Despite what others say; blogging is not hard. In fact the hardest part of blogging is being consistent, and coming up with new content ideas to share with your readers. This has always been one of the largest challenges faced by bloggers within the blogosphere. I’ve been online blogging since 2007 and have seen many bloggers come and many bloggers go.
It always amazes me how many people simply give up or quit when they realize blogging requires real work and personal commitment. Setting short and long term goals is required if you’re going to have any type of longevity within the blogosphere.
With that said setting having success with blogging is not always as easy as coming up with a few short term goals. You have to be committed to these goals and show consistency when applying yourself. We all know how easy it is to become sidetracked or discouraged from the lack of results and success on our blogs.
Maintaining Comment Consistency
Blog commenting is by far the best way to drive new traffic and increase the comments or activity to our blogs. Visit the Blog Engage Upcoming Pages and find some articles that interest you. Make a goal to complete a specific amount of comments per day or even per week. This is a great way to develop consistent growth for your blog and overall blog activity. Look for blogs related to your blog (niche) to ensure the visitors returning have an interest in what you’re writing about.
Engage On Social Media Sites
Take the time to meet the owners of the blogs you’re commenting on. Follow them on Twitter, Facebook and Blog Engage. Add them as a friend and make sure they see you engaging with them. It’s so important to make sure they know you’re taking the time to visit and engage with them on their blog. Bloggers develop a sense of respect for other bloggers reading and commenting on their sites.
Meeting Your Goals
One of my favorite things about setting small goals is the fact they are obtainable and they allow you to continue being motivated. Setting large goals that you cannot complete brings up negative thoughts and can potentially lead to failure. Setting small goals allows you to reach, surpass and achieve success in what you’re doing. For example I wouldn’t set a goal to do 10 comments a week from the Blog Engage Upcoming Pages. I would set a goal to do 5 per week and try my hardest to simply accomplish that goal.
Sure I can probably do 10 but I don’t want to over work myself and set unrealistic weekly goals. By setting the goal of 5 comments I can easily maintain my goals and remain positive when I do surpass them. We don’t need to create more stress for ourselves, set small obtainable goals that allow you to remain positive and enjoy the overall blogging experience.
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Hi There my name is Brian, I'm the owner of Blog Engage. I own a personal blog about SEO and Marketing. Make sure to follow blogengage on twitter @blogengage and like us on facebook. Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017
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Michael
October 26th, 2012
Hi Brian,
About the bloggers coming and going, when we look at it in another perspective, it is actually a good thing because less competition.
I know I shouldn’t say that but like in every business, blogging indeed need consistency and hardwork. That hardwork is what separate the serious blogger and those who just want in for quick money.
Great to have your post.
Cheers…
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bbrian017
October 26th, 2012
Hi Michael, yes for you it’s perhaps competition, but for me it’s customers. So as much as you benefit from blogging going I do not. The largest loss or turnover of my business is bloggers simply stop blogging. They give up, fail or life hands them different paths. I rarely have a customer cancel due to being unhappy it’s always a “natural” process of starting and stopping blogging. Thanks for visiting and commenting I enjoy your company.
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Shandi Tan
October 27th, 2012
Great tips on setting realistic targets. I agree. As in anything in the world of social media marketing – we need to set realistic, actionable goals. The only catch is when we set the bar too low; then we breed a culture of complacency.
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bbrian017
October 27th, 2012
I would disagree, in fact I don’t think we can set the bar to low for something as personal as blogging. If someone is paying you to be productive that’s a different story. If these are personal goals there is no size limit small or large. We should never feel our goal no matter the size is not worthy. We have to do what we can and be realistic. In my example 5 comments week over a year is a huge amount of potential growth.
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JenaIsle
October 27th, 2012
Hi Brian,
Commenting and showing some genuine interest in other bloggers’ posts is indeed one good way to develop and nurture online relationships. Blog Engage members were very supportive during this contest, and I want to still visit their blogs even after the contest.
I wouldn’t feel comfortable forgetting about them, after they’ve voted for me. These are real people with information-laden posts, which we could all benefit from.
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bbrian017
October 27th, 2012
Hi JenaIsle , I agree with you and the fact that you do respect these users and appreciate their comments will truly show the kind of persona you are. You know like in real life and in blogging building true long term relationships isn’t that different. If you show people online respect and gratitude they will not forget.
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Praveen Soni
October 27th, 2012
Hello Brian,
Isn’t easy to maintain blog consistency. I like your all the points which you have discussed above in the post specially maintaining comment consistency and most important is to active on social media.
nice sharing mate
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bbrian017
October 27th, 2012
Hi Praveen thanks for visiting the blog. I’m glad you enjoyed the article. We both know blogging takes a lot of effort and time. It’s important to set goals that we can achieve and surpass. Also making the success of these goals requires consistency. We have to keep trying hard and we cannot give up… ever!
