The web is filled with hundreds of thousands of articles offering advice to bloggers – novice or veterans. We’ve tried to gather all that wisdom into single sentence blogging tips from expert bloggers to collate this blog post.
101 Single Sentence Tips for Beginners From Blogging Experts
I hope this helps you.
Blogging Tips and Tricks for Beginners and Veteran Bloggers
- Write what you love
- Be Different
- Write like you talk
- Good content is key
- Good Photography will do wonders for your blog
- Formatting Matters a lot
- Research before you write
- Put your best foot forward and fake it until you make it.
- Be good and Do Good
- Make Friends with everyone, even your blog commentators and critics
- Treat each article as your product
- Creatively Crowdsource
- Create your own media content
- Do Interviews/ Webinars
- Invite Guest Bloggers
- Guest Post Often
- Talk about yourself but Don’t talk only about yourself
- Answer reader questions – in comment or as a dedicated blogpost
- Brand Journalism – create your content like a reporter would
- Claim Authorship of your articles on Google+ , Facebook Authorship etc
- Your Blog is not a blog, its a publication.
- Create Google Hangouts into Courses
- Convert your blogposts in audio podcasts
- Make Posts Social
- Grow your email list
- Spend a lot of time on your blog title and make it eye-catching
- Spend time on your sub-titles
- Schedule your blog posts on a calendar and honor timelines
- Measure – Analyse – Tweak – Measure – Analyse
- Mention Influencers and thought leaders
- Read other bloggers in and around your audience
- Use Google Trends to understand searches in your audience
- Conduct Keyword Research while writing your articles
- Optimise your blog for SEO
- Write a blog series, like our blogger journeys is a series where we feature bloggers and their journey in interview format.
- If you take 2 hours to write a blog post, spend at-least 8 hours to promote it.
- Use Feedly for competitive research
- Do a visual audit of your blog
- Chase customers, not clicks
- Have a strong opinion
- Scrap Jargon and follow KISS principle ( Keep It Simple Stupid )
- Have Questions in your conversation to keep the reader engaged
- Reward your readers with useful tips in every blogpost
- Get Ideas from your audience
- Finish your blog post with some kind of call to action to signup for an email list or follow you on Twitter.
- Give Stuff Away
- Be willing to fail for a long time. Give it time, even a baby takes 9 months to come out.
- No Copying. Write Original Content. ALWAYS!
- Write unfinished posts, and ask your community to complete the conversation.
- Don’t write too long or too short. Generally content between 300 to 1000 words is ideal
- Invest in good web design
- Use WordPress, whenever in doubt
- Experiment. Experiment. Experiment
- Encourage interaction and make commenting easy
- Doing is better than Doing Perfect. Doing and failing is better than learning without action.
- Use Google Auto Complete and News Jacking for Blog post ideas
- Internal linking is key. Keep a list of link worthy content from your blog handy and sprinkle generously in your new blogposts
- Write for your grandma ( write simple )
- Revisions and re-edits are not bad. Do as often as required
- Cite original sources
- Use link shortners to track clicks
- Add tweet links to tweetable content
- Make it easy for people to share your content on social media
- Schedule auto promote for your older posts on social media
- Embrace Humour
- Have a great about me page
- Syndicate content, atleast on Alltop
- Celebrate your wins – everywhere!
- If content is king, community is queen, link building is GOD!
- Listicles are the easiest way to generate traffic. This blogpost is an example of a listicle
- Returning visitors and time spend on site are more important than page-views
- Hire a tech guy to trouble shoot issues, update your blog etc as soon as you feel the need. Technology issues should not be a roadblock to your success.
- Shamelessly Ask for help and Help fellow bloggers as much as you can!
- Promote your blog in your email signature, business card, and any place that lands you eyeballs
- Have Fun!
What About You?
This sum up my blogging tips but surely I’ve missed loads more. I’m waiting for your comments to fill up the remaining blogging tips.
Veteran Bloggers: What blogging tips have we missed that you’d like to feature?
Newbie Bloggers: What are the questions you’d want us to answer in our blogging tips?
Source:
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/blogging-tips-from-the-pros/
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/39-blogging-tips/
https://blog.bufferapp.com/blogging-advice-for-beginners-from-16-experts
http://goinswriter.com/blogging-tips/
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/work/25-blogging-tips-for-new-bloggers.html
http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2011/nov/17/top-tips-successful-blog
http://sociallysorted.com.au/5-blogging-tips-pros-help-blog-take/
http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/100-tips-tricks-professional-bloggers-use-list
http://boostblogtraffic.com/blogging-tips/
http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/16-blogging-tips-for-beginning-writers/
http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/writing-successful-blog/1896/
http://weblogs.about.com/od/bloggingtips/tp/TipsBeginnerBloggers.htm
