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There are millions of blogs out there in the blogosphere but only a few of them are following some strategy for branding of their blog. Everyday hundreds of new blogs appear with the mission to make money online but many newbie bloggers don’t know about how they can be successful blogger. Therefore, I decided to share 15 important blogging tips which I learnt from my small experience for Shoutmeloud readers.
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1. Do Blogging with Passion and Patience
Passion and Patience are like blogging buzz words. Always choose a niche for blogging about which you know and passionate to write. Blogging is not become rich within night scheme. You will have to wait for the money and it will only come if you devise a proper strategy.
2. Make Blogging Strategy
Make a schedule for blogging. How many articles you will write in a day or a week and how much time you will spend in marketing your blog.
3. Make Social Media Marketing Strategy
Gone were the days when search engines were the only source of generating traffic. If you target social media biggies such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg and Stumbleupon, then, you can get handsome amount of traffic from them. Sometimes, it can be much more than search engine traffic but keep in mind that it will not come easily. You will have to interact with people in Social Media in your niche and you will have to build valuable relationship with them.
4. Make Link Building Strategy
Link building does matter when it comes to search engines. Make proper link building strategy and try to get more backlinks from the blogs in your niche especially the higher page rank blogs. Find DoFollow blogs in your niche and the blogs using Comluv and Top Commentators plugins. Comment on those blogs but do not spam. Instead try to add value to the article.
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5. Make Your Blog a Community
The environment of your blog should be such that when new visitor comes to your blog he should feel it as a community and become the part of it.
6. Make Good Relations with Niche Bloggers
Interact with other blogger in your niche by commenting on their blogs and through social media. It will help you a lot because you can learn many things from them.
7. Write Unique Content
It is well known in Blogging that “Content is King” and it surely is a king. Don’t try to copy content because ultimately you will be banned from search engines and no one likes to read copied content.
8. Always Reply to Comments
Interact with your readers by replying to their comments. Readers usually love it when their comment is replied and they will come back and comment again.
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9. Use Article Marketing
Write articles related to your niche in high PR article submission directories such as Ezine Articles, Hubpages and Squidoo with the backlink to your blog. It will definitely increase your blog authority and your blog will rank well in search engines.
10. Use Guest Posting
Try to write at least one article in a week to other blogs in your niche who offer you to write for their blogs. Guest posting on high traffic and high PR blogs is more beneficial as it will give you more exposure and quality backlinks.
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11. Ask Readers for their Opinions
Ask readers for their opinions in your articles. It will increase comments on your blog and your readers will not feel that they are reading an article written by robot.
12. Write for Readers
Always give priority to your readers. SEO of the article is also important but it will be of no use if you can’t make a loyal readership from your articles.
13. Make Your Blog Design Reader Friendly
Your Blog Design should have a clean design with proper navigation. It should be such that readers can easily find the content of their choice.
14. Use SEO friendly Theme
Use SEO friendly theme on your blog with proper header (h1, h2,..) tags. Always use h1 or h2 tag for post title. You can try Thesis Theme.
15. Use Effective Title
Title of the article should be both reader and SEO friendly. Title should be appealing to the readers and important keywords should also be used in the title.
I hope these tips will be useful for you. Do tell me what you do for making your blog a perfect brand and also feel free to add any other tip to the above list.
Article by Asad Mubeen
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This post is not only for newbie bloggers. You have well presented all the 15 points. I didn’t think about replying to blog comments before. But after reading ur post I have decided to do that. A great post that can transform a newbie blogger into pro blogger. Well Done.
Yeah, you are right. Bloggers who are not newbie can also follow these tips to make their blog successful. Thanks for the appreciation.
Bro. nice article but as my experience I wanna sy is that try to make your article to the point i.e write small bt informative….
cz many readers won’t read your posts till the end if they find it big….
I am also not a big fan of long articles but the target of this article is newbie bloggers so i wanted to make things clear to them.I have also divided the post in points so readers can also read only 15 points if they know about them.Thanks for the comment.
ur welcome..
