So, the first thing you learned is how to identify a viable niche for your blog, plan your blog, and how to blog your plan. Then you learned exactly how to write on your blog as an expert, even if you’re not confident that you are one. You also learned how to find gobs of great topics to write on.
Now, Build an Audience
If you build it, they won’t come. Not unless you tell them where it’s at, of course. You’re already participating in plenty of online communities that focus on your niche, so why not let them know what you’re working on?
This shouldn’t be the primary reason for your participation, though. That’s going to result in alienation from the rest of the community. No one likes someone who’s only in it for the money. If your peers get this sense from you, they’ll ignore you, and you’ll never attract them as readers to your blog.
Focus your participation in the community on asking good questions and providing helpful answers to the questions of others. Put your blog together as a sort of FAQ on the topic, but make it more of an EAQ – and “Every Asked Question.”
Maintain a page or post on your blog that indexes every topic you’ve written on. This is super easy thanks to tags and categories – standard features on just about every blogging platform you could possibly be considering.
Share this resource, or any other valuable resource you can create, with your community. Commission a freelancer (from sites like elance.com, or freelancer.com) to create an infographic, or video based on statistics relevant to your niche.
Do anything that you can think of that’s interesting and valuable to the people who care about your niche, and share it freely. You’ll end up with more adoring fans than you could have hoped for.
Just don’t be a pest, and things will go very well.
The Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
You can’t just do one of these things. You have to do all of them. And they have to be done with the intention of helping others interested in your chosen niche. If you do this, then you can only find success.
That isn’t to say that it will come over night. It might not even come in a few months. But if you keep at it, and stay focused on doing the right thing, you’re going to eventually find the success you’re looking for.
And if you stick at it for one year, you’ll definitely find success. You’ll have hundreds, if not thousands of dedicated readers. Once you get to that level, it’s relatively simple to monetize your blog and turn your hobby into your career.
Just imagine that your life consists of nothing more than focusing on the thing that you’re most interested in. Imagine that you earn $50,000 or more just for doing it, too.
If that sounds interesting, then put everything together in this series, paying particular attention to planning your blog and blogging your plan, and you won’t have any alternative but success.
About Kevin Gao
Form a supportive audience by providing fresh new content that your readers are interested in! Thank you for the great 3-part article, Kevin!
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Good writing skill is very important in blogging , as well as good relationship with audience ,it will pitch you towards your success.
Thanks you lot.
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This is a great article on Blogging. I have been blogging for less than a year, and I hope to improve the number of my posts. I wish you the best. I think that it would be very cool to earn $50,000 from your blog. That would be fantastic. Thank you Kevin :)
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The only thing that i can mention from my experience is that you should never give up and you should continue your work with blogging. Expecting some minute results in the first three days or a week will bring disappointment, dissatisfaction and obviously laziness that build up a bad attitude. Keep going and never give up.
The readers aare the most important people in the whole equation since they are the ones who needs to come back fore more and share
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The readers are the most important people in the whole equation since they are the ones who need to come back for more and share. Hence they need to be kept happy. Good quality content with lots of interesting stuff is required. I like the idea of sharing personal things or being personal, readers begin to trust you eventually.
make a blog must plan,
this affect success come to us
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hello kevin, i am a newbie and i dnt know much about niche and all these technical terms but i guess its the subject of your website. and yes if this is true then choosing a niche is the most important thing. and after that we need people and audience. thanks for this article. i am definitely going to learn something from this
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Great.. kevin you really writes great.. I like you writing style.. well, nice thoughts and tips :) thank you
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You have given this post a very smart and meaningful title. It completely makes sense. I can simply put it down as planning the blog, having an idea for the content part and then blogging, means executing the plan. Or simply say, putting the plan to work. This is a wonderful post with lots of meaning and important information.
thank you very much for your very useful information for me and I was amazed by the article that you create is ..
Thank you very much ..
thanks for the post, it´s really useful. I´m starting with blogs now, and I agree with you with the importance of planning your work with the blog. Thanks!!!!!
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Your Audience is already looking for new Blogs to Follow. There is a Hunger of new content on the Internet, Search Engines contributes on the increase of New Audience for New Blogs. So If you are starting your Blog start fresh and innovative.
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I agree. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I’ve been working on my blog for 1.5+ years and I’m still finding things that need to be improved.
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thank you very much for your very useful information for me and I was amazed by the article that you create is ..
Thank you very much ..
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This is great but finding a niche requires great effort.
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Hello Kevin Gao,
this is and very informative post me and this post is very important for all the newbie blogger’s. we know that content is KING in the blogging but we also have to hardwork to build the circle of our niche and we have to give the time for Marketing also.
thanks for the sharing :)
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Nice tips and tricks for beginners. I love how this article helps you even if you do not know a lot about blogging. This one really helped me on my sites. Helpful post, thanks for sharing.
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These days, it seems like the hardest part is finding a niche
Audience and community is the secret, there are many tools to attract audience and others to create the community.
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I agree that not stopping is a key in building an audience. A lot of times people just give up whereas if they just continue chugging along then they would get a better results as opposed to just stopping and not riding the momentum.
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Nice series, I strongly believe that every blog need a good strategy to get on. According to present situations we have to try out every strategy . I missed some of your parts, will read them.
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Great post! Too many bloggers think that just having great content will result in great traffic. In reality, we have to spend as much time telling people about our blog as we do writing content.
Thanks for the series!
– Sean
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Hey Kevin,
Awesome article man and also a worth reading :)
To build a better blog we have make our blog worth reading like you have made us!
Content should be like that people can’t stop from reading and also enjoying :)
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Indeed, a great explanation how to build audience yet there are a lot of plans to meet the goal. A strong and ideal content would be perfect. And I strongly agree on the idea of “The Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts”.
Nice post.. quality of the content is the basic need of a successful blog.and the rest part depends on marketing.
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Writing like a pro is really necessary. And then building the audience is the second one. And exposing our blog in social media is also essential. Thanks for this nice post.
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Kevin sometimes I wonder, if your readers consider you as a knowledgeable person in your niche then should you ask a common question in any open forum ? I guess asking a common question like “what is SEO” or “How to earn money” will make you a newbie on the niche which is not at all good for your reputation. However being a GURU in your niche, you can ask a question that will help others to reveal any new idea or secrets. isn’t it ?
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Hi Kushal,
Thanks for stopping by!
Personally, I believe everyone has questions that they don’t really know the answer, whether it is a newbie or a GURU. Sometimes you just got confused by a super common question since you got some new thoughts on it, something away from the common answers. This can be a good time to start a discussion in an open forum to let others help clear your mind. I like this kind of discussions. They can always bring some new ideas up.
To build an audience, it is required to create powerful and strong content. Your blog readership can grow if and on if you can connect to your readers.
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This is a good blog post and also an example of blog promotion.
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Yes, this way we can success blog. And Maintain a page or post is also most important for the blog.
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