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RajKumar
October 28th, 2012
Hi,
Motor running.:) Aha! I liked the caption. Catchy headlines is also a good way to keep your blogging motor running. Creating a good network at facebook, twitter etc. will also help in some ways. Maintaining consistency, content, credibility all are must. And you supposedly define it so well in your article.:)
great reading it.:)
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bbrian017
October 28th, 2012
Hi RajKumar, yeah Twitter and Facebook are great as well for creating consistency. It’s nice to have a huge following as you know I have tons of connections on all these networks. As you know with my new baby boy I’m obviously going to be blogging less but I do plan on getting more done as I create these goals and small plans for me to accomplish. Thanks for visiting my blog man it’s great having you here.
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Harleena Singh
October 28th, 2012
I agree with all your tips Brian!
Nothing really works better than building your community through comments, something that I am loving on my blog. Though it’s taken time, but that surely does work and one really doesn’t have to bother about the updates then, because you know those readers will always be there. Similarly, social media rocks and one thing that always works. But yes, it’s tough to be on all the social platforms, and I guess we need to spend a little time on each one of them.
Thanks for sharing.
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bbrian017
October 28th, 2012
Hi Harleena, thanks for the vote on blog engage I appreciate it. I do notice you’re always returning a comment when I comment on your blog. It’s a great way to build strong relationships with your readers and other bloggers online. Thanks for visiting my blog and sharing your thoughts.
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Blazing Minds
October 28th, 2012
I try to keep my blogging motor going, it’s not hard with the events and films that I cover, the hardest part is finding those brief moments of spare time to transpose them on to the blog in the first place
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bbrian017
October 28th, 2012
Hi Karen, thanks for visiting my article. Finding time is always the issue It’s the story of my life you know. I have really enjoyed your recent activity on Facebook with your pictures and status updates! I hope you keep that up I think it will bring new traffic to your blog.
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Blazing Minds
October 28th, 2012
Thank you Brian, I’ll try to keep going with the pictures etc, keep an eye out on Wednesday, I’ll be bringing some exclusive photos (hopefully) of the Rocky Horror night at my local cinema
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Ehsan Ullah
October 28th, 2012
Blogging is all about building relationship and establishing yourself as an authority. It takes a lot of time (not 6 months or a year, but more than that) and those are idiot who wants to get blogging success overnight, for that reason they give up.
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bbrian017
October 28th, 2012
Hi Ehsan, if anyone here knows blogging success doesn’t happen overnight it’s me! I’ve been doing this since 2007 and my blog is still small compared to the main site! I do have a plan however to start getting more exposure. I’m implementing it now as we speak with this post and as I move forward I think the success will be the same of even better. Thanks for your support and the comment today.
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Blazing Minds
October 29th, 2012
It took me 2-3 years to establish Blazing Minds and the last 12 months, making a total of 4 years, to establish the push that I have now and the popularity, it’s hard work, but it’s certainly worth all the work at the end of the day.
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Murals in Atlanta
October 28th, 2012
Short-term, easily obtainable goals are necessary. However, they should be mixed with ones which will take much longer.
bbrian017
October 28th, 2012
The idea here Murals is 4 or 5 short term goals is a big one so there’s no need for big goals. They cause tons of stress and overall create a negative affect when they can’t be reached. If we set 4 or 5 small goals before we know it, we have completed 1 or 2 large ones. Think outside the box here!
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Discover Infographics
October 28th, 2012
Great article Brian, fantastic advice that everyone can use!
We’ve been noticing the more interactive we are on social media, the more our audience grows. It seems like such a simple step to take, but so many people ignore it.
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bbrian017
October 28th, 2012
You know what else will help, you have to join gravatar and add a branding image for your comments. It helps build stronger relationship with people. Right now your like the no face guy commenting here. It’s so important to be consistent not only with your blogging and content but with your online identity.
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Blazing Minds
October 29th, 2012
I totally agree with you there Brain when it comes to Gravatar, almost everyone knows me for my gravatar, so much so that it’s now even on my T-Shirts, phone and anywhere else I can use it to show who I am and what I do. People see a Gravtar and see it as a form of instant recognition of who they are reading comments etc from
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bbrian017
October 29th, 2012
Hi Karen, when I first found out about Gravatar I was pumped and now I have about 3 e-mails on the site. In my opinion it’s must in order to make a splash. Like you said we get instant recognition from using a branding image.
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Joe Clark
October 29th, 2012
Hi Brain!
I am pretty much agree with your point ‘Engage On Social Media Sites’. It is important to stay connected with fellow webmasters. No doubt, social media websites are playing major role in driving traffic to blogs. Now we have one more opportunity in the form of Google+.
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bbrian017
October 29th, 2012
Hello Joe Clark welcome to our community blog. I have been using Google Plus to share all my friends articles I don’t however use it as often as Twitter of Facebook. I know the site has opportunity so I should be doing more to get engaged on that site. Thanks so much for visiting my blog ti’s a pleasure having you here.
