3 Kinds of Successful Bloggers

Following the latest trends in the blogosphere can be tough.

How should I tag my posts?
What’s the newest Social Bookmarking Site?
Is there a Web 3.0 yet?
Who’s number one in Technorati?

OK so maybe that last one doesn’t change much, but it seems like every time you turn around there’s a new style you should follow, a new way to make money from your blog and a new bookmarking site that you need to get listed on to be anything but yesterdays news.

There is one thing that seems to withstand the test of time though. Successful bloggers. After mulling over all the types of bloggers there are I could really only come up with three styles of blogging that seem to work well. I’m sure there a variations on these three styles but the top blogs are pretty much one of these:

1. Multiple Daily Poster – Niche Blogs

A Multiple Daily Poster is someone that posts multiple times a day on the same topic. Their blog is very focused. They’ve carved out a niche and they post about all the newest developments within that niche. These bloggers write so much on their topic they have thousands upon thousands of daily readers who check their blog multiple times a day just to keep up with the latest trends.

Some of the best blogs within this category are also some of my favorites focused around technology and blogging news. One of the best single person Niche Blogs with multiple daily posts is Problogger.net where Darren Rowse has a beat on everything that is happening in the blogosphere as well as providing readers with valuable information on blogging and developing a winning blog. TechCrunch.com is another one of those that gets their information before anyone else has a chance to write about. He writes multiple posts and gets his 70,000 some rss subscribers to check their techcrunch feed several times a day.

A few others of these high powered blogs that keep you updated on specific subjects better than most online news centers can are FreeMoneyFinance.com and BlogHerald.com. There are of course the main stream blogs like Gizmodo, Engadget, and A List Apart.

All these blogs focus on a niche and have built a media outlet that people have to go to every single day. It’s like getting your evening news. Our parents (and most of us now) watch the news daily. Now we have another daily fill of something newsworthy, our blogs about the world, tech, political or other.

2. Large Article Posters

Large Article Posters are bloggers who post usually 2 or 3 times a week, sometimes more, sometimes less, and their posts are just that, very large. They’ll occasionally give you updates and tidbits here and there but generally their posts are lengthy and focus on one topic at a time.

One of the best examples of this type of blogger is Steve Pavlina and his blog StevePavlina.com. It’s a personal development blog that is based on lengthy articles with a massive amount of information contained within each. His blog layout is simple. No flashy graphics or pictures, just content. He claims to have read over 600 books on personal development and from his posts, it shows. Even if he isn’t the worlds best at everything, his blog will surely help any reader learn a thing or two about leading down the right path.

Another good example of this type of blogger is Yaro Starak who Publishes both entrepreneurs-journey.com and SmallBusinessBranding.com. The latter of which he purchased from the previous publisher. He writes about making money via the internet and branding your business very well, and he rights a lot. Long information rich posts are contained within both of those blogs.

There are of course many more than this but these two are both ones that I read regularly to keep up to date with bettering myself and making some money. They write well and people listen. Simple as that.

3. Random Posters

The first two groups of bloggers usually write on a specific niche, be it technology, blogging, money, or life, they focus in on a topic and write as much as they can. The last blogger that becomes successful is one who writes about everything and writes a lot. When you visit these blogs you never know what you’re going to get. It’s like the Maury Povich of blogging or a car accident, you know it’s a waste of time to look but you can’t not look.

A random poster has nothing to say about everything. They often bring up great points that probably not even they know what they just wrote about. But they brought that random interesting thought to the surface and brought it to you.

The following are some great examples of random post blogs that do very very well. BoingBoing.net – it’s a directory of wonderful things and has an immense following. eBaumsWorld.com – pretty random and not for everyone. GenuineCuriosity.com – brings you things you can learn usually multiple times a day.

There are of course others but these blogs are quite numerous, some have large following some have cult like followings. Most of these are put on by one or two people but there are a few that are similar and put on by a whole slew of people, of which you could be one.

Conclusion

As you can tell from this list the successful bloggers built there successful blogs many different ways. But they stuck to a specific method and it brought certain types of readers. Some like multiple updates during the day, some like one large article a week.

The point is you don’t have to be great one way or the other but you do have to stick to a plan. People who blog all over the map and are inconsistent usually don’t end up lasting that long and their blogs archives are stuck on Dec 2005 forever. Get a plan and stick with it. People like, even in this fast paced world, consistency.