’s a crazy feature of your brain, it has to answer the questions you ask. So, if you’re asking questions that have negative answers, that’s what you focus on responding. Here’s an example:
- Why can’t I write more blogs?
- Why am I procrastinating?
- Why can’t I become successful?
Think about that for example. You can answer all of those questions. And all of those answers give you a reason to stop blogging. It’s where you focus. Before I get into the habits, read the post, about how to think like a millionaire. The post attempts to give you an idea for why millionaires think differently.
Now consider the questions a successful blogger asks.
- How can I write more blogs?
- How can I work harder today?
- What am I grateful for today?
These questions give you a significant better focus for success because serious bloggers ask better questions.
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Are You Scared of Success?
Maybe you didn’t know this, but have you ever considered you might be fearful of success? Imagine the responsibility of having thousands of visitors per month? The influence and responsibility. Wow!
Now if you’re not scared of success, this isn’t a good post for you to read. Just skip to habits. But I thought it necessary to share this post with you.
Next, let’s talk through the actual tactical habits.
Habits of Successful and Serious Bloggers
We’re going to break this into two segments, tactical habits of a successful blogger and tactical habits of successful people. Our challenge to you read through these habits and determine which ones you consider critical to adopt. Adapting all of these habits may be necessary if you’re serious.
Nine Tactical Habits of a Successful Blogger
Successful bloggers have several habits they do on a regular basis. And if you think they don’t make these habits, you need to take a hard look at yourself. Maybe it’s some of the reasons your blog isn’t as successful as you envision. Let’s begin with research.
Writes with Purpose and Custom Problem Alignment
Successful Bloggers write posts that help solve or align with customer’s interest. Bloggers research the customer’s problem. If you’re attempting to explain how to set up a successful new years party, your post should solve those problems. Success means you write with purpose.
Keyword Research
If you have a purpose, successful bloggers do their keyword research. They use tools like Jaaxy and Google Keyword Planner. Here are a few things they do with keywords.
- Find long-tail keywords
- When you use Jaaxy, make sure to find keywords that have more than 50 searches per month and less than 50 competition – Jaaxy makes it easy
- Find 3-5 keywords per post
- Does not overuse keywords within the post
- Makes sure the keywords align with the content
Review and Check Grammar
Successful bloggers review their posts. They make sure they review their post for grammar and spelling errors. Successful bloggers write posts, review posts and edit those posts often. Sure mistakes are made, but are they one mistake or a thousand mistakes?
Submitting for Comments and Replying
Posts need comments to be legitimized. When people arrive at your website and read your post are there comments? Until you have a regular set of followers, make sure to find a community like Wealthy Affiliate to comment exchange. Read one of our reviews on Wealthy Affiliate.
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The other habit is that successful blogger reply to comments from readers.
Sharing on Social Media
Share, share, share. No matter if you have followers or not you need to share each post regularly on your social feed. Successful bloggers make a rotation of sharing new and old posts. Don’t forget once you write a post share it on a rotation. Old posts get overlooked often, but go ahead and share those again.
Consistently Writing
Be consistent. Successful bloggers write a few times per week if not more. Make sure to set your schedule, write, write and write.
Being Too Direct on the Sale
Are you too direct? Buy now, buy NOW, BUY NOW… Is that your message?
Great bloggers inform first, connect with their readers, and build report. Relentlessly. If you read fantastic blog posts, something is connecting you to the words and the call to action.
Call to Action
Have you ever read a post that compels you to learn more through a link or to click on a purchase button? That’s intentional and purposeful, but it’s not forced. Great bloggers have a habit of considering the call to action within a post as part of the overall message. The pattern is to find this while writing your post, always.
Bloggers Start With a Community
When you’re starting out or even when you’re successful, successful bloggers have a habit of joining a community. Why a community? Communities like Wealthy Affiliate provide feedback, comment exchange, education, and so much more. When you’re successful or starting, having a habit of engaging with a group of already motivated and focused people enables you to connect to so many more potential customers.
Three Tactical Habits of a Success Person
The habits of a successful blogger specifically focus on writing, planning, and customer connection. But what are the habits of successful people in general? Let’s cover three everyday habits of the high achievers? You may be surprised.
Morning Habits For Success
What do you do when you wake up? Do you open your phone, check your email, or start working? Successful people don’t do that. Did you know that? Most high achievers have a morning ritual that gets their mind ready for the day. Here are some morning habits.
- Waking up and focus on being grateful for the day
- Focus on how to make the most of the day
- Exercise, moving your body
- Meditation, clearing your mind
All of this happens before opening email, phone, social media. If you make a habit of preparing yourself for the day, when you open your phone and email for the day you have a much higher chance to reach your goals. A morning ritual keeps people disciplined.
Relentless Discipline and Focus
Be relentless in your word to yourself. And more importantly, be realistic in your ability to stay focused and accomplish the tasks you set for yourself. For example, if you wake up and say, I’m going to write ten blog posts that day, is that realistic? Maybe. But if you say, I will write two blog posts – then DO IT. And make sure nothing gets in your way. High achievers make a goal and do what it takes to reach it.
