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6 Tips To Make Your Pins Spread Farther

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6 Tips To Make Your Pins Spread Farther

Pinterest is a rapidly growing social network, and many businesses and entrepreneurs are utilizing it to grow their presences on the web. Some businesses send out pins that are routinely seen by millions of people. Others are approaching that stage and are using Pinterest to bring in more blog traffic than ever before.

The key to getting more blog traffic from Pinterest is to make your pins spread as far as possible. You want your pins to appear on numerous boards and to appear close to the top on Pinterest’s search engine for your keywords. If you want your pins to reach out to more people, follow these six tips.

 

#1: Optimize your pictures.

Before you pin something on Pinterest, you need to make sure this is the type of picture that would get repinned often. The pictures that get repinned more often are the taller pictures. Having multiple colors in one picture, a 50% color saturation, less than 10% background, no faces, and smooth textures all boost your chances of getting more repins on Pinterest.

There are free online editors that make it easy to utilize color saturation, and if you are in the search for a tall picture, you can create one with PowerPoint or KeyNote by changing the dimensions of the presentation. Optimizing your pictures is important regardless of the size of your audience. Even if you only have a few hundred followers, you can still get thousands of repins. When I only had 500 followers, one of my pins got liked and repinned over 1,000 times.

The people who repinned that particular pin allowed their audiences to see the pin. As more audiences of different sizes got to see the pin, I experienced a skyrocket in repins even though I did not have a large audience at the time. Do not wait for the moment when you have a large audience to optimize your pictures. Optimize them now.

 

#2: Use hashtags

Ever since hashtags became very successful on Twitter, numerous social networks have adopted them. Pinterest is one of the social networks that utilizes hashtags, and just as they are significant on Twitter, hashtags are also significant on Pinterest. Hashtags boost the SEO of your pins on Pinterest’s search engine.

When someone clicks on the link to a hashtag, they are brought over to a page containing recent and popular pins containing that hashtag. If you use this hashtag in many of your pins, the people who click on the hashtag will be brought to a page that displays numerous pins, and most of them would be yours. Giving your followers another chance to see your pins will allow you to get more repins.

 

#3: Pin often

The more times you pin, the more people get to see your content. This method may sound like common sense, but it is a method that few people implement. Most of the time people spend on Pinterest is spent by surfing the site and not pinning any new content. Surfing Pinterest used to eat up a lot of my time which is why, with 10,000 followers, I temporary abandoned my account. No new pins came in for a while, and my traffic from Pinterest at the time was nonexistent.

Even with 10,000 followers at the time, there were some people with 500 followers getting more traffic from Pinterest than I was. Looking back, all I can wonder was what was I possibly thinking. Now I send out three pins every day, and those three pins get repins, likes, and lead people to my blog.

Some of the experts recommend pinning 10 times every day. One day, I decided to give it a try, and I got a dramatic increase in repins, likes, and blog traffic from Pinterest.

It is important to note that pinning often does not mean sending out 50 pins in five minutes and then not sending anything else out for the rest of the day. Sending pins at this frequency will annoy the followers who see them, and the people who log in 30 minutes later will not see any of your pins for the entire day.

You need to schedule your pins in advance so they can get sent out throughout the day. On a typical day, I pin at 2 pm, 4 pm, and 8 pm. I spread my pins throughout the day because I am not annoying my followers, and I am accounting for different time zones throughout the day. I schedule my pins with ViralWoot which is a free service. The free version only allows users to schedule 100 pins every month, but upgrades are available.

 

#4: Interact with your audience

Interacting with your audience will allow you to develop stronger connections. These people may promote your content on a normal basis. Some of the people who I interacted with on Pinterest continue to share my content, and it all started with me saying, “Thank you for sharing my content,” or something similar.

The more you interact with someone, the more that person will trust and remember you. Some of the people you interact with may decide to tell their friends about you. Some of those friends may decide to follow you on Pinterest and tell their friends about you. In this case, word of mouth marketing allows more people to know about you, and it all started with a conversation you had with one of your followers.

