We, bloggers, spend many hours, sometimes many days to write a great article, and it stays in the limelight only for few hours, before the piece of content is forgotten. Readers, usually, don’t remember what they read last week, let alone last month, or last year.

It’s tough to accept it, but even your best piece soon becomes junk, which is read by not many people.

There are, however, few blogs that are read often by most visitors. Their articles are never stale. Instead, number of visitors on the blog keep mounting every day. So, what is it that keeps you from developing such content? How do you write content that wouldn’t be thrown away like a piece of junk?

Here are few things that you need to keep in mind, while developing the content for your blog.

1.Aim High

You don’t have to think yourself as a blogger, or someone who simply writes for a website. You need to think yourself as a writer, as an artist, as a person that can create a difference. Even if you have produced the best content ever written, do not think ‘Well, I have been writing good content since last many years. My readers would certainly cut me some slack this time’.Give your best every time you write.

2.Involve in Productive Work

Get into some habits that would improve your profession as a blogger. Start reading interesting articles, know more about your domain, read books on Search Engine Optimization, play creative games, and so on. Spend some time daily for activities that would eventually make you a better blogger.

3.Post Articles Strategically

Before you plan to write about something today, make sure the articles relates to your domain, and will take you one step closer toward your long term goals. Every article in your blog should fill-in the missing pieces.

This means you will have to spend some time deriving strategies for your blog, and make sure the articles you write are aligned with those strategies.

4.Write Enduring Articles

Trendy, topical articles attract temporary traffic. Once these posts serves the purpose, do you expect people to read it? New pieces are only temporary They wouldn’t make you great writers.

Instead, write articles that are valuable and searched often. Write timeless articles that will help people solve their problem today, and even after a decade. Writing such articles everyday will help your blog emerge as a valuable blog, and an enduring one.

5.Rework Your Old Articles

Not every reader has read all the articles that you ever written. Many of them would be really useful, but are simply dumped beneath the newer ones or below unattractive headlines. Take a look at your previous articles, and identify the ones that are really useful, and rework on them to create fresh content, with similar essence.

6.Get Themes From Other Blogs

You can simply pick up themes from other blogs, and this is certainly not considered as plagiarism. Cross-fertilization and cross-linking is the essence of blogging. When you are short of ideas or basic themes, you can simply explore other blogs in similar niche.

Understand Why Are You Doing This

Blogging cannot be your gaol. This is just a way to achieve your goal. State your real dream, whether it’s earning money, becoming popular, or simply writing to create a difference.

And if you simply love to write, blogging is probably the best way to get started.

Have you ever thought what is it that differentiates a top blog from the million mediocre ones? Have you ever thought what is it that helps some blogs to achieve fame and fortune while others just keep struggling to snatch a handful of subscribers?

If you are one of those struggling bloggers, I am sure you are desperately trying to find out the answers to these questions. You are constantly trying to search the key that unlocks the door that is veiling success and fortune.

Okay. You can put me in any of the two categories because I don’t know where I belong. I have just discovered the answer to these questions. And as usual, I will do whatever I can to help people and make them better every minute, with every blog.

So, here are 3 most significant components of a successful blogs. Nothing else can beat this combination.

1. Awesome Content:
   The top ranking blogs have article that are easy to read and comprehend with simple language, great content, precise and concise information, proper grammar, and entertainment.
2. Awesome Design:
   A top ranking blog site has pages that can be easily navigated, and is eye pleasing, professionally built, effortlessly navigated, distinct looks, and is quite attention grabbing. The site cannot afford to have any flaws.
3. Awesome Personality of Bloggers:
   A top ranking blog may have one or more bloggers. However, all of them are generally quite connecting, courteous, possess leadership qualities, easy to approach, hard-working, and disciplined. Readers are the most important people of their life. They treat readers as family.

The Outcome Calculation

Each of the above component has equal importance and has equal effect on the blog. Here is what you can do to assess your blog. Rate your website’s all 3 components out of ten and multiply them.

For Instance, if you rate your content 7, design 5, and influence 3, then the total outcome is 7 x 5 x 3 = 105.

You can do numerous things to get your blog on the top in all search engines through various SEO techniques. However, the answer to the question whether it will stay on the top for a longer time depends on the outcome these 3 components. You can give one component greater importance than the other. All are equal and important.

The maximum you could reach is 10 x 10 x 10 = 1000.

Now here is an exercise for everyone of us. Which area do you think that really needs an improvement? What is your outcome? Are you among the top ones? Be honest.