What do bloggers need?

I think bloggers in the grand scheme of things want the following:
more sales
greater productivity
more profit
better image
more customers
no hassles
more free time
notoriety

I believe money ... That's an offer they won't refuse

Gabriel

Anyone else getting a 20's mobster vibe?

Content. Bloggers want someone who can auto-pilot their content, updates to the site are what keeps it alive... Bloggers also need copyright free photos to use... Aside from SEO, traffic, sales, etc.

Off the top of my head, I think "highly targeted traffic" is always a pretty appealing prospect? More or less whatever their reason for blogging, people want that? "Traffic" is real marketing-speak, though: it could be better, depending on the context, to refer to "highly targeted visitors"?

Many bloggers don't know how to turn their audience (recurring traffic) into $, because they don't know much beyond tossing a few banners, Adsense boxes, etc. Perhaps a few lessons on conversion would be needed.

The last thing successful bloggers want would be to auto pilot their content. They know content IS their blog and would not allow anybody to play with it. Ultimately everyone need money but if you are to offer something else, may be traffic, better serps etc.

To create a wildly successful blog there are a number of elements that must come together.
1. High quality SEO Content and Traffic strategies that work
2. Killer offer (to generate leads and keep people coming back to your site)
3. Provide valuable and usable content that people can get results from
3. Engagement and the ability to connect with your audience.

People want to be entertained, engaged and educated. Provide all three and you have the potential for a great blog where people will learn to trust and like you. Results = success. People need to leave your blog knowing that if they implement what you taught they will get results. Achieve that and they'll keep coming back (and telling others)

A blueprint for success.

You have to at least give a clue of want you are offering so that bloggers can know if to be interested in it or not. Or are you giving out money?

I want groupies.

Round them up for me.

They want to be much more productive, more readers and generate more revenue.

There's a few things that every blogger needs:

Content, every blog needs to have content. They need to give value to the readers and preferably they should be SEO optimized for the keywords the blogger is trying to rank for.

Backlinking, this is something that is very important in order to rank higher in the search engines, it's also something that most people (like myself) don't like to do. If you are good at programming you might create a program/plugin to create backlinks.

Traffic, every marketers needs this. No traffic, no sales. If I would sell cars for only $1 each, and there's I don't have any traffic, nobody will see my offer and I won't sell.

Automation, this is also very important. It's probably your best bet in creating your offer, writing a blog post is a one-time action, creating backlinks for someone is too. But if you have some form of automation, you get the benefit from it every single post.

Also remember that most of us are in here because we want a better life, right? Most of us want to make more money while working less. So if you can help people with something that can do an hour's job with only a few clicks of the mouse, you have something that's of real value to them.