Blogging Tips for New Bloggers
In recent years blogging has grown to moderate extent, many people want to have their online blogs. Well, there are some websites, which will publish your content free, and there are some websites, which will charge you for publishing your content, but it has to be within their prescribed guidelines. Today blogging has been a powerful medium to reach masses, the medium has provided to show our views and values as well the independence it has provided to comment on certain issues that may be political, social or cultural. In accordance to cash the popularity of blogs, they have also become an option for earning money using various ways to increase blog traffic and the popularity of blogs.
Blogging tips for effective blogging
- Be a good writer: In order to be a good blogger you have to be a good writer. You will have to keep on writing and keep on posting which will give you more traffic from the search engines. As more and more content is published, you will witness a stagnant rise in your readership.
- Be concise: Another trade secret is to be concise; you will have to write in as few words as possible and heat the bottom line. People are interested to get something new in less span of time so be precise and keep your blogs short.
Use catchy titles: Every blog you post should have a catchy title if you search for favorite titles you will get an idea to produce a catchy title. The title should not be more than 12 words and should be related to its content.- Use Media Files: By using medial files like Photos, audio or video you can increase the effectiveness and presentation of your blog. Make sure that they should be appropriate to the content in the body of blog.
- Proof read before publishing: Make sure that your blog is error free, there should be not any grammatical, spelling or punctuation marks mistakes. Double-check them before publishing.
- Use analytics: By using these services you, will know the exact source of traffic and their choice. You will know the website providing you traffic, their country and their queries. If you provide your readers exactly what they are looking for, you will increase your followers and readers.
- Keep updated: the best you can do is to keep updates on what is happening in the blogging world and new technologies and technical applications arriving for the same. Learn as you are writing get in to habit of reading others blog and understand the way to adopt new writing styles and writing techniques.
Saksham, a high school student and a blogger likes to write on blogging and technology topics. He blogs for a webhosting site offering inmotion hosting.
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a good writer should learn and read more from other blogs . keep himself updated at all times and be helpful to others / readers through his updated and informative posts …. being helpful is given more stress here ….
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True Sourish, Being helpful is the most important value that each blogger must have even if he does not have great writing skills or any other skills, being helpful, engaging, building relationship can certainly land him success
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Proofreading is really important. Thats the place where i was losing before. now i am using after the deadline plugin and it perfectly checks all the grammar errors. You can also try that Shiva it’s really helpful to bloggers like us as we are not native english speakers.
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I agree with you Mukundan, Proofreading is one very essential part of blogging but many bloggers forget to do it. Thanks for the plugin recommendation, I am certainly going to check it out
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Shiva these are really good tips for someone just starting out in blogging, good writing is essential for any blog. Consistency and proofreading are a must.
Yup you are right. The above stated points are the basics of blogging and a newbie blogger should follow each of them to have a strong foundation for his/her blog
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These are pretty much all common sense stuff. I think new bloggers should just focus on writing good content, and forget about analytics and the rest. Just focus on compelling blog posts and the rest will follow.
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Thanks for the tips. Aside from those, One should have a Positive Attitude.
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Yup, Lyka positive attitude is essential not only in blogging but every sphere of life, only then can one be successful
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Blog posting is very interesting for me. I would like to add that regular posting of blogs is necessary if you want to keep your blog active.
You are right Sean, you should post consistently but at the same time also promote the posts, only posting wont be enought
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learning is the key, when you read other blog articles you should see how they build a great article..
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You are right Master, read others posts, learn their writing style, adopt their tips, in short we can say blogging is learning new things and posting your thoughts on them
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Blogging is my part time and regular profession………… Your post about is not only for beginners but also it shown a good line of guidance for me……………Best of luck!
I am glad your liked the post John and best of luck for your profession
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Catchy titles is key to success. Nice post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
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Good titles helps a lot in catching the eye of a reader as well as the search engines. It is always important to write catchy title. Thanks for the comment Swamykant
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One article I read from Google Webmaster Tools that first para of the article must be unique, interesting and attractive. This should force the user to stay there more time to read full the page……………… By which, we should also got more bounce rate for our blog.
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Nasir, it is not more bounce rate but less bounce rate…bounce rate means the amount/percentage of people who go away from your blog without reading the post.
You are right about have a good first paragraph. It is important to have a catchy first para.
