Hi guys its Iftekhar again on IFTISEO. Today I will be sharing some Things to remember before starting a blog
Everyone should clear the concept of Blogging, many newbies take
it as a source of income, I don’t disagree but in reality blogging is much more. I will not be getting deep into this being specific. ( Explained Below)
Always Remember this quote from Mike Butcher:
"Blogging is a conversation, not a code. "
So, Here are 10 Things to remember before starting a blog.
1. Never ever think of
earning from your blog from the first day itself. It takes months or even a year to start earning good money on
daily basis. No one become successful blogger within a day or a week. Average
estimates shows that with this much competition in blogging it takes 1 complete
year build a successful blog. So don’t panic if you do not earn even in
the beginning 3-6 months. This blog IFTISEO even is a new blog started in
November 2013 and we are right now not earning much.
“If you want to continually grow your blog, you
need to learn to blog on a consistent basis."
2. Never panic if you don’t
get traffic to your blog. These days its common that
people are looking for traffic, but again for a newbie, the starting months
will be hard. Never get demotivated by this. Its common for all. It will take
time of about 6 months to start receiving constant traffic to your blog.
3. Dont get confused of
choosing between Wordpress and Blogger. It has been seen that there is a big confusion among the newbies
on what platform to chose. I would suggest Blogger for newbies as all your
focus will be on writing and producing quality content rather than wasting time
for hosting, installing and trying new plugins etc.
4. Never Ever try any
Blackhat technique. Many newbies are adopting blackhat techniques to get thier blog to
top or for getting traffic or for getting backlinks, but remember once you
enter into blackhat world, you can no longer be renowned as a good blogger.
Apart from this these black methods have a negative impact on your blog. You
can fool others but you cant even think of fooling Google, Google will one day
straight away flag your blog and all your hard work will go useless. Google
updates regularly and your blog should be always ready to face the
updates.
To get good results after updates read here :- NEVER GET AFFECTED BY GOOGLE UPDATES
5. Don’t copy articles, write by yourself. One
more thing many blogger specially the newbies are doing is that they just copy
articles from other blogs, websites or even books available as black on the net
and post on thier own blog. This is really bad in terms of blogging. A blogger
is one who writes articles and attract readers to his blog, rather than just
applying copy paste methods. This again comes as illegal in terms of google and
your blog will get a red flag soon or if you are using Adsense, you will surely
lose it. Write articles by yourself, that way you will get experience and
motivation to write more. Believe me I did copy pasting too but when I wrote my
first article, I never stopped. You have to give your complete dedication and
if you have passion for what you are doing then no one can stop you.
However, you can always open your blog for guest postings. Once
you get on the flow then you may even hire people to write articles for your
blog.
6. Never waste time on Templates and Themes. Yes
they do play an important role in your blog and are very much responsible for
attracting readers apart from your content. Just get a free template from
internet and use it, instead of changing and trying new templates or themes,
this eats up your writing time. as a blogger you will always be confused in
many themes and templates due to wide range of varieties available. But chose
one and carry it on your blog, you have to just make sure that your template is
well optimized for mobile and tablet devices as well, plus your template should
be responsive, well optimized in terms of SEO and have required widgets.
7. Never get Confused in Writing Articles. Write on those Topics in which you have interest as well as
Knowledge. You can produce attractive and Killer contents only if you know
about what you are writing of, Just reviewing and writing dont make any sense
and you will not be able to share your ideas, thoughts or experiences. So chose
your niche wisely.
Now when it comes to writing follow these steps:
1. There is no word limit, never set a limit and write, you can
write upto 2000 words its all upto you. You may miss much if you set a limit
and start
2. Be specific when writing articles.
3. Don’t get deep into subtopics. You may create new posts on
that.
4. Use reviews, examples, share ideas and experiences if you have
any.
5. Try to explain in points or in steps rather than explaining in
single paragraph.
8. Buy a domain name carefully. Buying a domain is a must if you want to get success at a faster
rate, as private domains are given much more importance by google as compared
to hosted domain names. You will be ranked faster, you will get more traffic
and most importantly your blog will get a professional look.
Try to get an attractive name that can be remembered easily. Use
your keyword in it if you want but nowadays after google updates it hardly makes
a difference.
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9. Just posting is not work done. As a
newbie once you post an article on your blog, you need to spread it
and this can be done by social networks. For first few months you have to rely
on only social traffic on your blog before you get indexed on google and get
ranked higher. Make use of Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, G+ and many others.
Make sure to have a page of your blog on Facebook. However flooding your blog
links on different social networks can create a negative impact on your social
accounts, you may get restricted of posting your link, So just find places,
pages, communities and groups of your interests and share your
posts.
10. Never show dominance. Though by following all the above steps you will become successful
blogger, but there are still many voids to be filled. So never spread yourself,
the world will get to know about yourself themselves. you just continue posting
articles regularly, if you can rise you can fall too. So be careful this is the
world of blogging and you never expect what happens next. MORE ON BLOGGING
These were 10 Things to remember before starting a
blog. I hope that this article have won many hearts of newbies. If you
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