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10 Blogging Tips for Beginners
1. 10 BLOGGING TIPS FOR BEGINNERS
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2. The tips I’m sharing today have
all been used by myself. I’ve been
blogging for over 5 years now,
with The Profit Blogger being my
latest addition to my blogging
empire. I am sharing tips that I
use myself to build up my blogs
and to make them more
successful.
To help newbie bloggers out, I’m sharing this list of 10 blogging
tips for beginners. I’ve seen a lot of questions on the internet from
new bloggers searching for ideas on how they can make their blog
better, how they can drive more traffic to their blog and how they
can make more money from their blog. To give some clarification
on these questions, I’m sharing 10 tips that you can use as a
newbie blogger to make your blog more successful.
3. Content freshness is very important when it comes to ranking your blog in search engines. The more content
you publish, the more search engines will crawl your website. This is an important part of making your blog
successful, and the reason I included this as the very first tip in my list of blogging tips for beginners.
Try to create some time every day to work on your blog. This is especially important when you’re only
starting out since you need to populate your blog with high quality content. The more posts you make, the
faster your blog will grow. Even though I have some established blogs, I always make sure to work on all my
blogs on a daily basis. Apart from helping with your search engine rankings, this also gives a “fresh”
appearance to your blog – visitors will be far more likely to read a post you published today than a post you
published 3 years ago.
4. Your most valuable visitors will come from search engines. This is also called organic traffic. And to ensure
your site gets ranked in search engines, you have to make sure you optimize all the content on your website.
Start by doing some keyword research. Choose a keyword with low competition and a reasonable amount of
monthly searches. Long-tail keywords usually works best and will give you longer term search engine
ranking benefits. Every post you make should be keyword-optimized – this is very important if you want to
get high rankings in search engines!
If you’re using WordPress to blog, then I recommend you install Yoast SEO. This is a free on-page SEO plugin
that will rate every post or page you create on your website. This plugin will also tell you exactly how you
can improve the SEO-score of your posts.
5. Building a list is now an essential part of operating a blog. When you offer your readers valuable content that they can use,
they will be eager to receive more content from you, and to read more on your blog. Adding a subscription form to your
blog and then telling your visitors they can subscribe and you will send them regular updates is a great way to get these
people on your mailing list. And once you have them on your mailing list, you can start promoting affiliate offers to them
and make some extra cash.
Many internet marketers claim that they make the most money out of their list building projects. This is a true fact that
has been proven.
Think of it this way. Someone visits your website and enjoys your content, but they do NOT click on an affiliate link you
have in the post they are reading. They do, however, subscribe to your mailing list. Now you have their email address on
your list, and can send them an email at any time. Let’s say you send out 2 emails every week, that makes it 8 emails every
month. Every second email you send out contains an affiliate link. Now even though this person didn’t click on the affiliate
link in the original post He/She read, they still subscribed to your list – this means that they will receive 4 emails every
month from you containing an affiliate link. Now imagine they click on every second affiliate link you send them – this
gives you 2 clicks per month from that one person.
You can use any mailing list service to build your list. Some top choices include Aweber and GetResponse.
6. Creating a social presence for your blog doesn’t have to take up much of your time. Start by writing a short
bio that you can use on all sites, and then continue to preparing an avatar as well as a cover photo for your
social media accounts. Once you have all these data ready, you can simply start registering accounts and
creating pages on different social networks for your blog. Be sure to brand these pages and accounts
according to the name of your blog.
Share content with your audience frequently, and do not forget to make use of the social groups and
communities available on social networks. By simply becoming an active member and building up some
authority for your brand, you will be able to get hundreds to thousands of social media group members to
like your page, follow your account and even read your blog posts. The key is to share helpful content with
these groups, introduce yourself and make a “name” for yourself within the group, and then simply share a
link with a good call-to-action within the group.
7. I know this is a list of blogging tips for beginners, but the truth is the sooner you start to reach out to other
bloggers in your niche, the better. Reaching out to other bloggers can be a great help to build up more
authority for your own blog, and to help you expand your reach.