 

#5: Repin other people’s pins

Although most of the pins on your boards should be yours, it doesn’t hurt to repin someone else’s pin. When you repin someone else’s pin, you are adding content to your boards for your followers to see. In addition, the person you repinned may decide to repin and/or like one of your pins in return.

As you repin more of other people’s pins, these people may decide to promote you to their followers. If these people are not following you, some of them may decide to follow you after getting the notification that you repinned one of their pins.

You can also repin the pins your followers send. Doing this will make the follower happy to be following you, and that follower will be more likely to repin one of your pins. That follower may remember you when having a conversation with a friend. Then, your messages reaches out to another person.

 

#6: Promote your pins on your other social networks

There is nothing wrong with promoting a pin or board on another social network. Facebook makes it easy to promote what you share on Pinterest, and you can get some of your friends to like and repin your content. Out of all of the social networks, you have the biggest advantage on Pinterest when other people, even a few friends, repin your pins.

It is important to remember that people are highly addicted to Pinterest. That means someone who has 100 followers could potentially get 10 repins if they pin a nice looking image. On other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, getting those same statistics is close to impossible. That means even if your friends only have 50 followers on Pinterest, they could potentially get anywhere from 2-5 repins. If you get 10 of your friends to repin one of your pins, your pin can get an extra 20-50 repins from your friends’ audiences. Then, those repinners have audiences of their own. That’s how one of my pins was liked and repinned over 1,000 times even when I only had 500 followers.

The only way you get those initial repins that start the chain reaction is by promoting your pins on your other social networks and growing your audience along the way.

 

In Conclusion

In order to be successful on Pinterest, you need to get numerous people to see your pins and share them with their audiences. Implementing these six tips will make that type of interaction happen more often. With any success, getting your pins in front of thousands of people takes patience, but after you reach that point of being seen by thousands of people, that patience will be worth it.

Do you have a 7th tip for giving your pins more exposure?

The 5 Types Of Tweeters You Should Follow On Twitter

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There are over 200 million active Twitter users which means there are plenty of people to choose from. Just because someone has a good follow back ratio does not mean you should follow that person. There are many people with good follow back ratios which means you want to choose the best ones possible.

In addition, the fact that someone may not be following you back is not always the right reason to unfollow that individual. There are some Twitter users who follow almost no one, but some of these users are getting thousands of new followers every week.

That means not all Twitter user is created equal. Some are better than others for your tastes, and here are the five types of tweeters that you in particular should follow.

 

#1: The leaders of your niche

No matter what niche you are in, there are certain individuals who stand out from the crowd. These are the leaders of your niche, the ones who many people aspire to become. Maybe you aspire to be just like some of these leaders.

In most cases, the leaders of a particular niche know more about that niche than anyone else. That means if you follow them, you are going to learn a lot of information about your niche.

Even though I have grown an authority on the web, I am still following the leaders of my niche and learning from them. I am writing blog posts that go more in depth on certain topics because it helps SEO. I am writing numerous books because that is a great way for self-published authors to bring in a full-time income.

No matter how much you know about your niche, there will always be someone who knows something about your niche that you do not know. Following the leaders of your niche will allow you to get closer to knowing everything about your niche.

 

#2: People who are interested in your niche

Anyone who is interested in your niche is a like-minded person who you can potentially build a strong connection with. When you follow these people, and they have good follow back ratios, they will be very likely to follow you back.

The great thing about the people who are interested in your niche is that if you tweet your blog posts (and those blog posts are related to your niche), those blog posts will get more engagement than usual. Some of the people who are interested in your niche may even decide to share some of your blog posts. Those are the right followers to have.

 

#3: Motivational people

We all have days in our lives when we nothing seems go to as planned. Whether the technology for something did not work or you experienced a problem in your life, those are the days when we need words of encouragement so we can continue to move forward.

That is why it is important to follow motivational people. Make it a point to follow the best motivational speakers on the planet or the Twitter accounts that tweet motivational quotes. Looking through these accounts’ tweets will allow you to regain motivation and continue your day with a more positive attitude.

 

#4: Humorous tweeters

There is always a good time for a laugh. Laughing makes us feel good, and laughing for a long period of time is the equivalent of a short core workout. Not only does laughing strengthen your core, but on days we are feeling sad, a good joke has the power to brighten us up.

