If you are planning to start your own blog, you may be discouraged to be the amount of competitors nowadays.
They are thousands of other blogs in the same topic, how could you compete? What's important is the quality of blog posts.
Once you have insights or opinions that are unique, people will notice.
That is certainly a leverage point that isn't replicable easily.
Even if your competitors and you are using the same method of starting and promotion blogs, still no one blog will be exactly the same.
Your own voice, for instance, is unique to yourself.
No one can own it.
How you write, what you write, and how your audience relates to you will be different.
You also need to promote your blog and increase its visibility.
Great content will not by itself propel to the stratosphere just because it is great.
It is buried among millions of other posts.
To make it stand out, you must promote.
If what you have is of value, don't be afraid to let others know about it.
You can start with blog carnival and participate in other people's blog.
Commenting is one of the most effective ways to get your blog visible to other influencers, which in this case is bloggers.
You may not get instant results.
In fact, nowadays, you will not get immediate results.
But if your persist and being consistent, people will begin to notice and pay attention.
That is a natural process you must go through, but not many bloggers actually tell you about this.
As a blogger, you also need to do your best to retain existing readers.
Schedule your time to blog every day or at least twice a week.
People expect you to update your blog every so often.
If you fail to do this, soon they will give up visiting your blog.
They will unsubscribe from your RSS feed.
You are losing momentum if you do that.
Starting a blog can't be easier thanks to the technology.
But that doesn't mean you don't have to own any skills to be able to do it successfully.
A plan is more important than ever, because without one, you are just shooting in the dark.
If you think the competitions are stiffer nowadays, you are true.
But those bloggers are people who can send you traffic too, if you have great blog posts.
Suddenly the more competitors, the more links you will get.
As long as you can offer something unique, and are willing to do your part, don't worry about competitions.