8 Blogging Tips

1.   Blog Design

First you must keep in mind to make your blog look as catchy as you can. You must take time in choosing your temple and make your posts look good. This is an important step because it’s the first thing people see when they visit your blog.

Take time to understand every single detail; knowing how to format your posts, insert images and embed a video or podcast. You should also stay up to date on the features and new versions.

There are also some elements that adds success to your blog

1.     Search box.

2.     Images.

3.     Links to your best content.

4.     Encourage comments.

5.     Add sharing bottoms.

6.     Minimize the number of clicks it takes to reach your content.

2.   Clear Targeting and writing

You must know why you’re blogging; you must have a clear idea on what you want to write because this makes the writing process easier. While writing you must make it to the point and as brief as possible because online readers are always in hurry; follow the rule of KISS (keep it simple, sugar). That means writing less and omitting unnecessary words or information.

Before publishing your post you must have an overall look on what you wrote incase there are any mistake.

3.   Writing good title

Have you ever though how important your title could be? Your title is the first impression people see when they start reading your post, without a goof title people may not read your post even if you have a good post. A good title tells the readers what your main message behind your writing is.

4.   Provide external resources links

Link relevant and credible site for more information for your readers. Don’t link your sources using “click here” instead link a relevant keyword or create a bullet list for further resources. You must also make sure that the links open in new tab so that the readers remain on your post.

5.   Use Bulleted Lists

Use bullets and lists as often as possible this makes your post easy to read, scan, understand and remember. Researches shows that people prefer things to be listed in front of them, because this help them remember your message easier.

6.   Publishing Regularly

Publishing regularly is important part that some people miss. If you don’t publish regularly people might lose track on what is your blog about or even forget about your blog completely. This will make you lose your readers attention. If this happens return in writing your posts like you were never gone.

7.   You must take SEO into consideration  

While blogging you must keep in mind SEO (search engine optimization) and if you don’t know much about it try to search and know what is SEO. SEO is a really important tool while blogging as it serves to bring in new visitors to your blog, which will help you grow new readers.

8.   Interact with your readers

Interactivity is important in blogging buy making people able to comment on your posts or adding a question for them to answer at the end of your blog for them to answer; all this help you know more about your reader and how they think and also make them feel that they belong to what you’re writing.