Taking your blog from zero to hero requires hard work and lots of knowledge about your niche. A new born baby needs a lot of time and energy to grow, same happens in Blogging. A new blog also needs time, a lot of hard work and energy to be able to grow.
It's important for bloggers to remain focused and consistent with their blogging efforts. Many people don't have the endurance it takes to maintain a thriving blog which can lead to lots of trouble along the way. I know you heard this many times before, you can't expect your blog to take off overnight. At first, you have to work on your blog at least 4 to 6 hours a day and every day of the week.
Tips For Taking Your Blog From Zero To Hero
Here I'm going to share some quick tips which you can follow for taking your blog from zero to hero in less than no time at all.
1. Fulfill your audience's requirements
If you want your blog readers to come back after one visit than you must provide them useful content and try to solve their problem with your content because visitors are like monkeys and your blog is like a tree. If they will not get food at your tree then to get their requirements fulfilled, they will climb to another tree.
If you want them to keep swinging on your tree then you should keep providing them food. By food, I mean unique and quality content and this will surely help you in taking your blog from zero to hero.
2. Sleep With Them
For taking your blog from zero to hero you need to gain trust of the people and to gain their trust you need to sleep with them. I don't mean you should go to bed with them.
What I mean here is that you need to know your audience, you have to find out the needs of your audience and as I said above that fulfill their requirements. If you don't know what are the troubles your readers face than you don't really know them at all. The best way for taking your blog from zero to hero is to gain the trust of your readers.
3. Learn from your mistakes
Mistakes make you smarter, faster and relevant. Blogging has a lot of error stages and as a newbie Blogger you will make a lot of mistakes, but you have to learn from your mistakes and try to avoid them in next time instead of making a same mistake again and again.
When it comes to nominate the persons who makes millions of mistakes, I will put my name first because I know everyone makes mistakes, but the difference is the ability to learn from those mistakes.
The most valuable thing which you can make is mistake, You can't learn anything from being perfect!
4. Communicate With Your Audience
A blog is basically a means by which we can communicate with our readers, so this one is no big surprise. A successful blogger wants to connect with the audience by fulfilling their requirements, helping them in all possible ways, replying to comments (That is most important that is why it's critical to respond to each comment on our blog) and by serving their needs. Communicating is not only good for bloggers, but also for our readers and it helps to strengthen our relationships.
5. Run blogger Interviews
Interviewing other bloggers in your niche is smart way to increase the engagement and build relationship with your readers as well as with that blogger. Blogger interviews is a great way of relationship building with all bloggers in your niche. Ms. Ileane has been interviewing other bloggers here on Basic Blog Tips for quite some time.
6. Call them to take action
Do you want your readers to do something like subscribe to your blog or keep reading your other posts? If so, you must call them to do it. Readers need to be guided after reading your post. As a blogger, it's your responsibility to show them the way.
In my opinion a good call to action is asking them to subscribe to your newsletter by using a subscription form below posts or to ask them to share your post. If they would like your post than they will love to subscribe. A good call to action is must for taking your blog from zero to hero.
7. Speed up
It's common that a person visit your blog for first time, you have only few seconds to to capture their attention.
Your blog must not take more than 10 seconds to load because if your blog is slow, you will lose not only visitors but you will also lose ranking on search engines. You should look for all possible ways to improve the speed of your blog. Use a good caching plugin like W3 Total Cache.
8. Guest Blogging
Guest blogging is the way which gets you in those circles where the blogging elites hangs out and to take your blogging journey in greater heights. It is an effective way to steel other popular blogs readers by contributing a guest post. Guest blogging is great way for taking your blog from zero to hero in less time – if you do it the right way.
Don't miss Ms. Ileane's post 5 warning signs you're not ready to start guest blogging.
Please share your tips on taking your blog from zero to hero below.
You very well motivate to work, there are no words that scare beginners such as “In the beginning you will be hard” or “you have to work around the clock.” Good article, well written and I’m sure many beginners it will be useful
This is ture Andy, There’s no any secret to take off your blog overnight. Everyone who has become a successful blogger spent a lot of time and effort on their blog.
