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When can you say you're a successful blogger?
Posted by cuteptaguy • 9/11/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogging, criteria, successful, traffic
Having read some discussions on here made me wonder when can you say that you're a successful blogger.
My blog is now 9 months old. I have over 100 followers, over 3000 fans on Facebook and average between 50-80 site visits a day. I have a regular feature on one South African gay website and published once a month on another popular gay website. Does this make one a successful blogger?
I have not won any blogging competitions or been mentioned in the mainstream media. Does this make me unsuccessful?
Do we have a criteria we rate ourselves with to determine our "success"?
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I do not define blogging success in terms of winning awards or making money or having legions of followers. In short I believe that I’m a “success” when I’m setting realistic goals and achieving them.
My definition of success includes achieving goals in blogging, however, I believe “success” is applicable to finishing whatever I planned to do in any aspect of my life. Therefore, I will not feel that I have lived a “successful life,” if the amount of time and attention I invest on a single aspect of my life exceeds the investment I make into the other aspects.-
Good answer. The only times I have felt successful is when I get an e-mail or a comment from a reader that thanks me for helping them in some way deal with their sexual orientation through my blog even though it's mostly light hearted.
The best e-mail I got was from a mother who's son who recently came out of the closet send her my blog url and she thanked me saying I opened up her eyes and that she was going to work on accepting her son for who & what he is. Moments like that is special to me. -
I'm the same. When a reader tells me I have helped them achieve doing something in blogging they could not previously do, until after they read my post and applied what was in it, they make my day. I feel the thrill of succeeding at what I set out to do.
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To provide free instructional material and resources to bloggers, who are intent on improving their writing and blogging skills, and making their blogs more reader and search engine friendly (basic SEO).
P.S. I already read your post BTW. It is well written and straight forward. Sometimes life sucks. -
Thanks!
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I'm always concerned about my English, spelling and grammar when writting a post as English is not my 1st language. Blogging in a second language sometimes can be challenging.
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you are successful when what you do make you happy and proud, you think its the proper and thats me. -
I would say you're doing very well, just by general benchmarks I remember experiencing at that time myself.
But I'd say everyone's goals for blogging are different, so the "successes" will be different, too.
I had about five-10 different non-pie-in-the-sky things I'd hoped to accomplish by blogging when I'd started.
I think it helps to write those goals down and just keep note of them. It makes hitting those little benchmarks more fun. -
As a society so often want to rate things, determine things worth and the same goes for blogging. I often read in news papers and magazines about "successful" bloggers, that's why I posed the question as I truly was/am confused as to when that term becomes applicable to you as a blogger.
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So you're talking successful in the public eye rather than succeeding to reach your personal goals.
Those Media-successful bloggers are, I think, a lot fewer and farther between. -
I agree. Still they are out there.
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Seriously, I think it's when you create the perfect reflection of what your whole being is trying to say - and find the answer to your own questions in doing so. If someone else gets it - GREAT! If not, you know you're not alone out there because writing, to me, creates self-awareness and understanding. In the humor blog venue I always say this: If i think it's funny at least one person's laughing..
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how on earth did you get 3000 fans on facebook?-
I don't know. I created a Fan Page because I was reaching my friend limit and people became fans.
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that is incredible!
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newspapers and magazines talk about what make them look better or think the same than they think, it is not success, it is astuteness and opportunism
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This is also true, but in the blogging community how do we determine success?
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People in general read easy things, it doesnt matter has many people behind your blog, it is about what you are doing, am I doing the right thing here?, ask you and you have your answer, thats enough. Time pay you more than the easy ways. Be patient.
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Good advice.
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Thank you my friend.
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When you love it.-
Yeah, I don't know it's always been my belief that when you write, and that includes blogging, the most important person in the room is the reader. Will you love it? Of course, but it is out of what you are doing or at least trying to do for that other person that you yourself love it.
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Thanks to everyone that gave really brilliant answers, but I think we as a blogging community are subjective, don't you think?
Yes, we blog for our own personal reasons which do provide us with our own unique reference point as to what success is.
