How to Become a Successful Blogger (Ans. by Veteran Blogger)

Curious about how to become a successful blogger?

You’re not alone.

I’ve been blogging professionally for over a decade and today, I will share 9 sure-fire tips that will guarantee your success in blogging.

Let’s dive into this.

1. Create quality content

The first and foremost facet of blogging is the content you create. Content is amongst the top 3 ranking factors for Google and is the only thing that will matter to your audience (apart from user experience).

Blogging is a content game. The better the content quality, the more advantage you will have over others. Especially so at a time when we have dime a dozen AI writing tools.

According to the Quality Raters Guideline, “high-quality information pages should be factually accurate, clearly written, and comprehensive.”

Likewise, John Muller of Google suggests focusing on the quality of the overall website. From design layout to content structure, everything matters

Here’s John Muller’s take on quality content:

“…it’s not the case that we would look at just purely the text of the article and ignore everything else around it and say, this is high-quality text. We really want to look at the website overall.”

Therefore, it’s clear that quality content is subjective and hard to measure at the page level.

To clarify, I have shared some best practices to improve your content quality and get a higher ranking.

1. Create better than what’s already available on the SERP

Google already has 10 results for every search query to show users. Therefore, as a blogger, you must create content better than all the pages.

For example:

Looking at the SERP for the search query, “gift ideas for employees”, you will find that most pages have listed 10 to 60 employee gift ideas.