Do you build a plan before launching a new Successful blog? No?
The Successful Blog Business always creates a blogs plan, and It’s important to give your blog a path to follow.
Planning is like a roadmap that gives you the right track to follow. It’s important not only to blogging but in everything you do in your life.
Unlike most of the bloggers who blog randomly and hope for success, successful bloggers always know what they should do to get what they want. They always outline the strategies, propose the tactics, and list the tasks to be done to achieve their goals. In other words, they plan to succeed.
If you want a complete guide to planning out Start a successful blog, then you’ve come to the right place. This post covers everything you need to do, and know before launching a new blog. If you’re new to blogging and want to begin, I’d strongly recommend bookmarking this post for future reference because you’ll need it.
Contents
- 1 Why Should You Plan a Successful Blog Strategy?
- 2 Below are a few reasons why you should plan a blog.
- 3 Getting your blog on the right track:
- 4 Finding your blog voice:
- 5 Anticipate the challenges:
- 6 Determine your goals:
- 7 Gaining trust:
- 8 How to Build a Successful Blog Plan?
- 9 1. Find Your Passion:
- 10 2. Plan Your Goals:
- 11 3. Find your Target Audience:
- 12 4. Think Up of a Good Domain Name:
- 13 5. Build a Content Plan:
- 14 6. Monetizing Plan:
- 15 7. Marketing Plan:
- 16 What Next?
- 17 Share this:
Why Should You Plan a Successful Blog Strategy?
Rather than randomly blogging day today, a blog plan, like a business plan is essential to give your blog a path to follow.
Planning a blog will definitely help you get your blog on the right track, and help you plan where your blog will go after one or two years from now.
Below are a few reasons why you should plan a blog.
Getting your blog on the right track:
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Blogging is like a long journey, and you’re likely to go in the wrong way. Therefore, a blog plan will help you get your blog on the right.
As I said above that a blog plan is like a roadmap and will help your blog go in the right direction. When you have a plan, you’ll know how far you from your destination, and how much you’ve already progressed.Finding your blog voice:
Who are you and why are you uniquely qualified to write this blog? Why should I read your blog?
A blog plan will help you find your blogging voice, which is a secret ingredient to a successful Event blogging. Something only you can bring to the table that will make your blog unforgettable.Anticipate the challenges:
Planning will help you overcome the obstacles, anticipate the challenges and risks that might happen in your blogging journey.
It will give you the power to fight with obstacles, and find solutions to solve your problems to help you go on the right path.Determine your goals:
A blog plan will help you determine your goals for future, and help you to work out why you’re blogging. Is it purely for ego or self-expression? To make money? Or to share your thoughts with the world? Planning will help you determine it.
Gaining trust:
If you plan a blog before launching, you’ll be able to show the capacity that you’ll be one of successful Pro bloggers. People will know your blog’s vision, therefore you’re gaining the trust of people.
Okay, enough of the benefits of planning a blog. Now let me show you how to build a blog plan.
How to Build a Successful Blog Plan?
Here I’ll list some of the most important things that you need to know before starting a blog. They might make all the difference.
If I missed any point, just drop a comment below and let me know about it.
1. Find Your Passion:
True passion really makes a huge difference in blogging.
There’s not a blogger in the blogosphere (world) who became successful blogging about something he/she hates or isn’t passionate about.
So how to find my passion? You may ask.
Just think about the things you enjoy doing in your life and start blogging about it. For instance, I’m passionate about blogging and soccer, but I also love adding value to people’s lives, so I blog about blogging.
Some people are passionate about more than one thing, so they blog about too many things which stretch them thin.
Blogging about too many things will confuse your readers, and It makes it tough for them to realize what they can get from your blog.
If you’re also passionate about more than one things (like me), just blog about the one you can write the most on.
Be just abroad enough to have plenty to write about, but narrow enough to stay within your niche.
2. Plan Your Goals:
Don’t fail to realize the importance of having goals for your blog.
A goal is a plan of what you want to achieve with your blog within a specific period which you must set. It will help you go in the right direction, and it can be used as a measure of success.
A couple of months ago I submitted a guest post to Pvariel DotCom about 5 Astonishing Ways To Skyrocket Your Blog Traffic where I’ve written about how new bloggers could benefit more by setting some realistic short-term goals.