Hi Ehsan,
Glad to see your guest post here.. I can feel how much you did hard work for this moment! Just want to say that – this post is well written and it will be helpful for the new bloggers who’re just starting out.
Great share bud 🙂 Keep up your good work!
Thanks for the appreciation Rahul, I’m glade you liked my this post.
Ehsan Ullah @ as per my little knowledge says that there is no secrete of blogging excluding these 3 :-
1. Unique and real time content
2. Publicize proper ways
3. Loyal online community
Absolutely true, Main Uddin. The three things you mentioned are exactly what I have in mind. Thanks for the article, Ehsan Ullah.
Agreed with your points Main, but gaining people’s trust is the key point here. And of course quality, unique and search engine friendly content is must.
Hey Ehsan,
Your work, effort and defiantly your guest post is awesome. i have just completed basics of getting reader attention means, subscribers, quality content, socialization and more but now i totally dedicated to guest posting. Well, mush helping material you wrote for us. just keep it up.
Hey Imran, Thanks for the appreciation. You know what, I’ve spent almost a month on writing this post. Glade you liked it.
Keep in tough 🙂
Awesome post Ehsan. Love the way you put together the information together. This will definitely help me
Hi, Ehsan! Great article! I’m planning to start a new project in the near future, so your article helps a lot 🙂
Glade you found my post great Cristian. I’m happy to know my article helped you for your future project. You can ask me for more If you want.
Hey Ehsan,
Good to see you here with solid tips.
Every blogger starts from zero but growing to being a hero and remaining one is tough. There is a lot of hard work and consistency that’s required. If you build good relationships and solve problems, you’re definitely going to be a hero someday.
Kudos
Enstine, Thanks for stopping by in my guest post here. I’m sure you’ll take your blog and your work to hero from zero in less time. You’re putting hard work and hard work pays off!
Another fantastic post Ehsan !
All the tips are useful especially audiences requirements and guest blogging. I will start guest blogging soon to my blog.
Glade you found this one fantastic Yogendra, What are you waiting for than? Start guest blogging with small blogs first.
Sure Dude ! I am just start blogging as career so every basic step plays a big role. Thanks for suggestions.
I think ” loading factor ” is really important factor. And then ” Communicate With Your Audience ” is something I never did. I think I should try it now..
Finally great post..
Good to see you Vivek, A blogger must consider the loading factor of their blog because If it takes time to load than readers will lose interest to visit your blog.
Ehsan was waiting for such tips only. A blogger can definitely get success by following the various tips you have provided in this article. The best thing I liked about this guest post by you here is the title you have given to this blog post..
Glade you liked it Rocky. As you’re a good writer on your blog I’m sure you’ll take it from zero to hero soon.
For 1 and 2, doing a bit of marketing research helps. I also suggest doing a little recon on your competitors, especially where they’re getting their traffic and backlinks from. Market Samurai for the win!
Thanks for passing by Mike, Having full knowledge about your niche is must. I use Alexa to find out where my competitors are getting their most backlinks from.
Online environment is a continuous learning experience, therefore we have to adapt to changes and improve our blogs on a regular basis. In addition, people change and so their needs, so we should be proactive and monitor their behavior regularly.
And according to their behavior we should provide them food in our tree to make them jump on it and enjoy it. Hope you got what I mean Julian 🙂
Hi Ehsan,
Great tips for newbie bloggers. Specially I liked the below thing very much :
Regarding Speeding-up the blog, I’m not agree with you fully. Your blog should load in < 3sec. You have told < 10 secs, way too much time. Attention span of web-readers have decreased too much, specially with mobile device.
All in all, a good post.
Hey Nandita, Glade you liked that line and I’m sure you’re agree too? 😛
BTW, I know that 10 seconds is too much, but there are some heavy blogs which takes time to load. I think visitors can wait for a page to load for at least 10 seconds, Can’t you?
Optimizing your posts for mobile devices is must.
Personally I will never wait for 10 seconds. Amazon loses its 1% sales if its website loads 1sec slower, and 8 % of my visitors move out ( even when my blog loads completely within 2.5 seconds ). Do you still think 10 seconds is OK..
