It is all about standing out of the crowd, only then people will start following you, recommending you and reading you.
In blogging the only thing that is common in every blogger is that they are blogging, but nothing else is common. However every one has some hidden abilities and expertise that will really make you unique. Finding out those hidden abilities is very important to become the leader in your field. Following tips will help you to differentiate your blog from other blogs.
1. Goals
Every business has there own identical goals, and as blogging is also a business thus you must also define your blog goals. It will make your blog unique and different from several blogs. Goals help you to easily survive and make your own brand.
2. Struggle
The more you struggle, the better result you will get. If you really want to become unique and “the only one” then you must struggle. You must write, post comments, build links, engage your readers, interact with readers and keep promoting your blog.
3. Unique Ideas
The only thing to stand out of the crowd is to come up with unique ideas. Unique mean that are totally new and never discussed in the past. I personally don’t like those blogs who are discussing the same topics. We need some thing new and unique.
It is very important that you must provide unique ideas so that you can establish your own brand in blogging industry.
4. Ethics
Ethics also plays a vital role in your blog success. By ethics i mean that try to develop a very friendly relationship with your readers. In this way every one will talk about you in every social media website. Try to be very energetic and cool minded, respond to every comment and keep engage your readers with your blog.
5. Expertise
The only thing that will actually make your blog unique is your expertise in your field. If you are expert then you can deliver lot of information to your readers. In blogging the only thing to stand out of crowd is to provide quality and unique information to your readers. It will be only possible if you know about your field.
Your thoughts and opinions!
Article by Bilal Ahmad
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Twitter: justinamendola
January 31, 2012 at 4:23 pm
Great article, Bilal. You touch upon a couple points often glossed over by many: ethics and expertise. In an era where bloggers must often stoop to new lows to scoop a story, maintaining an aura of trust is very important over the long term. I’ll also add that any “Tom, Dick or Harry” can now start a blog within minutes, so continually demonstrating expertise is also critical to building a readership base.
To that end, I’ve attached an article by Jane Applegate where she suggests using industry events as a way to establish expertise. I believe these events will also help bloggers periodically revisit the ethics conversation.
Thanks,
Justin
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I believe expertise is something you can build on the go. You never stop learning, and involving your readership in your learning trip shows them that you’re just like them and don’t look down on them..
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Maybe this industry should have a more recognised award. I know that there is a website that does something similar, the BloggerChoiceAwards.com, but they do not have a category by country. Would be good to highlight the “best teen Britblogs” etc. We need to find these great blogs and share them! Maybe….
jonbey recently posted..Watch Out for Strength Training Mistakes
Great post! Simplified but concise. I would also like to point out that you should be able to posts blogs frequently, at least once a day. This way, your readers will know that you basically cover everything they might be looking for.
Thumbs up for you!
Gino Dizon recently posted..Increase Backlinks thru Commenting
I can say from experience, it’s a really good feeling when people tell you they love the crazy/unique ideas you come up with all the time.
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I can concur with that Dennis!
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I think that expertise has to be the most important factor. If you are an expert in your area you can write at ease and your writing will naturally flow. I am not sure if being unique is really that important. In any field there are many businesses competition and competition is healthy. What is important is being able to do things better than the competition. Maybe this is a unique feature?
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August 18, 2010 at 10:10 am
Nice Tips. I would also like to add that you need a lot of patience too. Hardwork + Patience will ensure your blog reach great heights.
Isabel Rodrigues recently posted..Suffering From Bloggers Block
Authentic voice, hot topic, service to the readers are some of the ones that seem to set good blogs apart from the rest. I like the goals one though. A lot of people get into blogging just to get into it. So as a creative outlet that’s cool. Like online journaling. But if you want to make a go at it I think really identifying your goals and creating a plan is and maybe should be your number 1 priority.
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Everything is great but I prefer Unique ideas, ethics and expertise the most. We will surely stand out if we have unique but great ideas. Unique in a positive way of course. We should also consider the type of readers that we have. We should interact with out readers as to give them importance. We should create interesting articles about the things that we are good at. we should not create something that we have hard time doing.
Really a great post. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Really inspiring
Twitter: azblogtips
August 18, 2010 at 4:44 am
I would love to add that “innovative” is also important that can help us stand out of the crowd
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August 17, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Being unique is very true. Do you have any idea how many blogger are blogging about this new Video blogging course? It’s irritating!
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I don’t know that you HAVE to stand out from the crowd, but if you want to make any money or have any type of readership you do. For every topic online, there’s probably at least five people already writing about it, unless you write about yourself. I think that’s a key piece of information that people need to remember when setting up a blog.
Laura Davis recently posted..What You Didnt Know About Wall Street Reform
I think that in order to stand out from the crowd you need one of three things:
1) Natural Charisma
2) Rare and highly valuable content
3) A new captivating method of providing common content
Did I miss something?
