Blogging Tips For Newbies
Ultimate Blogging Tips for Newbies.
You CAN have a rewarding career working from home and being able to spend more time with your family. Blogging has given me the freedom to work from home and earn a pretty good living.
As a blogger, I do not want to blow smoke and tell you it's easy as pie, but with a bit of work and the incredible training here within WA, you have all the tools you need. Here is my ultimate list of my top blogging tips! If you have any additional one’s please leave them in the comments below!
Be Passionate About Your Topic
We’re all passionate about something. Take a look at your life and identify what your passionate about to interpret into a blog. If you start writing about a topic your not passionate about it will be hard to stick with it in the long run.
Stop Procrastinating
My blogging tip is like Nike’s model, “just do it.” Procrastination is something that everyone deals with. If you come up with a great idea for your blog just do it. My advice is to start jotting your ideas in a notepad, come up with the top 3, and finally start your blog. The more you over think it, the longer you will prolong it.
Helpful Reading: Break the Writer's Block - Resources for Ideas
Be Authentic
I’ve been blogging for about six years and one thing that has become apparent to me is that people respect and responds to authenticity.
Keep in mind the following when writing authentically:
- Be yourself
- Write about things you care about
- Write about things your audience cares about
- Always respond to comments left on your posts
- Ask your readers opinions about future post
- Let your readers know who you are
Get Personal
To get people to read your blog can be quite difficult task to do. My biggest advice I can give is to get personal with your readership. You don’t need to reveal everything about yourself but enough to get some engagement. I personally share my personal experiences about blogging, the good and bad.
Here are some additional ways to engage your readers:
- Write conversationally
- Use metaphors to engage your audience
- Inspire your readers
- Write interesting topics
Be Unique
The world of blogging is a wonderful place filled with tons of blogs. What sets your blog apart from the others? It’s important to develop your own unique blog.
Make sure your content is original, provide quality over quantity, and have a clear mission goal of what you intend to achieve with your blog.
Understand Your Audience
Understanding your audience is critical to the success of your website. Knowing your audience helps you adapt the content of your writing to tackle the main concerns of your audience. This goes a LONG way in creating relationships and turning visitors into clients.
For Review:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/wa-affili...
Build Your Email List
Begin assembling your email list from the very first moment. Regardless of the fact that you don’t anticipate offering anything, having an email list permits you to elevate your new substance to your group of onlookers straightforwardly without stressing about your blog stats.
Training That Will Help:
FREE Combo Sharing & Email Opt-in - SumoMe
Definitive Guide to Email Marketing Setup
Call To Action
The biggest objective of your website is having conversions. It’s important to always add a call to action on every single post. The call to action helps drive prospective customers to convert to leads through landing page.
Training That Will Help:
Powerful Trigger Words for Calls-to-Action
Quality Content
Every post you write should be quality content and add value to your audience. By adding value to your content it will keep your audience happy and coming back for more. My biggest way of adding value to my blog is by sharing all I know.
Further Reading:
Tips For Building A Killer Content Marketing Strategy
Website Traffic and Conversions: 3 Seconds, Use it Wisely
Be Consistent
Consistency is amongst the biggest struggle for bloggers. Writing a blog takes a lot of work and effort. One of the secrets to successful blogging is consistency. Make sure to set a schedule, begin writing in those set days, and be reliable. Having a consistent schedule helps improve the chances that your readers will see you as a credible brand they can always trust.
Learn More: Writing Blog Posts- even if no one is reading
You Need To Be Social
Another great way to build traffic to your blog is interacting in your social media channels. You will need to market your blog post in social media.
Things to keep in mind when sharing content:
- Develop a sharing schedule
- Never share the same message twice
- Optimize your content for each network
- Monitor your results
- Experiment with titles
- Identify your target reader
Discover Social Media Marketing:
10 Social Media Stats You Should Know
TOP 12 Steps to Social Media Success
Give It Time
Most people give up to quickly before seeing any results with their blog. Bogging takes time and energy. It does take a lot of work and takes a long time to yield any monetary results. It’s important to give it time and understand it will take time.
Give Stuff Away
Giving away something of value is how you get your readers hooked. Many bloggers have giveaways in order to get new readership and at the same time build their mailing list.
