Does the idea of blogging seem overwhelming and gigantic? Fortunately for you, blogging is a lot simpler than often it’s shown to be. In this article you will learn how to develop the skill of content creation through effort and creativity – enabling you to move forward with confidence and conviction in creating your new articles and becoming a successful blogger in no time.
Blogger Tip 1: Written What You Are Passionate About
When you are starting to blog, you are not going to get a lot of readers immediately, that is part of the process. Of course, it is vital that you do not give up. Consistency is absolutely key and major results demand a lot of hard-work over a long period of time.
“For Changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent”
Anthony Robbins
Blogger Tip 2: Think Carefully About What To Write About
In order to be a successful blogger, a balance between writing about what’s relevant in your niche and writing about what actually interests you personally is extremely important. The quality of your content will fall if you solely write about what’s relevant/trending, as your heart and soul will not be in it. Alternatively on a traffic point of view, you won’t see much growth in your business if you limit yourself to only talking about what interests you and disregard what’s in demand. Writing about what you enjoy as well as what is relevant is the sweet-spot and will dramatically aid you as a blogger.
Blogger Tip 3: Specialize In A Niche
As a blogger, your best move is to focus on a specialized niche. The major problem with creating posts about a general market/topic is that it:
- Dissolves your brand, making it significantly harder for people to recognize your single brand.
- Blocks you from becoming an expert in a specific field, making your content harder to stand out from the rest of the bloggers – reducing quality.
- Severely reduces traffic growth because general topics have a significant amount of competition.
Thus, when starting out as a blogger, make sure you create content on a specialized niche. It means you have to deal with reduced competition, you’ll become an expert in your niche and your brand identity will be much clearer.
Blogger Tip 4: Create An Email list
Once you finally start gaining traffic to your blog, it is vital to keep them in loop. The best way to achieve this is to offer a specific place on your blog for people to sign up their email for updates – a mailing list. “How To Create A Powerful Mailing List” delves deep down what you need to know about mailing lists. Overall, you offer a free ‘gift’ in exchange for a reader’s email address. Hence, whenever a blog is posted, you can send an email notifying them. Thus you, the blogger, have the ability to keep hold of your traffic and continue to provide them with Valuable and relevant content.
Blogger Tip 5: Focus On One Keyword
Each blog post should focus on a single keyword that you’ve picked out through your research into your niche. A strong keyword is a word/phrase that a user types into google to find information on a topic, is not necessarily one with huge volume. A strong keyword is one that has low levels of competition, but a good flow of monthly traffic, 1,000-10,000 monthly ideally. I strongly recommend ‘Google Adwords’ as a tool to use for researching what keyword you should use.
Ideally, you should incorporate these keywords into the title, sub-headings and a few times throughout the main body of text. Remember, you don’t want to come off as repetitive by over-using the keyword.
Blogger Tip 6: Structure Your Blogs
Make sure that your blog posts are structured well in order to make scanning through it much easier. Make use of lists and header tags etc.. Keep in mind that the average reader is not going to want to read sentences and paragraphs that are exceptionally long. Therefore, you should make them as brief and to the point as possible.
Now that you are more informed about what it takes to be a successful blogger, don’t hesitate to put these insights to practise immediately. Blogging can be enjoyable and a massive boost to your business, if you keep working on your blog consistently and provide valuable content. Start today and reap the benefits that are possible with the insights provided in this article.
Now that you’ve learnt how to make strong and quality blogs, the next step is to market them like a Pro! Check out our blog “4 Major Tips to Marketing Articles Like a Pro” to keep on growing your business.
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