How This 50+ Short Blogging Tips Will Help You In Blogging

How you start your blogging journey, I don’t know? Whether you get inspired by your friend, relative or any blogger, I don’t know? Whether the high pay check of bloggers or the lifestyle of bloggers may attract you, I don’t know?

It’s not just about you, but my reason to start a blog was to get popular on the internet. I am not lying, but it’s just a truth about me. I start a blog, create a post and think my friends and relatives shared my post and link to me.

One month gets passed, the second also goes, third and four also passed, but my traffic doesn’t seem to increase. No increment, no share’s, no comment’s. All my hard work just goes falls. I lived my first six months in a fairy tale truth and suddenly fall in the harsh reality of the blogosphere.

I don’t want to let this happen to you. Where would I get a wrong? Where I made a mistake? To find out that I looked into my past, stated jotting down my mistakes, research on it and restated working again. I search 1,000,000+ pages for tips; work on it and now all things are working fine and whatever I learn I am going to share those things with you.

What works and what not. Which blogging tips are useful and which not? Let I truly share this with you. It’s my A to Z all types of tips which works for me and I hope it will also help you to grow in blogging.

Let’s start jotting down these Blogging tips to get started.

#1 Designing Tips

Designing plays a very important role with your user engagement. More appealing design, more users engage with your work and content. It’s true, even Google also loves simple and clean-looking design to crawl your site. Always try to choose the simple design, but look at which design appeals to your users. It will help you to create maximum result. I hope the following tips will help you choose a great design for your blog.

1. Consistent with your blog design for lifetime. If you change it every time it creates a bad impression on users. I made a same mistake when I am newbie.
2. Using an appealing blog design is highly effective to engage your readers. Therefore, choose a simple but appealing theme or design.
3. Always try to do A/B testing to get know what users love in your design.
4. Using one sidebar at the right side, it is a most highly effective business blog format. If you consider your blog as your business, then it is a most effective way.
5. Add newsletter or an RSS subscription box with high contrast call to action form at top position in your sidebar. It will grab user’s attention and helps you to capture leads.
6. Avoid clutter and distracting elements by removing it from your sidebar because it distracts your readers and create a high bounce rate, which is bad for your business.
7. Add social sharing buttons in your post for readers to easily share your content with social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest.
8. Add popular posts, recent posts, categories and archive tabs in your sidebar. It will help readers to navigate properly and to look deeper into your blog.
9. Avoid using pop up on your blog without having a strong reason to use it. It will distract readers’ attention from your content.
10. Make your design compatible with all devices because it helps your reader to read your content from any devices for a better user experience and better engagement.
11. Use black and white contrast ratio in fonts and designs for best blog readability. It is highly effective to stay user focus on your content.

#2 Content Writing Tips

Content is a most important factor of your blog. Great content attracts lots of links, traffic and lots of comments. Search engines also love great and in-depth content and it helps you to drive more organic traffic to your blog. For that the given tips will help you to create a great content that users love to read, share, link and spread all over on the internet.

1. Follow the Rule “Great Content is a King. Not content”
2. Always create an eye-catching headline that grabs user’s attention. Use How-to, top 10, killer tips like titles to grab the user’s eye. It will really help. Be innovative with your headline.
3. Try to write 2000+ word article or tutorials. It helps you get ranked in search engine and drive more organic traffic to your blog.
4. Don’t write just a content, try to write great and exceptional content that influence your readers  share on other sites.
5. Always add Great and catchy images at the top of the post or right side of the post. It’s grabs reader’s eye and tends them to read more.
6. Always try to visualize your content with rich images, infographic’s and videos in your blog post. It creates a great impression and more user engagement with your content.
7. Try to consistent with your writing style. I suggest you to go with an informal style of writing. It always works best.
8. Always end your post with a call to action. Don’t waste your time in telling the whole story. Just make it short and end it with a call to action.
9. Never use two sentences, if one will work best for you. It creates a bad impression and distract the user’s mind.
10. Always give credit for your research or idea. It will help you better.
11. Just tell to tell a short story at some times in your post. It will create great impression also creates more user engagement for your post.

#3 Search Engine Optimization Tips

Search engine optimization is a process of optimizing your website for search engine results to drive more organic traffic to your blog. SEO is not a one day process, it takes some time and your effort but pays you lifelong. So Have Patience and follow the given tips, which I hope, will help you to do better SEO of our blog.

