How to have a successful blog - with slow, steady growth

Tips from ProBlogger on how to have a successful blog:

- Regular useful content: Daily “how to” posts that solved problems and showed people how to achieve their goals, 90%

- Shareable content: inspirational posts, breaking news, humor, controversy, grand list posts, 5%

- Community: reader discussions, debates, polls, forum, 5%

- Email newsletter: collect people’s email addresses and send them weekly updates/newsletters

Here is a great quote from another blog: "Blogging is teaching, whether it’s yourself or others, and that’s the best feeling in the world" http://goo.gl/hCpF8

References:

2 Different Tales of Blog Growth. ProBlogger.