In blogging industry, you might not realize that your only idol is your strongest competitor. You might ask yourself is that even possible? Well, this is where most new bloggers don’t realize that their piece of cake (profit) is no more available. Let assume you wanted to start a blog today because you want to earn some steady online income with the goals like quitting day job and supplement your income with full time blogging. There are millions of blogs available online and each of them competes among each other to rank first in search ranking to get more organic traffic. The moment you create a blog and start posting contents, you are already in the war of blogs.
Personally, I have started blogging with the goal to learn about SEO and make money from blogging. But, almost all my topics are well covered in search engine results page by all my idols like Darren Rowse of Problogger, SeoMoz, JohnChow, etc. I wanted to be just like them to make good online income stream to supplement my online income. But, it is impossible to beat this top problogger’s post in all high to medium targeted keywords in search ranking. They may conquer in all small volume keywords too as their blog authority and domain age factor will help their post rank higher in SERP ranking for longer period of time. This gives incredible competition and we are fighting over our idols to compete for several keywords that are closely relevant to our blog.
I am sure it is impossible to reach top ranking for high volume keywords in search ranking for new blogs. This is where most bloggers made mistake too. Going after wrong set of keywords might get a different level competition. As a new blogger, I suggest go after long tail keywords (more than four words). It is easy to attract low competition visitors traffic using this method. Let’s say you manage to create 20 new posts on all low volume keywords which each keyword deliver an average of 100 visitors monthly. Assuming that you manage to get ranking on top 3 ranking on all 20 set of low competition keywords, you may draw 2,000 organic traffic each month. This will increase if you continue to follow the same step throughout your blogging activity. In order to reach high level like your idols, you need to start from smaller steps. For now, they are your strongest competitor.
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yup, your idol is you best competitor in blogging,i Agree on that.
Thanks. I hope many will.
For those of us who are blogging on blogging the competition is stiff indeed. You are right in going for the long tail … including the top of tree keywords in your longtail helps ultimately with the competitive ranking.
With good keyword research it is good to go for the low hanging fruit first, build up your smarts and muscles, and keep on climbing the ladder. Eventually you will be facing the heavy weights. Often they hold top three positions for just one of their pages! But they have been in the business and have built up the inventory. Over time, we will too.
Continued Success to you.
best………..valentina
Nicely written Vaneltina. I couldn’t have write better than that.
Therefore, a deep research before creating a blog is very critical so you don’t waste your time and effort later
Exactly. Going after bigger wave could be dangerous for us. It is better to swim in shallow waters and learn before heading to open waters. There are many sharks over there. Hehehe..
My idols in Internet marketing (such as those you listed) don’t compete with my websites, since my niche is in computer networking.
Luckily I don’t have the same competition as you do. But I have Cisco and Wikipedia to go up against
Cisco and Wikipedia is a bigger competitor than my idols. I wish you all the best!
Beside the long tail keyword we may target the short keyword which less competitive. As example, i have great reangking for atahualpa 3.4.4 keyword, and it is have enough traffic to get on it.
You are very lucky! It is hard to find high traffic short keyword with low competition. I guess you just revealed one here.
Yup, hope this can give some insight to other bloggers.
Its great that you look up to several people. Its like setting a goal margin to reach. In the end, you’ll see that you will find your way in line with them, same level.
I hope that too but it may take 10-20 years time to reach that level in this speed. They are so established to have several people working full time for their blog.