9 Blogging Tips that you may have ignored.

9 Blogging Tips that you mat have ignored.

1. Creating Schedules:

In blogging, this is one of the tips that some bloggers have ignored. Creating schedules is an act of keeping a time table for your blogging activities via keeping record of the next posts, updating your blog etc.

Creating schedules often enables you to maintain a good statistics in your blog by retaining your blog visitors via giving them insights on when to anticipate for a new post or hear from you and thereby making you also stick to date and update your visitors.

3. Sharing of your Posts:

To grow your audience or blog visitors, you ought to share your blog posts on your social media handles eg. Facebook, Instagram, twitter etc.this will help give others insight of what your blog or website has to offer which will facilitate more traffic to your site.

When I started blogging, I never had the idea of sharing my blog posts though I had blog visitors which was very poor compared to when I started sharing my posts on my social medilistndles.

Sharing of your blog posts, is a way of advertising or promoting your website to non-visitors on what your site has to offer which might interest them to check it out.

3. Writing awesome Headlines:

What causes you to read a blog post?

Of course The title!

It’s the most important thing. Without a good blog title, your post won’t ever get read. A great headline will cause people to click and read your blog.

A bad headline does the opposite.

There is an art and science to writing great headlines. Let’s keep it simple, so you don’t get too bogged down. Search out for this book:

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I like the book – it’s expensive.

It’s a swipe file of headlines you can copy and vary according to your topic. Which is why I say check it out from the library if you can.

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Here is an exercise you should try:

1. For every blog post write ten headlines in five minutes.My Tutor

2. Use a headline analyzer

Headline Analyzers

To create better headlines use a headline analyzer to check your ideas. Both of these are free:

• CoSchedule’s Headline Analyzer checks how good your headline is.

• Emotional Marketing Value Headline Analyzer

You’ll get different results from each because they measure things differently. One might give you a high score and the other a low score for the same headline.

Try not to get bogged down creating the perfect headline. A good headline is better than not publishing your post.

What do you do with all those extra headlines you wrote? Try different versions when you’re sharing your posts on social media. When you share your content, you don’t have to use the same title as the one on your blog.

Secondly AVOID USING ALL CAPS IN YOUR BLOG TITLE!(my blog tutor)

It makes it seem like you are yelling at the reader.

Capitalizing one or two words for emphasis is OK!

If you want to rank higher in search engine results write longer posts. A blog post that is 1,000 words long is seen as having greater value than a blog post that is 300 words long on the same subject.

Studies have proven this.

At a minimum, your blog posts should be 500 words long. If you have to choose writing three blog posts that are 500 words each or writing one long 1,500-word article on the same topic – write one long article.

I know what you’re thinking –

But I’ll have three articles instead of one!

The more time a reader spends on a single page the better. Search engines record the time readers spend on a page. My best blog posts are the ones that take over 5 minutes to read, and Google ranks them very high in search results.

4. Proofreading/error check:

Thirdly, Proofreading

The grammar police will arrest you.

• They send emails

• They write nasty comments

• They will never come back to your blog if you write poorly

If English is your second language and you’re writing for an English audience, it’s even more important to get it correct.

But there is an easy fix. Here is the exact process I have used to become a better writer.

Write first. Forget about spelling, proofreading, and grammar as you go along. Just write the dang post and get it 95% of the way there.

Proofread. Copy/paste your post into Grammarly, WPS, Grammarly or WPS is a free online/offline proofreading tool respectively. It catches most grammar and spelling errors.

Read your blog post out loud to yourself. You’ll catch any remaining errors including things you’ve written that don’t make any sense if you read what you’ve written out loud. Trust me – it works.

Note: I do write in WordPress. But it can be risky at starting because you can loss a really long article if auto-save wasn’t turned on. You can also write on Evernote .

That’s my process for every blog post. It’s simple, fast, and free. I don’t hire professional proofreaders, and I rarely get the grammar police contacting me.