I’m not saying that 10 seconds is ok Vivek, but I’m not against those blogs which takes 10 seconds to load.
Hey! Ehsan.
I am pretty agreed with your points. Especially “Sleep With Them” – this is one of the major point that bloggers miss in their schedule, and work against their audience time zone.
But I am not agreed with your interviewing section. Near to me, it is kind of using someone’s popularity to power up your business. or in other words. Kind of de-grading our own blog.
I’m not sure which kind of business you’re talking about Humza, but in blogging It is kind of building good relationship with others bloggers by interviewing them on your blog.
Hi Ehsan,
I was literally laughing at the monkey example and ‘sleep with them’ tips but you did manage to get the point to me. The other tips too are awesome, particularly learning from your mistakes, which I must admit I committed in uncountable numbers when I was just starting out. So that serves as a nice reminder. Guest blogging? I’ve been dormant for quite a long time and I think I should launch it all guns blazing again.
Aditya
Hi Aditya,
Glade you liked my points here. Learning from your mistakes is what which makes you different from all those blogger who makes the same mistake again and again on their blog. You’re already doing great LikeLiteLife and you’re teaching others how not to repeat the same mistake.
Thanks for stopping by Aditya 🙂
Blogging is like anything other thing you do in the world. You need to be passionate about it. There is no point bluffing as people can see you through it. Guest blogging is the best thing you can do to capture audience and also traffic on niche sites. Thanks for these tips Ehsan from Kunduz.
Thanks Shalu, Nice to see you mentioned Kunduz in your comment 😉
When I read the line sleep with them, I though you have find a new way of Blogging..:P
Everything is perfect in this Post.. Really awesome writing Ehsan..
Keep rocking bro..
Lol Nishant, I hope you aren’t going to sleep with any of your reader 😀 Kidding. Glade you liked it bro. Appreciate your comment.
seriously, the part about communicating with your audience is the most essential! just as a comedian can be boring and people stop going to his shows, its the same with a boring blogger.
Congratulations!!! I am really happy to see you on BBT.
It is nothing but WOW my bro Ehsan.
I like the way you imagined new blog as newly born baby. Yes, we should take care of our new blog like a new baby, at the end we get result as young kid.
Thanks bro for sharing knowledge with us. 🙂
Wishing you all the success. 🙂
Thanks Avinash for your kind comment here. A new blog is really like a new born baby because both needs time and effort to grow.
I just love this article. The Idea of interviews other bloggers is awesome. something i never thoughht about.
Hey bro,
I must agree with all the points that you have mentioned in this post. Taking your blog blog from zero to hero is really hard to do, but it can be done with the tips that you have given in this article.
Guest blogging is a must. I have slowed down a bit where that is concerned but will be doing it soon.
Also having a fast loading blog is a must.
Thanks for the timely reminders.
Happy blogging, Ehsan.
Nice to see you comment here Kharim. Guest blogging as I said is the best way to take your blog to the next level, but other than it you should also have fast loading blog.
O Dear it is really a great post but to tell u that i m not new born baby. hahhaha just kidding. I really like ur this effort dear.
I need to give a big try to Guest blogging. Hopefully planning to write a couple of useful and informative articles for BBT. Thanks for these awesome tips.
Nice to know you’re going to try guest blogging Bharat. You should start from small blogs first and improve your guest blogging strategy first than try big blogs like BBT.
Great article. I realized I’m doing only one of those 8 things. I want to do more but I am really afraid to do interviews. I think that fear is holding me back.
Keep the fear away from yourself Adam. Just sent interview request to the big bloggers in your niche. It’s really great thing to do. I
I have done two interviews on my blog yet.
Great tips. I for the month I have tasked myself with doing a guest post on someones blog. I have asked, begged and even tried to bribe people. I am happy to say that today I had my first guest post posted on another blog. I am very happy. You can see it here if you want. Please let me know what you think.
