#1- New Themes - Bloggers are unique creatures. When they see a theme that is perfect for their site or a niche, it’s like the heavens opening. And don’t let it be a free theme, they might not sleep for days.

#2 - Increasing Subscribers - There is nothing more motivating, than finding out people are really appreciating what your doing. This is most evident when they subscribe and you see that Feedburner chicklet getting bigger and bigger. It fuels bloggers to push on and continue to build their blog.

#3- Comments - Getting those emails asking you to moderate comments on your blog can bring more motivation to a blogger than Mom’s apple pie.

Alright maybe that was a slight exaggeration, but you get the picture. Don”t act like you don’t get excited to see a laundry list of people interested enough in what you have to say that they took time out of their busy schedule to bless you with a comment. You better treasure that. Imagine what your blog would be like without them…the commentors that is.

#4 - Statistics - Bloggers can act like kids on Christmas even when it comes to stats. They can be down right ridiculous obsessing over every page view, Alexa ranking, and Technorati Authorty ranking. Going to bed early so the next day and stats will come sooner. They dream of Google Analytics and have Woopra on their wish list. Stats are the Nintendo Wii when it comes to bloggers.

Now, I will be back…got to check my stats.

#5- Another Blogger Showing a Check - The moment a blogger sees that screenshot of someone holding up a five or six figure check, they are ruined for life.

I remember seeing Shoe Money’s now infamous check and thinking, “That could be me!” It still motivates me to this day. Let’s see it again…ahh…excuse me, I got to get a blog posted. LOL, tell me that doesn’t get you fired up. If not, check your pulse. You may have already checked into that great Blogosphere in the sky.

#6 - Comment Luv - Admit it! When you see that little link at the end of a blog, you feel a little warm inside. you know this gives you an incredible opportunity to drop a great post, get a link back to your most recent post, maybe some traffic, when readers click your name or post title.

Comment Luv has a sweet feature if you sign up for the free service. It will allow you to select the  post you want to reference, so you are not forced to use your last post. This allows you to make your post more relevant to the readers of the blog you are commenting on. For example, if you are commenting on a blog flipping website, then you may want to use a post about blog flipping as opposed to search engine optimization.

#7 - Top Commentator Plugin - By nature, bloggers are competitive. The prospect of another win excites them. Only this competition has a great benefit. Links from Top Commentator Plugins are counted towards your Technorati Authority. This is big if you are tracking your authority. if not, why not? What are you waiting for…Christmas?

#8 - A Great Post with No Comments - Being the first commentator is special for a number of reasons. Bloggers appreciate it because of the additional exposure it gives them. After a reader finishes a blog post, the first comment they read is the first one, which could be yours. This is great.

What’s better is when the blog post is awesome. Think about it. Great post that provide real value, or is a resource gets more traffic, ping backs, stumbles, diggs, and tweets. Why? Because of the great content, usefulness to the readers. And there your comment is, at the top, #1. Tell me that doesn’t motivate you to keep searching the blogosphere for more.

If you get that chance to comment first on a great post, be sure to take a little extra time to craft an intelligent response.

#9 - More Twitter Followers - If you are not hip to Twitter by now, realize it is only a matter of time before that little blue bird bites you. I am relatively new to Twitter, but am coming to understand its power.

Bloggers using Twitter knows that each Follower is a potential reader, client, mentor, friend, JV partner, information source, or a new networking source. I am a big fan of Twitter.

Follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/thinktaylor.

#10 - A Social Submission - Meaning, someone reads your blog post and feels it is worthy to be shared with others. They take their precious time out of their schedules to click Digg, Stumble Upon, Mix, even Twitter and share it with their netwroks. These social media outlets generate leads to your site, sometimes noticeable amounts of leads. It is not uncommon to notice huge traffic spikes to occur in your Google Analytics reports. This elicits a great feeling of euphoria amongst bloggers and motivates them to continue.

#11 - Private Advertising Sales - It’s ok to admit it. Closing a sale feels good. But there is nothing better than when some voluntarily share their hard earned money with you for advertising on your site. I use OIO and when I get that email stating payment is confirmed, it provides a lift to my spirit and a bounce to my blogging. This motivation drives me forward and I am sure you feel it as well.

#12 - High Commission Affiliate Programs - To have a great niche website with an affiliate product is good. But having a niche website with an high paying affiliate product is better. Bloggers tend to get very motivated when they discover a product that they can see being practical and useful to their niche…and people will want to buy it. To have a high commission split of 50% or more can cause extreme motivation to a blogger.

#13 - Discovering a Great Niche for a Site - It is weird, but you can watch a blogger do keyword research for 4 hours at the end of a long day at work. They could be falling asleep at the time, but the moment they discover a great keywords and ultimately a niche for a website, they will be wide awake. Ready to take on the day, build and promote the new website. It is an amazing thing to watch and have happen to you. After all, if you go to sleep, someone else might discover your niche, right?

#14 - Receiving Link Love - Firing up your computer, checking email and logging into the admin panel of your blog is a typical routine for any blogger. This by itself doesn’t really get them all that excited or motivated. However, when you reach that admin panel of your blog and there is a new incoming link showing. Great, there is a new link back to our site, but who is it. You click the link and it is someone in the Blogosphere that has read your last article and thought enough of it to share some link love with their readers, recommending it to them. It is always a great honor and bloggers appreciate when someone shares the love with you. (Consider sharing some link love with me for this post.)

#15 - Guest Posting Opportunity - Recently, I received two opportunities to do guest post on two fantastic websites. The motivation for this entry was derived by those opportunities. First of all, the honor that someone else wants you to share your knowledge and experience with their audience is great. Second, you get the opportunity to introduce yourself totally different audience and possibly gain some additional readers. Exposure always motivates the blogging community.