Reaching out to niche-related bloggers usually involves writing a post that they will post on their blog, and in
return they will give you a link back to your site. This is also known as guest blogging or writing guest posts.
Many online courses and internet marketers will tell you that guest blogging doesn’t help anymore – but that
is very far from the truth.
Yes, guest blogging has become a bit saturated. That doesn’t mean that it’s completely useless!
Posting a guest post on a niche-related blog holds 2 amazing benefits. The post that you publish on the third-
party blog will include a link back to your website in an author box. This will drive traffic back to your
website, and create a high quality backlink to your website at the same time.
8. Every blogger knows that backlinks are the backbone of getting high rankings in search engines. This also
causes a lot of newbie bloggers to try and create as many backlinks as they can in the shortest period of
time. Thinking that this will help them rank higher in search engines, newbie bloggers usually take on free
backlink builders online. Their high hopes are quickly torn to shreds when they find out that those backlinks
did more damage than good to their blog’s search engine rankings.
So what’s the right approach to take when building backlinks? The right way is to focus on backlink quality
over backlink quantity.
This simply means that you should not focus on building ten thousand backlinks at once. Rather focus on
building high quality backlinks at a slower pace. And if you do not have enough money to spend on
expensive SEO agencies, you can still do this yourself. Simply do some research and you will find many ways
to build high quality backlinks to your blog.
9. One of the best ways to get people to love your blog is by engaging with your audience. The problem here is
that many newbie bloggers overlook this very important element, and focus on building more content rather
than getting their audience engaged with their existing content.
Now, I’m not saying you should stop writing posts and start having conversations with your visitors. I’m
simply stating a fact that is often overlooked by newbie bloggers.
So how should you approach this? Simple! Continue writing blog posts, but write your posts in a
“conversational” way – as if you are talking to your audience. This will instantly get your audience more
engaged, and much more likely to comment and share.
Also reply to comments made on your blog posts, and comment on blogs related to your niche. Do not spam
these blogs, but rather share helpful comments and replies to the original topic. You are usually allowed a
link back to your website in the comments.
10. One of the biggest problems newbie bloggers face is the fact that people aren’t reading their content. They
share their content on multiple platforms, and they do get clicks to their blog, but their bounce rate is
extremely high. a High bounce rate means that the majority of your blog visitors are leaving your blog within
a few seconds – this also means that people aren’t reading your content.
To solve this problem, you need to give your readers what they want. Do thorough research on topics that’s
trending in your niche, and use question/answer sites to your advantage. Collect popular questions and
problems that arise in your niche, and then write about these topics.
You can also create a survey or poll and post it on your blog, as well as on social media. If you have a mailing
list, invite your subscribers to complete the survey. a Well formatted survey can give you a lot of valuable
data and statistics about your readers and what information they are looking for.
Another good idea is to have a “suggest a topic” button on your website. Ask your visitors what they want
you to write about, and then write about it. Be sure to gather the email address of visitors when they suggest
a topic so you can send them an update with a link to the article you wrote.
11. As a newbie blogger, you do not have any authority in your niche. This is because you’re only starting out
with your first blog, and no one really knows about you, what you do, what you know or even about your
blog yet. Well, this needs to change – and the sooner the better.
As part of my blogging tips for beginners, I didn’t want to include this tip at first. I later decided to add this
tip – the reason is because the sooner you start to build up authority for yourself and your blog, the sooner
you will become a more “famous” blogger. The more people see your name and your blog’s name on the
internet, the more they will know you and the more they will want to know about you.
12. I personally know, and have heard about so many people that tried to make it online, but ended up quitting.
The reasons defer from person to person, but in the end they all gave up because they didn’t see results fast
enough. And that’s one big problem when it comes to making money online and building an online career for
yourself. You HAVE to be patient. It takes time and effort to built things up, but once you’ve established
yourself as an online money maker, things get easier as you move along.
The beginning is the hardest part, and that’s why I’m giving you this tip. Do NOT give up. Just because you’re
not getting a thousand hits a day within your first month doesn’t mean you’re unsuccessful. Some blogs take
up to six months to see real results. The secret is to keep things going even when it seems like there’s no
more hope.
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