I am very excited.
http://baltimoredetailing.net/
I can understand your feeling Joe because I know how it feels when your guest post published on any big blog. I’ve checked it and must say great work! (Y)
One of the biggest things you have to do to become a “hero”is to not give up. Just keep going. Even if it doesn’t seem fun anymore, just keep going – the benefits will be imense in the end. It might seem pointless when you’re a “zero”, but getting to that position of being a hero is all the while worth it – just go for it!
I agree with you Joe, Starting a blog and quitting just after writing 10 or 15 posts will not do anything. One must should stick with there blog in all cases like you said If It doesn’t seem fun anymore.
Thanks for stopping by.
Great tips, especially number 7. A slow loading time can kill a blog!
Your number one priority is to make your readers/visitors satisfy for them to come back more and more. the way you associate yourself with your visitors really count and make an impact to the success of your site. thanks for sharing
great tips for blogging, i made plenty of mistakes when i started my website i ended up changing software to WordPress and started again. In this world you have to admit your wrong and change or adapt quickly otherwise you’ll never be a ‘Hero’
Communicating with the audience and maintaing good relations with them is my basic rule for blogging. When we make a conversation with them, we get a chance to know them and their expectations from our blog better. In this way, they also develope a trust for the blog as well as the blogger which is good to start with.
Yup Paul, If you try to build relationship any top blog first for few months than If you request for a guest post, he/she will accept it. Relationship building is must in blogging.
Blogging is one of the best ways to gain a lot of money as well as fame. You need to have patience as well as have an idea about what niche you are going use for creating your blog. This article will be of great help to make your idea grow big. I will surely use this post and also will tell my friends about it.
Good post Ehsan. Patience is another key aspect of blogging and making it a successful venture. Giving up shouldn’t be an option for a blogger. As you rightly said, we can only learn from mistakes.
Great post ehsan. I have been struggling in establishing myself as a pro-blogger, with very little success so far. Your post, and guide on you blog have been quite informative for me.
Keep sharing the good work.
Regards,
Thanks for landing on my blog Zara and I do hope you liked it and you’ll stick around it. Hope you connect with you.
Point number 3 i like it. and it happen to me. Now i always learn from mistake. Not only mistake from me but mistake from other.
Good post Ehsan, Good as usual.. I am unable to configure W3 Total cache.. can you help me to sort it out.. cause it have lots of option to check.. and I don’t know how to use it what each option does.
Kushal, Search on Youtube. I’m sure there are a lot of video tutorials for that plugin. Hope that helpes.
Ehsan,
Very good stuff dude… I’m on board with everything you wrote. I would like to emphasize the page load time.
If you’re site takes too much time to load people will leave… That is a fact and reality of the Internet.
Thanks
Hanley
I’m happy you stopped by Ryan, glade you liked it. Yeah If a blog loads too slow, people will hate to visit it.
Interesting post. I agree with most of the points specially the one regarding sleeping with them 😀 lol! but really good points. After all communication is the king.
Hi Ali,
Thanks you for your comment and I’m glade my article convinced you. 🙂
Great tips! Having your blog noticed is an extremely difficult task since there are so many “ok” blogs out there. You definitely need to make your blog outstanding in order to get noticed. This way your blog visitors will want to come back for more information.
You’re right Elena, To get noticed and to beat all the competitors you need to do something outstanding. You need to do something to make your readers love your blog.
I do not want it easy to build my blog because the initial success I have could trick me into believing everything will be this easy.
I agree with you about learning from mistakes, because if you do not make mistakes then you have no reference when things get tough.
I have been blogging for about 2 years on and off so the mistakes I made along the way taught me things are not easy and readers are hard to come by.
Great to know you’re able to learn from your mistakes Michael. I have also done lots of mistakes in my blogging journey and I also got to learn great things from my mistakes.
Impressive Post,
Very Motivational and interesting tips.
Easy to understand & clear.
I loved it.
Thanks for your comment Harsh, I’m glade you liked my post.
Very interesting tips. Most of the time, newbies don’t get it. They want to succeed almost instantly. If someone doesn’t have perseverance, he/she will not succeed in an online career..
