How To Become a Successful Blogger

Blogging is the process of creating and publishing contents like articles, videos, etc on a website. Blogging is. characterized by informal language, regular updates, and opportunities for readers’ engagements.

Blogs can serve different purposes like personal expression, sharing experiences, business promotion, marketing, etc.

On the other hand, a blogger is one who engages in blogging. For such a blogger to become successful in the blogging career, he or she has to do the following:

1. Choose a niche: The blogger must first of all choose a niche. That means he or she has to decide on a topic or area he or she has passion for and focus on it; like creating and promoting articles, adverts, comedy, how-to-do-it or any other niche.

2. Select a platform: The blogger must either has a personal website to create and promote his/ her blogs or use any of the popular platforms like WordPress, Blogger.com, Wix, etc for his/ her blogs.

3. Create high-quality contents: The blogger must always create engaging, informative, and well-structured contents.

4. Promote your blog: The blogger must promote his/ her contents by sharing them on the social media or any other public platform.

5. Engage with readers/ Audience. The blogger must constantly interact with his or her audience through feedbacks, comments, reactions, etc.

6. Collaborate with other bloggers: The blogger must constantly interact and cross-ventilate ideas with other bloggers to know what has kept them going and what is trending in other to grow in the blogging career.

7. Must be Consistent: The blogger must regularly post new contents, it possible, on a daily bases.

Finally, every successful blogger must also strive to know his or her audience and properly understand them. He or she must always use compelling headlines and captions to attract attention and must always use appropriate visual aids like images, illustrations and videos.

by: Onuegbu, Charles Izundu