Blogging Tips and Tricks for Beginners : There are over 600 million blogs active globally, and for good reason. Whether it’s part of your hobby or profession, blogging comes with a variety of benefits, For businesses, creating a blog is a powerful marketing strategy. Not only does it strengthen your SEO, but it also establishes your authority in the field and helps build connections with your target audience.
1) Write Regularly
Blogs live and die by their content. The more content you have, the more visitors you’ll get from search engines, and the more visitors you have the more readers you’ll get. Regularly updated content is great for keeping your existing readers interested, too. A reader won’t keep coming back to your blog if they see the same post every time. Readers want new content.
A lot of people suggest a daily posting schedule. That’s a lot of work! If you think you want to try writing a new blog post every day, I suggest you try doing it before you create your blog. Use your favorite word processor, and write a blog post every day for a week.
If you find yourself tired of writing at the end of the week, then consider writing a post only every few days. The most important thing isn’t so much how often you write, but that you keep to a regular schedule. If all you can manage is one post a week, but your readers know it will be available Wednesday night, then they’ll come look for it then.
2) Spread the (link) love!
A common approach with new bloggers is to try to keep readers on their own blog by not linking out to other blogs. The thinking is that if I link out, people will actually click on the link and leave my blog.
That’s true, some of your readers will follow your links. But if they find what you linked to useful, they’ll be back to read your next post. And linking out to other blogs is a great way to get the attention of the owner of the other blogs. They will probably come to see what you wrote about them, and they may stick around and become readers themselves. Or they may return the favor and link to you sometime.
Linking liberally is a good technique for both providing value for your readers and getting more readers.
Whatever you write about in your blog, you can bet there’s someone else out there writing a blog on the same topic. Reading those other blogs helps keep your inspiration going. You will often find topic ideas on other blogs that you hadn’t considered, and you can put your own perspective on the topic and write about it yourself.
Commenting on other blogs is also a great idea. By commenting on another blog, you’re announcing to the owner of that blog that you liked what they wrote enough to take the time to comment. The chances are good that they’ll come over to your blog and read some of the posts, and maybe leave a comment.
When you leave a comment on another blog you’ll be asked for a URL. Be sure to put the web address of your blog in that field. That way, when someone visits the blog and sees your comment, they can click on your name to go to your blog.
Regularly leaving comments on other blogs is a great way to make friends and build up a readership.
4) Market in moderation
Many people these days get into blogging to try and make money.
You can make money blogging by putting ads on your blog pages, or by linking out to affiliate products in your blog posts. Some bloggers think that the more of this they do, the more money they’ll make.