Top 7 Tips For Beginner Bloggers


Anyone can have a blog but learning the basics of blogging is what makes a blog successful out of the crap. However, starting a blog can seem overwhelming, but in truth, it's one of the simplest ways to join the online community. So feel free to follow these tips to ensure your blog is positioned for success.

1.  Define Your Goals

Before you start a new blog, it's essential that you define your goals for it. Your blog has a greater chance of success if you know from the beginning what you hope to accomplish with it. Are you trying to establish yourself as an expert in your field? Are you trying to promote your business? Are you simply blogging for fun and to share your ideas and opinions? Your short and long term goals for your blog are dependent on the reason why you're starting your blog. Think ahead to what you'd like to gain from your blog in six months, one year and three years. Then design, write and market your blog to meet those goals.



2.  Know Your Audience

Your blog's design and content should reflect the expectations of your audience. For example, if your intended audience is teenagers, the design and content would be quite different than a blog targeted to corporate professionals. Your audience will have inherent expectations for your blog. Don't confuse them but rather meet and exceed those expectations to gain reader loyalty.

3.  Be Consistent and Persistent

Your blog is a brand just like brands such as Coke or Nike, and represents a specific message and image to your audience. Being consistent allows you to meet your audience's expectations and create a secure place for them to visit again and again that rewards reader loyalty.

A lively blog is a useful blog. Blogs that are not updated frequently are perceived by their audiences as static web pages. While it's important not to publish meaningless posts else you may bore your audience, it's essential that you update your blog frequently. The best way to keep readers coming back is to always have something new (and meaningful) for them to see.


4.  Be Social

One of the most unique aspects of blogging is its social impact. Therefore, always welcome your readers and invite them to join a two-way conversation. Ask your readers to leave comments by posing questions than respond to comments from your readers. Doing so will show your readers that you value them, and it will keep the conversation going.

Much of your blog's success relies on your efforts outside your blog. Those efforts include finding other bloggers to discuss and inviting them on your blog, joining social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn.


5.  Take Risks

Beginner bloggers are often afraid of the new blogging tools and features available to them. Don't be afraid to take risks and try new things on your blog. From adding a new gadget to changing the template, it's important that you keep your blog fresh by implementing changes that will enhance the reader’s interest in your blog. However, avoid extreme changes like changing the niche to which blog doesn’t compel or adding contents that is restrictive like have age restriction. Instead, review each potential enhancement in terms of how it will help you reach your goals for your blog and how your audience will respond to it.

6.  Ask for Help and Keep Learning

Even the most experienced bloggers understand the blogosphere is an ever-changing place and no one knows everything there is to know about blogging. Don't be afraid to reach out to fellow bloggers for help. Remember, the success of the blogosphere relies on networking, and most bloggers are always willing to expand their networks regardless of whether you're a beginner blogger or seasoned pro.

It seems like every day there are new tools available to bloggers. The Internet changes quickly, and the blogosphere is not an exception to that rule. As you develop your blog, take the time to research new tools and features, and keep an eye on the latest news related to your niche. You never know when a new tool will roll out that can make your life easier or enhance your readers' experiences on your blog.



7.  Be Yourself

Be your own on your blog, and make it an extension of you and your brand, and your loyal readers will keep coming back to hear what you have to say. People don't read blogs simply to get the news. They could read a newspaper for news reports. Instead, people read blogs to get bloggers' opinions as people think bloggers are more social, and know something that is not covered by others. Blog from the core of your heart and brain.

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