1. Always use proper Meta tags in your head area to help search engine. Not all Meta tags have a great value, but helps a little bit.
2. Use Meta title tag, which also serves as the post title, with including your keywords and describing your post for search engine.
3. Use Meta description tag in your head area, I know it has a little SEO value, but it works.
4. Try to guest blog on other blog post. It gives a back links and helps to build relationship with other blogger.
5. Get Google authorship for your content, because Google authorship may drive more traffic to your blog than blog who have no authorship in search result.
6. Interlinks your content with each other it will help search engine to index your website better and create more user engagement with your content.
7. Use social media effectively to spread your brand on the internet.
8. Use Log tail keywords to get more organic traffic and rank better in search engine.

#4 Content Marketing Tips

If you have a great content, it has a no value without proper marketing of your content. It’s just wasting your potential. A content plays a 10% role and remaining 90% is going to content marketing efforts. Content marketing is a key to spread your content viral to drive traffic and conversions. For that you need proper directions and guideline to do it in a proper way and I hope following tips will help you in that process.

1. Always remember the rule “Content Marketing is not just a link building”.
2. Use social media promotion to market your content. It works great.
3. Try to build your email list and always email them your new content. It will give you more repeating users and lifelong readers.
4. Always give embed code for infographic’s to your users. It will help them to link your content easily and share it with other website to spread it viral.
5. Plan your content before starting your content marketing efforts. It will help you to draft content marketing strategy to spread your content.
6. Convert your readers into fans by providing them great content. Give them the option to subscribe to your blog either by social media or RSS or newsletter sign-up box to stay updated with your content.
7. Content marketing is not limited towards your blog. Always try to market your content through guest blogging. It helps a lot and builds new relations with other bloggers.

#5 Social Branding Tips:

Social Branding is a process of creating a strong user engage brand on social media. Users follow or like your brand when you give it’s a value. Without having a value your brand is nothing and why users stay in touch with your brand. Therefore, you have to create a strong brand value for your brand that users love to stay in touch with your recent updates, events and happenings. For that following tips may beneficial for you to get started with it.

1. Be selective with your social media promotion platforms. Don’t try to mix all things together at once. Select only popular sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest etc.
2. Stay engages with your users on social platforms. Ask them questions, queries and sometime post some funny things because engagement matters most because a brand with lots of like and follows has no value without user engagement.
3. Avoid automation of your social content. It will create a bad impression on your users.
4. Host contest for your users on social platforms like Facebook and Twitter. It will help a lot to create a better user engagement.
5. Don’t post too much of the content in a single day. I will distract your users from your brand and user start neglecting it.
6. Be Visual with your contents. Always try to add images, videos in your post. Users like to share more visual content than a normal text post or link.
7. Use appropriate profile and cover picture that represents your brand on social media.
8. Provide enough information about your brand or business on social media page. Its help user to know your brand.
9. Use # tags for creating a trend for your brand. It works sometimes great.

#6 Affiliate Marketing Tips:

Affiliate marketing is nothings more than making some extra money from your blog or business. If you want to success in your affiliate marketing, then you need to honest with yourself and your readers. You must have to learn how to engage your audience without knowing them you are convincing or selling them a product. It’s an art that takes time and your efforts, but these short tips will help you to achieve that.

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1. Make it easy to subscribe your blog easily for your users.
2. Always try to create a hunger in your email newsletter readers before selling any stuff to them. Try to provide useful information or valuable content first must help.
3. Be honest with your readers. Don’t lie with them. Always try to tell the truth and what is right for them.
4. Don’t over post affiliate link in your newsletter post. It will look like a spam and create a bad impression on your newsletter readers.
5. Write a truth and honest reviews on your blog about any product you promote. Whether the product is great, it is great and if it is bad it’s bad. It will create value in your readers.
6. Don’t forget the rule “Money is in the list, and each reader in the list is more valuable”.

#7 Miscellaneous Tips

Miscellaneous tips are just some extra stuffs or tips for your blogging journey. I hope this tip will guide you to get success in your blogging career.

1. Always try to get ideas from your blog readers. Whether it is in the form of feedback on social media or by a comment on your blog post.
2. Try to understand your audience first.
3. Love your existing readers and work on them and always try to attract new readers and make them existing or repeating.
4. Give it some time. Blogging is not a one day game so have patience. It takes some time to grow.
5. Read more blogs, get more knowledge and then share this knowledge with your audience.
6. Use the power of networking and try to build relationship with other bloggers. It will help you to rise.

So, here all short tip’s go over and it’s time to implement it with your blog to get successes from your blog. Those tips are just a part of which I learned in the past 3 year from my blogging journey and I hope this tip will help you to reach out your goals in blogging.

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