I always wonder what makes a blogger successful professional blogger. As the name implies professional blogger earn through blogging (off course a significant amount regardless of full time or part time). I remember my Idol Daren Rowse wrote in his one article that blogger’s earn in many ways, not only by just showing ads. According to Daren blogger’s may earn by showing contextual advertisements, referral or selling product/services (e-book etc.). Some even earn by selling their blogs, usually happen when its custom built with well designed and good traffic. But anyway I am getting away from my point of discussion, since I am trying to draw the guide to professional blogging not how they earn.

When I was in high school I remember teacher use to say “jack of all trade is master of none” or something with similar theme. But looking at professional blogging I am feeling completely losing that little phrase. As far as you can see professional blogger need to be successful in few fields rather than just one, example-SEO, marketing, promotion, writing/communication, management and some cases web tech savvy. If you look around you, how many people have you seen are master of so many trades? I can bet you won’t need even your all fingers to count them. Does that mean the chance of becoming a professional blogger is limited? No it’s always wide open, proofs are through out blogosphere, one way or another everyday some blogger is becoming successful blogger. Jason calacanis got successful with his blogsmith selling; Daren Rowse became successful with true seamless resourceful blogging; they are completely different type of blogger one with a business model another with virtual journalism. So you can write this in your blog manual that-You don’t need to be master of everything to become a successful professional blogger. And also luck has nothing to do with it, maybe a little but if you determined luck will favor you if not today or tomorrow. So if you want to be a successful professional blogger try to consider these:-

• Time: Every successful professional blogger out there from Daren Rowse to Matt Craven will agree it takes time to be professional blogger. If you want to jump up to the roof, you will just hurt yourself better climb. It will take time to develop yourself as credible and proven to the readers, you have to agree it takes time to grow trust. Blogosphere won’t recognize you in a flash since everyday a thousand decide to start blogging and 990 decide to quite. You have to show you are here to stay. Not only has that it taken time to index by search engines, directories too. My advice is start as amateur, grow readers and trust then professional blogging. If you wish to try your luck, this isn’t for you trust me.
• Aim: Well even a kid know that if you don’t have aim in your life, you don’t get anything. Same goes in professional blogging, set your target and work out around that. Example- considers blogging on topics where you can generate contents flawlessly. It’s not a good practice bushing around, someone got successful blogging on music doesn’t mean I will also. So before starting just ask yourself not your friends, what you really think you are good at, and believe in yourself.

These are the basic you need in you rather than anything else, than you can go on improving your blogging. I think Daren Rowse has the biggest collection of tips on professional blogging, better read those. I had a lot of help from those writing honestly.

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