Being disciplined means you commit yourself. Nobody else cares and nobody will know if you do not meet your commitment except yourself. But disciplined with you. Be proud of yourself.
Be sure you believe in what you commit to yourself. If you’re not good at it, make small steps. Here’s a challenge, make your bed every day. Crazy simple, but if you do it, doesn’t that feel great to make a small commitment.
Momentum
You never stop. Let’s keep this simple, success means momentum. People who reach their focused destination keep moving, even if a wall gets in their way. It’s a habit where no matter the hurdle, we continually move toward our target. No matter the challenge, we keep going.
In Summary
Wow, lots of information coming your way. Habits are an essential part of reaching your goals, either financial or influential. When you’re choosing to watch TV, spend hours on social media watching scrolling through nothing instead of working on your blog, you don’t have the habits of being a serious and successful blogger.
We’d love to hear from you. Please comment below with habits you think are essential to have as a successful blogger and a successful person.
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This article really resonated with me as I am a blogger myself and some of these tips are so true, especially the attitude one. What would you say your overall biggest and most important tip for bloggers is? I think blogging is a process, and lot’s of things will be learned along the way, but having good information like this to know of the bat can be really helpful. Great article!
My biggest tip for bloggers is momentum. You have to generate content to grow your blog. If a blogger gets stuck writing a post 1 or 2 a month, they aren’t serious. The skills and site visuals come, but they don’t need to come if you don’t have content. And momentum makes us better writers. Cheers! And thanks for the comments.
I am only a part-time blogger now but working towards become a serious full-time blogger as soon as I can. I feel like some of my friends think this is a hobby but I really do want to get serious and successful so appreciate your tips immensely.
Love the idea of writing with a problem in mind. I generally write blogs about things that interest me perhaps not with a problem in mind that I can help solve for my readers so this is a great tip.
Social media is another area that’s currently doing my head in. I am doing as you say and sharing, sharing, sharing but it feels like I am sharing to an empty room. I have been concentrating on Facebook quite a bit because I find it easy to use but I still have very few followers. I will be sure to start sharing my old posts again too – great idea to keep the content rolling.
So do I just keep posting and hope one day my followers will pick up? I don’t want to harass my family and friends (well some I have and that’s about all who follow me!) I want people who are really interested in reading my blogs to follow me. Any help you can provide would be most appreciated.
Great question. You’re at that “dead zone” phase. Meaning you’re writing, but it seems like it’s going into thin air. But honestly, the best thing you can do is write, write, and write. On social media, follow people, friend people, and even post make sure you #tag to something relevant to your subject. Keep the momentum, because you’re at the point before people find you. But to find you, you have to let people know.
As a member of Wealthy Affiliate this is a great article. To me it almost feels like a blue print of sorts. It feels like something a person can follow to be able to do the right things and steer away from the bad things.
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Dale
Thanks Dale, great habits increase success. And maybe you’re right 🙂
Thank you for sharing the habits of the most successful bloggers. I feel like I am good on some and there are definitely some that I need to improve upon such as consistently writing and sharing on social media.
The ones where I am strong at were joining a blogging community and asking for website comments. In regards to the blogging community, I have found myself adopting their mindsets everyday which I am starting to realize is very important. Without it, I don’t think anyone will see financial success.
Great mindset! That’s what you need, keep up the amazing progress. Success only follows.
Hi JB,great post here on success and serious blogging.As a fellow blogger I am always on the lookout for any tips related to me trying to be successful at affiliate marketing.My car has become my classroom with podcasts etc while i am out and about.I just want to learn anything and everything whenever i can about blogging etc.Actually if its anything to do with the online world,I want to know about it e.g cryptos,SEO etc.You have some great tips in this article related to that for me and I thank you for that 🙂
So glad I could be helpful. The non-stop learning and success focus you have results in success.
This is a great post and I couldn’t agree with you more , people who are successful are dedicated to what it is they are chasing , be it an athlete , writer , or carpenter, they did not become successful by not being focused on the task at hand. Practice and good habits are essential to being good at anything . It takes 2000 repetitions to allow your brain to make it second nature and still we trip .. LOL we are all human !! Having a plan and sticking to it with your head down is a sure path to something better.
Great comments Rick! And doing it 2,00 times or 10,000 times, the rewards are always worth it. Cheers!
Most of the time when you explore something new most of your families and friends will be against it and will discourage you and so it will be a lot of help to have a community of people who have the same interest as you do. I believe that having the right tools to hone your skills and getting the best teachers are really important. Teachers who go above and beyond to teach you everything they know and does not hold back so that you can get to where you want to go. But of course after you learned everything, you have to put it into action so that you actually get results! Practice truly makes perfect so if it is not perfect the first time just keep doing it and keep learning!
Great teachers are amazing. And being part of a community of like minded successful focused people can accelerate your growth. Great comments, I so appreciate you.
Thank you for sharing good habits of successful blogger and successful person. There are so much information in this blog.
Reading through the habits of successful blogger, all of them are important. Out of the nine habits, I think that consistently writing and joining a community need to put in more effort. I want to adopt all the nine habits to be a successful blogger.
