Blogging Basics - Top Five Blogging Tips
By waynet
Five Blogging Tips
The basics of blogging is all about content creation and content management really and the organization of that content so that it reads quite well, there are many other blogging tips, but perhaps these five basic blogging tips will be the best ever to use to help your blog become one of the top ones or be on it's way there.
As you'll know there are probloggers everywhere on the Internet and these professional bloggers flaunt their successful auras in their marketing material and that's a good thing to be inspired by, something to look up to and emulate for a short while, as you can gain some great ideas for your own blog.
The ability to schedule your posts
This is a great feature that the top two blogging platforms Blogger and Wordpress allow and it is an essential way of planning out your blog posts so they appear like they are being published on a regular basis, but in actual fact you could have just wrote all of your blog posts in a couple of hours so you could have time for other things.
Building up a content queue of to be published posts is about the smartest thing any blogger could do, although you still have to have the motivation to do this and not leave them half finished in draft as this is what some people do, they think, oh I'll publish it tomorrow or next week and then they forget and don't do what they said they'd do.
Alternatively you could write by hand in a notepad and later transfer those ideas into actual blog posts, I like to write notes by writing with pen and paper, as I am a traditional writer in that way and I like to write small snetences that I can later expand when it comes to typing up on computer.
Interlinking Relevant Blog Posts
Once you've built up a decent amount of blog posts on your blog, it is a good idea to start to interlink them, so that you can retain some sticky power from your visitors, who may land on a blog post and then right at the end can be directed to another series of blog posts on your blog, so that they stay on your blog longer, so that they may subscribe to your blog or sign up to your email list.
As every blog post is a potential landing page, you can quickly become attuned to writing posts that are able to link up relevantly to others in your archive and this has been known to help with the search engine rankings of your blog, especially when you use keyword anchor text in your links, an example could be - Blog Marketing Success, this is an anchored text link that uses highly relevant keywords for this hubpage, so research your own blogs niches keywords, so you can pick and choose which ones to use for this purpose.
Comments On Other Blogs
As blogging is a social medium of content showcases, you should get to know other bloggers in your niche who either blog on the exact same topic as you do or something related, so that you can strike up relationships with them for the greater good of each others blogs and commenting on other blogs is a great way to achieve this, although it's not the only way you can use other blogs to generate traffic, it's certainly a good starting point.
Some comment systems on blogs may have do-follow tags which the search engines will follow to index blog comments, but some have no-follow tag code which won't allow the search engine spiders to follow and index blog comments, but this doesn't really matter as you want to leverage the readers of other related blogs, so by commenting regular on these blogs, like any community, you would gain some attention and traffic back to your blog.
Comments are ok so long as you leave a comment that is genuine and has an opinion behind it or else what's the point of a comment that says great post and link back to your blog, obvious reason could be just spam, so you delete, because I would, unless their only link is the blogger platform, such as a generic profile, then you know it could be a genuine response as they are not really promoting anything spammy.
Guest blogging
This is yet another way to leverage other blogs traffic by writing a blog post or several to different but relevant blogs and you are allowed to leave a link back to your blog at the end of your post, an example of a guest post could be a tutorial, an industry related article, a review of some sort or a lead in to a product such as an ebook that is highly relevant to the bloggers blog that granted you access to do a guest post.
An amount of planning is needed for this also, as you need to get used to writing some poilte emails and prepare for some amount of rejection as some of the higher traffic blogs are probably swamped with guest post submissions already, so you need to be clever with your approach and try to separate yourself from the "I wanna be a guest writer just to get my link on your blog" type as you really want to provide a great and good read for a blog post so as to provide some good content that will make you look good on others blogs.
Writing your own ebook
An ebook that you as a blogger wrote yourself is the greatest thing bloggers could do as you are extending your blog with a really detailed electronic book that explains more than one blog post could, or maybe you have wrote an ebook collecting together the content of your blog as a whole but with added bonus content.
