How to blog
One of the biggest challenges in blogging is to know exactly what your readers really want. This does not only apply to blogging though. It applies to a lot of businesses on and offline.
No matter the amount and quality of content, traffic and engagement level on your blog, if you have not been able to figure out exactly what your readers want, chances of succeeding are very slim.
Check out this guest post I published on Blogging Tips:
Although I followed this technique for a minute I doubled down after watching my fave Marvel movie of all time, Black Panther.
Spoiler Alert; if you have not seen the movie, stop reading this post immediately.
But if you saw it or do not care about the outcome, proceed.
Wakanda is a mystical nation in Africa. The world believes Wakanda to be poor, undeveloped and not of note. But Wakanda is the most developed nation in civilization, being blessed with Vibranium, a metal capable of amazing functions.
If you want your blog readers and commentators to always come back for more engagement, you need to appreciate them. One of the ways to do it is publish a monthly report, listing everyone that came to your blog and dropped a comment. I did that in this post and the reaction from readers was amazing.
I have published many more reports using this plugin. Take a look at this post, this one and this one or click here for a list of more reports.
It’s quite not an easy task to dig through your blog, searching for those who commented in X month, counting the number of comments they made, then creating a list. What if your blog has hundreds of comments? That’s a hell of task – almost impossible, right?
Before we dive into today’s post I wanted to congratulate Enstine on getting his Cryptocurrency Certification. Exciting news!
I paged through my eBook a minute ago:
How to Find Your Writing Voice
This eBook has 48 five star reviews on Amazon.
Why?
I addressed a specific need. Bloggers and self-published authors struggle to find their writing voice.
Beyond that, how did I address the need clearly and confidently?
Sweet.
My developer Phillip Dews just transferred my blog to a new host.
The speed test says it all.
Note; if you want lightning fast speeds, pay up to play up.
Streamlining your blog to big time proportions (think “lightning”) is virtually impossible on 2 dollar a month hosting solutions.
I worked really hard for years.
But I had little to show for my work.
Blogging was my life in many ways. But it wasn’t, too.
I spent years blogging but struggled horribly because I never learned how to blog effectively.
Even worse? I injected fear-based energy into most if not all of what I did online, operating from scarcity.
As you may reckon, working from scarcity yielded terrible results. No way to outfox your fears.
I eventually learned the most excruciating but freeing blogging lesson: blogging is an energy game.