be ruthless My final piece of advice is to echo the thoughts I shared in my post on how to be a ruthless blogger. While it can be hard to let go of blogging that isn't working or eliminating time-wasting activities, the fact is that for many bloggers, these are the things that stand between success and success. mediocrity. Shadow Making Service One of the most common ways I see a blog “fail” is when the blogger is distracted from the overall task of blogging by a single aspect of blogging. Here's the thing - for a blog to be successful, you can't just work on one aspect of it - there are many tasks to work on as it grows. These include writing content, engaging readers, monitoring what's happening in your niche, networking with other blogs and sites in your niche,
working on your blog design, comment moderation, promoting your blog/marketing, research, revenue management and optimization. feeds, search engine optimization, tracking your blog metrics…. and more. That's a bit of an overwhelming list isn't it!? Problem When a blogger becomes obsessed with one aspect of the list, Shadow Making Service it comes at the expense of the other critical aspects of blogging. Each of the things I mentioned above are legitimate things to work on on your blog (some more important than others at different stages in the life of a blog), but a blog grows best when you work on all and not just when you do one of them. Five types of obsessed bloggers Let me share five common scenarios I see:
1. The Design Maniac - perhaps one of the most common examples of this is the blogger who becomes so obsessed with the look of his blog that he does nothing but visually alter it by playing with his CSS, retouching logos, trying different layouts, Shadow Making Service testing new menus and navigation…. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that – but if that's all you do, when are you going to be writing content, networking, and moderating comments? 2. SEO (obsessed) - I went through a phase where I became obsessed with search engine optimization.