You could offer this ebook for free so that people could sign up to your email list on your blog or you could make it an item to purchase through paypal or some other payment processing site like E-Junkie or even Clickbank and earning money could be a side income stream that helps towards your blogging goals.
Of course when considering blogging as a source of income or to get more traffic to your main site are the top two benefits of this popular online medium, so give your blog a head start and focus on it with a plan.
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Great hub that nails all the important points of blogging. Interlinking related posts is defintely a good thing to do. It not only helps the readers to gain more info (which leads to lowered bounce rates and increased time spent on your site-both of which are good) but also helps to boost the page rank in google. Voted this hub up.
Blogging is one of them things that you either can stick to or you don't stick to it, but it's good to just start writing a blog and learn as you go along! cheers now!
Cheers now! Blogging is an art!
This is great info as I am just now thinking about starting a blog! Thanks!
Hello waynet! I am so glad I came across this hub. I have recently started a blog not sure I know what I am doing. Your hub here will help me. I will be coming back to your hubs as I go. Thanks for SHARING this information! Voted up and definately useful. Have a wonderful day! :)
This is a blog I believe?
Oh I do! I get tons of traffic from Facebook, Twitter, and a little known site called Empire Avenue (which is also a great community to learn how to USE social media).
Social media, especially for small businesses is very important, because you can get a lot of traffic for freeOh I do! I get tons of traffic from Facebook, Twitter, and a little known site called Empire Avenue (which is also a great community to learn how to USE social media).
Social media, especially for small businesses is very important, because you can get a lot of traffic for free
Awesome comment, cheers!
Hi Waynet,
Blog Marketing Success,
it's a good thing!
you can gain some great ideas for your own blog.
when is there time for other things.
An essential way of planning out your blog posts so they appear like they are being published on a regular basis... published posts motivation, to Find the time to do what you tell yourself you need to do it now.
it helps to learn to focus on just the one thing from start to finish. keep in mind its always today! because tomorrow or next week never comes, for the blog project you can do today.
yes write small sentences that you can later expand on is a great idea, when typing it up on to your computer. you are so right, you could write by hand in a notepad and later transfer those ideas into actual blog posts.
- write notes with pen and paper it works! to help get your blogs done in a timely manner... its a very good point to keep in mind. Once you've built up a decent amount of blog posts, you will want to start to interlink them all together... this will give you more power over each of your visitors, by directing them to another series of your blog posts-- so that they stay on your blog much longer and sign up or subscribe to your email list. "make every blog that you post your landing page"
by your writing each posts so that its able to link up relevantly, with your other blog post.- blogging is a social medium of content - bloggers in your niche who either blog on the exact same topic as you. By your commenting on other blogs its a great way to achieve this. it is certainly a good starting point.
This is away that you can use other peoples blogs to generate more traffic to your hubpages.com
pick something related, so that you can strike up lasting reader relationships... because you want to leverage your readers to other related blogs of yours. So by commenting regular on these blogs, like any community, when you leave a comment that is genuine, you will gain some attention and traffic back to your hubs.
Nice interesting hub post Thanks!
I still am a half arsed blogger lol! But yeah it is best to get involved with other relevant bloggers in your niche as they will be better to have a conversation with aswell as any readers that you have. And you can gain great ideas from other bloggers too aswell as joint venture partnerships or combining their blogging might...
Cheers Torimari!
There are some great tips here. As a 'half-arse' blogger, I decided to buckle down and do some semi-serious reading on how to improve my blog traffic. These are some great starting points, especially referencing other relevant bloggers and starting genuine interaction with them.
Very useful information. way to go waynet. thanks.
And thank you for commenting Donna!
and cheers also sncalo!
Thank you for the great tips about blogging!
Wow! Excellent job, excellent hub! Congrats
Cheers, thanks for commenting!
Great Hub article. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Jan!
