Define A Successful Blogger

Since I consider the thou shall blog community to be one of the best, helpful and loyal communities in the blogosphere,

it’s appropriate to ask you all the following questions (this is your time to shine!).

There is one question that keeps coming back:

How do you define a successful blogger? So often I get the impression, you are only “successful” if you make money with it.

Let me put the question the other way round

If making money is not my motivation for blogging, does that mean that all the tons of social media advice everywhere are useless for me?

Both questions were asked by Jutta, a reader at Simply Blog. Usually, the blogger writes the post, which could be addressing a specific question in his or her mind or with the intent of answering reader questions.

I’d love to hear your best response to both questions. Here’s your opportunity to teach and inspire us, which you all do already.

So go ahead, tell us… What’s the definition of a successful blogger?

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Miguel Wickert May 10, 2009 at 10:32 am: CTB,

Thanks for the input, I rather focus on the community, content and interaction. I find that folks get caught up in the their blog stats, page rank, SEO and so on, important as those things are, for me, I tend to focus on creating quality content and maintain lively interaction. :) Cheers,

-Mig
game4power May 10, 2009 at 3:40 pm: When I started with SEO – last yers – SEO 1.0 had rulles that where aplied no matter language. What you proclame to be SEO 2.0 (don’t get me wrong, I totally agree with this taxonony, I even like it and I will use it) it was in fact secondary set of rulles for good seo in SEO 1 packeage, if I may say so. Tha change is that the first package (meta, link directoriesadn stuff) dosn’t seem to count now.

Any way, by all means, Google should came out with a more accurate set of rulles for SEO mastres. This is my opinion.
Vegar May 18, 2009 at 11:56 pm: I think a successfull blog is a blog that are able to change peoples life.

Say you have a blog about how to stop smoking, and some are actually starting to stop smoking because of something you wrote, then you are pretty successfull.

This goes for make money online blogs, fitness blogs, how to date girl blogs. When you methods are working, and people starts to relate their results to you and your blog, you are a successfull blogger.
ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 13, 2009 at 3:20 pm: My definition of successful blogger is person who have depth knowledge about his/her niche. You can look at them if there is anything new in such niche and they can tell you and make you understand about the latest things.

Money is not vital because if you are a sharp marketer than you can earn good money even if your blog is not at all vital (there are many example of that … wont say their names)

But yeah if blogger is expert in their niche and also know how to market them as well than this will be complete blogger with a businessman skill as well.

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Cyndi June 16, 2009 at 9:11 pm: A successful blogger is one who has a clear objective, with specific goals – and who consistently meets and or exceeds those goals. These goals are unique to each individual blog – and can often not be related to how much $$$ the blog brings in. For many it is sharing a message – or providing a resource – being part of the community that understands the magic of sharing and giving back – or paying forward.

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DemoGeek June 18, 2009 at 12:47 pm: I would side with a blogger who is doesn’t need to be an SEO expert but rather was able to build a fostering community around his blog…I call him a “successful blogger” regardless of how much money he makes from his blog. Sounds crazy?

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Hemorrhoid Treatment June 19, 2009 at 10:43 am: Successful blogger is one who achieved his goal and objectives.
To have loyal followers blogs must be written with passion, for me it is much resourceful and interesting. It will create trust and invite others to agree and disagree with you.
Steve June 24, 2009 at 7:55 am: Traffic and community must be your goal if income is not. I think social media can help either way.

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Mike August 3, 2009 at 6:03 am: A successful blogger is one with good quality content and a high quantity of traffic.
sisteme supraveghere video August 4, 2009 at 6:41 pm: A successful blogger is one who has a clear objective, with specific goals – and who consistently meets and or exceeds those goals. These goals are unique to each individual blog .
Microsoft Points December 6, 2009 at 7:35 am: A successful blogger is somebody who meets their own goals set for themselves. I’ve done this with 2 of my blogs, but I’ve started to slip a bit lately.