I have been a part-time blogger since the past two years. Juggling between studies, blogging, tuitions, homework, and well yeah, stuff. However, in these past two years, I have gained hell lot of knowledge from my experiences.
Now I have reached a point where I can easily advise any new blogger right from selecting the niche of their blog, to SEO, to advertising, to earning lots. Yeah, you read it correctly, I said earning real money, that too lots if you have more than 10K monthly visitors. We are talking about earning six-figure sums if you are able to do this correctly, that too monthly.
Let us leave these money-making *dreams* for later on, and currently focus on the more pressing matters.
Some of you might have already decided the niche you will be writing about (meaning that some of you may have completed the homework). But still there might be many who haven't been able to make this extremely difficult choice (well, there are lots of things one can write about!) I shall dedicate an entire post to help you people, but after this one.
This post of mine gives some brief lessons that I have learnt from my experience. And I recommend everyone to read these tips thoroughly. If you are asking why should you waste your time reading about the lessons I learnt from my life, then I have only one explanation for this- 'hearing about someone else's experience of falling from roof-top is actually worth the time, instead of yourself jumping off the rooftop.'
With that in mind, here I begin:-
- Keep a very healthy connection with the visitors.
While approaching you regarding a query, your visitors should never feel as if they are contacting a very big organisation (even if you are one) This means that your visitors should always feel as if they are approaching a fellow human being for help and not some VVIP who barely has time to address personal and childish queries. The bottom is that your blog and your answers to queries should never lack the warm touch (metaphor). Alos, it is good to be a little sarcastic and funny.
- Keep posting a couple of posts every week.
Keep a log of at least 10 posts, you might have to work overtime for this in the first week. After you have published 10 posts, slow down your pace, even 2 posts in a week are more than enough, provided that your visitors don't feel as if your blog is dead. Bottom line is try to keep your posts high in quality and low in quantity.
- Prioritise quality over quantity.
What I meant by '10 posts' was that you write quality posts (which are equal to or more than 10 in number). Don't be under the impression that 10 is the magic number, as soon as you reach the milestone of 10 posts suddenly you shall have a thousand people visiting your blog daily. It doesn't matter much even if you have 8 or 9 posts. What matters is that the visitors should feel that you are writing because you love to (even if you don't). Never let your visitors feel neglected.
- How many posts should one write in the beginning?
Like I said, it doesn't matter if you weren't able to write 10 posts in the first week. Don't focus on 10 posts. You have to understand what I mean by writing overtime. By this, I meant that in the first week itself, your blog should be of enough length to keep a visitor engrossed for at least half-an-hour. Also, make sure that the content and quality of your blog should ensure that the visitor stays busy reading your blog and should think of nothing else.
- Don't cram up your blog space.
Keep your blog neat and organised. Don't cram up your blog space with useless ad's and link's that might draw away the users attention. Your main objective should be to keep the visitor engrossed completely just in reading your blog. At such a time, ad's/irrelevant photos/useless links may all draw away the visitor to some other website.
- Don't ever be *over-confident*
Through my journey as a blogger, I have seen several other bloggers who initially had 10K+ monthly page views (that's' a hell lot!) But then they filled their blogs with ad's, started ignoring queries, isolated their blogs for even a month at a stretch. By now, most of you I hope have enough common sense to predict what happened to them. Yes- most of them were lost amidst the oncoming tide of new blogger's. They ran out of business. The remaining few who survived, had received a great blow. Now they couldn't even manage 200+ monthly viewers. What I meant to say was never feel too overconfident of yourself or your blog. Respect the visitors and they shall keep visiting you. Ignore them and you too shall be lost among new blogger, however famous you used to be......
- Don't overload the visitor with too much information.
Have you ever visited a blog which was too full of content such that it seemed *end-less*, if yes then you yourself might have experienced how disheartening it feel to have to read so much. Many of us might close that page instantly. Not only is this the wastage of the writers valuable time, but it also is very depressing to own a blog that has 100,000+ words and yet not even 100+ visitors. The main reason is the end-less content. Be precise and to the point. Include images that are relevant to the topic and also help in clearing concepts. Don't be too dull and boring. Avoid publishing content that exceeds 2000 words.
These were some tips for new bloggers that I could come up with. Think I missed something? Please feel free to remind me through the comments section or the 'Contact Me' form.
HomeWork:-
Google for the 10 most powerful individual bloggers and visit their blogs. Go through their blogs thoroughly. Try to notice similarities between them. Eg. All of them may hardly contain grammatical errors or spelling mistake. Try to find as many as you can.
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