After putting in hours of work, reading through humorous tweets allows me to take a break where I simply kick back and laugh. I only follow a few humorous tweeters and rarely see their tweets. The logic behind this decision is that when I am visiting one of these accounts, I scroll as far down in those accounts feeds as possible. I may read hundreds of tweets and find them all humorous.

 

#5: News outlets

Our world is moving incredibly fast, and there are many things happening in society. News outlets allow you to know what is going on in the world. Some of these news outlets cover political events while others discuss animals.

There are a variety of options for news outlets, and a great thing about them is that there are many subsets. The Huffington Post is a massive online magazine with sports, animals, teen, New York, and other content categories that turned into Twitter accounts.

When I decide whether I want to follow a news outlet, I always look at their most recent tweets. I do not follow the news outlets that only tweet the bad news. I can’t stand it when news outlets constantly tweet about bad news because they make money when you read the article with advertisements, and I like to stay as far away from bad news as possible. I do not want the bad things going on to pollute my decisions, so when I follow a news outlet, I make sure most of the tweets are positive before following. I only follow 1-3 accounts that tweet good and bad news.

 

In Conclusion

There are many people on Twitter, but that does not mean you should follow all of them. You do not have to follow someone just because that person is following you, and you do not have to follow someone just to get the follow back. The best way to follow people is by being selective. That way, you will be able to get your desired information.

If your feed ever becomes crowded, but you know who you want to see on your feed, you can put the accounts you want to see on your feed into a Twitter list. A Twitter list can either be public or private, and it’s feed only contains tweets from the people you put on the list. If you are following 10,000 people, but you only want to see the tweets from 100 accounts, you can put all 100 accounts on the list to only see those accounts’ tweets. You don’t have to unfollow the other 9,900 accounts to see the 100 accounts that you want to see.

Who are the type of people that you follow on Twitter?

Why The 10,000 Hour Rule Is Legit And How To Make It Happen

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Why The 10,000 Hour Rule Is Legit And How To Make It Happen

Patience is a virtue for a reason, but unfortunately, patience is also rare to come across. There are many people who are frustrated with where they are and wondering why they are not at where they want to be. They want the vision to be accomplished now, not later.

There were times when I was this person, and I believe it is fair to say that we have all had this kind of experience at some point in our lives. It is the feeling of impatience and a desire to move up. It is the feeling where we realize that putting in an immense amount of work does not result in an overnight change. Instead, these changes are gradual, and I would argue that it takes 10,000 hours to go from unsuccessful to successful in any area.

Where and when I first heard of this rule, I don’t quite remember. There are many people who reference the 10,000 hour rule. If I had to take a guess, I would say that Buffer was probably the blog where I first learned about the 10,000 hour rule.

When I first heard of the rule, I was skeptical. How can we possibly know that it takes 10,000 hours to become successful in any field? Why can’t it just take 5,000 hours instead? Why is it an exact number?

This is where patience becomes important. The people who think, “Why not 5,000 hours?” may eventually come to think, “Why not 1,000 hours?” Many people have a desperate desire to get the journey over with that forget to enjoy every second of the journey.

In this journey, it is entirely possible for you to invest 10,000 hours of time into one area, and it is in this area where you will become the established expert of your niche. If you ask numerous professional athletes whether they practiced for 10,000 hours or not, I am sure that most of those athletes would say they have practiced for over 10,000 hours within their lifetimes.

Many of the successful bloggers have been at it for several years. Some of these people have been blogging for multiple years while others have been blogging for more than a decade. Within that time period, it is easy to assume that these people worked in those areas for 10,000 hours within their lifetimes.

 

Benefits To Putting In The 10,000 Hours

There are many benefits to putting in 10,000 hours of your time into one area. Although some of these benefits are obvious, others are not as obvious.

Including these benefits in an article about the legitimacy of the 10,000 hour rule serves as motivation for everyone who aspires to become a leader of their niche, do something really well, and be known for something remarkable by putting in the time.

The most obvious benefit is that you achieve your goal. If your goal was to be a blogger with a full-time income, putting in the 10,000 hours will most likely result in you becoming the blogger with the full-time income.

