10 Things Which Are common In Successful Blogs – My research

Every day when I  start your day, I expect to see a miracle and get tons of traffic and exposure to my Blog.

In nutshell, we all want to see our blog as a top-notch blog.

I have one question here:

  • What Blogging practices you are implementing on your blog to make your blog stand out from others?
  • Are you offering unique and creative content?
  • Are you engaging with your readers?
  • Is your about page talks about your blog ideology? Do you have all the essential elements of a Successful Blog?

If you are a new Blogger, you might make tons of blogging mistakes and learn from it to reach that level, or you can take a shortcut and spend quality time analyzing top and successful Blogs.

There are many popular blogs like ShoutMeLoud, Social Media Examiner, and many more out there. All you need to do is sit down, open these blogs, and try to find out what’s common in them. What strategy they are putting to create a top blog and not just another blog.

Each time you visit a top-notch blog in any niche, you come across some common practices that are being followed. And sadly, you are left with two options:

  1. Either to mimic the blogging practices that are being followed or,
  2. Sit back and complain, “Oh, each of them is just so similar.”

Here I’m talking about a few practices which you can implement on your blog today to make your blog stand out and give a direction to A Blogger list.

10 Blogging Practices

This post helps you get a better picture of this situation by providing insights into such blogging practices followed by well-established blogs.

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Of-course a backdoor insight, but do not jump to conclusions, without reading the complete post. You will have a clear cut idea about which option to follow, and which one to forgo, for being a top-notch blogger too.
So, let’s begin with some of the common blogging practices that make you feel that the blogosphere is unbalanced and unfair to budding bloggers.

1. Success begets success

People arguably believe that the top-ranked pages for a keyword draw the maximum traffic. Well, it’s true that readers hardly look for the second page in search engines, but that doesn’t mean they click on the topmost link in the search engine page results.

I rather prefer scanning the URLs and settle for the one with which I am more acquainted. For instance, think of the blogging niche and you enter a keyword say “Blogging Practices”.

Then would you opt for a less known blog ranked higher, over Shout Me Loud or say CopyBlogger. And with more number of such mindsets, ultimately the blog post of the successful blog starts ranking higher. That’s what branding does.

2. Dedicated SEO implementation

It is always debatable about how much SEO is optimum for a blog?. Do we have to focus on content or SEO or both? And with advanced offsite and on-site SEO techniques, even blogs with questionable content go a long way.

Even if you are not into hardcore SEO like Keyword optimization, Readability, On page optimization, Keyword research but there are few things which you should take care of.

Top Blog SEO
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For example: If you would notice any blog post on Mashable, you would realize they smartly target Keywords using WordPress Permalink.

They remove all the stop words and keep their permalink Keyword optimized. This is a small practice but again, one of the best SEO practices.

If you would notice content here at ShoutMeLoud, you would notice the proper usage of Heading tags like H1, H2, and H3.

The takeaway here is, SEO is not only the key to success but a good SEO practice will ensure that your blog will stand out of the crowd.

3. Premium Themes & unique design Impact

Yes, Premium themes too are closely related to search engine optimization. With more powerful SEO optimized premium and custom themes powered by the Genesis framework, the top-notch blogs become even more invincible.

Moreover, along with using a Premium theme framework one thing which is very common about this top-notch blog is using a Custom design for their blog theme. Most of the top blogs are using a unique design to brand their Blog. This is not only a highly recommended practice but a must-have for serious Bloggers.

4. Content

Needless to say, a Blog can’t be famous without quality content. Depending upon your content strategy, you need to ensure that you are not only offering quality articles but its’ also informative. Publishing article which your reader expect is another great strategy.

Ex: Check out the question and answer section of ShoutMeLoud, where Harsh answers the Blogging questions of his readers.

5. Important Pages:

Pages like About page, Contact page, Privacy page, Comment policy page are very important parts of any Blog or Website. They work as a get to know me element for your Blog readers.

Moreover, all the top blogs have a dedicated “About page” which not only talks about blog ideology but also gives a personal touch by adding editor bio. An example could be seen at ProBlogger about page.

6. Social media integration:

Another common thing about Top notch blog is utilizing the power of Social media. There is no doubt about the benefits of Social media for Blogging, and property like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest gives extra exposure to your Blog.

Just creating a Facebook page, the Twitter profile is not enough, you should use it for user engagement and make sure your user can find the Social media subscription box quickly to connect to your blog on Social media front.

7. Subscription options:

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Most of the top Bloggers like Harsh Agrawal, Darren use the power of email marketing to the most. Most of these bloggers are using premium Email marketing solutions like ConvertKit, Drip, or Leadpages.

It doesn’t matter which service you use, but make sure you offer easy ways for your readers to subscribe to your Blog. Here are some of the must-have a Subscription options for your Blog.

8. Multi-author:

Another Blogging practice followed by top blogs is: Allowing guest posting. This may not be common for all the top blogs, but still one of the techniques being used by A-list bloggers  is to form a community around their Blog.