I am surprised to read the morning habits of successful person. It is so true that we should have some morning ritual to keep us discipline.
All the successful people I know have a very strict morning ritual. It’s a way of winning the day. I’m super glad you found the post useful.
Hey JB! So great to read this! Habits are huge to a person’s success and the synchronistic nature of encountering this post is a very good vibe for me. I recently had to have an honest conversation with myself about where my habits needed some changing in my life and I have already seen a huge shift in my day and the momentum I bring to my work with, funnily enough, the exact formula you recommend in terms of a morning ritual and the tactical habits of what makes a successful person. Gratitude, exercise and mindfulness through meditation are all habits I have now imprinted in my daily routine and i have seen exponential growth in my self governance and the results these easy and simple practices have proven to provide. Being realistic as you say is a good reference point as before I was biting off more than I could chew, but when I am more realistic about what can be accomplished, then the momentum proves to gain. I am so stoked about your site and further posts to come as it really encompasses the entirety of a success mindset and I have no doubt that becoming a millionaire is an achievable goal! A sincerest thanks and keep them coming!
I’m honored to have your comments. Habits are something the makes us great. There’s a great saying that I’ve heard – to win the day means you have to win the morning.
Hi JB!
This is really good advice on how to run a business period whether it is online or not. I took a business class last summer and it brought up some very similar points that you are making.
My teacher mentioned the idea of being afraid of success just as you have. But she also mentioned how we view money is tied to that. I had never taken a serious look at my relationship with money and the feelings tied behind that. But it is true. And in a way it makes sense, if you’ve got negative feelings towards money then that’ll probably spill over to the idea of success.
Another good point she made was asking yourself what success means to you. It does mean different things to different people.
Thanks for asking these questions. They are very important ones any entrepreneur should ask themselves.
Thanks for the comments. Success is something people want, but few people understand the amount of energy, thought, and work effort needed to get past the suck of all the tough times to get want they want. And one of those thoughts to overcome is what you mentioned, your relationship with money. Thanks!
This post hit right on the nail. It’s hurt to read some of the truths that are outlined in this post. But the fact of the matter is they are all true. Being a successful blogger means you are willing to do more than the average blogger do.
Firstly you have to do the right things. What that means is you have to be able to write posts or blogs that answers your target people’s niche. Instead of writing posts that have no meaning to their problems.
Secondly, you have to be very consistent with your work. That includes posting regularly on your website or social media. This way you can build some credibility and brand for yourself in your respective niche.
Thirdly, is to do it long enough. When you start blogging, you want to do it for at least one year in my opinion. This really increases your chance of you succeeding and attracting large audiences.
And the last point is to be patience. Blogging can be a challenging and difficult task to do without seeing results. It’s important that you don’t rush and stay patience whiles you blog. If you manage to do that, you will achieve great success., Thanks for this excellent post.
Fantastic comment! And I absolutely agree, you must give it a year if you’re serious. Cheers! And thank you, I do appreciate you.
Hi, JB I honestly I needed this read this article. Having a successful blog post takes TIME and EFFORT so it’s definitely something that doesn’t happen overnight. I have been looking into other projects and honestly fell back on my blog. Sometimes you have to write it on your calendar as a constant reminder because with out consistency / goals you can’t have successful blog.
I’m so glad this could be helpful! And it does take time, focus, and it sucks some days. But it’s the pain that makes us successful. Most people stop, and that’s the difference. Keep it up.
Wow, so much great information, I absolutely love your posts and I always come away with more useful and integral knowledge of internet marketing.
It can really be a struggle to stay motivated when building out an online business. There is just so much to do with little return in the beginning, and it’s easy to lose focus on the the long game of why you are doing it at all. I have been there myself, but I now how some rituals in place like you mention in your post to help keep me going. My biggest thing being that I make sure to go out of my comfort zone every day; be it learning something ‘techie’, which is not my strong point, or reaching out to people I don’t know, or doing something that I know I am procrastinating on. This always makes me feel food at the end of the day.
Thanks again for all your awesome information 🙂
Great comment! I have this philosophy that I’ve adapted. Do something that sucks every day, it will force you to grow.
I like how you flipped common questions on their head. They take much more of a positive spin designed for growth. It is amazing how the questions we ask influence the answer.
I could not agree with you more on the consistency of writing. Since I am in school, I cannot blog three days a week all the time. Sometimes I have to slow down because I have papers and exams to worry about. When I blog, I keep that in mind and make a point of blogging at least once a week, no matter what. For me at least, that is what consistent writing looks like in practice. I hope it helps your readers.
Thank you for sharing and I hope you make it a great day!
You’re the best. And you know what, working on a business (your blog) as well as school is hard, keep up the great focus. Cheers.
Well it is good to know that I have 90% of the good habits of a blogger. The one I am stuck on is the call to action. I have been working on this, trying to figure out a way (given my niche) on how I can call to action and get more sales. Great information as always!
I just talked with someone the other day to remind them of why they are in the business of blogging. With good content, I feel it’s a great ask to people.