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I think one should be a regular reader of top blog. They can easily learn how to write catchy titles
Good Post. Thanks for sharing.
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You are right Pankaj, Readings others top blogs of your niche can help you a lot in becoming good at blogging.
Thanks for passing by and commenting
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Excellent tips for new bloggers. Write quality content more and write regularly. Given time, you will get more readers.
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You are right Jasmine, Like they say content is the king and then second comes engagement with your fellow readers
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New bloggers aside, i am of the opinion the aforesaid posting can be a constant back to basic reminders to all bloggers. Timely article!
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Glad you liked the article feedsblogger, thanks for the comment and the visit
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I think new bloggers should just focus on writing good content, and forget about analytics and the rest. Just focus on compelling blog posts and the rest will follow.
When you are going to write new post always take time to write something new, fresh content. Remember that “content is king”, without valuable content you can not able to get traffic on your blog. Do not write what other are saying. Write something new so that your blog reader can enjoy by reading your blog and return to you blog again. If you want to sell something on your blog then first try to convenience your visitors about your products, write article about that products and inform visitors what are the good things about the products. After all you have to build a strategy for sell product on your blog.
Thanks for beautiful and targeted advise, its really good and work, I am going through in learning process. Good list!
Some people tend to read too quickly to proofread effectively, and in those cases I suggest moving your finger along under each word as you read the physical action helps to keep the eyes from racing ahead of the brain.
Keep updated, thats the most important bit.
Cant stand bloggers who will post once every 2 weeks. Need to be consistent and reliable if you want me coming back (why i like netchunks)
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I have to admit that is not that easy being a good writer. I think that the most important thing is to see who your readers are before starting to write. After all, you are writing for them, and not just for yourself.
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Two more to add, always interact and reply to all your readers/visitors.. And use social mean to promote..
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The most important part of the blogosphere is its community and much of your success as a blogger will be tied to your willingness to network with that community. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, join conversations or just say hi and introduce yourself. Don’t sit back and hope the online world will find you. Speak out and get yourself noticed. Let the blogosphere know you’ve arrived and have something to say!
Guest blogging can be done when you write a guest post on another blogger’s blog or when another blogger writes a guest post on your blog. Both methods are likely to increase traffic as your blog will be exposed to the other blogger’s audience. Many of the other blogger’s readers will visit your blog to see what you have to say.
Promoting your blog shouldn’t stop when you step outside the blogosphere. Add your blog’s URL to your email signature and business cards. Talk about it in offline conversations. It’s important to get your name and your blog’s URL noticed offline, too.
Select the theme for your blog so that it matches with the contents. As example, if you are starting a technology tips and tricks blog and choose a magazine theme, the readers may lose attention. Hence blog theme must be appropriate enough.
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One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about.
Since I’m new to the blog world, and to Blogger, how is it that you can find people who are blogging about relatively close topics so that you can follow them? I’ve tried the “next page” option, but nothing is really close to the topics I want to read about, nor discuss/share on my blog.
Ask yourself (and instruct your kids to do the same) if you are you comfortable showing any of the content to a stranger. If in doubt, have them take it out.
There are potential risks in sharing this type of detailed personal information. And, as more young peers create more blogs, they tend to compete increasingly with each other for attention. Sometimes this can lead to kids posting inappropriate material such as provocative pictures of themselves or their friends.
Use blogging provider sites with clearly stated terms of use, and make sure they can protect the actual blogs, not just the user accounts, with password protection. (Even so, it’s better to assume anyone can see it.)
Blogging is tedious, boring, monotonous and downright draining at times. Once you’ve blogged for a while, there will be days when you just want to chuck it in favor of something more exciting.
Let me share a secret with you – three years ago I knew nothing about blogs, I had never used the internet for anything more than email, surfing and chatting to friends and I could only barely do any of that! But one day I discovered a blog and after surfing from one to another (blogs tend to link up to other blogs a lot) for a few hours I was hooked and wanted to start my own.
I personally enjoy blogging and fortunately i earn from the work i enjoy, make be i enjoy it so much because i am a very talkative person and always ready to get into discussions… but i am completely lucky to enjoy my work.
These are definitely great tips. If they are just going to be followed constantly, then, new bloggers out there will surely not encounter any problem.
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Thanks for the blogroll and shoutout. You’re on my reading list as you provide great info and you blog regularly. Keep on bloggin’
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