Signs Your Blog Is On The Right Track

I’ve mentioned this before in my other articles. Blogs takes time to take off. I think the biggest mistake many new bloggers make is giving up early, when in fact they are on the right track to blogging success. How can you tell?

1. Growing subscriber count – If your blog’s subscriber base is growing, even slowly, you are making some progress. Gaining trust and subscribers is not easy, so try not to get your expectations unrealistically high. If you have realistic goals for subscriber growth you will more likely be able to feel good about your progress and stay consistent with your blogging.

2. Increasing numbers of inbound links – Links determine your search engine rankings. It makes it easy for people to find your site. There’s only two ways you can increase your links. It’s either you write long useful articles or you do guest blogging. Personally, I recommend both.

3. Increasing numbers of valuable comments – Comments are always great to have. It shows to your visitors that there are actually people who read your blog. We all have this herd mentality embedded in us. If many find it interesting, usually we would have no problem to agree to it. That’s how visitors work as well.

4. Increasing visitors and pageviews – Many bloggers are stats junkies. While growth in traffic isn’t always representative of meeting or surpassing your blogging goals, it certainly isn’t a bad thing. There are many channels for you to market your blog and increase your visitors. Guest posting and making use of social media is some of the ways to reach out to new readers. If you make use of these channels, over time your blog stats will increase as more and more readers visit and subscribe to your blog.

5. Consistent posting – Consistent posting is perhaps one of the most important element to blogging success. For new bloggers, in order for your visitors to pay attention to your blog, it’s vital for you to provide new articles for them to read. If your blog looks dead, the chances are, they won’t subscribe. If you are posting consistently, you’re already one step ahead of the vast majority of bloggers.

6. Improving quality of articles – Quality of an article will always be somewhat subjective issue, but I think most bloggers can look back through their archives and get a pretty accurate idea of how the quality has trended over time. Take a look back at how your quality of writing has improved and I think you will be encouraged to keep going and see what happens.

7. An increasing network of bloggers – Blogging, in the end of the day is all about making friends with other bloggers and support each other. This is why networking is probably one of the most crucial in blogging success. If you are continually meeting new bloggers and strengthening the relationships that you have made, you will drastically be in a better position for the future.

Nik Imran is the writer of IMakeABlog, a blog that provides guide on how to make a blog. If you are interested in building your own blog, check out his guide on how to install wordpress. Get a totally unique version of this article from our article submission service