Hey Asad,
Really Great Post.
Those are some great tips. Blog commenting and guest posting are my favorite ways to get targeted traffic.
Anyways, Thanks for sharing this great Post man.
~Dev
Hey Devesh,
I have seen your blog comments on many famous blogs
. It is really nice way to get target traffic.
Very good tips. Nicely pointed write-up. Cheers, Asad!
Thanks dude for the praise.
That is really helpful for newbie. I am doing some of your tips
These tips can be helpful for you.I pray for your success.
This is a very useful article for me as my new blog is about one month old. From the points you have mentioned here, I am trying to follow most of them. Looking to build a community by commenting and twitting. Even made some drafts for guest posting in the very near future.
I am glad you found it useful. I hope that your new blog will be a success.Thanks for the comment.
Your list is really awesome! However, I must say “Sticking to a single niche per blog” is also important for a newbie to actually stay focused. Don’t you agree?
Yeah,sticking to single niche is also important as it will make things much easier for newbies.If they will focus on single niche they can become authority on the niche.
I think you have summed up ALL blogging tips. Way to go!
All tips are really useful, and I particularly like:
‘No.8 Always Reply to Comments’: I think it is important to reply to comments, and it makes the commenter feel valued and it increases loyalty.
’11. Ask Readers for their Opinions’ Whenever there is a question at the end of a post, that is the easiest to comment on. So I think one should always ask readers something, as this increases the communication between readers and the blog owner/author.
Nabeel
You are right.Replying to readers comments build loyal readership and asking readers for their opinions make things easier for the readers.
Thanks for the feedback.
Nice TIps
Seems like you yourself are following the tips well…
Good work!
wow.. That’s Really awesome dude…. well i’m a beginner to this blogging profession… just started ma.. blog Well ur Article.. Really Useful to me.. Actually i saved this article in ma Pc.. to interact With ur tips..
Thanks a Lot… Gud Job
Thanks dude…..I am happy that you found this article useful. Best of luck for your new blog.
Nice list-up, covered almost all the points, The most important one that Readership is more important than SEO should be conveyed very clearly to the Newbies’..wish all of them Best of Luck!
I tried to cover all the important points and you are right that newbies should understand the value of readers loyalty.They should focus more on readers then SEO.
A wonderful read Mr. Asad. Although, the article is a bit lengthy so I have bookmarked this page for future reference. This will really help me in future. Your point 3. Make Social Media Marketing Strategy is the most important one.
Thanks mate…..It’s good to know that you found it helpful. You are right, social media marketing strategy is very important for blogging because getting huge traffic from social media sources is not an easy task. You have to work hard for it.
Really wonderful article presented in a meaner way. You covered almost all important point. These are not just for beginners but also for all bloggers who have not yet thought blogging seriously.
Yaeh you are right. This article is written for newbie bloggers but Bloggers who are not new to blogging can also get benefit from it.
Awesome tips, but not only for newbie bloggers. I have never had a link building strategy, and that would certainly help a lot.
The most important tip, if I would pick one, would be your #1. Do Blogging with Passion and Patience. I believe that people won’t last a long time if they don’t have passion for what the write about. That’s the #1 tip for newbie bloggers.
Experienced bloggers can also get help from this article.Link building strategy is a must especially in a saturated niche.
Passion and patience is the first and basic thing for every newbie blogger, that is why i placed this point at the start of the article.
Must say this is not just a post for newbies. Even the old time bloggers have something here to pickup.
Thanks a great deal.
Wow. This is helpful! I just started blogging and I didn’t realize how much work you have to put into it. I thought it was simple. I will definitely use this tip. Thank you.
Well done bro, nice post and informative. But you mentioned characteristics to become pro blogger, why can’t you give some tips and tricks or sources to newbies so that they can achieve.:)
Man, what a nice post. You have covered every salient point. In addition, the presentation is laid down in a wonderful template. Thank you dear.
Nice post, Thanks for sharing this!