What would you do if you had to start your blog from zero again?
This is what I asked Ryan Biddulph. We all know him as a successful blogger the name Blogging From Paradise We all know him as a successful blogger. Here he gives us tips and tells his inspiring story:
My biggest terror freed me.
In 2014, I started Blogging From Paradise in gorgeous Fiji. I trashed my old blog to begin my new blog. Trashing my old blog felt incredibly scary because I spent five years writing and publishing 3,400 blog posts.
The split second I bought my domain and hosting and did a redirect, everything vanished. I started my blog from zero. Again.
Or did I?
One thing you learn quickly about blogging; you never truly start from zero because we all have some experiences in life easily applicable to our blogs. Even better? If you learn how to blog successfully from pro bloggers you hit the ground running, and those zeroes grow pretty quickly into something special.
Example; Erika invited me to guest post on her rocking blog. I seized the opportunity. No doubt, my success will expand a bit more after she publishes this guest post. I took advantage of this opportunity because I learned long ago that building bonds lead to guest posting invites, features, interviews and all types of sweet blogging success.
You may have zero blog posts, zero traffic, and zero blogging profits right now. Guess what? Writing and publishing a thorough, genuine comment on this post likely nudges your blog traffic to 3 visits today. If you write and publish a genuine, thorough comment on 5 blogs today I can almost guarantee you get 5 to 10 visits to your blog today. You move on from zero to 5 hits, hitting the ground running.
Follow these steps to become a successful blogger after starting your blog from zero.
Learn from Top Blogging Tips Pros
Top blogging tips pros teach you how to blog intelligently and successfully. Blogging intelligently and successfully helps you go from blogging zero toward blogging hero fairly quickly.
You learn how to write traffic driving posts, how to create traffic driving comments and how to open profitable blogging income streams from successful bloggers. Zero becomes more than zero. Plus you leverage your presence pronto, learning from the best and putting your new knowledge into practice.
Celebrate Blogging Growth
Throw a blogging party every time you note traffic, social share, profits or heck, any stats, growing. Celebrate what you have to see more.
This is important when you appear to begin at zero. Move your focus from scarcity to abundance. Feel abundant. See more abundance aka greater metrics, because where your attention and energy goes, grows.
Create and Connect
Focusing on metrics does not make metrics grow. Generously creating helpful content and building strong friendships leads to more traffic and profits.
Publish helpful posts. Assist your readers. Success follows value.
Comment genuinely on blogs in your niche. Promote bloggers from your niche. Make friends to amplify your reach.
Be creative and connected. Build your blog on a rock solid foundation of helpful posts and loyal friends.
Monetize Early and Often
Monetize your blog early into your blogging career. Add income streams frequently.
Get comfortable with receiving money.
A shocking majority of bloggers feels uncomfortable monetizing their blogs. Their blogging profits remain at zero because you cannot make money sans income streams.
Other bloggers open one stream, get attached to it and run into all types of problems when the income stream invariably dries up.
Think abundantly. Open income streams quickly and frequently. Be comfortable receiving money to increase your blogging profits and to promote your blogging success
Do Not Compare Yourself with Other Bloggers
Avoid the comparison curse.
New bloggers often compare their goose eggs with experienced, seasoned pros who generate 40,000-page visits each month.
Every blogger begins at zero because every blogger was once a new blogger. Do not compare your new blogger experience with someone with 10 years of blogging experience. Every blogger takes their own separate journey.
Celebrate your individual journey, enjoy the lessons your blogging trip teaches you and enjoy your unfolding success.
We all start from zero.
But it’s where you’re headed that really counts.
Ryan Biddulph helps you become a successful blogger at Blogging From Paradise.
Thank you, Ryan, for your inspiring story and tips.
I heard there are many bloggers who started and quit after a while and would like to start from zero again.
Would you start blogging from zero again?
It is right, whoever ones started blogging already knows a lot and only needs dedication and best would be, help from somebody who is already successful. Because, for people who want to start from zero again and also for newbies, it would be an immense shortcut to have to help of a good coach.
