In this post, I will be telling you 10 basic blogging tips to keep your readers happy with you and your blog. A new blogger will find many of these tips quite helpful. There are some things which make a blog a good one. These points are mentioned below!
1. Speed – An important but under-rated point is the speed with which your blog loads. 5-8 seconds is what you should target for. Anything more and you can be sure that the visitor will just go away. Your blog should not have loads of advertisements, eye-candy, etc, to the extent that it increases the load time. Having too many java scripts, toolbars, floatzilla just adds to the load time. So optimize the load time of your blog.
2. Images – Make sure your blog post has atleast an image in it. This breaks the monotony and keeps the readers glued to your post and also makes it interesting. If your post is just a collection of hundreds of words, you are likely to lose visitors from your blog. Optimizing the size of the images also helps in reducing the load time of the post.
3. Search button – See to it that your blog has a “Search” button. Many at times a reader might also want to see whether the content he wants to read is available or not on your blog. He wouldn’t want to go through all your Archives. People are used to seeing the search bar on the top right side on the webpage.
4. Social Media – This is one of the most essential parts of a blog ! Make sure you have a Twitter account and a Facebook page. Post its icons and links in your sidebar. Add a subscribe to RSS Feed and E-letters button too on your blog at such a place where it easily gets noticed. This will get you regular readers and in turn be beneficial for you.
5. Design of your blog – The design of your blog has to be good. It shouldn’t be messy with many things here and there. A simple and clean one will do the job !
6. Always stay on the topic – It might happen at times that you want to write something and you end up writing something else. When you write a post, always define your topic boldly and make sure you stick to it. By doing so, you will have loyal readers who will love reading your posts.
7. Old is not Gold in Blogging – Always write something that’s new ! Don’t write content that is old . Old content is what people are already aware of. If your traffic is from search engines then you wont get any traffic by writing old content as there wont be anyone searching for that stuff. If you have good subscribers, then this is the worst thing as you might lose them.
8. Keywords – Include search engine friendly keywords in your post. This will get you loads of web traffic from search engines. Also, use the title as a headline to attract interest of your readers. Each post should have a title that will attract attention but at the same time, also be relevant to the post. Ideally, the title shouldn’t be longer than 10-12 words.
9. Keep updating your blog – Whenever possible, try to update your blog. If you can do it daily – great! If not, then atleast do it once a week. Search Engines will regularly update your posts by sending robots and spiders to your blog. If you publish new posts, you can assure that they will quickly get indexed.
10. Blogging per se - Don’t blog for the sake of it ! When you blog, you should write original, quality posts. Write something that your blog is related with. For example, if you blog is about software, don’t blog about hardware just because that content helps you in earning more money through content related ads. If you like blogging, then do it with utmost interest and passion.
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