How to succeed in blogging: the longer version

Have you ever wondered how people succeed in blogging? I’m not going to tell you my story, because I didn’t succeed in blogging (at least not yet, but I’m working on it). I have read a lot of articles about this topic, enough to get an idea about what it takes and enough to not have time to spend blogging.

The Key to Success

What I want to share with you are my view on things to do if you want to be a successful blogger:

1. start blogging, don’t spend all your time researching
2. blog constantly, if you know you won’t have Internet access it’s a good idea cu have some articles already written and set to be published once you’re out
3. practice a lot, that will improve your writing skills a lot, you won’t be an authority if your grammar sucks
4. write down article ideas when they come to you so you’ll have a list with things to write about when new topics are hard to find
5. content is king, write useful articles, don’t chase SEO subjects (very true if you are not a SEO guru). If people like your articles they will come back for more
6. don’t copy others ideas, get you own vision on a topic, even when you have  a completely different point of view about a topic (or especially when you do, as controversy makes people comment more)
7. don’t forget about social media, read what other blogs on your same niche write, comment, get people to talk to you, interact like you do in real life
8. write about something you like, not just think about the money as without passion you won’t get far
9. be patient, as they say “overnight success takes a few hard working years”
10. work, work, work, there’s no other 100 % certain way to reach success