Hi Ehsan as a new blogger these tips are really useful for me to promote my blog
Oh, it is so cute that you compare your blog with a baby)) because it is true! if you want your work to be succeed you should work hard and all the time!
P.S. the post’s title is great))) thank you
Hey Kate,
Thanks for reading my post and leaving your comment. I’m really glade you liked the title. Be sure to visit my blog too.
Awesome post Ehsan. Love the way you put together the information together. This will definitely help me, thanks for sharing an awesome article
Hey Hammad, Glade you liked the post. Hope you’ll follow all the tips mentioned here to your blog.
Some very good points here, hard work is absolutely vital! I personally think too many people do interviews in my niche now, but I am looking forward to writing some guest posts in the near future. 🙂
Hey Dean,
Happy to see your comment here. Nothing is possible without hard work that is for sure. Guest posting can really take your blog to the next level, just do it.
Your blog is considered as one of your asset. That is why many entreps, website owners have blogs of their own. It is one of the many channels where you could connect to your audience, customers. Blogging itself is easy. If you want generate something in return from your blogs you have to do many things, exert more effort to get your blogs visible on the web. As what you have said. The tips you have here are very helpful guides especially to newbie bloggers.
Thanks Ehsan for the post. Whew, at your very young age you are able to publish some great contents! Cheers!
Thanks for the appreciation Barbara and I’m glade you liked the article here. You’re right that blogging itself is easy, but to get something in return you should put some hard work on your blog and also you must be passionate about the selected topic than you’ll enjoy it too.
yes. if you post everyday in a year, your blog must be a hero. if not just blame google. haha.
To become hero we need a lot of patience, blogging is not easy money, we have to be consistent, passionate & lot of hard work & smart work is required. If you build good relationships and solve problems, you’re definitely going to be a hero someday.
You got my point James, Thanks for your comment.
This is my dream. I want my blog to be known hopefully before Christmas. Thank you for the helpful tips. I will make use of your suggestions.
I’m sure you’ll be able to do it Kaye, Just follow the steps and work on it. You’ll be able to take your blog to the next level.
Hi Ehsan, nice to see you here. I like your tips and title (From Zero to Hero +1 🙂 )
As you wrote – blogging needs a lot of time, like a baby 🙂
Thanks for sharing,
Chris
Hey Chris, Nice to see you here too. Glade you enjoyed the article buddy. BTW, you’re hosting a great contest on NoPassiveIncome.
Hello there :), I’ve spontaneously found this blog and purposely this topic. I am following a specialized course for Internet marketing and I recently started my own website which covers topics regarding digital stuff. I like these eight steps for growing my site from zero to hero as I do have general overview what would be my job in the following months & years!
Glad to see this.
Hey Milan, Nice to know you’re attending internet marketing course, but in blogging If you keep reading such blogs like this, It is a biggest course for you to learn blogging and you don’t need take any course.
Glade you liked this article. Hope you’ll stick with Basic Blog Tips.
You’re already doing great Samuel, I’ve seen your guest post on BloggingTips. It was really awesome. Just start performing interviews too, I’m sure it will help you out.
I used to blog for search engines, why? money. But I realized that I should write for my readers and not for bots. Your tips will definitely take my blog from zero to hero. Thanks for sharing these tips.
Hey aeirin, I’m happy you stopped by, Thanks for your comment.
Hello Ehsan Ullah
I must agree with all of the above points that you have mentioned in this post. i like one regarding sleeping with them point. thank you for sharing with us
Each and every blogger wants to achieve that “Hero” position but only those who stay focused on their goal, build an attachment to their readers providing them with all they need get to that ” Hero” point.
About your article, i would say i loved it, the way you have put together all the info in a single post and that too explaining each point well makes me salute you. I wasn’t able to stop myself from laughing after i read this point- “Sleep With Them” but what you explained in there is the reality, if a blogger doesn’t know about his audience then there is no chance they can excel.
Thanks for such an awesome read. 🙂
haha lol Ravi, Thanks for the kind words bro. This is true that If you don’t know your audience than you can’t get success in blogging. You have to know them, spend time with them and try to help them in all possible ways to gain their trust.
I’m glade you liked my article.