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Joe Clark
October 29th, 2012
I was also not so active on Google plus, but now it is one of my most visited websites!
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Ravi Singh
October 29th, 2012
Hello Brian,
Sound advice on establishing genuine objectives. I consent. As in anything in the world of public networking – we need to set genuine, workable objectives. The only capture is when we set the bar too low; then we reproduce a lifestyle of complacency.Thanks for sharing awesome tips to survive long term in blog-sphere.
bbrian017
October 29th, 2012
Hi Ravi, thanks for visiting my blog ti’s great having you here and I hope you stick around. I’m glad we both have the same perspective as well such as setting obtainable goals to achieve. There was a time when I was setting large goals and sadly not completing them. I’ve learned it’s not the size of the goal it’s the idea of completing it.
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Jeff
October 29th, 2012
Hi Brian, blog commenting is really powerful, until today (despite the many google updates).
But it’s also time consuming. By the way, would you rather spend your time leaving comments on different blogs or focus on having a link text from a blog post or article directory?
Which do you think is better Brian?
Thanks for your reply.
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bbrian017
October 29th, 2012
Hi Jeff, welcome to my blog it’s nice meeting you and having you comment. I think a health combo of both backlinks and blog commenting is the best. If I had to pick one I would say blog commenting for sure without question. I don’t know how much blog commenting helps with backlinks but it sure does provide more traffic than a backlink in a guest post. With that said, I guess it depends on what site the guest post and link is from.
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October 29th, 2012
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Sai Krishna
October 30th, 2012
Some people saying Sharing posts on Social networking sites can help to our SEO, how is it possible? SE index feed of social networking sites?
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bbrian017
October 31st, 2012
Yeah some sites get indexed, I know Blog Engage gets indexed so if you submit here you will see SEO benefit for sure! So in general the more sites you submit to the more SEO benefit you will see.
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Ravi Singh
October 31st, 2012
Leaving comments and displaying some authentic attention in other bloggers’ content is indeed one good way to create and create online connections. Weblog Interact with associates were very helpful during this competition, and I want to still check out their weblogs even after the competition.
bbrian017
October 31st, 2012
Hi Ravi, it’s very important to have interest in the bloggers article. The thing here is if you don’t have interest it’s best to not even comment at all. Value added comments are hard to find if you don’t have true interest in what’s being talked about.
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akhilendra
November 1st, 2012
Social sites like Twitter and Google+ are extremely helpful for bloggers. Consistency is must no matter what one is trying to achieve in life. commenting on blogs is extremely helpful as it also helps in learning by participating in a discussion. But comments should be made carefully and they should add value to the actual content of the post. Random and irrelevant comments can have adverse impact. thanks for sharing this Brian.
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bbrian017
November 2nd, 2012
Hi akhilendra, I agree and in fact the power of Facebook and Twitter has made Blog Engage as popular as it is now! I’m always sharing my posts with the groups on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks so much for posting on my blog I hope to see you subscribing and visiting often.
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erda
November 6th, 2012
Backup the WordPress Blog is the something that i ignore, i hope after this i will make it as routine to backup my blog for safety reason
Philip A.
November 7th, 2012
Hi Brian,
Well my opinion is that in blogging just like in any other field reaching your goals requires a lot hard work and patience.
I’m fairly new to blogging, and my goals are small now but I can tell you it feels great when I see the positive results from all the hard work I’ve put into my posts and my seo campaigns.
Thanks for this awesome post Brian, have a great day.
~Philip
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Alex
November 8th, 2012
Thanks for sharing these tips. They surely can help many beginning bloggers out there. For me blogging is a very fun and interesting hobby which I have been doing for 1 year now. I love when people visit my blog, comment something and return back for more! I don’t think I will ever give up blogging
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Rahul kuntala
November 13th, 2012
hi brian,
great job man,the thing is socila networking Such as twitter and facebook very useful for bloggers to promoting their business blogs as well as it’s a great platform to interact with the bloggers.the way that you explained fabulous.im questioning you can you expalin regarding the SEO tips in the next article.
Cristian Stan
November 13th, 2012
In my opinion getting started in a blog live with success is much easier than maintaining yourself at the same comment consistency. I hope to see an article somewhere with some tips about how to do it.
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Linda
December 5th, 2012
Thanks for sharing. A blog is often referred to as one’s own piece of real estate on the internet. While this is true, it needs maintenance like every piece of real estate, whether it is on offline or online one.
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abbhas
March 24th, 2013
HI brain as you said in the post users/visitors understood that blog updating is much important and writing an article is not a big but that should updated regularly to show to search engine bots at the regular intervals i enjoyed your post and again you proved that blogger is not only article writer and also creator of new innovative things!
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raj
April 29th, 2013
engaging on social media site is a must do thing which everybody should do, also SEO plays an important role, you have given some nice tips but yes social media is the new power which can be used for our own benefit
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