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Its been an year I am into blogging and truly speaking, blogging has changed my whole life. In this post I am going to share my own experience, I am going to tell you what habits you should adopt to be a successful blogger. By successful I do not mean famous, it means that you will get more output by doing less input. Being successful is totally different from being famous. Lets start.
Keep on thinking about new ideas
Blogging is what ? Sharing your ideas with others! I remember, last week I went for shopping with my mom and there I saw a great color combination in one of the Sari, I quickly took out my mobile and captured the image to use that color combination in my next template. In this way, I keep on looking for new ideas even if I am out for shopping or playing.
Be passionate
I do not waste time hanging out with my friends or wasting time on mobile, rather I love to increase my skills by reading articles on other tech blogs. This helps me in gaining more knowledge. And by reading such articles I get a lot of new ideas. So, if you are in blogging, be passionate about it and stop wasting your time and concentrate on your blog.
Comment
Many blogs are filled with this tip that commenting increases traffic, but unfortunately none of them explains how to comment in a systematic way so as to get most out of it. If you want to be a part of this commenting system then you must read and follow steps below, they will help you in using this system more easily and in a systematic way.
- First create a new email id as you will use it only for commenting.
- Now, make a list of blogs that your read daily, also include a list of other blogs that matches the niche of your blog. Make a list of about 20 blogs. The list should include blog URL and admin name.
Note : Please note that, the blogs you have included in your list should have good Alexa ranking and PR.
- Now, go to each blog and subscribe to their feeds.
- Congratulations, half of your job is done. Now, install Mozilla Firefox and for easy commenting you can use easyComment add-on. Click here to visit the installation link.
- Now, as you receive feeds in the Inbox, go to that post and write a comment. Do it for all the blogs. Yes, it’s a tedious job, getting success is not as easy as you think.
Reply to comments
Always remember that your readers are your guests and you should respect them, so make it a habit to reply the comments that readers leave on your blog. Unreplied comments force the readers to think that either you do not have an answer or you do not care about them.
Use Social Networking Websites
Social networking websites like Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit etc can be an ultimate source of traffic if and only if they are used in a systematic way. I’ve seen many users blindly sending friend requests and shouting them their post to Digg or Stumble. Its totally a wrong procedure, below are some tips that you must read before using any social networking website.
First create an account on only 1 social networking website, say StumbleUpon.
Now, only add those friends who you know personally and who can thumb and review every article of yours. And in return, be ready to do the same. In this way increase your network of friends one by one and start gaining their interest by stumbling and reviewing their articles. When you have about 50 friends who stumbles your posts and also review them every time, then its time to create account on other networking websites. Give them the invitation to join your friend list. Like this, you can extend your network.
This is the proper way of using social networking websites, using such way will definitely get traffic to your website.
These are few most important good habits of a successful blogger that I have learnt so far. Try it once and you’ll surely benefit from it.
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Gaganpreet Singh on June 4, 2009 | Filed Under Blogger Tricks, Featured, Wordpress


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Hey thanks Gagan….I did know 2 of them but really very very thanks for the rest 3…I will surely apply and adopt these habits
and which of them you already knew ?
Nice post gagan, i hope i can practice these tips on my blogging.
Thnx
good luck Rajeel
Thanks a ton for the tips,Let me better put these into practice
Love your blog
Cheers
Amith
This post speaks your experience. Lovely. And thanks for the easyComment addon, lemme use it
Thanks a lot for all this Gagan. I will try to follow it
Its a great info and nicely written. thanks a lot and keep going on with more tips………
Nice plugin that you shared for commentators
amazing and each n everypoint is ture ! posting ur experience really gud (-; looking forward for more tips like this (-; thanku man !
Stumbled! great compilation of tips, i think you can also write some great individual elaborated articles on blogging.
Commenting on other blogs drives traffic, i accept that, my own blog is an example in my experience, but i think comment should be have some meaning in it and should be related to the post. Should also be unique, provide some kind of information to the readers.
Your blog is really helpful , and i wil implement it in my forum
yes the most important thing about blogging is that you should be passionate about blogging and you should feel that through blogging you can enhance your knowledge about a particular genre and let others know…….
Can you give tips to improve a sites alexa ranking
This is really ,clean and systematic .I love it
You can also create a network of commentaters.proper comments will definitely get you more traffic.you can also target orkut communities to drivd more traffic
After creating network of commentators we usually get visits from our fellow bloggers and our fellow bloggers never click on ads
My previous comment was for Ricky
Wow great articale, good information.
Gagan, great tips…
I am doing the same thing. subscribed to all blogs that i like.
I have subscribed this blog too.
Whenever my mind i free. I also think of blogging.
Good I can see you apply all of them here. You article are all quallity ones. Blog Looks clean and informative on first look. Articles have made me read more and more.
Yeah! that’s very interesting !! thank you very much !
Some nice tips. My greatest problem is new ideas, I have a few and then I somehow forget them. I like your idea of taking a photo, I think I should start carrying a small notebook to make notes and take more pictures of things I want to post about.
Comments do help in getting more traffic, but I have noticed that commentators are leaving very short comments. Some comments are not even 5 words, I sometimes delete them as it’s not really a comment.
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Commenting is not a good strategy .. Spending time to write good research post will do the work of 100 comments