Why do some bloggers struggle Even after doing everything right?
You must have noticed, how some bloggers shovel money with the blogs whereas some others are just begging to be noticed. Why is that so?
Even if they are updating and writing lots of posts daily.
Even if they spend most of their time networking with other bloggers. Heck they are getting traffic, yet they are not making any money.
So where things went wrong?
This situation reminded me of this case by Daniel Lyons who started a blog called “The Secret Diary of Fake Steve Jobs”.
He toiled over his blog as a fake steve jobs for months. When the story leaked out about his blogs. Millions of readers melted down his web servers. The kind of traffic that went through this was staggering.
The funny thing about this situation was, he wasn’t making any money with that traffic. That’s why he made a statement in a press release saying “While blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn’t one of them.”
When I found out about this. I was like “Whoa, Amazing idea, stupid execution”.
The major issue with his blog was “The traffic was not focused or targeted”. Millions of steve jobs fans flooded his website but it was only for the sake of curiosity.
There was nothing, he could promote, he could sell. There even wasn’t any kind of marketing strategy. How would he make money from that blog?
The idea was to find a “Most wanted Response”. When a visitor is on your blog or website, you want them to do something. You have to decided what actions they should take.
Then you have to decide what kind of strategy to implement to the designated action.
What are your readers going to do on your blog?
Are they going to read your content and check out the products you are promoting?
Are they going to come on to your blog and click on adsense ads?
Or are they going to check out your blog and leave comments?
Or are they coming to your blog for some time pass?
Decide what you want them to do and then guide them towards it. For example, When I started my first blog, I wanted them to buy the products I was promoting. Even with a 100 unique visitors per day I was making 20-30 dollars per day in affiliate commission.
Why? Because I was clear on what I wanted my readers to do? As my traffic started growing, I literally doubled my income from that blog.
Without the focus and direction, any blogger will only get overwhelmed and face hardships. Those who succeed often avoid this just by intuition.
So what you can do right now?
Sit down with pen and paper and find out what exactly do you want your readers to do. How are you going to achieve this target? Even if your are cooking these ideas from the top of the head, you are better off. As you grow your blog overtime, you’ll start noticing things which will direct you towards making money from your blog.
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Crazy technique to help you write faster
I often get emails from my readers asking about “how can I write so much faster?”.
Often my answer is, “it’s practice”. But today, I am going to share this technique to help you write faster.
Why this technique works?
Simple, you are more focussed on writing, then ever. You just start thinking and writing super fast. All of the writers who write faster than others often use variation of what I am going to tell you in this post.
Here’s the secret 
“Use Stop watch” and plan to finish an article for 10 minutes.
Notice, I said, “Finish”, not “write” in the above sentence. When you are focussed on finishing you’ll be able to finish the article. Otherwise, you’ll keep writing with focus without any direction.
Our mind wants a goal. So the moment, you plan to finish an article in 10 minutes or less, your mind have a goal to achieve. With the kind of power the mind has at it’s disposal, it’s pretty easy to do.
I can write 300 words article in 7 minutes.
350 words in 8 minutes
400 words in 9 minutes
450 words in 10 minutes.
So next time when you are sitting down to write.
1. Put a stop watch with you.
2. Think of the topic you want to write.
3. Start the stopwatch and start writing.
That’s it. It’ll take some practice to write so fast, but after doing it few times, you’ll get the hang of this technique.
You can use one of the mindmap I created for writing articles. For More Article writing tips.
How to write a High Quality Article in 6 minutes 59 seconds?
I just sat down to write this article with my stop watch running. My plan is to write this article in 10 minutes or less. Of course I have to touch all the important points like how to write introduction, write headlines, conclusion and author bio box.
If you take a look at any article, there is a structure that they follow. If there is no structure, it’s going to be really hard to relay your message across with the article. The speed bumps this kind of structure less articles creates a bad experience for the reader.
How to get rid of this structure less speed bumps?
One of the thing about a good article needs is a flow in the article. If you read your article aloud, you’ll automatically be able to see where these speed bumps are.
A good structure needs to be followed in a step by step manner.
For example a good structure for any article will be
Article headline
Article introduction
Article content
Article Conclusion
Author bio box
A good headline needs to invoke curiosity and intrigue in the reader. If it doesn’t the headline is a failure. Some of the popular and easy to use headlines include “How to” or “Discover”.
Then you have to write your introduction, where you’ll be introducing your content topic. With a small introduction of hundred words, you are ready to dive into the meat of the topic.
Here you should discuss your article in as detail as you want. Remember too much information makes reader yawn. Make it interesting, make it snappy, make it concise.
After your article content you are going to angle in your conclusion. Again, like the introduction, this one is easy to write. You have to conclude the basic idea of the article and re-phrase you major points of the article. That’s it, your article is done.
Now with a nice author bio box, where you can discuss your self, your website and give link to readers to take action, you article is finished.
Now as you can see, I just finished this article. There’s not even any need to write a conclusion for this?
Article Word count 359 – Total time 6 minutes 59 seconds
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