Another benefit that exists that some people know about is the ability to raise the bar higher. You can aspire to make double the income you are making within a certain amount of time. Then, you can dream bigger for your next 10,000 hours.

One of the benefits depends on what you pursue, but it is a benefit that few people know about. Each time you implement the 10,000 hour rule and become successful in an area, it is easier to become successful in another area in a shorter amount of time.

Neil Patel is a successful blogger who has multiple blogs that get hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors. It took his blog Quick Sprout 4 years and 9 months to get 100,000 monthly visitors. For his next blog, KISSMetrics, it took 1 year and 10 months to achieve the same goal. After KISSMetrics was Crazy Egg which reached the same milestone in 1 year and 6 months. The reason why Neil was able to get each blog passed the milestone faster than the previous one was because be knew more about blog traffic each time he started a new blog.

It is easy to imagine that Neil learned a lot about SEO, blogging, social media when he created Quick Sprout. Quick Sprout took the longest to grow because Neil had to start from square one. By the time he created KISSMetrics, Neil already know a lot about blogging.

After KISSMetrics’ success, he learned more information about blogging. This resulted in Crazy Egg quickly reaching 100,000 visitors per month. It got easier for Neil each time just as it will get easier for you to achieve the same goal once you accomplish it the first time.

 

In Conclusion

The 10,000 hour rule is one of the most powerful rules ever invented. This rule emphasizes the need to be patient and put in the time and effort to accomplish your biggest goals. Goals do not get accomplished just by thinking about them.

In the end, it is how you utilize these 10,000 hours that will determine how quickly you become successful as well as how you become successful. Showing up is not good enough. You need to be effective when you show up to get better results. The more you work on your goals, the quicker they will be accomplished.

According to the 10,000 hour rule, working for one hour every day on becoming a key player in your industry will result in this status becoming a reality in 27 years. Putting in four hours every day will result in the same goal getting accomplished in seven years.

Putting in 8 hours of work every day (which is possible if you are not in the 9-to-5 status quo) will result in you getting this goal accomplished in a little under three and a half years. These numbers indicate that the more work you put in (as long as it is productive work), the earlier you will be a key player in your industry.

What is your opinion on the 10,000 hour rule?

7 Reasons Why You Should Not Depend On Social Media For Blog Traffic

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7 Reasons Why You Should Not Depend On Social Media For Blog Traffic

Social media has been established as a powerful way to get more traffic and build an authority on the web. Many people have used social media to become the leaders of their niches and ultimately dominate their industries. Social media brings over 10,000 people to this blog every month.

Although social media is powerful, it is not something that we should rely on for blog traffic. There are several people who get all of their traffic from social media, or worse, one social network in particular.

The risk with relying on social media, or even worse, a single social network to bring in the bulk of your blog’s traffic is that you are putting all of your eggs in one basket. Although the basket may look nice and stable now, the basket can suddenly break, and then all of your eggs are splattered on the floor. Do you want that to happen to you? Chances are you don’t, and just in case that was not convincing enough, here are the seven reasons why you should depend on social media for blog traffic.

 

#1: Social networks change

One of the main reasons why I wrote this blog post was because I recently read an article about Twitter experimenting with an algorithm similar to Facebook. These algorithms enforce a pay to play system where growing a presence is no longer enough.

Facebook posts now only get seen by about 3% of your audience which means to have a big impact on Facebook, you need to have a ginormous audience. There was a time when Facebook did not have these algorithms and everyone was happy. With Facebook’s change, many people say a noticeable decline in Facebook engagement and traffic. Would you be happy if you had a Facebook Page with 300 fans, but only nine of those fans could see the posts on their home feed?

Does Twitter follow this exact path and create a pay to play system? Only time will tell, but Twitter talking about an algorithm suggests how little power we have in the decisions that popular social networks make. If Twitter decides to enforce the same policy as Facebook, then too bad. We will complain, but every social network has the final say in what happens.

 

#2: There are other options available

With the thought of a Twitter algorithm causing dissent amongst many users and a pay to play system being enforced, blogging has become more important than ever. Just because social media is powerful does not mean it is the only option.

