Tips For a Newbie Blogger

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Trina Mathews

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Hello guys,

I am very very new to blogging. And i wanted to have an engaging and informative content. Any tips and recomms for a neophyte like me? Looking forward for your sharing and thoughts. Thank you.
 
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If you want to get visitors, make sure to get some form of keyword research. Lot's of free guides here on how to do that. You can also pay someone to do it for you.

Nothing worse than writing a great piece but having no one to view it.
 
Look for trending topics in your niche... Do proper keyword research... Refer more... Draft your article... Make the necessary corrections.. Add relevant optimised images.. Share your articles in social media platforms... All the best!!!
 
  • Sometimes, it’s okay to give up on your blog if you realize you’re in the wrong niche. You can improve your current blog or start a new website with more knowledge.
  • Not all keyword tools have accurate data.
  • Not all backlinks are equal. (I made this mistake and purchased GSA links on my first website).
  • You’ll be writing to a ghost town for the first several months. Don’t look at stats. Distract yourself and keep yourself busy.
  • Internal/external link on your posts.
  • Always use H2/H3. Google will read this. My mistake was using all H1 when I first started just because it looks pretty.
  • Don’t use other people’s images without permission. (Google) Try using free images on stock photo websites or create your own. Most will ask you to credit and link back to their site.
  • If you’re in need of photos in your niche, try using forums like subreddit and search for your niche. You will likely find someone posting and they’re more than happy to send you an album to use.
  • When you’re advised to go for long tail keywords, try analyzing the top 10 before proceeding. Check their DA, if you can beat their content, etc.
  • Narrow down your niche as much as possible. By being broad on a niche, it’ll confuse Google what you’re writing about. (at least that’s what I believe).
  • You’ll might lose motivation or want to give up because no one is reading your blog. I suggest surrounding yourself with blogging communities (groups, forums, etc.). It definitely pushed me and I hope it’ll do the same for you.
  • Sometimes answering a question with a thousand words can be difficult when you’re first starting off. Type in your keyword and look for “People also ask” and fill in questions related to your keyword! Not all articles have to be 1,000 words to rank. The more words related, the more likely you’re going to rank for those terms.
  • Keyword Planner, Answer The Public, Keyword Shitter, Keyword Everywhere - these might help you!
  • Go to settings on your WordPress and change your perma links to shorter!
  • (My opinion) I prefer RankMath > Yoast. Look at both and find whatever suits you. This taught me the basics of SEO. It’ll teach and guide you too.
  • Don’t focus on too much design. Make it easy to navigate and push out content.
  • Outreach for guest posts. Search on Google “keyword + guest post” and you’ll find a bunch. This will be quite difficult since the response rate for me is low. Maybe you might have a better pitch than me.
  • You can manually index your posts using Google Search Console. They’ve been having issues lately, so keep that in mind. Maybe it’ll be fixed soon
Wishing you the best on your blogging journey!
 
talk with your friends and relatives about what can be the upcoming trend. Start writing about that.
 
Creating a good blog is not a piece of cake as it seems to be. Although many people believe bloggers are just lifestyle freaks who write a few posts a week, there's really a lot of work going on behind the scenes which most of us are not aware of. Writing a good blog takes a lot of patience, commitment and consistency. The new media world is continually evolving as various patterns come and go. So, you will have to be ready to adapt to the rapidly changing digital environment as well.

Here are few steps you might want to consider:

  • First of all, Choose the right platform
  • Second of all, finding a reliable hosting service matter.
  • Be consistent
  • Do not expect fast results. (it is no magic)
  • Focus on your art. As you see writing is an art. It isn’t everybody’s cup of tea.
  • Keep your content free of duplication
 
Choose the niche which you are interested in the trend topics, do the proper keyword research, and choose the long tail keywords with less competition, and provide the quality unique content based on user intents, and constantly update the content with current trends...
 
DTjai said:
If you want to get visitors, make sure to get some form of keyword research. Lot's of free guides here on how to do that. You can also pay someone to do it for you.

Nothing worse than writing a great piece but having no one to view it.
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80/20 rule.

You creating the content is 20% of the work. Getting an audience to read it is the real work. Not enough people understand this and think "if you build it, they will come."
 
Here are my tips to NEWBIES aka "Things I wish I knew when I started blogging"

- Use LONG FORM content - minimum of 2000 words per post. Even for "question" posts intended to get easier Google rankings.

