Creating a blog is super easy, anyone these days with a half brain can install WordPress or get a free blog from blogger owned by Google; and before you could say Jack, you have a blog running on the internet in minutes.
But…….there is wide gap between creating a blog and building a successful businesses with a blog. There are lots more to it than just learning how to blog; you have to keep at it, learn all the moving parts, assemble them together in their right order, and the worse is………there is too much to take in all these things at one spot.
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Learn Blogging From Top Bloggers[/caption]You can’t have all that it takes to build that blog of your dream in one document, hand book, your $97 ebook etc.
Over the cause of learning how to build a profitable blogging career, I was fortunate enough to follow the lead of some great minds in the industry.
These top bloggers are special in their own way and very unique – their tactics, strategies and approach to building their blog(s) to the heights it is today are different from each other, but one thing remain the same…..they all have what it takes to hold you by the hand and show you how to build your dream blog.
From how to start a blog – blogging – to the most complex ever changing topic in the blogosphere - search engine optimization – I will be endorsing a blogger(s) as the case may be in each topic.
The purpose of this post is to scale down the ethic work required of you in learning the ropes in professional blogging, doing the guess work for you; instead of hooping around the blogosphere finding the right resourceful blog for your ideal blogging education, which may eventually lead you to information overload……I believe the information contain here today in this post will give you a clear map into the right direction.
Without wasting your valuable time, let’s walk together……
Blogging for Beginners, Intermediate and Expert.
I’m a great believer that no matter what your passion is(are), and the blog topic you wanted to start; for your own good and that of becoming an all-around savvy blogger, is best you have a basic knowledge in the blogging niche industry.
Your knowledge in the blogging niche industry will prepare you for the journey ahead. Building niche sites in other more lucrative industries won’t be that difficult anymore with your vast knowledge in this industry.
Most of the authority top bloggers you see today start off in the blogging niche industry before moving ahead to something different.
There is one stop solution for if you want to learn how to start a blog – blogging niche – this guy is named “Darren Rowse”, but in the blogosphere, they call him “The ProBlogger”.
Darren started blogging in November of 2002 on a blog called “livingroom”, a blog topic on spiritual, pop culture and life in Australia; and from that time, many more blogs are born. Though, I believe he is actively writing on two at the moment – ProBlogger.net – a blog on blogging…… and DSP – Digital photography blog.
In September of 2005, he co-founded a “network” of blogs called B5media with other pro bloggers like minded – Jeremy Wright, Shai Coggins and Duncan Riley – that has more than 300 blogs in their network back then.
And a book on blogging titled ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
Since creation, the book as been constantly updated, and once again in 2012 to meet with today’s blogging demand.
Before most of us ever know what the internet is or even heard of it, Darren has won thebest web development award in weblog award way back in 2006. And in 2009, his blog ProBlogger was named 2nd on Technorati and 40 most linked to blog.
So no doubt about it, Darren’s ProBlogger blog is your only one ticket to learning blogging.
Many among the big names in blogging industry you must have heard of in the online world doing pretty well with their blog started off by reading Darren’s ProBlogger blog and taking most of its ad vices into practice.
Veteran blogger like Yaro started off on the right path to success reading and taking positive actions on what Darren teaches on his blog. ProBlogger.com is no doubt your one stop solution to learning how to blog. There you will find abundant resources that walk you through the nitty-gritty of building a blissful career with blogging.
Read more about Darren Rowse here . With over 214k followers on twitter alone, you definitely should follow Darren via @Problogger
Content is King – So Copy-writing is The Crown.
Next, we will need to move on to the core aspect of blogging, without it, a blog is going no-where – Copy-writing.
With the word copy-writing mentioned, there is only one name that rings bell in every ear on the internet that hear it; and that name is of no any other person than that of Brian Clark of copyblogger.
Brian started publishing online in 1998 and by 2006, he created copyblogger – then a single author blog – with the sole aim of making it a one stop solution for content marketers, authors, sales copywriters etc. The good news is…..the success of that dream is now a reality.
The blog – CopyBlogger – is now the godfather behind several new online businesses Such Scribe, studiopress, Synthesis, Rainmaker and authority platform.
Brian Clark has been mentioned in many online publishing platforms like Forbes, Inc.Magazine, businessweek, etc.
Forbes named him as one of the top 40 social marketing talents and top 10 online marketing experts of 2014. Duun and Bradstreet says in 2012 that Brian Clark is the top most influential person on Twitter small business owners should follow.
He has over the years been featured in several books by many great authors among which are Seth Godins, Michel Hyatt, Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett, Chris Guillebeau, Chris Brogan, Julien Smith, Jimmy Vee etc.
The first time I visited CopyBlogger, the feelings were that of a student being enrolled into Harvard university. Copyblogger is more like a university for aspiring copywriters; there you will find more than enough of valuable resources that transform any newbie to become great authors.
Even if you don’t know how to write, or you just don’t understand how blog authors populate their blog with amazing content, copyblogger will take you by the hand and show you how BIG the rabbit hole is.
Except that you’re not ready or willing to learn the art and science of creative writing, then you won’t gain anything from reading this blog and putting the ad vices into practices will be of no benefits to you.
As a matter of fact, I too learn, discovered and, part of my writing styles you see as of today are the results of what I have learned and gain by following and reading copyblogger religiously. The man Brian Clark is now well separated from the brand CopyBlogger, so his twitter handle; but like I would say,, the man makes the brand and not the brand makes man. So follow the man on Twitter and not the brand.