#16 - Great Post Ideas - Content is king in the world of blogging. If you have great content you can attract more readers, visitors, search engine traffic, link backs and more. Therefore, when a great post idea hits a blogger, they get extremely motivated. If they know what is best for them, they will quickly make their way to a pen or computer and get that idea on paper as soon as possible. The post ideas can be very motivating to a blogger. Not to even mention they will have to opportunity or fun to input appropriate keywords, which everyone knows is big time blogger fun!

#17 - PPC Payouts - Pay Per Click campaigns are good source of potential revenue on the web. And once a blogger opens their earning or the mail to find more money than they had before, then the realization that a PPC campaign that they have been running has reached payout level, extreme motivation can set in. This could lead to the purchasing of several new domain names, the building of a few new sites, or instant euphoria as their emotions of victory, happiness, and success flow through their body. Needless to say, I feel a new level of motivation takes over.

#18 - Useful Plugins - Good bloggers are always on the lookout for ways to improve their existing websites and ways to build ones that only exist in their head. Joy and motivation comes to the blogger that either by a friend, new blog post, or stroke of the search engines finds a brand new plugin that is going to take their business to the next level. Ok, it doesn’t have to be brand new to the market, just new to the blogger. I know once I discovered the TubePress plugin to insert YouTube videos into the pages of my blog, I was extremely motivated to build sites to flip for sale and build niches to keep forever. What a discovery and I know that I am not the only one that feels this way.

#19 - Chance to Tell Someone You Are a Blogger - There is never a lack of motivation that comes from the opportunity to tell someone about your blogger exploits. What a feel to talk to a common civilian about the your online ventures. The look of bewilderment on their fact and the pride in a bloggers eyes is enough to spur one on for the next five days running on pure adrenaline. Tell the truth, don’t you love telling and talking about being a blogger and hopefully making money online? How cool is that?

#20 - Request for Paid Review - Getting paid is something special at any moment of your blogging or Internet Marketing career. But when someone takes a moment and request a review from you of their site or product, it is really an endorsement that you are arriving on to the blogosphere scene as someone to be respected and admired. Why? Because this individual found your website, information, and following compelling enough that they would pay to be associated with you. If you are building a quality blog, website, and following, this is coming for you and you should be prepared for that moment.

#21 - A Surprise Review of Your Site - There is no feeling like login into your Wordpress administration panel for your website to notice a new inbound link. Once you click that link to find that another blogger has taken the time to review your site for their following an extreme since of joy, pride, and motivation to continue sets in. Now, if that review is negative, I guess it could bring you down a bit, but why in the world would someone give a negative review about your blog? I know, that is a silly thought, but it could happen. And I believe this one of the secret motivations of the blogosphere and keeps them motivated to not only pump out quality content, but to ensure site design is respectable as well.

#22 - Their “Why” - A bloggers “Why” is the reason or the reasons that they feel it is necessary to succeed in this world of Internet Marketing. This “Why” varies largely from person to person and is a private matter. This “Why” boils down to the individual and their reasons or motivations to be successful. This could range from just wanting to make more money to raising money for a specific goal like buying a car or adding addition funds to your retirement account. But if I know most bloggers, they are trying to generate funds to purchase a new online resource like WordTracker or something. You got to love the blogosphere!

#23 - Keyword with a High KEI Rating - If you are a WordTracker user, you are familiar with the term KEI Rating. Essentially, this is the ratio of searches for a particular keyword to the number of sites that are competing for visibility of this particular key word. A high KEI Rating means that a site has more searches for a particular phrase as compared to the number of competing sites. This means opportunity for the blogger that makes this discover and potentially more traffic to their website, which means instant motivation and opportunity again.

#24 - PayPal “You’ve Got Cash!” emails - Come on, Blog Family! You got to love these emails from PayPal that says someone believed in your product, pitch, affiliate program, or whatever enough to share their hard earned money with you. What isn’t here to celebrate or become motivated by. After all, most people are in Internet Marketing to make money, so once the moment comes (or hopefully keeps coming) it is very encouraging and motivating to the Blogosphere and who could blame them, right?

#25 - A New Product Idea - New product ideas leads to new product sales, which turn into more money and profit for the blogger who had the revelation. Yes, you have to create a quality product, promote it well, and convert visitors to sales, but there is no rule that sales that this new idea cannot bring instant motivation. Well, it can, will, and will continue to do so. Bloggers get excited from some of the simplest of things and this is no exception. Again who could blame them when this new product idea could lead to the residual income stream they desire.

Bonus - FreddieTaylor.com’s Monday’s Motivational Moments - That’s right Blog Family, I put my own site in here. Wouldn’t you put yours?

But seriously, here at FreddieTaylor.com, I am committed to providing you with the motivation and enlightenment necessary to complete all goals and dreams, not just your online goals and dreams. This website represents my journey in the world of Internet Marketing, but also many of my passions and motivations as well. It is very exciting to know that many people in the Blogosphere can identify and be motivated by the experiments, exploitations, and expansions of a blogger like myself. I am humbled, honored, and motivated to continue you bring you the best of what I have to offer.

Conclusion
That’s it, Blog Family. Now you have the 25 Blogger Motivations, plus my bonus offering for your understanding and benefit. I am sure you have noticed many suggestions or motivations that gets you fired up and moving towards your goals and dreams in the list above. If there is anything that I missed, please be sure mention them in the comments below and the best additions will be added to the list as amendments. If you are feeling the vibe, share a story or two as to what gets you motivated as a blogger.

Find your bliss, be motivated, and go for it!