This is a guest post by Ian Nuttall.
The number one way that anybody who owns a blog is going to get traffic is through writing. No brainer, huh?
So why is it that so many new bloggers fall by the wayside when they try to launch their blog? It’s not due to a lack of learning materials. There is almost too much information out there. Beyond Blogging, Blog Masters Club and Cloud Living spring immediately to mind as brilliant and established products on the subject.
It’s also not because they lack passion. Many new bloggers vapidly consume all of the resources and materials available because they do love the idea of blogging so much.
So where do they go wrong?
They don’t devote enough time to writing original, unique and legendary content.
That’s it.
One article a week without any guest posts and simply a whole lot of tweeting – that’s not going to achieve much for you and your blog.
Luckily for you, I have a strategy that will… and I’ll give it away for $47 free.
Write just one article a day.
One a day. Nothing more. No groundbreaking strategies that will send shock waves to the very core of the blogging industry here. Just create one high quality post every day for the next 30 days.
Even if you’re publishing 3 times a week on your blog, that leaves you with 15-18 original and hopefully, awesome posts just ripe for guest posts on other blogs. That is more than enough to get your name out their and show people what a genius you are.
But what do I mean when I say “an article a day will help you work, rest and play?” Keep reading and all will be revealed.
Work
Nothing makes you feel a sense of accomplishment more as a blogger than when you get that smug sense of satisfaction after completing a new piece that you think will literally change the face of the blogosphere as we know it. It inspires you to continue creating content that will motivate people, change public perceptions of the lowly blogger and eventually lead to you being hailed as the Oscar Wilde of the blogging generation.
Add to that the fact that if you love to talk, and you talk about what you love, you instantly find the gift of the gab and can wax lyrical about your chosen topic for hours on end. As a general rule of thumb, if you annoy your friends and family when you continually talk about a particular passion or pastime, that is what you should be blogging about.
Rest
I am a big advocate for early morning writing. Sure, you have to get up earlier than most, but one article is not beyond the realms of possibility. Heck, I wrote one in 5 minutes once and it was, if only to me, legendary.
Even if the post takes you a couple of hours you still have the rest of the day to do whatever it is bloggers do. Unless you’re Darren Rowse or one of the big guns, I imagine you survive on lentils, beans and rice and wonder where your next gig is coming from.
Also, many bloggers can happily tap away from the safe confines of their own bed. That means that when you’re done creating awesome content, you can have a little nap.
Play
If you can keep up the post-a-day habit and make it a part of your daily life – it gives you more time to play. This means you can tweet more, connect with more people and become the saviour of the web by being ever present in times of need. If someone needs help with their .htaccess file you’re only a tweet and a Google search away from being the hero.
On top of that, once you make the big time and you’ve got hundreds of customers paying you for your expertise – you can merely outsource your business and go gravhopping on the moon. The universe is your oyster and while your loyal VA in the Philippines updates your membership site in between trips to the local fish market, you can be surfing dolphins off the coast of Fiji.
The real point of this post is…
While you sit around and fantasize about what could happen to you through blogging, you stop doing the very thing that will get you up the pecking order and into a position to change your life – writing.
Most bloggers could take the amount they’re writing now and double it. Unless you happen to be Ali Hale, who seems to be writing the equivalent of 20 full time virtual assistants!
I’ll be taking the “Post-a-Day Challenge” this month and I encourage you to do the same. It should take you at the very most two hours per day and the exposure you’ll get from having your ridiculously fabulous content all over the web will be more powerful than your tiny little blogging mind can comprehend.
Seriously, this is the one-a-day solution to becoming a better blogger.
Happy writing!
Leash Optional is a journey which explores unique and innovative ways to live an awesome, completely original life the way you want to live it. Ian Nuttall promotes productivity, living in the now and having the freedom to do whatever it is you want to do. He also loves to talk in the third person. He’s cool like that.
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