When you allow others to guest post on your Blog, it’s more like inviting them to be a part of your Blog family. You can check out SML earlier guide on How to convert your WordPress blog into Multi-author Blog.

You can also consider having your own team of writers, which will help you to create content consistently and keep your blog updated. Though, as I mentioned it all depends upon your Blog content strategy and kind of Blog you are running.

9. Author Bio box:

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A Blog post without an author’s bio is more like a post with no identity. When you add an author bio box, it increases the credibility of an article, and readers can connect to the article.

As I mentioned above, most of the top blogs allow guest posting and author bio box is something common in them.

10. Over to you:

These are just a few of the hundreds of common blogging practices followed by top-notch blogs and instead of writing all, I’m handing it over to you. Why don’t you go ahead and analyze a few popular blogs in your niche, and try to find what’s common in them and let us know via comment?

Blogging Practices Bottom-Line

Having said that does each of these blogging practices followed by top-notch bloggers, make any sense. Fortunately, we belong to the era of Steve Jobs, the late CEO of Apple.

And from him, we all have learned a few valuable things about awesome presentation skills and their importance. In the transient and highly competitive blogging world, a blog needs to stay ahead of the curve each time. So branding and blog marketing makes sense.

Apart from rich content, presentation too matters a lot. It’s because online viewers, specifically blog readers see what they want to see. One needs to constantly lure the readers and fool the search engines for being successful. But, don’t overdo this blogging practice, otherwise, both are smart enough to see through it.

And yes, let me clear the air. I too am in favor of these above mentioned blogging practices and find no reason why a blogger should not employ those for a slight competitive edge.

But, what about you?

Do you too feel the same or still lamenting the fact that such common blogging practices give some pro bloggers an unfair advantage?

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Authored By
Sadhil is a passionate writer at Mokshis.com. His expertise and personal interest is content management system (CMS).

16 thoughts on “10 Things Which Are common In Successful Blogs – My research”

  1. Mokshis

    Bt again, your blog/website needs to have a certain base to have an interesting about page, if its relatively new. To get some insights you can check out the About page of good blogs like ShoutMeLoud. Also do check how Harsh engages new visitors with FAQs.

  2. raman bathina

    Thanks mokshis for providing this wonderful post.Iam not aware of importance of about page in my blog but from now i understand the importance of about page.Thank you once again.

    1. Mokshis

      Its true, raman. Noone wants to enter an unknown zone, not atleast over here in the Internet. It may be a spam site. So about page is required.

  3. Mokshis

    Thanks Hassaan for your thoughts. You can keep checking for my posts in ShoutMeLoud in the author section. You can also contact me any time after filling the contact form on my blog. 🙂 Looking to hear from you.

  4. Hassaan Khan

    Nice Work Mokshis. I am impressed. If I get a chance to contact you or talk to on any messenger, I am gonna ask you one thing that I observed in this nice article and I read that months back on a big, high-tech blog. Your article recalled that tip….Impressive…

  5. Harshit

    Hi, I think premium themes definitely have a positive impact on readers as it tends to convey that the blogger is serious about his stuff. Also using an author bio is a critical aspect as well as it creates a connection with the reader. Thanks for sharing.

    1. Mokshis

      Yes Harshit, premium themes do play a part in success of a blog. I am happy that you stressed on that point. I agree with you.

  6. Neil Walrath

    this is one of the best articles i have come across to which gives you the right information on behind the scene activity of a blog and does explain a lot of things which we avoid and tend to create mistakes on.

    1. Mokshis

      Thanks Neil for stopping by and going through the entire post. I am glad that it was of some help to you. 🙂

  7. David

    Thanks Darren, I have noticed a lot of blogs allow guest posting. It is good to know that your analysis of top blogs validates that perspective. That’s very cool.

  8. Akhil Abraham

    That’s really a nice article and I like the way you interacting with the readers and your involvement is showing in this entire article..

    At last thanks for a great post…

    1. Mokshis

      Thanks a lot Akhil. You made my day. 🙂

  9. akhilendra

    very good post, building a community around blog is extremely important steps for long term, a blogger just can’t expect each post to gain high ranks on Google, it is important to engage visitors so that they come back and that’s how a blog can be grown.
    thanks for sharing this

    1. Mokshis

      Indeed akhilendra. Some time has to be invested on social media networks too. One cann’t treat sites like Facebook, Twitter, G+ etc as link submission sites only. I like the way how top notch blogs engage their fan followers with free tips and giveaways.

  10. Mahaveer

    Nice article Mokshis. We can learn a lot from the well established blogs. We get inspiration and if we pay attention, then we get some ideas for SEO and proper use of resources also. I have learnt proper use of images in blog posts in this manner only.

    1. Mokshis

      Thanks Mahaveer. Yes you are correct buddy. i am glad that you learnt about image optimization and its proper usage. Guest posting for Shoutmeloud has also taught me how to choose proper anchor texts for links. Here they do it to perfection.

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