Blogging is a lucrative means of making money online. Aspiring bloggers who want to start their blog always ask how they can get it right in blogging. For you to be successful in blogging, you must understand some basic blogging tips that will help you. In this post, I will share with you 8 blogging tips that are working for me.
1. Discover A Niche You Have Passion For
Many newbie bloggers or aspiring bloggers make the mistake of not discovering what they are passionate about. It is important in blogging. Naturally, as humans when we have a passion for things, we tend to give it our best. Some bloggers go into a niche just because they think that niche can earn money fast.
Others go because they think that the niche is less competitive meaning that they are not blogging on niches they have passion for. The consequence is not being able to give in their best when they are facing some challenges. There are a lot of blogging niches out there which you can go into. Some of them are as follows:
Business, Finance, News, Food, Fashion, Make Money Online, Travel, Health, and Fitness, Parenting, Relationships, Technology, Environment, etc. These niches are capable of making you money if you go about them with the passion in you.
2. Choose A Good Hosting Service
Your blog posts will be hosted on the web for people to see them. Therefore, you need a good hosting platform. There are many web hosting platforms out there. Some of them are Bluehost, Hostgator Cloud, Site Ground, Name Cheap, Hostinger, Dreamhost. All of these hosting services have their pros and cons. So you have to make your research very well before you settle for one.
But for me as a blogger, I prefer Bluehost to others. Why? With just $2.95, you can host your website on Bluehost. Another thing interesting about Bluehost is that they are always there to help you all the time 24/7. That means that you are not alone when you have issues with your web hosting. Sometimes the customer service of Bluehost goes the extra mile to make sure that you’re a satisfied customer.
There was time I had issues with a code I messed up on my theme, I was confused and didn’t have money to pay a developer. I contacted them. They helped me to fix it in minutes even though it wasn’t their job. One more thing I like about Bluehost is its speed. Since I started using them, I have not experienced slow page loading. Two of my blogs run on Bluehost.
This one you are on, another which is a news blog. This is not to say that other web hosting platforms are not good.
3.Create A Quality Content
In blogging, content is the king. That’s the only weapon you have to conquer. People will always come back to your blog if they derive benefits from it. You can only give your audience that benefits by creating great quality content that helps solve their problem. People search on Google to get solutions to their problems. It is the quality content you create that will make them stick to you on a particular topic or niche.
There are a lot of benefits to creating quality content. Firstly Google loves quality content. If Google’s algorithm discovers that people are reading your blog post for a long time, it will rank it higher on the search results even if your blog is new. Google rewards quality content a lot. Another benefit you get from creating quality content is that it can get you many backlinks.
People will link to your content because it provides value. Backlinks are important for Domain Authority. So good content can guarantee you that. Your products too can sell through quality content. Let’s assume you did a quality blog post on how to lose weight, your audience is likely to purchase any product you have on how to lose weight.
4.Drive Traffic To Your Blog
It doesn’t make sense that you will take time to create that quality content, and no one sees it. Driving traffic to your blog is key. The simplest and easiest way to do that is to optimize your blog post to rank on Google. You can do that by first making use of keyword search tools to identify keywords people are searching for and one which you can rank for. Organic traffic from Google is free but you need to put in your time to do it.
Keyword search tools like Ubersuggest, Google Keyword Planner, Answer The Public, Keyword Everywhere, Google Trends, and Google Search Console are Ok. Check out the video below where I showed you how to use Ubersuggest to do a keyword search.
You can also drive traffic through different social media apps like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Reddit. I personally use all of them to drive traffic to my blog. Email marketing is another effective way of driving traffic you can consider. With email marketing, you can get closer to your audience. You can package all the blog posts that you think will benefit your audience and send it out to them once a week. That way you are creating awareness and building a strong relationship with them.
You can also leverage it to sell your products to them in the future. Some of the email marketing services you can use are Mailchimp, Get Response, ConvertKit, Aweber, and Hubspot. Start your free email marketing trial with GetReponse here. You can also do guest writing for bigger websites which in return you get backlinks. It is also a great way to drive traffic. Imagine the number of traffic your blog will get if your link appears on big websites like Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, and many more.
5.Build Relationship With Your Audience
In blogging, your audience is like your customer. You need to build relationships with them. The blog post you have written is for them and without them, you will have the article just for yourself. Be sure to engage them in the comment section and answer the questions they ask. Identify the problems that are bothering them and devise a means of solving them by creating a blog post to that effect.
Always inform them of things you think they are not aware of as it concerns your blog niche. Provide them with free resources you have created that way you deepen your relationship with them. Time will come when such a relationship will pay you.
They will patronize any product you sell because you have built a relationship with them, and they believe in you. This is one of the blogging tips many bloggers have not bothered to implement. Hence, they complain of lack of audience and constant traffic. Online businesses like blogging work fine if you command a large audience.
6.Generate leads
For you to make money from your blog through the sale of digital products, you need to generate leads. These are users who visit your blog and get captured with any of the lead generation tools you have used on your website. To achieve this, you can use any of the lead generation tools like GetResponse, MailChimp, ActiveCampaign, etc to create sales or landing pages for your digital products.
Below is a unique insight from Databox on average lead to the conversion rate of some bloggers on their blog.
7.Be Consistent
Consistency is the key if you want to win in the blogging business. In fact, to me, this is the most important of the blogging tips I have mentioned here. Many newbie bloggers are excited after they have launched their blog. After they have posted like 5 or 6 articles, you see them relenting.
Some even post without a schedule. This will hurt you especially if your blog is less than 6 months. Make it a priority to post at least once a week. That way Google will recognize your blog as being consistent in posting fresh content. Also, it will help your audience base to grow over time.
8.Exercise Patience
Blogging is not a get-rich-quick scheme. If it was, many people would have been millionaires by now. But it requires patience, consistency, and hard work. Some bloggers are carried away by the results of fellow bloggers who have been in the game for a long time.
The fact is that you can’t compare yourself with them. But you can reach that level if you follow the tips to blogging which are key. Creating quality content, driving traffic, and growing your audience ] should be your concern at the initial stage. Other things will fall in place with time.
Conclusion
These blogging tips will be of great benefit to you especially if you’re a newbie who is struggling with blogging. Also for aspiring bloggers, they will guide you against making wrong choices same time help you grow fast as a blogger.
