Steps to Blogging Success and Overnight Success

Overnight success

David Almond, the award-winning author of children books, says,” All writers, unless they’re very fortunate, know how difficult it is to get noticed, to become ‘discovered’. I became an ‘overnight success’ (I clapped when I read the review that said it) after almost twenty years.

Intention

According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s dictionary, intention means what you intend or plan to do; your aim. The word implies that you have a goal in mind and you have the interest or the desire to carry out or take action. In this case you want to be an article writer/blogger.

Attention

When you have your intention the next thing is to focus on your attention. When you have decided to do something, you will have to pay undivided attention to it. You will put in time and effort to write and promote articles regularly and consistently.

Perseverance

Be ready to go for the long term. According to Dorothea Brande, writer, “The key to success is to determine your goal and then act as if it were impossible to fail—and it shall be!” It means you have to work long enough, hard enough despite of low traffic to your blog until you see success.

You have to do inbound marketing daily and you have to maintain your brand by writing and posting regularly and consistently according to your niche.

Giving

Serve the readers well by posting articles that can solve their problems. These have to be done regularly, consistently without sacrificing quality. The readers deserve the best from you.

Receiving

When you have done all that and continue to do every day you will have a taste of success but the level of your success is measured by:

• AdSense and other earnings
• Traffic Rank
• PageRank
• Readers’ comments
• Followers at your site
• Followers at Twitter
• Links to your site
• Subscribers to your feed

I am not successful yet but I do see progress in my blogging activities. My Traffic Rank when I first started was around 26,000,000 and now I have moved up to 1,000,000 spot (in 19 months). I am willing to go all the way. Are you psychologically prepared to go for the long haul like David Almond.? If your answer is positive then you will be an overnight success eventually.