5. Theme or Template:

This is one of the key facts in blogging, your website theme or template gives the beauty of your blog to your blog visitors. Here are some factors to be considered in choosing a theme:

✔Device and

✔Browser

✔Device/having a responsive theme:

Some Hosting domains has the ability to fit your website on any device that opens it such as laptop, tablet, iPhone, Android devices.

But before it is done you have to set it by selecting the option in your hosting platform Eg Blogger has a menu for making this selection, others like WordPress etc are automatically selected. Click here to read more on how to set it up in blogger

✔Browser:

This should be the first thing that should be considered in selecting your website theme, some browsers like opera mini can misplace the widgets on your blog if your theme is not a responsive theme.

TIP:

Try using different devices to view your website during design.

Also Try using different browsers to view your website to be certain that you've got a responsive theme.

6. Search Bar:

Search Bar often helps your blog visitors to find what they are searching for easily than surfing the whole blog for it

✔it saves them time,

✔it saves them cost

✔it saves them the stress etc

7. Label/ category widget:

These are two different widgets but they are related and here is how:

-The help to give your visitors insights on what you blog about.

-Label helps to relate similar posts of same category thereby giving your visitors suggestions on another post that they might like also.

-Both gives your visitors the ability to navigate to a particular post easily. Eg a category or label of health make the visitors to know that all the posts in this section will definitely be about health.

8. Email list

What’s an email list?

An email list lets you collect the email addresses of your website visitors so that you can contact them later on.You’re probably on a few (or a lot) of email lists.

You may ask why would I want to build an email list?

While having people visit your website is important, being able to connect with your visitors in the future is ten times more important.

It’s also worth ten times more money.

Pretend for a moment you’ve been blogging for 3 months and now you have enough content to put together an awesome eBook.

The questions will be:

Who are you going to sell it to?

How will you sell it to all those people that have been visiting your blog for the past 3months

How will you get them all to come back so you can tell them about your amazing new eBook?

Unless you have a way to contact them – you can’t.

Email is the #1 way to connect with your readers.

Email is better than:

• Posting to your blog

• Sending a tweet

• Posting to Facebook

• Paid advertising where you pay to advertise your product/service

The reason email is king, is because everyone reads their email. Compare that to a Facebook post where someone may or may not receive it. When was the last time you didn’t at least read the subject of an email before you deleted it? At the very least you saw every email you received.

I hope you have been convinced why you need to start collecting email addresses.

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Stick with blogging, and you’ll build an email list that has 1,000, or more names on it.

Say you’ve put your eBook together.

Or you’re a personal finance blogger, and you’ve come across this fantastic and easiest way to make lots of money online.Or you’ve got a recommendation for a great $100 product that you get $30 in affiliate commission.You put together a newsletter and send it out to your list and…

The money starts rolling in.

In email list, You’re providing value to your subscribers by telling them about something that is going to:

• solve their pain

• give them pleasure

In return, you earn money for helping them.

And remember – as an affiliate you don’t even have to make products. Some bloggers earn over $100,000 in affiliate income each month just by recommending other people’s products.

Here is how to start:

Click here to read more on email list

9. Help other Bloggers

Help Other Bloggers

Are you more or less likely to help me because I’m giving you all this great information for free?

You got that right – you’re more likely to help me.

That help might come in the form of:

• Telling people you know about my website

• Promoting me on your social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.)

• Sharing my content with others

• Linking to my blog from your blog

• Giving me a testimonial

• Referring me to someone you might meet in the future, even if it’s a year from now

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Other bloggers – even if they blog about the same topic – are not competition.

You wouldn’t believe how big the pie is, and there is plenty for everyone.

You can try to go it alone and not help anyone. The result will be it will take you 2-3 times longer to grow your blog. But if you sincerely set out to help others, they will, in turn, help you.

Warning: : When I say be sincere, I mean it. People can smell an insincere pitch a mile away. I was guilty of this when I first started blogging. If you start out becoming friends with other bloggers first, sometime in the future they will help you with your eBook launch, promoting your blog, your course, giving you an introduction to someone – whatever – because you’re friends.

Always give more than you get.