Some blogs give you tips on what to do and what not to do, but sometimes they miss vital details and some topics don’t seem to come up much.
Here are 6 solid blogging tips for beginners.
This article will talk about blogging tips for beginners and you will get to know all strategies and techniques require to create a successful blog.
1. Make Your Blog Look Nice:
Imagine you entered accidentally to a site and the site looks like a dog’s dinner, will you be impressed with it? Who likes to read article on green page? A blog’s attractive design always hold the visitors for sometime so it is always better to invest on themes and designs that look attractive.
2. Make Your Title Interesting:
Your title should be eye-catchy, understandable and must tell something about your post. Remember that when unknown visitors visit your site the first thing they will look is either your blog or the title, But the question that comes to my mind is does title plays important role in search engine ranking?
The keyword which is catchy is generally not typed in search engines. So catchy titles will not give you traffic from search engine, a solution to this is to write seo analyzed title tags. This tags helps your search engine rankings.
3. Blogging For Purpose:
The blog you started must have a purpose behind it, the content you provided must be informative. If you are only trying to fill the spaces on your blog without focusing on what your target audience wants then you decrease the value of your blog. Your readers must be satisfied when they read your articles. You must not just blog for blogging sake but must have a great reason for blogging, so many bloggers just post for posting sake, this is not supposed to be, you should always be able to provide useful and helpful posts on your blog.
4. Be Consistent:
According to me lack of consistency is the most common weakness of the unsuccessful blogs, let me explain this to you with an example. If one person builds 100 backlinks and do other seo techniques in one day and then do nothing for next 10 days while another person makes 10 backlinks/per day and do other seo techniques on a regular basis. Whom do you think is better? According to Google search engine, the second person deserves better output and will get high ranks.
Consistency is required in writing blog posts, building backlinks, article submission and in everything.
5. Promote Your Article:
This is the most important step for beginners. Most of the time, I have seen it written that content is king and I would disagree, Content is queen and marketing is king.
What is the use of quality content posted on your blog if nobody visits your blog? Who will read that post? So it is important to focus on both quality content as well as its promotion. It is also very important to use various methods to promote your blog, you should not just rely on one source for traffic.
6. Keep Learning:
We live in a lovely world which keeps on changing, in fact, the internet world changes faster than that. The tools you are using changes, always a better version seems to be available.
You should not feel like learning is a burden on you, in fact, you should make it something always welcomed by you. It is important as it keeps you tuned with trends and development in the world of blogging. It is the only thing that will make you ahead of others.
I hope these tips help you in some way. These are the basic tips required for the beginners.
An additional tip is that you must stay to your topic and learn to seo on your blog, SEO will surely increase your traffic. Enjoy doing blogging.
I’m Abhishek and my brother Rajneesh (Founder of SeekersFind.com) – a full time blogger from India. You can connect with us on Twitter.You can also subscribe to our blog or subscribe to our RSS feed.
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Great points,
I wish I had read this when I was a beginner haha. It would have done worlds of help.
CJ
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Hi ,
Yes CJ this is for beginners to learn and grow .
Thanks
Rajneesh
Great points man!
I agree with all points and you have explained them beautifully and simply.
‘Make Your Blog Look Nice’ Yup I agree. People really like great designs and themes, in addition to great content.
‘What is the use of quality content posted on your blog if nobody visits your blog?’
Yup. Just as content is important, marketing that content is just as important, otherwise no one will be able to see and read your good content.
Kindest,
Nabeel
Hi Nabeel ,
Thanks for your lovely comment .all beginners need this things to be clear.
Thanks
Rajneesh
Thanks for the tips. I wish I would have read them a few months ago when I started my blog. I’m still working to find the right balance…
Thanks for sharing your blogging insight Rajneesh.
I like the dog’s dinner comment
Purposeful blogging is vital. Unless you write an interesting and more importantly useful post your readers will stop reading. Seek to add value before you decide to hit the “Publish” button.
Ryan Biddulph
Hi Ryan Biddulph ,
I agree with you completely , their is no mean to write article with no value.
Thanks
Rajneesh
All good points. Especially the first one. Lots of people think their site needs to be flashy. It doesn’t. In fact, often the simplest sites look the best. It just needs to not be ugly!
As for #6, that’s good for beginners and experts. The moment you stop learning is the moment when you won’t have anything interesting to blog about anymore!
Hi Marek ,
Thanks for adding value to my post . Really nice comment
Rajneesh
I was 11 to write new articles on my blog. So I thought I was lucky to read ur great tips.They will help me avoid mistakes.
Thanks for sharing this tips. I came across to your site and i found lots of informative post. This is what I am looking for my new blog. Also I am a beginner with SEO. Your blog helps me alot.
All of them are correct and I just want to add 2 small points that you should be (1) responsive and interactive and (2) listening skill
Hi ,
Thanks for enhancing my post .
Thanks for sharing this. You’ve pointed out a lot of great details here. I agree with “keep learning” attitude. We should not stop learning, and for us to really grow our business, we need a non-stop learning, even the big names online don’t stop learning.
Kind regards,
Gary
I totally agree with the first point! We need to make our blog as nice as possible. Recently, i just redesign my blog. It looks more nice now. Thanks to Alex to help me to have a nice blog design.
I think promote the article is the most difficult thing to do. We need to put a lot of efforts to promote our article.
This is a perfect article to help the beginners for article writing and submission. Beginners for SEO are going to like this stuff. Thanks we appreciate it.
Thanks for appreciating and sharing your views on my post .
Great guest post, and you covered a lot of subjects here for all of us. But especially for anyone new to blogging. I noticed that Kok mentioned in his reply that “promoting the article” is one of the harder things. I think if you visit more blogs and leave a comment when you visit these blogs, you will get more exposure thus more visitors to your blog. Great post,great ideas. jj
it’s take a lot of time if do that all alone.
Better to have a team to make it easier.
Like the point “6. Keep Learning:”
because there’s not absolutely right / wrong in it.
Thx for the tips
See. Great post here. Yes I am totally agree on all of your point especially on title. Most of the people read title first.