It is your only ticket to mastering the art of creative writing.
SEO, Traffic and link building.
Now…..you’ve get some blogging foundation rolling, is time to move into some very challenging tasks – search engine optimization, traffic building and link building.
These three aspect of blogging are tied into one, they work hand in hand. The success in one will eventually lead to improvement in the other, i.e…if your site is well optimize both on-page and off-page, it will increase both your blog referral and organic traffic.
There are lots of bloggers in these fields writing about these subjects on their blogs in their own way; there is an obvious reason to this. Webmasters carry out their blog optimization process according to their individual goals, tactics and strategies.
Despite Google very high strict on illicit or unethical SEO practices, many blogs still endorse and encourage black-hat SEO practices.
This left me with no choice than to hand pick two special blogs you can confidently rely on if search engine optimization, link building and traffic generation best practices are what you want to learn; and a blog that keep updating you with the most relevant and upto date information in the industry.
These bloggers don’t teach by just mere potential or theorical lessons, not exactly; they teach by what they discovered, their trials and errors, failures, success, what really works and what’s not. So you’re confident of getting information from people who practice what the preach.
These blogs are no any other ones than Moz and Backlinko.
Moz (formerly SEOMoz) was co-founded by Rand Fishkin, a college dropout, a veteran in the SEO industry and Gillian Muessig in 2004 as a SEO consulting firm and later shifted to software development and subscription services in 2008.
Rand Fishkin call himself the “Wizard Of Moz”.
A reliable resource place most small business owners look up to for quality information on how to go about their blog optimization process and a heaven for aspiring SEO professional in the making, SEO agencies, established SEO professionals etc.
You just can’t complete your SEO lessons without a lecture by the good guys at Moz. They created open site explorer, a tool for measuring website value and finding useful metrics about any website you wish to know more about.
Though Rand Fishkin and the MOZ family have left the consultant SEO services and also, he has step down as the CEO of MOZ and fully embark on software development and subscription sales, but he is still very active writing on the blog as an individual contributor which is a very big bonus for you if you can always catch up with him on the blog.
For a start, download one of MOZ book on search engine optimization starter guide here, then follow Rand Fishkin “the wizard of MOZ” on twitter via @randfish.
Backlinko on the other hand is created by Brian Dean in 2011 and is more focus on white hat link building tactics that really works. Many link building experts would tell you that the easier path to gather natural link to your site is through creating great content, linking out to others, etc.
I tell you the truth, these things are good and can only take you somewhere but not to your desired destination or that height that will ensure your website visibility is great in search engines result pages.
Brian Dean is the guy who taught me that there are lots more to getting natural back link to your site than just pouring out great piece of content, you have be pro active and a bit aggressive in your approach.
His Skyscrapers approach to link building is one very technics I highly recommend you visit his blog, read it and put what you read into practice until you get your desire results.
Here is what another veteran blogger has to say about Brian Dean of backlinko – “When it comes to link building, Brian Dean is the best in the business.” -Neil Patel.
Here is the twitter handle of Brian Dean – You might want to consider following him over there.
Blog Monetization With Affiliate Marketing.
Here I will talk about only one model of making money from your blog – Affiliate Marketing – but I will give you two super heavy weight in the industry who makes tones of thousands of dollars monthly from this internet business money making model.
These two bloggers are very good when it comes to making money from affiliate marketing. They knows their onions and can teach you how to do the same.
Not that they’re the most riches or who makes the most money in affiliate marketing, Nope! But they’re such a great talent in teaching people how to replicate their zero to success stardom.
One more thing, I didn’t pick these two gems all because they’re making thousands monthly from their blog business, but if you see someone who knows exactly what he is doing and know what results he gets from what he is doing, then you have to pay a very serious attention when that person is speaking.
First, Pat Flynn! Pat Flynn is the great guy behind “smartpassiveincome“, a blog he created to measure his progress with other website around.
Shortly into his internet business career, he lost his job and could only survive his family with his little internet business activities. Since then, Pat has find himself a new ATM printing money in affiliate marketing.
His honesty and transparency I would agree are what makes him what he is today in making money online. And these are two things you too should embrace if you’re hoping to build a thriving business on the internet.
Pat Flynn twitter follower is around 97.9k, a very BIG number waiting to hit the 100k follower mark…..you can help make that figure a reality by following him too via his Twitter handle – @PatFlynn – so you stay updated with his latest money making ATM strategies.
The other good guy is no any other person than John Chow. You must have heard that name thousands time over in the last past year or so; especially when he had that ugly incident with Google. Though, that same incident makes John more famous than ever before.
John is a BIG mouth guy, and he talks out everything inside of him. John is the guy who makes nothing less than $50,000 average monthly in internet marketing.
His blog is quite different from other top blogger’s blog; upon landing at JohnChow dot com, you will see it clearly that John is here to make money online.
Don’t get me wrong here, he greatly offers value…but also didn’t want to leave any cent on the table. His videos are great and excellent medium to learn most of John’s idea and teachings.
You will learn most of John tactics in making money from affiliate marketing through his email newsletters than on his blog. I subscribe to his newsletters, so I know. Though, like I said earlier, John like to sell a lot, but watch closely his tactics, strategies and everything he does with his email newsletters.
With 99.6k followers on twitter, while John himself follows just 48 people, is obvious this guy rocks the blogging world. You can as well join him on twitter via @JohnChow
It is my wish that you gain something here today, something very valuable to your blogging success. hope I add something? Leave me a comment below.
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