“Ten Easy Ways to Make Money With a Blog”

“How to Become A Successful Blogger Overnight”

“Twelve Tips to Get More Comments”

“The Secret to Getting More Visitors To a Blog”

“Attract Hundreds of RSS Feed Readers In a Matter of Days”

O.K. You get the message.

In hopes of becoming more successful with our blogs, catchy blog titles like these may entice us to read a post, but how good is the message? And will it work for us?

Truth be told, maybe not.

Today’s Lesson

One thing I have learned from blogging is what works for you may not work for me.

Why?

Because you’re you, and I’m me.

We approach things differently. We think differently. We write differently. We market ourselves differently. We devote different amounts of time to blogging. We take the information we read and process it differently.

As much as the helpful blogging information might be true for the author of the article, chances we’re not looking at the complete picture of how they got from point A to point B.

For example:

1. How long have they been blogging?
2. What is their page rank?
3. How many visitors do they currently have?
4. How often do they publish?
5. Do they have anchor articles in their archives which attract search engine traffic?
6. How much time do they spend on blogging activities?
7. How well are they known in blogosphere?
8. Are they using SEO (search engine optimization)?
9. If so, what method do they use? And…what search terms/ keywords did they use?
10. Are they using meta tags and a search engine friendly theme?
11. What time of the day and day of the week do they post their articles?
12. How many subscribers do they currently have?
13. And, do those current subscribers act as evangelists for them?
14. Are they also promoting their posts on Twitter, Facebook, Digg and other online networking sites?
15. Have they posted reliable material in the past?
16. Have they built up their presence off-line, as well?
17. In addition to their blog, are they also sending out newsletters or doing webinars?

See what I mean?

We can read articles of how to be a successful blogger and spend countless hours tweaking, but if we don’t take the other factors into consideration, all of that work could be for naught.

Am I saying we’re wasting our time reading those articles?

No.

What I am saying is “reader beware”.

Today’s Assignment

Have you ever tried something another blogger is having success with, only to have it flop?

Or, has something another blogger shared, helped you become more successful?

Care to share?

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For the last few days, I’ve been trying to fight off what appears to be a cold; sneezing, coughing, chills that come and go and that achy feeling that makes you want to crawl back into bed.

I don’t get sick too often. I think this is my body’s way of saying “It’s time to slow down”.

I should listen.

Instead, I sip tea as I surf aimlessly, looking to see what others are sharing on Twitter as well as their blogs.

I read, but the words aren’t soaking in.

Today’s Lesson

I don’t think I’m different than other bloggers. Our blogs draw us in, as do the blogs of others. They’re like good books which are hard to put down.

In fact, in only rare cases have I seen a blogger cut back on their posting because of an illness. And even then, they managed to publish “something”.

I have to ask; “Why is that?”. Shouldn’t we be nursing ourselves back to health? Getting rest? Staying off of our computers?

In the real world, on a real job, we would call in sick, stay home and tend to our health and return when we feel better.

But in blogosphere, we just keep keeping on.

What gives?

Today’s Assignment

What about you?

If you’re not feeling your best, what happens to your blog publishing schedule?

Do you post something, or stay off the blog and concentrate on getting better?

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