Three C’s That Will Change Your Blog Forever: Blogging Like A Pro
January 22, 2009Love Your Health Money Family & Relationship
After reading and researching other successful blogs like ProBlogger, Amit Agarwal and JohnChow, I came to the learn that there are three main characteristics of a successful blog. These 3 characteristics ironically starts with the letter “C” just like the word characteristics itself. Lets list them without wasting any further time:
1. Content: Content, Content, and Content. Ask any top bloggers how they attract so many visitors to the blog, and I assure you they will say it’s the content, a quality content of course. Actually we don’t even have to ask them, it is quite obvious: compare their blog with our typical blogs, and we notice the key difference between the two is the content. the former writes a quality content, while the latter writes an average content, if not a bad quality content. Successful bloggers write unique and useful contents that makes the visitors stay in the blog for a longer period of time and come back to read new contents next time.
Here is how Darren Rowse of Problogger perceives useful content as:
- Entertaining – increasingly blogs are being used as entertainment. People are going to them for laughs, for gossip and for fun conversation.
- Educative – some blog readers are primarily interested in learning something about a given topic.
- Informative – many successful blogs are built on the thirst that some have to be informed on an issue, product or topic
- Controversial- some blog readers want a place that they can have a good old fashioned dialogue, debate or even a fight over an issue
- News – many blog readers just want to be kept up to date in a field
2. Credibility: In order for the visitors to take our blog writings seriously, they have to be let known we are credibile. They
need to notice that we know what we are talking about. They have to be able to trust us and feel not like a waste of time to read our blogs. Once they see our blog is credible, they will not only start to visit our blog often but also refer other people to do so. This in turn brings a positive long term effect on our blogs. Our blogs’ returning visitor traffic as well as feed subscription increases. Now who wouldn’t like their blogs to do this?
One of the best examples of a credible blog for me is Amit Agarwal’s tech blog Digital Inspiration. Just by the way he writes his articles and the number of articles in his blog, we can tell that he know what is talking about. But his credibility doesn’t just ends there; in his About page he flaunts his expertise, achievements and credibility relating to what his blog covers. No wonder why his blog labnol.blogspot.com gets 1.5 million page views every month.
3. Community: Community is what develops when our blog have the above two charecteristics. It not only involves the communication between the author and the readers through blog comments, but also the interaction between the readers at your blogspace. JohnChow’s blog is an epitome of this community/communication charecteristic; he gets involved in his post comments by replying within the comments. He has been able to cultivate the reader participation at its best potential; often times exceeding 100 comments in each blog postings. His readers not only leaves comments, but they also interact with other commentators by replying to each other. Now that’s a successful community gerated by a blog.
What I learned from John Chow is that blogmaster should interact with blog commentators. After we post an article, we shouldn’t ignore the article that we worked hard on creating; we should come back and see what is going in, if it needs any changes or updates. And also respond to the comments, doesn’t matter if it’s a nice one or a negative one. This will indirectly show that you read their comments and doesn’t just get wasted away.
FireDogLake says “People like to react to what you’ve written, so engage with them. This is another great time demand, because time you invest in reading through comments is time taken away from all the reading and writing you need to do to keep your audience. On the other hand, once your little community begins to take root, some of your best story ideas and the links you need to research them will come from your commenters.”
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