Since some days ago, I have only a thought in my mind: What makes you a good blogger? What things determine how good or bad are you on blogging? So I started a discussion with some friends who are (or were) bloggers and we talked about some interesting points which I will share with you in this post.
Is it the money you earn?
When we talk about MMO blogs, may be the first thing you think is how much that blogger earn? If it shares tips about making money online is because it really makes money with online businesses! So, is the money that thing that makes you a good blogger? What about if you don’t make money with your blog, that makes you a bad blogger or not?.
Questions like that arise when we talk about bloggers who manage MMO blogs, but what if you don’t deal with this niche? Should you be judged under that parameter? Of course not! So definitively, this factor cannot tell us if you are good or bad on blogging.
Is it your writing frequency?
On internet there are many classes of bloggers… There are some of them who write a couple of articles per month and others who write several articles a day! So as you can see, there are many variety in this topic because everybody is different, so each blogger has a different style and availability to write many times a day. If you think about the frequency of posting, is very logical to think the more the number of posts the better, but have to say that I disagree with this idea. Easily, I could publish 10 articles per day saying hello, things of 100 words or less, without anything valuable for you… So that could make me a good blogger? Of course not, instead I will be frighten you and probably you will leave my blog.
So the lesson of this point is that you need to publish articles as fast as you can, but always try to provide good content to your readers. This way, you will maintain your level and you will get more loyalty…
Is it your popularity?
This seems to be better then the other ones. The popularity you have in the web is something very valuable when you want to run an online business. Having a good popularity, people will be looking for your next step, following you everywhere you go. Everything you do on internet will be seen by many people: regular readers, subscribers or just strangers.
This is good and bad at the same time. Why? Because many people will critique what you do, being this good or bad. And when I say critique I’m refering not to “constructive criquite”… But I think that once you are on the hill you won’t commit errors, at least not so bad like the first ones… Blogging is all about practicing, the more time you spend, the better.
Is it the number of subscribers?
The number of subscribers is an indicative of how popular are you, so this is related to the latest point. The bigger the number of subscribers, “the better” you are, and I suppose this because nobody will follow you if you suck at blogging! So I think that certainly, this cound be an indicative.
But take care, don’t take so serious this number. There are people who hack this counter, increasing their number of subscribers from less than one hundred to thousands. If the source is not trusty, you should not take this counter as a good indicative to know if the blogger is good or bad.
What Else?
With my friends, I talked about other things like the number of twitter followers, plurk friends, emails per day, comments per article and others… I think that there’s not just one thing that can define if you are good or not at blogging.
Just combining some elements you can determine this thing, but in my personal opinion I think that certainty and dedication are one of the main things that make a good blogger. Besides the money or the number of subscribers, in my opinion other factors related with the personality of the blogger is that can tell you if it is a good or bad blogger.
What do you think? I’m a good or bad blogger? Ask the same question to yourself and to your readers!
Hey! my name is Javier but you can call me Javo, everybody does.
Another standard might be the number of visitors to a blog each day (or month). This ties into popularity, but goes beyond it. Your daily readership levels can be translated into many things, including money, popularity, RSS subscribers, and more.
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It’s the quality of your posts. I’m not a good blogger because I can’t provide a so much quality post. Also, how your readers response to your blog. If they always say that you are a great blogger then probably you are really a good blogger.
Keep blogging man, the practice can make anything possible. To understand what I’m saying, take a look to my very first posts… You will notice a difference between those posts and the latest ones…
I think you area good blogger Hussein. I read you blog and find you provide good stuff there
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You could if you really wanted to go. Some of the best bloggers are the ones that do a lot of research and then put all of that together to create a great blog post. It just takes a lot time and energy.
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I think another point is:
The impact it could provide to your reader. This can be very subjective and maybe difficult to measure. But, if you can make a positive change to your readers, then that is something great, something powerful. It can be like a chain reaction…or “put it forward” stuff. Maybe we can think of somekind of method to measure that
That’s a great point! I don’t know how could we measure that, but I think that it should be related with social medias, where the masses are.
Just to add some more to this comment…
Within a space of 1 week, I managed to make 3 different people want to start a blog. 2 have started with a blogspot.com account while the other one (my own brother) is now consulting me on how to straight away own his first .com blog using wordpress. I think that indicate or shows some result from our blogging passion.
To me, a good blogger is someone who has the ability to create a community through his writing. At the same time, it leads to discussion and learning takes place with a similar interest group.
Wei Liang
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Great advice Wei, that’s what everybody is looking for on Blogging…
Well for me, its the number of loyal visitors. And to have that you definitely have to churn out useful content for them coz they aren’t your friends or relatives nor do they love you. They visit because of the content you offer. Fail doing that, there are a lot of other options available web-wide
Great point! No matter how much subscribers you have, the important thing is to build a loyal readership. If you can handle that, you are done.
You are right, visitors are not your friends or family and they do not love you. haha That was the best comment I have seen today.
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I think if you just provide good quality posts,have good interaction with your readers and build a great community you’ll surely be a good blogger.
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I wouldn’t say MMO blogs are niche, being as it seems like 90% of blogs ‘try’ and talk about making money online.
My ultimate goal is to attract readers in the form of positive subscriptions, anything else is simply a bonus.
Great post Javier
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I completely agree with you. There are way too many blogs that talk about making money online. If only people would try to talk about something different.
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for me, it’s a question of traffic. the more visitors, the more i feel like i’m moving closer to my goals.
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I have to reiterate the point…it’s not the quantity, it’s the quality. Everybody keeps jumping on the bandwagon that you must post daily…
It’s not true. It’s not. It’s false. And I really wish most bloggers would stop copying the sentiment from others just because it sounds good.
If your articles are of good caliber, engage your readers, and keep them coming back for more, then it makes no difference if it’s once per day or once per week.
On the flip-side…if you start out from day one posting daily, THEN change to less frequently…then your readers will wonder what’s up.
Like the article..
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Excellent read. In my opinion it’s all about the traffic. If the traffic is increasing then i feel i’m doing something right.
Hi Javier,
nice post, It has to be the quality of your post and the experience that you give your visitors. The content must be fresh and full of personality.
My experience is, if you provide the above all the rest will full into place.
A friend once told me “if you chase the money you will become frustrated and give up”, pursue knowledge,inject some passion, have fun and you will become a winner.
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Your friend is right. Nice asset Paul, thanks for sharing it…
Great blog. We often struggle with determining what we can do to make our blog better and continue to educate people on our topic. Our main goal right now is to increase our writing frequency and get user interaction in the form of comments. Thanks for this post.
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