Kathy recently posted..The Ultimate Method For Making Money Online
sure we need to stand out of the crowd in this very densely crowded blogosphere….
there is no room for complacency today and the moment you stop to take a breath, somebody might have taken over your alexa rank
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I think your second point is most important. Struggling, or not giving up, is key to success in anything, especially blogging.
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Lennart Heleander@ Uniqueness can be in any field, if they are talking about skit etc.. then this there expertise, and that is what make there blog unique.
Tech Maish recently posted..2 Reasons That Makes Me Say Guest Blogging is The Best
Hi Bilal,
Great tips on Blogging but I feel that one important tip was left out and that would be trust. Always need to build trust with your readers or they could end up leaving or unsubscribing.
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I believe that failing or struggling is important in order to become successful. It all depends on your attitude toward failure whether your blog will become a success or not.
Nice post
A good idea to stand out of the crowd with your blog is to engage with your readers more often by using contests, surveys, asking questions and other interactive tools.
Mani Viswanathan@ Yes by unique i mean every activity should be unique one. Including writing style.
Tech Maish recently posted..2 Reasons That Makes Me Say Guest Blogging is The Best
Along with Struggle,Patience is very important.Many Blogger s lack this which cause failure and they eventually give up.
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August 17, 2010 at 3:52 am
Here I agree with all your points Bilal. But Dona has made an important point too. A personal touch, a unique style of writing would surely make you a stand-out Blogger in the blogosphere.!
Mani Viswanathan recently posted..Earthquake – Mild tremors felt in suburbs of Mumbai
Good post , Bilal. What you said is absolutely right. Compromising any one of the aforesaid point will quickly be reflected on ones blog. Thanks for sharing.
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Great post Bilal,
I think also leaving something of value like a free ebook on your blog also makes it unique! I written a book over 2 weeks called “Blogging the Easy Way” and is available as a free download on my blog!
This makes a blog unique and also adds value to the blog as well as an incentive for my readers to come and read what I have to say! after all what good is a blog with no audience!
Thanks for this post buddy!
-Phillip Dews
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August 17, 2010 at 2:54 am
its good to blog about something where you have years of experience. This can gain a lot of trust from your readers because you know the best advice to give to them.
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I think the willingness to help readers is also important. Right?
Mike recently posted..All in one guide to increase your blog backlinks with CommentLuv
Totally agree Mike. Giving someone a solution to their problem without expecting anything in return
Phillip recently posted..This Business is Hard Work! Or is it?
I would also agree on that. Sometimes, other blogs provide the very basic of instructions and forget that not everyone is a pro for everything. So, a good thing to do is provide them with the conciseness and the ease that the readers are looking for.
Gino Dizon recently posted..Increase Backlinks thru Commenting
Hi Bilal
Great post, Sorry to say it, but the biggest blogs in Scandinavian, U.K. and Europe is girl blogs who only write skit, lies, rumors, and other bad thing they can think about. If we want to call that to “Stand Out of the Crowd” have they a huge success. Personally I like to follow number 5 experts blogs.
Hey Lennart,
I kinda agree with you there! being from the UK myself, I have not found any famous bloggers from the UK on teenage blogger blogs!
So to that end I have set up my blog “Internet Marketing 101″ as I want to be up there with the likes of Yaro Starak, Darren Rouse, Chris Brogan and Brian Solis! That is my goal anyway to have a famous blog from the UK and not Australia and the States like!
Another thing I do to achieve success in blogging and being unique is actually commenting on others comments! like I am here!
I read loads of blogs and always leave my 2 cents worth when I can. but do other blog readers read others comments? I don’t think so all the time so by me doing this you know I have read your comment and left value to this post!
More people should leave value by commenting on the post and on the commentors comments! What do you think?
-Phillip Dews
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Hi Bilal
Here is Sweden’s most popularly and visited blogs; http://bloggportalen.aftonbladet.se/BlogPortal/view/TopLists?tl=1
I can find similarly list for many countries in Europe, just girl blogs. I was in at your blog http://www.techmaish.com/, very interesting blog, I like it, had added it and going to follow it. Find it no-follow, you get more visitors and comments if it is a do-follow.
Hi Bilal
Here is Sweden’s most popularly and visited blogs; bloggportalen.aftonbladet (dot)se/BlogPortal/view/TopLists?tl=1
I can find similarly list for many countries in Europe, just girl blogs. I was in at your blog; techmaish (dot)com/, very interesting blog, I like it, had added it and going to follow it. Find it no-follow, you get more visitors and comments if it is a do-follow.
Twitter: azblogtips
August 16, 2010 at 10:35 pm
I think all are great but just want to add that writing style can also help yo stand out too
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I think that give a personal opinion touch in our blog post also can work great to stand out.
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