With a blog, you still have the power to publish content and share it with the world. Blogging also gives you numerous advantages such as growing an email list and bringing in more sales. These advantages allow you to control the communication that you have with the people who stop by. On the other hand, social media has direct control over all of the interactions you have on it. If a social network decides to suspend your account, all conversations come to an end whether you want them to or not.

 

#3: All social networks get hacked

Many people look at Burger King’s success on the day it got hacked and aspire to be hacked themselves. Some accounts have even faked being hacked just to gain popularity. However, the latest hacks have not gone as well for the hacked accounts.

An example of this was when Uber Facts lost over 10,000 followers on the day it was hacked. Ouch! The worst part about hackings is that in most cases, they are not under your control. Some information leaks out of social networks. Remember Heartbleed?

Changing your password reduces the chances of your account getting hacked. However, anything on the web to get hacked nowadays, but if your social network gets hacked, and you have no other way of communicating with your audience, that spells trouble. Not only are you barred from your audience, but the hacker may use your account to insult your audience or post inappropriate content–all under your name.

 

#4: All social networks have bugs

There are some social networks that encounter strange bugs that make them perform differently. There are some Twitter users who get their accounts compromised every single day for no reason whatsoever. When these accounts get compromised, no tweets can be sent out. That means all of those tweets that got scheduled on HootSuite cannot be sent out because of a flaw out of your control.

No one is hacking into the account, and many of these Twitter users have resorted to 30 character passwords which still does not solve the compromise problem. If a bug affects your ability to post content on your social network, then you are losing blog traffic, interactions, and possibly sales.

 

#5: Not everyone will see your posts

No matter how much hard work you put into growing your social media audience, most of that audience will not see the social media posts that you publish. If every single one of my Twitter followers saw one of my tweets and clicked on the link, I would be getting hundreds of thousands of visitors every day (at that point, move over Huffington Post).

Too bad that is not the case. Unfortunately, no matter which platform you choose, not everyone will see your posts. However, social media happens to be a place where few people click on your posts and engage with you. I get over 10,000 visitors every month from Twitter alone. Assuming there are no repeat visitors (which is not the case), that would mean less than 10% of my followers see at least one of my tweets every month. The typical email list leads to more engagement than the typical social media account.

 

#6: Social media is addictive

Although social media is a great way to bring in more blog traffic, it is also extremely addictive. Some people spend hours on social media every week, and the amount of time people spend on social media takes time away from the big projects. Social media eats up more time than most people realize. Many people are spending three hours every day on social media while others are on social media for a longer amount of time.

When someone finally logs out after spending three hours on social media, that person may remember the blog post that needed to get published or the video that should have been uploaded to YouTube. If you are unproductively using social media for three hours every day, think about how much time you are spending unproductively on social media within a given week, month, or year. It adds up.

 

#7: Social media is not a direct way to make money on the web

When people think of making money online, they want to make money as directly as possible. Many people have tried turning social media into a direct revenue stream, but that’s not how social media works.

The function of social media is to build an awareness for your blog, get more traffic, and then have your blog optimized so it is able to bring in revenue. Since social media is addictive, it is entirely possible that the time you invest in social media does not necessarily result in more revenue.

 

In Conclusion

Just like the millions of other people who use them, I love social media. I am able to interact with my followers, build connections, and get more blog traffic. However, with the popularity of social networks, many people have become dependent on social media traffic for their blogs.

Regardless of how many visitors a social network is bringing in, you need to avoid having all of your eggs in one basket. If that basket gets dropped (whether it’s your fault or not), your blog traffic will suffer.

Utilizing social media while utilizing other avenues of traffic will allow you to become a successful blogger who is not dependent on one thing. Be sure to branch out by getting more traffic with different methods whenever you can.

How To Make Your New Year A Wild Success

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New Year

2014 is coming to an end. What a scary thought…

At the New Year, millions of people get motivated. Families gather around and write down their New Year’s resolutions. Businesses discuss what needs to be done this year in order to move forward. It is an exciting time of year filled with plans for the future.

