Recently I’ve been thinking about one of my blogs, tech related, that I own. It made the Digg front page with a few articles and has been stumbled numerous times. We started as a team of three and I remained the only one that writes, these days. Since I was out of time a lot, for the last weeks, I didn’t have time to write for SocialPacks or for my other blogs but I had a nice surprise. The RSS readers increased and so did the number of unique visitors. This was very weird because usually these two numbers should drop. It came as a surprise to me because I want to tell you what the biggest mistake a good blogger can make and that is stop writing.

What happens when you stop writing?

Your readers are waiting for articles and they are not getting what they are expecting. So this can lead to : stop reading your rss feed, stop reading your blog at all because there’s nothing new or influence other people to stop reading you just because they got disappointed.

Apart from those mentioned above you should think that it’s hard to make a great come back. It’s hard to continue from where you left, because nobody is focused anymore, not to mention that the break can bring in writer’s block which is kind of hard to overcome.

Therefore, blog constantly. Create your own frequency of publishing articles and stick to it!

Being successful on the internet is not easy at all. You need to be very good at what you’re doing, you need to have good connections or at least build them and you need to stand out from the crowd. It seems like more and more people fail to launch a new website these days because visitors/readers need fresh and quality content, they haven’t read somewhere else.

Do not copy what other bloggers say

New bloggers tend to read what other successful bloggers write and comment on them. It’s not a good way for you to build your readership base because they are already devoted readers to the original website.

Be aggressive and offer unique points of view

Though I said you should write your own ideas and not take stories from other bloggers you should inspire from time to time. Take for example John Chow and Problogger that recently had two related articles. John explained why he isn’t using Amazon affiliate links and Darren explained why he does. It was great to see the two sides of a story so that you can decide if you should go for it or not, if it’s good for you or not.

However, if you are just starting up as a blogger, you need to be aggressive. Be it funny or controversial you need to create something that others haven’t so far and wrap it up in a very good box. Your ideas are good but nobody reads what you’re writing? Again, be aggressive. You will get the attention you need.

However, being aggressive is not the only thing you need to make sure you have a successful blog, but staying close to SocialPacks.com will help you in your quest to being big.