10 Basic Blogging Tips
10 Basic Blogging Tips
1. First Impression is the Last Impression
If your blog don’t have decent layout and your readers are finding it hard to read your actual content, you need to fix it . It’s your blog design which is first viewed by your blog readers and if they don’t like it, they will simply close it and move on.
2. Content Quality
You content’s quality matters a great deal. If it’s really good, it will motivate your blog readers to visit your blog again and again to read your latest blogging tips and keep up with your posts. Relevant and interesting images and videos makes your posts more interesting. No one wants to read a long wordy blog post without a single image. Also, proofread for grammatical and sentence related errors and create an eye catching title for all your blog posts.
Blog posts with eye catching headlines get better CTR (Click through Rate) in search engine results and other places of listings.
3. Write Guest Posts for Other Blogs
Write guest posts for other blogs in your targeted niche is one of the best things you could do to become a successful blogger. Make a list of most popular blogs in your niche and approach them with high quality guest posts.
4. Reply to Comments
You should reply to comments coming on your blog posts. If you are not replying comments, don’t expect lots of comments on your blog posts from genuine blog readers. Check your guest posts on regular basis and reply to incoming comments. Before commenting you should set an avatar with your picture on Gravatar.com.
5. Learn the Basics of SEO
You should start learning the basics of SEO. It will be your SEO skills that will take you from being an average blogger to a successful blogger. Use targeted keywords in your blog post URL, Title, meta tags, as an alternative text with images, heading tags and few times in your actual blog content. You should interlink your blog posts where they make sense. Link to trusted websites to give additional information about a topic to your blog readers.
6. Link Building Activities
Guest blogging on other blogs will help you get some high quality backlinks for your blog from popular blogs in your niche. You cannot get much traffic to your blog without link building activities if you are blogging about a competitive niche.
7. Have a Strong Presence on Social Media Networks
You need to make sure your blog has a strong presence on Social Media networks like Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter.
8. Improve Speed of Your Blog
You need to look at all possible ways to improve the speed of your blog. If you are adding images, you should optimize their sizes before uploading on your blog. You should enter cleaned HTML into your blog posts.
9. Improve Engagement on Your Blog
You should write engaging content on your blog. You should give a personal touch to your blog posts. You should ask questions; take advice and feedback from your blog readers. CommentLuv plugin to encourage visitors to leave comments and interact with one another.
10. Monetize Your Blog
If one of your primary goals behind blogging is earning cash, you should start monetizing your blog once you start seeing some traffic on it. No doubt there are hundreds or even thousands of websites claiming to help you make money from your blog, but don’t believe all of them, ask other bloggers who are more than willing to share their success stories.
Do you have other tips to share?
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I need to do a better job of link building and being active on social media. These are great tips.
Sonya, although it’s time consuming, it is definitely worth the efforts. Enjoy your day!
Great tips for sure!
SEO and social media are top priority for me. I actually found your site through a Twitter search!
Other than that, I focus on doing a lot of word of mouth marketing and will be dabbling in some paid ads soon.
Thanks for the helpful post,
-Gabe Johansson
These are some fantastic tips. I need to keep these in mind a lot more often.
Glad I could pass along some great tips.
Great tips, Antionette! This type of advice, I can never read too many times because there’s always something I need a gentle reminder of to improve or quit slacking with.
Celeste, that is great, we can never have too much information even if sometimes it feels like information overload! Enjoy the rest of your week.
Be careful with link building, Google is now looking for authentic link building meaning your readers sharing your content. I was reading about this yesterday. Guest posting is good but don’t do it all the time because Google once again frowns upon it if you’re doing it too often to trick the system. Great post sis!
Thank you sis, keep me straight! I hope you are winding down from your wonderful holiday with the hubs!
This is very helpful! Thanks for sharing. I can put some of these into practice for my own blog. I am definitely learning a lot about SEO and how to use that to help rank your site.
thank you, I appreciate your comments, I love sharing information that I have found so that we can all have some success especially with SEO!
Great ideas here. Glad you brought up knowing basic SEO. I’m convinced there is no one on the planet that gets all the little details of SEO but having some basic core knowledge will help folks get their content found easier for sure. But folks don’t need to burn too much time trying to figure it all out. Nice post!
Gary, thank you, just sharing the knowledge that I have found so that we can all have some success in the blogosphere. I hope all is well on your side of the world.
Thanks for these great ideas, I will definitely be applying some of these to my blog.
Glad you could use a few, I love sharing information.