What many people do not realize is that once a blog has become successful or has hit that magical 10,000 landmark of RSS subscribers, it is by no means guaranteed to keep generating income! Bloggers must work to keep pushing forward with marketing efforts and publishing new content. Just when you think your about to achieve your goals, things can heat up — sweat drips… It is important to realize that in successful online businesses, their owners did not slow their efforts when they got an initial taste of success. Instead, successful internet business owners and aspiring internet entrepreneurs keep pushing their standards even after significantly bridging the gap between their current position and their goals.

Just when you think you’ve reached success, things come up

Just when you think your about to reach success, bricks can fall between you and your final destination or goal and build up a wall. Many other aspects of life come into play and you may begin to feel that since your blog is already somewhat successful, you can afford to slack-off and decrease your efforts. An example: let’s say since your blog earns $100 dollars a day you decide to change posting frequency to once a week instead of everyday. Making changes to cut back on the amount of blog content will make you “bite the bullet” much more quickly than you may think and will certainly not help you take your blog to the next level. Maybe you want to spend more time with your family, so you cut back on all blogging ventures.

The moment you slack-off: everything goes to hell

Competitors that are still working hard to make their dream a reality, will begin to gain more momentum than you and will quickly surpass your blog’s status if you don’t get “back on the grind.” When another blog is putting out quality material everyday and you squeeze in one quality post per week, whose blog do you think the majority of people will flock to? The one that is updated frequently and provides a daily-dose of quality content! Don’t get me wrong, you will probably still have many loyal readers, but when there is another site with frequent quality content on a daily basis, why should people keep visiting your site? Be sure to take note and realize that other sites will pass up your site’s status if you don’t get back to your concentrated gameplan that gave you a taste of success.

Your RSS subscriber numbers will naturally drop if you don’t update your blog enough. When you decline in posting frequency, RSS readers will get sick of seeing the same “last updated post” on their feed and will remove your site from their feed. It’s by no means rocket-science that your feed numbers will decrease when your blog content is not updated frequently. Blog posting frequency can be compared to many aspects of life. I’ve chosen to look at blog posts in comparison with friendships. Returning friends calls, spending quality time with friends, and having a fun time with friends makes them much more likely keep coming back to be around you. Same goes for your blog: when you are posting frequently with quality content — think of it as spending quality time with a friend that strengthens your current relationship. Also know that people are constantly changing — blogs can be the same way. The moment you start to let your blog go “a shambles,” the moment your RSS subscriber count will decrease and the less traffic your blog will generate. Friends are the same way: the moment you stop returning their phone calls and start spending less time with them, is the moment that your friendship begins to weaken and / or break.

Keep pushing your limits

You can’t afford to become lazy when your blog is getting the most unique visits it’s ever gotten or the more comments than a Problogger post. Reaching success is by no means an easy feat, and chances are, it will take plenty of concentrated work. It doesn’t matter if you are an online mogul or owner of a “.blogspot” blog with only 3 posts. The fact is that if you want to succeed, you must always be willing to push your blogging limits and standards — raise the bar! As I mentioned in my last post, figuring out how to install WordPress plugins and thinking of quality ideas for content can be a struggle for new bloggers. As I grew, learned, and pushed my blogging limits, everything became easier. I am now experienced enough to install WordPress plugins with no sweat and spend a lot less time fooling around with uploading and configuration. Ideas for new blog posts seem to flooding my mind and I feel able to consistently generate new content.

Everyone has something to learn

It doesn’t matter who you are, how much you know about blogging, or how much money you are making online — there is always something new you can learn to help you reach more success. The ability to learn new techniques, from your mistakes, and from others is a great way and key aspect to “push your limits” and move forward with your progress. I feel that it is important to always keep learning because learning allows me to realize what I can do to improve as a blogger. If you are not learning new information frequently, you are definitely not helping your blog improve or journey on the road to success. If you cannot find a place to keep learning valuable blogging information, make the smart decision to keep visiting AndrewPavelski.Com. Admit that you can always learn something new to enhance the quality of your blog or blogging career. Big name bloggers are always attending seminars, meetings, and other conventions to be informed of the latest marketing trends and optimization techniques to keep pushing their limits. Sure these bloggers shell out money to attend these conventions, but it takes money to make money. When a blogger makes the investment and takes the time to attend an affiliate retreat, you know that they are doing a good job of looking for opportunities to “keep pushing forward” with their blogging progress.

Realize the decision of success is in your control

Whether you decide to learn how to make money online and be successful is completely up to you. Everything is in a constant state of change, including your blog. You can choose to change it for the better in ways such as: writing better articles, improving marketing efforts, and facilitating a nice community. Or, you can choose to change your blog for the worse by: not sticking to your posting schedule, failing to respond to comments, and not taking time to promote your website. The decisions that you make right now with your blog, affect your blog’s future. You must realize that you have complete control over the success or failure of your blog.

Never let up: keep pushing your standards

When you are on the border of success, keep pushing forward to achieve more success. Slowly, but surely, as you climb the ladder to the top of the blogosphere, you will begin to see how much easier blogging tasks become. People like John Chow are already successful, but they know that the only way to ensure future success is to keep pushing their current limitations. If you are at all serious about blogging or are working to make money online, you must keep pushing your current standards and think up new ideas. The questions to ask are: “Are you going to keep your successful momentum going? or are you going to watch your blog quality decline?” Until next time, keep your blog dressed for success