My pleasure, Ehsan 😉
I gonna install w3 total cache. My blog take more than 10 sec to load. I didn’t know it can affect the ranking. thanks for the tips.
10 seconds is too much and no one will wait for your blog to load for 10 seconds, you must take action for this Tom.
Hey Vijayraj, I also think that daily posting sucks for single author blogs because If you try to post daily you can’t bring quality and uniqueness in your posts which is must to capture the attention of readers.
Thanks for stopping by in my comment Vijayraj.
Hey Neha, Ohh so you landed on my blog from here. I’m really happy for my guest post on Basic Blog Tips. You must have not only idea, but knowledge, passion and experience as well.
One can only get experience if he/she starts to work and to work in a particular field he/she must have that passion to get over those obstacles and set their example in front of everyone and that us where comes the requirement of knowledge. So ultimately on one’s path to success the greatest weapon they have is passion, devotion and knowledge.
Hi Ehsan,
Thanks a lot for sharing these tips,
strongly agree with poin 4, I also communicate with my visitors.
By communicate to our visitors, not only we can help the visitors. But we can also make a solid community to our blog which can attract more visitor to join the community! 😀
Thanks for the inspiring post, I hope somebody can benefit.
Hey Henry, Glade you liked point 4, Providing quality contest to your readers is great way to communicate with them and If you have uniqueness in your content they’ll trust you.
These are awesome tips to get more promotional ideas to get your blog noticed very quickly. Good stuff.
Thanks for stopping by and for the support Wade
Thank you Ehsin,
I was playing with the thought of starting a blog but after reading your article i will just continue to read blogs like yours.
You’re always to my blog Beegs, I’ve lots of articles and hope series of starting a blog guide which I’m sure you’ll find useful.
You have a lot of great insights packed into these eight tips, Ehsan. I could definitely see your passion for blogging and I appreciate having the benefit of hearing your experienced ideas. A very nice set of actions that any blogger could take to improve results. Thanks!
I’ve spent 2 weeks on writing this post and I wanted to get good response on this post because there are some great points packed, I’m happy now for the great responses from everyone here.
Thanks so much for your comment Jim.
Great tips! Its not an easy task to climb up from zero to hero but certainly its possible! 🙂 Thank you for this excellent tips how to improve a blog!
Hi Ehnsan, great tips, I did wonder where you were going with the ‘sleep with them’ but fortunately it all worked out well 🙂
I need to speed up my loading time so thanks for suggesting W3 Total Cache, I shall give it a try.
Regards
Si
Hey SI, firstly who is Ehnsan lol. I knew it that no one wonder about sleeping with them, but after reading the complete point they’ll get to know what I mean here.
Yeah you need to speed up your blog, If you need help about anything feel free to contact me anytime on my blog.
Ehsan, excellent tips. I have got to step up my calls to action and really get a targeted audience. I guess I would have one if I did more promoting. So, those are my lessons for next months. Thanks for these.
Best of luck for your lessons for next months Marcie, you’re a great blogger and I’m sure you’ll do it at your best.
according to me it is not east to make your blog popular within the audience as there are so many blogs around the world which is making it difficult, between these tips are very useful for a newbie just like me ti grow blog more and more.!!!
I loved it when you said “sleep with them” lol!
Thanks Wade, seems you’re sleeping with your readers these days? 😀
thanks for useful tips. I am accepted 100% to the tip. I am a recently joint the blogging for around 6 months ago but I just earn $2 or three dollar from the adsense adversiting. I want to give up my blog because I am very busy with other fulltime job. However, I will never give it up. thanks for your very useful tip
It’s true that a new blog need time , a lot of hard work and energy to able to grow as a new baby. If anyone want his blog come from zero to hero he must need hard work and lots of knowledge about their niche. I seem the sharing 8 tips also helpful for us who want to change their blog zero to hero.
Hello Ehsan
It is totally true taking a blog from zero to hero require a lot of hard work .But the hard work should be in a proper strategic way.That is very important for every blogger.The tips you shared are really awesome. thanks for sharing these.
Well said Mahendra, thanks for adding knowledge.