Things you could give away:
- A free e-book
- Free app
- Offer a free trial
- Offer a money back guarantee
- Give away your expertise
- Offer a free advertising spot on your site as a prize
- Give a free report
More on e-book creation: How To Make an eBook (simple..with pictures!)
Write Catchy Headlines
A catchy headline is why some blog post becomes popular and some fade into obscurity. The purpose of writing a catchy headline is because they are designed to grab attention. The objective of the catchy headline is to turn a browser into a reader.
Helpful Resource: My Killer Headline Fill-in-the-Blank Cheatsheet
Make Your Content Easy To Share
Display social media icons in your website to make your content easily to share. These small social media buttons link to services like Facebook, Twitter, allowing your readership to share your content directly to their social media channels. The most easily shareable is your content; the more people will share it.
Very Cool and Versatile Social Sharing Plug-in:
FREE Combo Sharing & Email Opt-in - SumoMe
Choose A Niche With Money To Spend
Although children do not earn money, they have money to spend their parent’s money! Retired people are another group that has money to spend. People who have just made a major purchase (like their first home, for example) do not have nearly as much money to spend.
What is a Profitable Niche - Tips for Choosing a Niche
Comments
My blogging tip would be to always revise every single comment. Respond to positive and negative comments demonstrate that feedback is important to you, be it good or bad. When working on reputation management for your brand, it’s important to respond to your readers. When I get comments, I always make a point to respond.
Invest In Yourself
The best investment you can make is to invest in yourself. Whether you want to become a better bloggers or learn how to create an info-graphic is great to always innovate yourself. My blogging tip is to always learn new things always stay ahead of the game.
Names to Google for their books on Marketing and Success:
Tony Robbins, Russell Brunson, Ryan Diess, Brendon Bruchard and Ryan Levesque
(Thanks Again Gordon!)
Use Images
Using your own custom made images is a great way to brand your company, boost engagement, and help tell your story. Make sure to incorporate an image on every single post.
Helpful Resources: TOP 23 Free Stock Image Sites
Facebook Groups
Facebook Groups allow you to easily communicate with people who share the same interest as yourself. Many of these Facebook Groups are very large having over 20K members. This will give your post more exposure and increase engagement. my blogging tip
Something to check out: How to Use Facebook for Social Media Marketing - What I Do
Include A Contact Us
Make it easy for your customers to contact you. Place contact information as many places as you can in your website. The contact us can be a page in your header, add a link in your footer, place links on the sidebars, etc…
The Contact Us form should include:
- Business Name
- Physical Address
- Mailing Address
- Telephone
- Website Address
Learn How: Creating Anti-spam Contact Form
Privacy Policy
A privacy policy is a must for every website or online business. The privacy policy gives peace of mind for your readers and aware of their rights regarding data and information collected. My blogging tip
When creating your privacy policy make sure to include:
- Tell your customers how their information will be used by your company
- Tell your customers what personal information is collected
- Explain any transferred of information to third party companies
- Tell your customers the use of cookies
- Give instructions on how users can modify their personal information
- Give instructions on how users can opt out of future communication
Use a secure processing server when collecting credit cards numbers, bank details, and personal information
Kyle's training on this: How to Create a Privacy Policy Page on Your Website
About Us
The about us page is one of the biggest component of your website. The page should include a brief description of your business, products, and services. The about us page helps build credibility and increase trust into your organization.
The about us page can include the following:
- Mission Statement
- Details of The Staff
- Photos of The Organization
- Biographies
- Qualifications
- Recently Completed Projects
Search Box
Add a search box to your website to improve navigation. The search box will make it easier for users to navigate your website.
Site Map
By implementing site map in conjunction with your website helps your visitors have a clear idea of how the site is laid out. Using site maps make it easier for users to navigate and better visibility by search engines.
More on SiteMaps: How To Create Sitemaps For Google and Bing
Again, welcome to ALL those new to Wealthy Affiliate. I know it's like you're drinking water through a firehose at times, but remember - We were all where you are one day! Relax and stay motivated!
I hope this helped!Cheers,
pj
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You have done it again. Great staff. Thank you. Joseph
Thanks again Joseph!