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Welcome back, glad to see you here!
Today I want to talk about some personal traits that bloggers should have. Why is this important? If you wish to join the blogging community, youโll notice that a certain number of bloggers does something or behaves in a way that other part doesnโt. youโll notice a lot of giving up, a lot of complaints, but if you look really carefully, Iโm sure youโll also notice those who are silently winning the space over by providing quality content and networking with others.
But what are the top five personality traits of a blogger?
Persistence
I find this personal trait to be the most important. Simply put โ you need to be willing to go through many obstacles, solve many issues with your blog and still stick with it if youโre willing to be among the most successful bloggers.
Have in mind that different bloggers will define success differently. so you need to define what success means for you. Is it a certain number of posts? A $1000 of revenue monthly? Followers? Even if all of this and more is your definition of success, you need to be capable of enduring different sorts of things. Some people canโt deal with bad comments. Some canโt wait for their monies to start rolling in. Some think theyโre bad at writing, so they avoid posting often. We are all different.
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But one thingโs for sure โ by not being persistent in the blogging world, you will lose more than youโll gain.
Resilience
Iโve recently got an email notification from Google Console that I have to fix Server error (5xx). I had no idea what it was, yet I was right on it, figuring it out, reading, googling and looking out how to solve this issue.
Now, this might be my personal thing but I donโt like to let the issues wait. If I leave them, theyโll only pile up, get buried and become forgotten. I love solving my issues instantly.
If youโre not resilient, youโre risking forgetting about some important things that need to be done, and that can cost you down the road.
Think of it like this โ if your blog was a child and it came to you saying that itโs hungry, do you feed it right away or tomorrow?
Passion
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My favorite! Yes, I know, you might say that you need to treat a blog as a business and thereโs no place for passion. Or you might belong to the other flock of bloggers who claim that your blog should only be about your passion. Iโm up for balance. If you can find something that you can think about, write about and treat it as a business, while developing a stronger passion for it day in and day out, Iโd say youโve hit the jackpot.
Thereโs no life without passion. but thereโs no successful business with too much of it.
Writing background
Need I say more?
No, you donโt need to have a bunch of novels behind you so that you can say I have a writing background. Still, some experience in writing is desirable, simply because it will take you less time to correct your mistakes. Youโll find it easier to include keywords in your text. If weโre talking about sentence structure, with writing background your sentence creation will go smoother and the overall text will have a better flow.
Hint โ if you look at my older blog posts, youโll notice a huge difference. And that happened only in 6 months! One day, when I get more free time, I promise I will update. Until then, let me serve as a prime example of writing progress in blogging.
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Will to learn
I canโt stress enough how important this is. Blogging is not just sitting down and writing, blogging is learning so many other things, especially if youโre just starting! Only think of SEO and what it stands for:
ยท Meta descriptions of pages
ยท SEO plug-ins
ยท Alt text for images
ยท Keywords and long-tail keywords
ยท Table of contents for blog posts
ยท Interlinking
ยท Outer linking
ยท Length of blog posts
ยท Website speed
ยท Mobile optimization
ยท Header tags
ยท URL optimization
ยท Snippets
ยท Unique content
ยท Original images
ยท Guest posting
ยท Sharing via social media
ยท Infographics
ยท Submitting backlinks
Letโs not even talk about website coding if you plan to take that route.
Without the will to learn you wonโt have a basis on which your blog will be built. And again, it will probably take a lot more time to fix some mistakes later, once you publish your website.
Conclusion
Blogging is not hard, once you put your mind to it and realize the scope of work that youโll be doing. Have you found yourself in any of these personal traits of bloggers? Which one do you think is the most important? Feel free to comment, even if I didnโt list it in this article.
Weโre here to learn from each other.

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