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.
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.