14 Blogging Tips For The Aspiring Problogger
Planning to be a problogger? Here is a list of blogging tips to see you through at least for the first 6 months
Tip 1- Prepare For Early Dissapointment
“According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.” – New York Times
Don’t be part of the statistic!
Tip 2 -A Bloody Good Topic Helps
To have a great topic, you have to blog on your expertise or on your lifelong hobby. You cannot just hope to monetize on a blog, telling stories about 3D television if all you know about this niche comes solely from Avatar!
Tip 3 - Think Up The Best Domain Name
A good domain name will help your blog rank highly on the search engines. Learn how to do keyword research properly early before you begin your blog. Contact me or continue reading my blog if you want to learn more.
Tip 4 – Learn How Search Engine Works
If you don’t understand search engines, at least learn the basis on how Google robots crawl a website. Getting your website or blog to rank highly in Google is called SEO or Search Engine Optimization.
Sign up for a Google account and sign into Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Using this blog tool do need some training and research. Therefore, allocate some time to do some reading on this wonderful blogging tool
Tip 5 – Familiarize Yourself With At Least One Blogging Software
In the early days of blogging, you have to learn up HTML or XML to set up a website. Later, blogging softwares began to improve and one of the more popular wares to hit the market is called Dreamweaver.
Fast forward to the present. Currently, even non-programmers can easily set up a blog using excellent softwares like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Learn how to set up a website here.
Tip 6 – Start Having Practical Experience
Now you have learnt the basic in SEO and WordPress tips, it’s time for action. Subscribe to a good web host with reasonable pricing. If you are a beginner, it’s best to engage a reputable host which can provide you excellent technical support.
Source: automopedia.org
Tip 7 – Learn How To Write Great Blog Content
Good blog contents do not come with a blink of an eye. It comes from years of passion and research on a particular subject maybe related to your profession or hobby.
You can put in a few pages of a particular topic probably just by researching the internet. However without prior studies and in-depth focus, you would probably plough through only for the first few days.
Blog about a niche that you are really interested about and continue studying so that you can churn out content after content for months to come.
Tip 8 – Write Regularly
Read Tip 7.
Tip 9 – Use Social Medias To Promote Your Blog
I’m sure you know about Twitter and Facebook. Depending on the topic of your blog, they may not be the best marketing tools available.
For me, I started finding success in using LinkedIn. In fact, there are various other sites that may be useful to your blog marketing campaign like Ecademy, Bebo, Zing…I’ll talk more about those later!
Tip 10 – Articles Submission
Apart from social medias, you could also write unique articles related to your topic and submit them to sites like Ezine, GoArticle, Article Dashboard and many more.
Tip 11 – Press Release
Another piece of tool you can use to promote your blog or website is via press release. However, you must learn the proper way to write a great press release for this to be effective. There are many templates available in the market just for this purpose.
Tip 12 – Marketing Through Social Bookmarking Sites
Also considered to be part of your blog marketing tools. Social bookmarks like Digg, Stumble Upon, Propeller, Mister Wong and many more can sometimes provide great backlinks to your landing pages.
Tip 13 – Put In Adsense Early
Don’t leave the money on the table. Introduce at least the most basic monetizing tool early in your blog.
Your early posts, coupled with promotions and marketings could occasionally initiate a sudden surge to your blog’s traffic. Even a few dollars earned this way could boost your morale and prepare you for the long haul.
Tip 14 – Make Blogging Your New Hobby
Instead of watching TV, why not make blogging your main pursuit after your 9 to 5 job. After all, you will reap more from it in the long run.
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Comments
What are your suggestions for a good domain name? My business is my name, Dot Connector. I have Dot Connection Workshops for sales and marketing persons in a very specific market. I am an expert locally on anything having to do with the elderly.
I’m just researching the area of blogging and do not yet have my own website, though I have “Dot Connection Workshops” on Facebook.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Hi Jeanne. In your case DotConnector.com should be your ideal domain. Bear in mind that you are not a domainer, therefore your focus should be solely on building your brand name… Dot Connector.
I did enjoy this article. I have been dabbling with blogging using google’s blogger. Practicing and building a base for when I am ready and willing to get my own domain and hosting. I think it is key to realiZe and accept your not gonna strike it rich overnight, it takes time, effort, and patience. Thank you, I will be back
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