This post is written as a checklist for beginner bloggers starting their first blog. Here I have listed 14 tips for blogging for beginners. I always recomend to do guest blogging. It can help you benefit in numerous ways. Establishing yourself as a thought leader in your field and establishing connections with like-minded professionals are all benefits of guest blogging on other companies’ and bloggers’ websites. If you don’t know how to start, check this and learn how to find guest bloggers.
14 How to Start Blogging Tips
1: Decide Your Niche to Blog About
Most beginners fail because they don’t decide on their niche. They start blogging in various niches to confirm their failure. So, before starting any step, decide your niche to blog about.
2: Draw a Clear Diagram of Your Blog on Paper
Make a clear idea about the look of your blog. A blog without a good design and plan will look like a rough notebook.
So decide how your blog header will look like, how your sidebar will look like, your home page design, etc. Make a plan for your blog on paper and build a successful blog that rocks.
3: Decide Your Blogging Platform
Start with the best blogging platform. Here is the list of some best blogging platforms to start blogging with. WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform. I recommend WordPress to start a blog.
4: Decide Your Theme for Blog
After deciding on your blogging platform, find a theme for your blog depending on your plan (design) of a blog. Selection of theme affects a lot to blog. So choose a theme very wisely.
5: Decide Your Categories for Blogging
Before you start writing blog content, decide on blog categories in which you will publish your posts. Take some time to think about it. Make a good list of categories. But don’t make too many categories for a single blog. Try to make a maximum of 6-8 categories.
6: Don’t Forget to Add Must-Have Pages on Your Blog
To make your blog stand out, it must contain some pages before you start publishing posts like about us, contact us, legal disclaimer, affiliate disclosure, privacy policy, and sitemap. These pages nowadays are must-have pages for a blog.
7: You Must Have at Least 20 Posts Before Starting a Blog
Do not start a blog with only two or three posts. Write about 20 posts to publish a blog. Ask yourself, do you like a blog having only five posts? Because no one like an empty blog if they visit.
8: Make Sure You Have Written Original Content
Do not just copy and paste content. By this, you will never get success. Write original content in your way. I don’t say to create magic posts that do not exist in the blogosphere because it’s the fact that there is everything already written online on every topic. So you can pick the same topic but write it in your own words and own way. That makes it different from other copy-paste bloggers.
9: You Should Not Write What You Don’t Know
Write on your blog about the topic you know. Don’t write posts on a topic, even if you can’t discuss it with your readers. Try to be as transparent as possible with your audience.
10: Give Credits Wherever It Requires
If you write something by taking ideas from somewhere else, give credit to them. If you publish an image from another website (which allows this), give backlinks to them. Do not forget to give credits, this will represent your credits.
11: Update Your Blog Regularly
Search engine loves fresh feeds. The best key to success is to update your blog frequently and regularly. Update your blog as frequently as possible.
12: Always Connect to Social Media
Socialization is very important. Build your social presence. Connect with friends of similar interests and share knowledge. Social networking will help you a lot in your blog promotion and SEO.
13: Start Building E-mail List from Starting
An E-mail list is the most affecting factor for your money-making dream. You can’t make big money without a big mailing list. Your blogging money is directly proportional to the mailing list. So do not delay this task. Start building your mailing list from the very beginning.
14: Make Sure Your Blog Is Not Full of Advertisements from Starting
Do not spoil your blog by putting so many ads on a single page. Do some online research on which place is best to put ads. Try to keep an optimum number of ad slots on a page. So many ads on a page will decrease the reader’s experience.
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