Read another guest post of Ryan > Do You Feel Beaten Down By Living In Survival Mode?
You may also be interested in his Blogging Courses and Blogging eBooks
What are your thoughts, opinions or experiences?
Did you start a second time blogging from zero?
Erika thanks so much!
Ryan
You are welcome 🙂
Found you in spam folder 🙂
Hey Erika Mohssen mam,
Great post with great blogging tips for beginners after starting blog from zero level. I really like the tips that you have listed, whereas your all the listed tips are truly effective for becoming a successful blogger. Creating helpful content and building strong connections will be helpful and will generate more traffic and provide good benefits. Making connections are truly essential in blogging world. Monetizing the blog at an early stage of blogging career and avoid comparison with other bloggers are really a great ideas. Your all the listed tips are easy to understand and follow, whereas following these tips will provide good benefits and will helps many bloggers to become successful. These tips will be helpful not only for beginners but also for newbies and who are new in the blogging field.
Really helpful post, As this post will helps many readers, peoples, newbies and beginners to become a successful blogger.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi Aadarsh,
I am glad you like the post and the tips. This is a post by Ryan Biddulph.
He is a successful blogger and coach, he does give great advice.
It certainly will help newbies and also bloggers who want to start over again after quitting.
There is a lot of free advice and knowledge out there and also bloggers who are willing to help
with their knowledge, but often the difficulty is how to implement this advice.
Having a coach can help to make it easier.
Thank you for your comment.
All the best
Erika
Hi Ryan,
Fancy meeting you here on Erika’s place. I like what you have mentioned that we really don’t start at zero because we do have some knowledge to share. Also, your advice of monetizing early. When I fist started I thought I would be doing that, but I was just making money for some other guy lol. I learned that one quickly he he he.
Thanks for all your great tips,
-Donna
Hi Donna,
Ryan offered to write a post and I took the opportunity to ask him this question.
I saw many started and did quit and want to start again with blogging.
Ryans advice is of value because he is a successful blogger and has the experience, as you have too.
I think it is good to let the younger generation of bloggers know
how they can do better and that it is not impossible to start from zero again because
as you both mentioned it is not really zero. If somebody ones were blogging he has already
the knowledge that can be improved. Starting mindfully over again can be easier,
especially with a good coach, it will get successful if one is dedicated to work on it.
Thank you for your comment.
Erika
Hey Erika,
Thanks for asking this simple and basic question to Ryan.
And he is as usual more generous and sincere to explain “blogging from Zero”.
Successfully people only talk about their current affairs and how they are thinking but perhaps newbie like me more interested to know basic things did by any successful blogger when they have started.
Thank you so much Ryan for your time and valuable details. This is what I always look for and seems I have got my lil bite 🙂
Thanks,
Mayur
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Hi Mayur,
What you talk about is exactly why I did ask Ryan, and you are right he is generous.
If one who has quit blogging wants to start again then he obviously likes it.
I thought it will help to know the advice and opinion of a successful blogger.
Many who have started may doubt if they did right. But as I just commented on
Donna Merill’s article about: How beginner bloggers become successful , blogging is not like knitting, where you have the material and the pattern to get an exact result if you do it right. blogging has to do with people. It is about experimenting and also not being afraid of so-called mistakes. Mistakes are the best help to find out what does not work. We all are too much conditioned about this wort and try to avoid, mistakes are helpful.
I am glad you got your lil bit.
Thanks for your comment
Erika
Very informative article and it help me in my blogger life. Thanks for sharing.
Numan,
I am glad the article helped you.
Thanks
Erika
Aadarsh thanks heaps buddy. Avoiding comparisons is a biggie!
Oh yes I learned that lesson too Donna hahaha.
Oh..great i really watching for that. Very good idea from : Erika Mohssen. Thanks : Erika Mohssen for sharing this informative and helpful article. There are many comments that glorified this article, but couldn’t leave before saying something. Simply written nice article indeed. Was very helpful for me!
