Comments on: Usefulness – Principles of Successful Blogging #3

By: Money Blogger

Money Blogger — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:09:33 +0000

Very true. The more useful it is more successful it will be. But it’s really not that easy to be useful!

By: Andy Gibb

Andy Gibb — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:49:48 +0000

Only in the sense that useful means giving people what they want. We need another word for actually being of benefit to them.

By: SEO PIrate

SEO PIrate — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:04:03 +0000

Blogs are great for frsh content and SEO. They are a great method of bringing a human element to a website. Blogs bring static websites to life. Keep on Blogging!

By: scheng1

scheng1 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:12:15 +0000

The similarity is that all of them have passion for blogging.

By: Ursula Comeau

Ursula Comeau — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:53:45 +0000

Great post, Darren! I’ve been trying to gear my latest posts in this directly, so it’s nice to see you reiterate that it’s the right direction to aim for! :)

By: application control

application control — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:41:08 +0000

Hi! Its the ideas which keep me out from the destructions,Thanks for the nice blog and its very effective one which I really feel.so keep up blogging and stay tune with me.

By: Mal Keenan

Mal Keenan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:40:45 +0000

Agreed, Darren. I have operated many blogs over the years and those that have thrived are the ones that met a need.

What I’ve seen recently is that successful blogs like your own need to become more like a discussion forum than a one way publishing tool.

Tha’s my goal with my main blog. Your tips are helping me a lot.

Mal Keenan

By: techprism

techprism — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:48:04 +0000

The only thing that actually is considered while you navigates to any website or blog is Usefulness & Information Richness

Nice Post.

By: Ecommerce Development Guru

Ecommerce Development Guru — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:31:21 +0000

Some great advice and i agree Mashable is an excellent example of a good blog.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:27:57 +0000

This post sure sets straight what people look for when they are reading blogs. This post gets right down to the bare basics of what to remeber when posting to ensure the best feedback. Usefulness is the key to having sucess. Every part of your blog should appeal to some type of person. It should be entertaining for the person who just got home from a long day of work and needs to relax. It should be inviting to the picky person who does’t like to sit there rummaging for a well written blog. It should contain information that someone can go back and tell there friends about. The usefullnes of the blog is what sets it apart from having two views to 2000 views. People want to read something and be able to take information from it. All it takes is someone to find useful information in your blog and pass it along to a friend and there begins the chain you hoped to get when writing your blog. People are talking because you gave them something important to talk about.

Jennifer

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:23:14 +0000

Nice post. You really have to provide something beneficial so friends will tell friends and so on.

By: Pascal

Pascal — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:20:37 +0000

My blog useful because it helps people to know about best online earning methods and how to avoid scams. People can easily read and understand my posts and then they can easily earn money online. All informations are free.

By: Timberland shoes

Timberland shoes — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:19:54 +0000

Good post. You hit the nail right on the head with this post. If you are not providing something useful to your readers, you need to make a change.

By: Aluminum Fence Products

Aluminum Fence Products — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:04:39 +0000

Darren,

I struggled with whether or not I could create a “useful” blog based on my fence contracting business I owned. I started by doing a lot of research and finding that NO ONE was blogging about my industry at the time (there are a few now), which was both encouraging, and discouraging at the same time. Encouraging as I was breaking into something new and discouraging because I couldn’t follow anyone else to see the positives/negatives of their blog.

My blog became successful enough to get recognition by people I never expected to do so, and it catapulted my website into the top 3 results for localized searches for just about any term you could think of. My competitors were livid, but none of them ever started a blog (guess fence contractors aren’t too bright! LOL). I found that the articles I wrote, whether it be about permitting, types of fences, installation methods, or local ordinances would get conversations started both on my blog and on social networking sites I was on.

Since selling my company along with websites, I have changed gears and am going a different route (still with fences) and will blog myself back to the top of the searches for my new venture, thanks Darren for helping me over the last couple of years!

By: Oliver Hochzeit

Oliver Hochzeit — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:04:56 +0000

the examples you give are very popular on Technorati, but personally I don’t think that this blogs worth the time invested (exceptions are Seth Godin & CopyBlogger). Your blog is ordered and has good content this is what I like :)
I agree!

By: Satya Prakash

Satya Prakash — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:16:44 +0000

well.
my blog was for beginners. It was a hit for that reason. after some time I could not post on regular basis and good post. but now I am doing it again and it is a hit.

By: Junk Drawer Kathy

Junk Drawer Kathy — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:18:58 +0000

I’m really glad you included “entertainment” as a way a blog can be considered useful. People come to my humor blog to laugh, scratch their heads, be challenged by a contest or to just go about their lives being glad they’re not me. I meet a need to laugh. The world needs to laugh!

By: Ronblogger

Ronblogger — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:38:08 +0000

Nice list of succesful blogs there,i guess your blog should be on top- of the list.You’ve helped and inspired so many bloggers including me ;-)

By: Paul Hassing

Paul Hassing — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:20:10 +0000

Another ripper, Darren. Your blog certainly ticks all my usefulness boxes. Many thanks for the learning! P. :)

By: David Stillwagon

David Stillwagon — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:52:03 +0000

good blog list especially Zen habits