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What? Simply said, it’s experimentation. Everyone knows the methodology of experimentation right? So why do most of us fail in the process of building a successful blog?
Do you experiment with your blog? Of course! Everyone does. But in this vast blogosphere, our success depends on how soon, how efficiently we evolve. Just think about it. If you tried mass blog commenting for one week, and you spent around 1-2 hours just to do it, and if your return was 10 hits per day and declining thereafter, what’s the point of keep doing it? There was a time that, when you leave a good comment at Problogger, you got about 5 or 6 hits from it. But no more – too many people want a piece of the pie.
Are you spending hours and hours per week on Social Media promotion? If so, try to keep track of your time – and monitor the returns. Are you getting what you thought you would? If not, it’s time to move on. Someone who was way smarter than me once said, “You’d regret the things that you didn’t do, than the things that you did and achieved or failed”. And if you take a hard look at yourself right now, you’d probably know he’s right.
What works for someone else might not work for you. As I always say, you can not replicate other people’s success. Which means, only you can create your own success formula. To create your formula, you must experiment. It might be your approach of blog promotion – It might be your blog design that you stuck to for the past 6 months – It might be how you promoted yourself on Social Media. Just ask yourself – can I get more than what I asked for? so how?
Conclusively, the funny thing is that all the answers to the questions that you raise about building a killer blog, doesn’t lie in e-books, training courses, or other blogs. It lies within the discoveries that you make in the process of experimentation. E-books, training courses, or other blogs offering blogging tips are only your manuals for the experimentation test subjects.
That’s great advice! Thank you!
yes, I agree with you. I once read a post telling people not to follow all the tips bloggers that post about traffic and making money online write about. The blogsphere nowadays is quite different and I think that what works best is to find out what works better for you individually. Things that work for the others may not always work for you.
Good advice. Regarding commenting, a little tip. If you’re looking for traffic, leave a comment on an article that is likely to go viral or be bookmarked. The hits will just keep coming, even long after the post was made.
Nice post! I totally agree with you
I agree SlamBlogger. But it’s a bit hard to know when something would go viral before everyone else.
Yes, I totally agree with this post. Too many people are looking for shortcuts or an easy way to immediately push up their blog stats. Like in real life, building up traffic requires a lot of work, experimentation (aside from learning from the gurus).