The sad truth about the New Year is that the excitement rarely lasts for a long period of time. Many New Year’s resolutions require monumental leaps from the first day of the New Year to the last day of the New Year. Towards the end of January, when there is still a long way to go and that initial spark of motivation dies out, many people give up on their New Year’s resolutions. By the end of February, over 80% of people give up on their New Year’s resolutions.

I want you to be in the 20% bracket. I want you to stay true to your New Year’s resolutions. Goals that you set for yourself deserve to get accomplished. Accomplishing those goals will help you get from where you are to where you want to be. However, we cannot approach our New Year’s resolutions with the traditional process that most people use. The traditional process of setting New Year’s resolutions causes more harm than good.

The biggest mistake people make with their New Year’s resolutions is that they give themselves monumental goals without giving themselves the necessary stepping stones to get there. If you want to gain 10,000 blog subscribers this year, how are you going to get that many subscribers? What actions will you take to get more blog traffic? Grow your social media audience? Boost your SEO? Get people to stick around your blog longer? Optimize your blog so a higher percentage of its visitors subscribe? Those are just six stepping stones that I can think of on the top of my head, and there are plenty of other stepping stones to choose from.

Providing the stepping stones for your New Year’s resolutions is a vital step towards accomplishing your New Year’s resolutions, but even the stepping stones need stepping stones. Let’s take the example of growing your social media audience. Growing your social media audience would result in more blog subscribers, but how would you approach growing your social media audience? Would you focus on YouTube? your Twitter audience? Facebook Ads? Those are three stepping stones you can use to strengthen the stepping stone needed to get more blog subscribers. Writing down your New Year’s resolutions is good, but it is essential for you to have a detailed, highly organized plan that shows you step by step how to accomplish each of your New Year’s resolutions.

Once you create your plan and include the stepping stones, you will know what steps you need to follow to become successful. The only thing left to do at this stage is implement what you wrote down. This, in itself, is another hurdle that few jump over. After writing down goals, many people are fearful of failure, and upon a second glance, the work looks too extensive (that’s the excuse people use to get out of doing something). Many of these people give up on the goal early so they won’t have to admit failure later on.

Accomplishing New Year’s resolutions does not have to be impossible. There are only three ingredients you need to make the implementation easier. The first ingredient is urgency. If you give yourself closer deadlines to accomplish the same goals, and you stick with those deadlines, your mind will find a way to get the goal accomplished in a shorter amount of time. Constantly reminding yourself of the approaching deadline will only strengthen your ability to accomplish your goals.

The second ingredient is productivity. The more productive you are, the more you can accomplish. I have written numerous blog posts about productivity which can be found here.

The third ingredient is a series of daily, weekly, and monthly plans that strengthen your productivity. You need to identify day by day, week by week, and month by month what you need to accomplish. A plan like this could take a long period of time to create, so my recommendation is to only create an extensive plan like this once every three months, for the three upcoming months. If you start creating an extensive plan like this for January, then go no farther in your planning process than the first day of April.

 

In Conclusion

Your ability to accomplish New Year’s resolutions does not depend on how easy or challenging those resolutions are. Your ability to accomplish New Year’s resolutions depends on how much planning you put into the process and how many stepping stones you create. You want to have as many stepping stones as possible because it is the small wins that result in the big momentum needed to accomplish your New Year’s resolutions.

Creating a detailed plan will also boost the belief in your abilities to accomplish a goal. Although there are tactics and skills that move you farther, you must believe in your abilities in order to truly move forward.

5 Steps To Make Your Blog Go From Hobby To Business

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5 Steps To Make Your Blog Go From Hobby To Business

Some blogs on the web are money making machines that allow bloggers to bring in six figure incomes. Before getting to this stage, many bloggers initially take it as a hobby. I considered blogging as a hobby for a very long time. Just to be exact, it took me about a year to go from hobby to business, and I wasn’t making much money when I started (that’s true about any blogger).

You may be on the fence right now still taking blogging as a hobby. It is great to start off treating it as a hobby because you need to enjoy blogging in order to be successful. There are tips to get more traffic and make money online, but if you don’t enjoy writing content, it is not going to work out. After you can consider blogging as a hobby, and you are eager to make the transition from hobby to business (that you still enjoy), here are the five steps you need to take.