I often still read other blogs, because there are some great blogs out there to read and the writing of these blogs are compelling
Very good write-up. I especially like your advice "leave comments on other blogs." I mean, the blogosphere is a community of bloggers and readers...but I think bloggers sometimes forget that they can also be readers!
Thanks Dragonbear!
I like to get my blog posts out of the way like this early in the week, so that I have time for other things later in the week!
Great Hub waynet - good idea to queue the blogs for timed release; simple idea, sophisticated approach! I'm enjoying watching your work, thanks!
Your welcome chinweike!
waynet, thanks for the reply. My problem is that i have 11 hubs that i been trying to keep up with 7 that i update regularly. Well, i will still have to look into my time table once again. Thanks once agian
Cheers blsorg!
Blogging tips I am immersed in, so look out for more soon!
Thanks for the tips!
Thank you Rebecca!
Thanks for the bookmark and stumble!
I'm going to follow up this hubpage with more blogging tips.
excellent points, the last one I never thought about... until you mentioned it. Bookmarked and Stumbled Upon.
Cheers Robert!
adding a book into the mix can prove quite profitable too and it goes with your topic well and people seem to take you seriously, so I'm told.
Excellent article. I really appreciate this, because I'm going to have to expand my blogging quite a bit once I sell a book. Right now my blog is just a personal blog, but when I've got a book sale I'll need to set up a more professional one that sticks to topic on the book, its themes, my other books and writing tips.
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated!!
The scheduled blog posts thing is one of the most used features I use!
Never knew about the schedule thing. I'll have to look that one up. This is a great post with lots of awesome advice. I have been struggling lately with traffic flow to my blog and I have been looking for some no-nonsense advice to help me along the way and I got a lot of that here. Thank you. I suppose now I need to find a more narrow topic to blog about. Thanks a lot.
Thanks Steppeno!
Good to hear that some of my writing is of use, will try and do more!
Thanks for the tips Wayne... I was just saying to myself today... I need to put myself on a regular schedule with all the sites I write for so I can keep up with everything on a regular basis... Some very helpful advice...
Thanks,
Steppeno
Cheers Drax!
I've got these 5 tips engrained in me brain, cos I must do them every week to a set schedule!
Thanks Wayne, learned useful stuff here, must now go and put in practice :-) thanks Man...
Thanks Mike
I don't know what it is about blogging, but I can stick to it, as I have a lot of stuff to write about.
Cheers!
Wayne, thanks for the ideas. I've blogged before, but have considered it as part of a larger social media strategy for other endeavors. Your ideas are fine food for the brain, my friend!
Cheers mate!
The only warm room in my house is the living room and that's it, so am in here with my laptop tapping some keys to keep warm!lol!
Follow Waynes advice and you won't go wrong, nice hub mate with great tips, tis freezin in Belfast too !!
Thanks frogdropping!
I saw it when it had only been asked for 2 minutes and I thought, yes I'll write this one now to answer it, so cheers for that!
And yes I'm freezing my nuts off in this house in Hull...brrrr!
Thanks Chinweike!
I recommend updating your blog every week with around 3 blog posts, spread them out if you have to within that week and stick to that posting arrangement forever, some bloggers post each day, but just try and do what you feel comfortable with!
Cheers Cheeky Girl!
wayne - now how surprised was I to find that you'd answered my question ... and so eloquently answered too! Thankyou for the tips and advice, all duly noted, especially as I've started blogging now.
Have a great evening and I hope it isn't too cold in Hull ;)
Great Hub article.
waynet, I like the way you presented the content of this hub. It is easy to read and understand. I have one question for you.
How often do you recommend that one should update his or her blog.
Thanks for sharing
One Hubpage love!
Hi58uilder 6 weeks ago
These are some great tips! I thrive on set schedules, but it is so easy to get off track, and once my schedule budges a little bit, the flood gates open and then I'm completely neglecting everything. I like the idea of timing posts in a queue