Being a success in blogging means achieving your reason/reasons for blogging. People blog for various reasons like:
- To share knowledge
- Improve writing skill
- Network
- Popularity
- Build a business
- Advertising
- Self-promotion
- Serving your future self
- To help others
- Stay in touch
- Document your learning
- To gain knowledge
I will discuss the points highlighted,
To share knowledge
If you blog about what you just learnt recently, whether it's on how you solved a programming bug or it's a new concept in coding, the fact that you're able to write for an audience brings about that success feeling because you have learnt something new. You have the confidence to teach others.
Improve writing skill
Being able to express yourself to an audience in a way that your article can be read, understood and serve a purpose to the reader is success to me. The more you write and make use of writing helper tools like Grammarly, the better you get at it.
To help others
When other developers see your blog as a reference point to get credible answers to their questions that is success to me, being able to share your struggles so that another developer does not have to go through that same issue is success to me.
Document your learning
Success to me is if your blog can serve as a documented form of a technology you learnt. You can always check back earlier parts that you've written, and this will also help anyone that is also learning to compare their knowledge at any part of the course.
Conclusion
All the other reasons stated above are equally important, and all the reasons are linked to one another—E.g. When you use your blog to network with others, that increases your popularity. So whatever your reasons are don't wait any longer take that bold step and start your blog today.
Michaela Greiler inspired this article in her Hashnode Technical Writing Bootcamp II session on the topic "How engineers can blog "successfully" and grow their readership?".