Allen,
I am glad you liked the article and it was helpful for you.
Thank you
Erika
Hi Erika,
Another superb blog post from your side, actually no doubt Ryan is doing great in our blogging community always i love to read his content. Today first time got to know more about this super blogger, he is posting so many useful piece of content for readers.
if we talk about his social networking this is also wonderful, he always take care of their readers, followers, and connections.
Cheers!
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Hi Siddharth,
I am glad you found Ryans post useful and I think every blogger can learn from him.
You are right Ryan is great in connecting and networking. Especially, new Bloggers can learn a lot about this from him.
Thank you for your comment
Erika
Hi Erika,
This is an inspiring post for new bloggers like myself, I hope one day being able to write half as good as you guys!
Thanks
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Hi William,
if you are a new blogger keep practicing and you will improve your writing skills, for sure
All the best
Erika
Wow!, This is very amazing post, basically for who is starting work on blogger It’s very informative and valuable article thank you for sharing this post keep it up.
I am glad you liked the post and it is of value for you.
Thanks
Hi Erika,
Thanks for sharing such an informative article on how to become a successful blogger. Blogging needs proper skill and mindset to express in words to your intended audience. In the blogging field each stage is a learning platform the more you learn the better you become in this field.
Right, Rahul
blogging needs proper skills and the right mindset. This post is written by a successful blogger who knows what matters and gives helpful advice. You are right there is always something to learn and improve.
Thank you for your comment
Erika
Hey Erika, Nice article! Just now I’ve started my blog from zero. This is very helpful for newbies like me.
I am glad it helped you
All the best for your blog
Thanks
Erika
Great article Ryan,
truly the biggest mistake a newbie blogger makes is comparing themselves with the pros.
You can not compare your first step with someone else 1000-th step.
The sooner you realize-that the better.
I fell into that trap early in my blogging journey, thinking that I’m doing really bad compared to X blogger. But that was wrong and one way or another, I dug myself from that kind of thinking;
and now, I’m following my own path, and it leads to wonderful places, I know it.
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Right, Nikola Roza
Comparing is not good, everyone has to find its own way.
There are enough people that will follow and like what you have to offer.
Good, you got out of this thinking.
Keep going
Thank you for your comment
Erika
Lovely post keep share with us..
I am glad you like it.
Really great tips for the New Bloggers like me.
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Good, you found the tips helpful.
And I hope you can implement so of them.
Thank you
Erika
Hello Erika,
Sometimes, it can be difficult to compete with other content leaders on their own terms, especially if they have professional training or a formal education in a competitive niche.
Blogs are a critical platform for any company that wants to build a well-rounded content strategy and are essential to companies striving to bond with their clients and showcase their brand voice. Knowing your audience is essential to writing good blogs.
Topics are the lifeblood of your blog, so it pays to come up with great ones. Blogs continue to be an effective and inexpensive way to build an audience, reach your target market, and generate revenue online.
Eventually, thanks for sharing your innovative experience with us.
With best wishes,
Amar Kumar
Hey Erika and Ryan,
I used to have the new blogger fear on my mind when I started my blogging journey. I have realized one thing in blogging, that if you brainstorm about the blog, you will get multiple directions to scale it up.
Hi Chayan,
found your comment in the spam folder, not sure why?
I think many have the same feelings and fear at the begin of blogging.
Good, you found a way to deal with it.
Thank you for your comment
Erika
Wow!, This is very amazing post, basically for who is starting work on blogger It’s very informative and valuable article thank you for sharing this post keep it up.
Been blogging for 6 years now but every time I come back after a break I feel like a newbie. Ryan’s words spoke to me esp the fact that one never really starts from zero because we tend to overlook the fact that we now have experiences with us that usually comes in handy when we start again. Very valuable tips by Ryan. Thank you so much, Erika for sharing this post.
You got it right, Esha
If you remember your experiences a new start is easier. You know much more than you realize.
I am glad Ryan’s tips are helpful for you.
Thank you
Erika