As a startup blogger what can you learn from top 10 successful blogs!
Roy
The Blog Herald has just published a good post titled “5 Ways to Imitate the 10 Most Popular Blogs“. The five ways include publish frequently, have a team, offer hot news, have an attitude and be visual.All these are great weapons to promote a blog but what about the startup bloggers? Can you afford that as a startup blogger? Let’s find out:
Publishing frequency and team blogging: As far as publishing frequency is concerned, you need a team of motivated bloggers. Otherwise there are high chances that a new blogger would soon fall short of ideas. Either you involve your friends in the blog to post on a community or put some more money into your budget to hire some good bloggers in your niche. Otherwise two or three well researched blog posts per week are great for a start up blogger.
However before hiring a someone, make sure that he or she has enough blogging experience and flexible enough to get into your shoes (that does not mean that he or she should say good bye respective writing styles - but they should be tuned enough to move in a single direction while writing blog posts). To add to this, make sure that the blogger knows “where and how” a blog post is different from writing an article. BTW, why don’t you involve your friends?
News: As far as offering hot news is concerned, you must have access to news sources in your niche. This is not easy and often almost impossible for a start-up blogger. There is another set of bloggers who have great editorial skills that come out of experience in that definite field. That’s your position as a start up blogger. News is nothing unless they are criticized and rendered under different microscopes.
Attitude: You must have an attitude - no compromise with this point.
Images: There is no doubt that images in a blog posts makes it more scanable. However, do not use any image (I repeat, do not use an image) unless it supports the post. A lot of bloggers use an image for the sake of using one - it does not serve any purpose. If you want to follow the style, spend some extra time to find out the best image (if necessary, pay for it).
The end note: Don’t follow any successful blogger - find and improve on the elements they use to become successful.
Posted on: Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 4:01 pm 
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