If You’re A Consistent Blogger, You’re Dead – Guest Post

This is Olusegun’s second guest post here, I invited him back because of the great reaction he had first time round. Before I hand over to Olusegun, make sure you visit his site after leaving reading and showing your support.

Don’t be surprised. It is a bitter truth and you should seriously thing of changing if you are.

Consistency is a great characteristic and with it you can be sure to remain long in the blogging world. Lack of this virtue is why there are more blogs than bloggers in the actual sense. Many bloggers start and pack up along the line. There are definitely a lot of reasons for this top of which is no ability to keep going.

I started blogging with a free blogger blog in 2006/7(www.thinkandimagine.blogspot.com) and I had no intention of making any money from it initially. This lasted for about 3 years and I was not too crazy about traffic also. I just wanted to write out my thoughts. In retrospect, I think it was a big mistake but I have since learned and moved on.

I was consistent and invested a lot of time mediating and churning out content. After a couple of years, I realized that content is nothing without readers and started notifying my friends and got a trickle of visitors at best. By the time I put up some adsense and started making money, I felt really stupid for not putting it up some years earlier.

Anyway, so much for the past and its ignorant errors. Here is the MAJOR the lesson I learnt:

Consistency alone will not get you anywhere.

They say doing the same thing the same way always and expect a change is the perfect definition of insanity.

So you might be wondering what then are the facts you need to know?

Well, only one thing is needful.

You have to move from being a consistent blogger to being a PROGRESSIVELY CONSISTENT blogger.

Remember that I said earlier that consistency is a great characteristic. If it is what will keep long in the game, progressive consistency is what will make you permanently in the game.

SO HOW DO YOU BECOME A PROGRESSIVELY CONSISTENT BLOGGER?

Simply be progressive. Be creative, do thing that will distinguish you from the crowd and that takes a lot of being yourself.

First of all, all your content must be genuinely adding value. You need to do this as a lot of people go online seeking for written content more than any other sort.

Here is how I intend to become a progressively consistent blogger

• Drive more traffic to my blog by doing more guest posts, commenting more on other blogs and networking like crazy with other bloggers.
• Once I can scale this hurdle, I progress to the list below.
• Do videos (this is a challenge for me at the moment although I just got Camtasia 6)
• Do regular interviews
• Do audio interviews, have it transcribed
• Organize contests
• Organize commenting competitions

At this point though, it is noteworthy (again) that being progressively consistent is most effective if you have a sizeable readership. If not, just stick to the basics – blog commenting, forum commenting, guest blogging, and of course posting quality, valuable content.

Get feedback from your readers and let them tell you what they want to see, then go ahead and give it to them.

In what ways do you try to be a progressively consistent in your blogging?

Cheers,

Olusegun

photo credit: Robert S. Donovan

Olusegun Adedokun is an entrepreneur from Nigeria. He blogs at internet-earner.com. He believes “One Ageless Universal Strategy; Countless Marketing Tactics” is what will make a successful online business.

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