Psychologically speaking to most our blogging goals are both attainable and out of reach at the same time (hence the fact that most bloggers keep on blogging).
But if we have to be objective how would true success be determined, that's what I really want to know.-
In that case I would suggest it could possibly be measured in:
--A solid body of subscribers/followers
--Regular/return visitors
--Sticky content/visit length-- people don't just pop by and fly away instantly
--Comments which show engaged readership
--Page views per unique visitor
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These are some good solid measurable points, almost scientific ;-)
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When you're producing good content and finding an audience for it.
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As in life, success is defined by the individual. To me, you sound pretty darned successful but only you can judge for yourself.
For me, I felt "success" in just getting the blog started. For a long time I had all these ideas but never got them out there in any real forum. Just writing on a regular basis and loving every minute of it feels like an accomplishment.
And, as you and others have expressed... there is nothing better than the feedback that I've helped someone or written just what they needed that day, etc.
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I think a person would need to define the criteria first, what is success to one person is not to another.-
That is very true.
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I believe you've reached success when you can look at you're own work and say to yourself "I'm proud of this" and mean it.-
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I also agree.
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AMEN FREAKSMACK! and also when you provoke enuf thought through polite prose to offend someone who sees themselves in it, though you gave a vague stereotype, and attacks you for it. LOL
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Great point of view. I agree.
But I also agree with jijosunny who said that a successful blogger is successful when somone else names him a successful blogger -
@freaksmack
Me too! When I accomplish my goals I am proud of myself.
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You are a successful blogger when you have 10,000 RSS subscribers and Monthly income of $1000.
Actually you are a successful blogger when someone name you as a successful blogger.
What I told is just a fact that i think a Successful blogger Must be.
Read this article to get an idea about beginner's first step to blogging success: Beginner’s First Step to the Blogging Success: mextena.com/385-beginners-first-step-to-the-blogging-success.html -
I also own a blog philippineseoexperts.wordpress.com and I want it to be known to others too. I think I can be a successful blogger if many will trust about the content I posted on my blog. The more readers I can have, the more I can say that there really a lot of people who like my blog especially the content on it. -
Simply, a blogger who accomplishes his intended purpose is successful.
Its all about intended purposes and your perception about success.-
I agree, and we all blog for different reasons. Like beauty, success is in the eye of the beholder.
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Or you can say your blog is successful when someone you do not know personally left a comment on your blog (not spam) or start sharing it in twitter, dig or any social network or start referring your blog in their web or blog without you forcing.
Then you need to build your blog on that. -
Listen to Nothingprofound and TimeThief and then if you really have goal or a simple love for what you are doing...do it with all your heart and be your own lamp to your path. There really isn't anything else that matters...certainly not the roar of the crowd and the smell of greasepaint! My best. -
When you finally give yourself a patt on the back and say " Well Done" -
When YOU enjoy your blog! I am not driven by having to post and do it mostly for the fun of it. I am also an ex-English teacher and when I can read it and not have to edit it (- AGAIN!) I am successful! :-) -
when you've driven out your enemies from BC -
I've only actually started really working on my blag within the past 2 weeks. I had originally done some work on it back in May but abandoned it over the summer. Anyway, I'm getting about 40 visits a day, although I've had some days spike with 100+. Many of these visits are friends though, but considering my blog is essentially a giant regurgitation of my opinion all over the internet, that works.
In the end though, I would consider my blog a success already. The main reason is that I'm happy with it. I'm using it as an excuse to practice my writing and figure out how to best present myself on the internet, with the goal being to do something else when I'm done school.
I guess my point is, you're a success when you've set reasonable goals for yourself and accomplished them. I'd say you're definitely a success though. Those are some impressive numbers and you should be quite proud of yourself, not to mention the fact that you've presented yourself extremely well.-
I agree, the success of a blog isn't about how much traffic it gets, the number of followers or awards it wins. I have recently come to realize a blog is successful if you enjoy sustaining it.
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Enjoy and success will just come your way!-
Thanks ;-)
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