3 Things You Can Do Today To Improve Blogging
You can become an A-list blogger in few months if not in few days. But you always have to work hard and keep improving your blogging to get there.
If you want to become a professional blogger, you have to go through all the phases that are present before professional. No one starts blogs like a professional unless they have worked for print media or have a deep understanding about blogging (at least in my opinion).
As I said, you have to work really hard to improve blogging and without hard work, you cannot surpass the amateur level. Consider a game, for example, which has different levels. You cannot win in the world class mode unless you can win the amateur mode. This applies for blogging too.
You can improve blogging by many ways. Even running helps you improve blogging. In this post, I’m going to explain the 3 things that you can do today to improve blogging. Of course all the three methods work and I have tried it.
Without any further ado, let’s move on to the 3 things
1. Create A Challenge
There would have been times when you had the bloggers block. Though I personally don’t believe there is such a thing called bloggers block, I have written posts on how you can get out from the thought that you are having bloggers block.
To improve your blogging and to eliminate the thought of having bloggers block, there is a quick and free solution. Create a challenge.
What type of challenges can you create?
You can IM a friend and tell him/her that you are going to achieve “your goal” in “specified time”. I, once, told my friend that I will become a freelance writer within 3 days and get a good gig. Though it took me a week to get a very good freelance writing gig, the challenge helped me to work hard. I could not think of losing in the challenge. This motivated me to work hard. When you challenge your friend saying that you will write a guest post at a blog with 25,000+ subscribers in 5 days, you will work hard towards it and this will result in an improvement in blogging.
You can also create a public challenge. Go to a good forum and without spamming the forum, create a public challenge. Since all the members of the forum are watching you, you will have the motivation to work hard. Two of the best forums on blogging are Authority Blogger forum and Blogging Tips forum.
2. Participate In Blog Carnivals And Contests
There are so many blog carnivals that are started every week. Join in one of them and work hard to emerge as one of the best participants of the carnival. The best site that I always recommend for bloggers who want to join in blog carnivals is BlogCarnival.Com. For more information on blog carnivals, you can read this page on what is blog carnival.
Contests act as a great catalyst for bloggers to become better. When you participate in a contest, you have the mindset to win. When you work with that positive mindset, you are sure to get good results. Your blogging will improve to the next level. I still remember the first blogging contest that I participated in. It was hosted by Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips. There will be at least one contest in the blogosphere every month.
3. Avoid The Activity That Decreases Your Productivity
One of the best things you could do to improve blogging is by avoiding the activity that decreases your productivity. Not many would agree with this but I have experience on this. Whenever I have holidays, I spend most of the time watching football videos and reading football news. My blogging improved a lot after I set a specific amount of time for these activities. It is extremely tough to avoid your favorite activity completely. Set a specific time for your favorite activity and see to that it doesn’t decrease your productivity.
What do you do to improve blogging? Do you do any of the above three? Or do you take a long walk? Please share your views in the comments.
Written by Ramkarthik from Blogging TunePosted on January 17th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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I think its important to mine your logs and find out what your readers enjoy the most and expand on those topics.
I will try to use 3 things to my advantage, but sometimes I tend to get sidetracked with my overall goal going into something
Great Tips! Thanks!
Great motivational tips you’ve posted! Its easy to get down sometimes when you need to be constantly writing new articles to keep going. These are great ways to keep yourself on your feet and keep thing exciting!
Great tips, I appreciate the one about Blog Carnival. I found a good category and made a submission.
Thanks very much!!!
great article. I think too many people think blogging is easy
Wow, I learn something new every day. Blog carnivals!
What you call blog ‘contests’ are usually group writing projects, like Daniel’s. For a number of reasons, such as the different hosts, these are a lot more interesting than blog carnivals, most of which are just repeated link dumps that no one looks at = no traffic, low link value.
Very interesting. Thanks for the tips
I agree with #3 to a point. The last thing you want to do is burn out, o if you need to take a real break, do it.
def agree with taking a break, spending time away from the computer can have such a impact.
This is a great post! I am new to blogging and had never heard of blogging carnivals. I checked the website, and this is something I will checking into further. Issuing the challenge makes me a bit nervous…lol. What if I didn’t actually meet the challenge? That would not be so good. I totally agree with taking a break every so often. It does help to clear your mind, and also helps to keep you from getting burned out.
Thanks again for the post!
Beth
Hey Ramkarthik,
Great post! never heard of these blogging carnivals before, so will definitely check that out , as well as the forums your mentioned.
Competition is always great
. . I love a good competition. . by the way, I see that you love running on your website – do you use the Nike+ system? cuz if you do, we could compete using it 
. anyway back blogging :
Any good blogging comps you recommend at the moment?
Cheers,
Derrick
Thank you all for the comments
@ Jacob,
Yes I meant group writing projects. Thanks for making it clear.
@ Beth,
Yes, when you think what will happen when you don’t finish a blog carnival, you will work hard and try to finish it.
@ Blogging For Fun
Glad you liked the article and thanks for taking time to visit my blog and read my posts. I don’t use the Nike+ system right now but after reading your comment, it makes me want to check that out. Will check it out soon. And I don’t know any blogging comps going on right now but will post about it in this blog or my blog when I come to know about any good blog comps.
This is a great post! thank you……