 

Step #1: Write a bunch of blogs until you find your niche

When you first start out as a blogger, it is important to avoid settling with one blog right away. Although there are some people who know what they want to write blog posts about since day one, there are other people who make big changes. I wrote blogs and blog posts about the Red Sox, Yugioh Cards, and Legos before I started this one.

If I settled with the Red Sox blog, you would not be reading this blog post right now. I refused to settle with one idea until I created this blog. It is okay to have dozens of blogs before finding the best niche for you. When you identify your main blog, you have the option of using your other blogs to test out particular plugins, themes, or code before applying them to your main blog.

 

Step #2: Focus on the main blog

Once you identify your main blog, you need to solely focus your time on that individual blog. When I first started this blog, I was still updating my Yugioh Philosophy Blog because I had no idea how far this one would go. As a result, I was writing one blog post every day for the Yugioh Philosophy Blog and one blog post every day for this one. It was only when this blog started to get more traffic than the Yugioh Philosophy Blog that I paid my undivided attention to it. As a result, I did not write another blog post on the Yugioh Philosophy Blog, and I was able to write two blog posts every day for this one (I have stopped since then because when I say two blog posts per day, I am referring to 250-500 word blog posts).

The strategies I use to promote this blog change, but the blog I promote is always the same. Don’t try to juggle responsibilities for multiple blogs because you put all of that time into one blog, and provide more value to your readers. If you insist on having multiple blogs, my recommendation is to still focus on one of them until it brings a full-time revenue. Then, create another blog and have contributors for it. Neil Patel does this very well with his Quick Sprout, KISSMetrics, and Crazy Egg blogs.

 

Step #3: Look at the leaders of your niche

The reference to Neil Patel earlier is the proper segway for looking at the leaders of your niche. I examined the leaders of my niche so I could learn new information, what works, and what does not work. Neil Patel has multiple blogs that get over 100,000 visitors every month, and I read through many of the Quick Sprout blog posts.

In addition to Neil Patel, I also read what Jeff Bullas, Kim Garst, and others put on their blogs. Seeing how the leaders of your niche are writing blog posts will give you ideas for your own content. The best way we learn is by example, and by looking at enough successful bloggers in your niche, you will be able to learn from the best examples available.

 

Step #4: Write high value content often

One of the main reasons why most people get stuck at the hobby stage is because they are not writing valuable content often. Some bloggers write inconsistently. On one month, these bloggers are able to write 10 blog posts, but the next month, these bloggers only write two blog posts. This inconsistency indicates that blogging is still a hobby.

In addition, the content you post needs to be valuable. I could have ended this blog post a long time ago if I chose, but then it wouldn’t be as valuable. I could have simply mentioned the first three steps and then scheduled the blog post. However, extending the blog post to include other steps and examples increases its value.

Instead of writing a blog post just to say that you wrote one, write a blog post that you know your targeted readers will enjoy.

 

Step #5: Create products that match your niche

Most of the blogs that are bringing in the six figure incomes are doing so with products. There is the rare exception in which ads are bringing in a bulk of the revenue, but ads are the exception, not the rule. Most people cannot make a full-time income with advertisements just because a blog would need to be getting over 100,000 visitors every month to have a good shot at it.

Instead of relying on advertisements, you need to create your own products. The web has made it incredibly easy for us to write books, launch training courses, and create membership sites. All three of these products have the power to bring in six-figure incomes. Some of the people have used these products to make millions of dollars, and that is not an exaggeration.

Creating your own blog is a great way to get more traffic and spread awareness for the products that will bring in the revenue.

 

In Conclusion

Blogging is a fun experience that can also turn in big profits. Some people make six figure incomes just from their blogs, and in order for you to start making revenue with your blog, you need to go from hobby to business. You can still enjoy writing blog posts when you make this transition, and this love for blogging is critical towards your success in the area.

Blogging success is never an overnight success. For most bloggers, it takes several years before they get the type of traffic associated with a full-time income. However, blogging success is possible, and it has transformed some people’s lives.