- Publish 20 quality posts
- Work on the design of your blog and make it stand out
- Get your first 100 real Twitter Business Account followers and fans to your Facebook fan page
- Leave 20 comments on other blogs in your niche for engagement
- Build a readership with more than 20 readers a day
- Do your first guest post on another blog in your niche
- And hit the level of 100 unique visitors a day
And remember that faith without work is nothing, so put hard work to achieve your goals.
3. Find your Target Audience:
Before thinking of launching a new blog, ask yourself:
- Why does my blog exist?
- Who will read my blog?
- What makes me unique?
Prepare yourself to serve the needs of your audience and do better than other bloggers in your niche to achieve success, and to stand out from the crowd.
4. Think Up of a Good Domain Name:
Domain names are the addresses on the web. It’s the first and most important step in building a successful blog.
- Easy to type and remember domain: You’ll lose the value of your blogging, branding, and marketing If your blog’s domain name is difficult to type and remember due to its unremembered words, length or spelling.
- Get a .com, .net or .org domain: If you want to be a successful blogger over a long time, then It’s best to choose a .com, .net or .org domain because these are the best and high standard ones.
- Include keywords: Including one or two keywords in your domain name is a smart thing. Just brainstorm some top keywords related to your topic, or you can do it using the Google Adwords Keywords tool. Enter your primary keyword in the “Keywords or phrase box” and hit the “Search” button. It will display a huge list of keyword ideas for the topic with It’s global and local monthly searches, where you can choose one which has good monthly searches with low competition.
Now If you’ve found a great domain name, It’s time to install your blog, and It’s a three-step process:
- Register your domain name
- Get the best hosting (I use and recommend Bluehost, read my ultimate Bluehost hosting review to find out why)
- Install your WordPress blog
5. Build a Content Plan:
If you’ve been blogging for any amount of time, you’ve probably heard the term “content is king”.
And It’s true, content is definitely the king because an SEO optimized blog with a beautiful design will fail without quality content.
- What type of content will I provide to my readers to stand out from other blogs in my niche? (Text content, video content, audio content, interviews, case studies or reviews?)
- Where will I find blog post ideas for my blog? (Other blogs, comments, search engines or online magazines?)
- How often will I update my blog? (Daily, twice a week, weekly or monthly?) Determine your posting frequency.
6. Monetizing Plan:
If you hope to generate income from your blog, you’ll need to address how you’ll monetize your blog and build a monetizing plan.
You can skip this step If your aim is not to make money from your blog.
How will you monetize your blog? What ways will you choose to monetize your blog? When will you start monetizing your blog? From beginning or after you start getting a thousand page views daily?
You need to answer all of the above questions in order to build a successful Blog monetizing plan.
7. Marketing Plan:
In order to take your blog to the high level, you also need to build a marketing plan because no matter how great content you have on your blog, It can never walk up the right people on its own.
- What social media websites will I choose to promote my blog? Facebook, Twitter, Google+, StumbleUpon or all?
- How many guest posts will I do in my first three months of blogging journey?
- How many comments will I leave daily? one, five, ten or twenty?
- Will I join the online forums to promote your blog?
What Next?
Congrats! You’ve read it all and I hope you learned how to build a successful blog plan before beginning.
I think now It’s time to send you over to my ultimate guide to starting a blog.
If you think I missed a valuable point above, kindly let me know by posting a comment below.
I’m Mohammad Tabish Blogger and a Professional web developer SEO Consultant and Freelancer. I am from Pakistan. I started My first blog (BlogRankSeo) in 2016 and then, and I have never looked back. I Have managed lots of blogs.
Excellent outline. With a few exceptions, I think most bloggers just decide to go for it without a whole lot of forethought when setting up a blog. In fact, for many a blog is just another tool to promote their business. There’s a lot of good advice here. Thanks!
Great summary for starting a blog, I have found this helpful and will share.
Hey MUHAMMAD TABISH!
What a great plan on how to build a successful blog!
Everything right in order too..
Great Share
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Hi Muhammad,
Very good article on blog plan success. I liked “Blogging is like a long journey”. It is indeed and only you can bring your unique voice to your blog.Planning helps with challenges and risks to your blogging journey. Liked all the subjects you listed here. Have saved this for reference and I am happy to share on my social media.
Marvelous Article and great Blogging Plan to get succeed in Blog, and it’s time to start out my first blog with this post,
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Just superb article helpful for even beginners keep it up
Great post to motivate new bloggers.
However, if they are passionate about blogging they can surely make a way out.
And keep posting such articles.
A great step of helping to the new blogger!
You described everything step-by-step.
I have a blog though, still many things here to learn from your article.
Thanks for the share!