- Do not build your blog COMPLETELY around conversion content - conversion content are reviews or other pieces of content intended to turn your visitor into a BUYER.

At most, conversion content should take up only 15% of your total content .

Do this instead:

60% - Question Content
20% - Meaty List / How To / Guide type content
5% - Super Long RESOURCE posts
15% - Conversion content

- Build your site around USER NEEDS and BENEFITS * NOT * Keywords - Sure, there will always be space for keywords but put your READER FRONT AND CENTER

- NEVER publish comment spam - Use Spam Bee or some other free powerful plugins to minimize spam - The more spam comments you unwittingly (?) publish, the more duplicate content you let into your site
 
blackbeans said:
Here are my tips to NEWBIES aka "Things I wish I knew when I started blogging"

- Use LONG FORM content - minimum of 2000 words per post. Even for "question" posts intended to get easier Google rankings.

- Do not build your blog COMPLETELY around conversion content - conversion content are reviews or other pieces of content intended to turn your visitor into a BUYER.

At most, conversion content should take up only 15% of your total content .

Do this instead:

60% - Question Content
20% - Meaty List / How To / Guide type content
5% - Super Long RESOURCE posts
15% - Conversion content

- Build your site around USER NEEDS and BENEFITS * NOT * Keywords - Sure, there will always be space for keywords but put your READER FRONT AND CENTER

- NEVER publish comment spam - Use Spam Bee or some other free powerful plugins to minimize spam - The more spam comments you unwittingly (?) publish, the more duplicate content you let into your site
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nice share
 
Trina Mathews said:
Hello guys,

I am very very new to blogging. And i wanted to have an engaging and informative content. Any tips and recomms for a neophyte like me? Looking forward for your sharing and thoughts. Thank you.
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look at competitors (where would you want to be within X years) and see what are they posting about and how are they doing. Also an option is to partner up with some more professional blogger and get help in exchange for some small tasks that you do for him/her
 
blackbeans said:
Here are my tips to NEWBIES aka "Things I wish I knew when I started blogging"

- Use LONG FORM content - minimum of 2000 words per post. Even for "question" posts intended to get easier Google rankings.

- Do not build your blog COMPLETELY around conversion content - conversion content are reviews or other pieces of content intended to turn your visitor into a BUYER.

At most, conversion content should take up only 15% of your total content .

Do this instead:

60% - Question Content
20% - Meaty List / How To / Guide type content
5% - Super Long RESOURCE posts
15% - Conversion content

- Build your site around USER NEEDS and BENEFITS * NOT * Keywords - Sure, there will always be space for keywords but put your READER FRONT AND CENTER

- NEVER publish comment spam - Use Spam Bee or some other free powerful plugins to minimize spam - The more spam comments you unwittingly (?) publish, the more duplicate content you let into your site
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This is a very nice catch! Let me write this down or put into my notes. :):):)

OMG I am learning with your comments guys. love it, thanks soooooo much.
 
This is a great chance to set your goals for promotion and sharing new ideas.
 
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Never expect the first blog you build to get anywhere. Chances are good that you'll at least learn plenty if you take action, and be able to skill yourself to building some better blogs.
 
Another tip I wish I knew when I started

Let your COMPETITORS do your homework for you

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Find your competitors using semrush / alexa / similarsites / etc etc

Do an xml dump of their content via DOMAIN.COM/sitemap.xml

Check out their content

Which overlap with the topics you want to cover?

Use tools like semrush to see how those overlapping pages are doing in terms of traffic

Pick the topics that have decent levels of traffic

Cross reference with Google Keyword Planner tool and check for advertiser competition and CPC - if comp is high, that's good - this means people will pay for ads to reach your audience

Once you have your set of 30 topics (page urls)

Type in their titles into Google and look for RELATED QUESTION TOPICS - see below

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Next, look at the bottom

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Cover the ones that make sense in your REWRITE

I have a journey thread here where I go through the RESEARCH, writing, and PROMOTION steps on a POST BY POST basis

If you want to get results, you must TREAT EACH POST like a HOUSE you're building - you don't just put up the walls, slap on a roof and move on to the next one.... You have to have a SYSTEM

The best part? The system's FREE. You just have to invest your time, FOCUS, and COMMITMENT
 
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