6 tips before you start your blogging journey

Writing and publishing your first blog can be thrilling. Just thinking that hundreds of people out there will be reading your writings is nerve-racking.

Although writing a blog may seem easy at first but when you really have to do it you will see a whole new picture. If you look at the blogs of successful bloggers then you would see they not only do their blogs as quality content and assets they are also tailored and structured in such a way that whenever a reader starts reading them they seem to want to learn more about it.

And most importantly their blogs are well researched. From their titles to their contents, everything is tailored in such a way that they would highlight your niche and selected keywords so that both the search engines and readers can easily identify them.

Don’t think that they achieved such skills overnight. Like you, they were also struggling at first. Some even didn’t have access to other blogs for inspiration or guidelines. As a result, forget quality some of their writing wasn’t even meaningful content. But over time after observing the reader’s feedbacks they began to sort things out.

But here’s the thing what are the profits of blog writing? Yeah, you can learn and share your knowledge. But what else sharing and learning won’t run your household.

Well, if it was before then that’s true. Other than joining some publication house normal writers wouldn’t get anything for their writings. But things are different now.

Nowadays bloggers can make a living through various blogging platforms or freelance platforms that not appreciate their skills but also promote them as well. Other than this there are many businesses that approach well-known bloggers and ask them to promote their brands through their blog in exchange for sponsorship.

By now I think you are pretty much interested in blogging and want to start as soon as possible. But before you do let me give you some tips that you might find useful when starting blogging.

# Choose the right platform

A lot’s of the time before blogging we try out lots of blogging platforms and post multiple blogs and see which one is getting a better response. But that’s not the right way. Not only will you lose precious time but also you would also have to work twice as hard to have a blog that was already indexed and had an ample audience.

So it’s best to research what platform suits you do you want a pure blogging site but free like worpress.com, blogspot, or worpress.org or any custom site that can be set up through personal hosting, or do you want to become a freelance writer and join sites like Upwork, Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, Streaming Plug, etc. And promote one from the beginning. And also don’t forget to take into account which platform your target audience prefers the most.

# Connect to analytics

After setting up everything it’s essential that you connect your platform to an analytic tool like google analytics. You can analyze which types of posts are popular in which region as which posts are getting the least traffic. With this data, you can get a more clear picture of which type of posts you should focus on and prepare your materials accordingly.

# Keep regular backups

It’s essential to keep a regular backup of your posts. Cause you may never know what might happen in the future. Being hacked or server crashes are not that uncommon so it’s better to keep a regular backup of your daily updates. This way even if something unexpected happens you will be prepared and tackle any situation in a calm way.

# Choose and research your niche carefully

Before writing a blog you must keep in mind that the knowledge you want to spread through your writing should be authentic and have credibility. This way not only your relationship with your existing audience will be strengthened but also search engines will give you a more fitting ranking in the search results for your niche which will result in more readers discovering your blog posts.

# Optimize your writing and assets for search engine

We all want our blogs to rank high in the search engines. So that our engagements increase and we get more followers. For this only have a high domain authority site recommending you is not enough. You must also prep your contents and assets in such a way so that they are liked by the search engines and give you a satisfactory ranking for the keywords that you preferred to be known for.

# Utilize the power of social media

Social media is one of the most powerful tools you can use to broadcast yourself and your blogs. By utilizing various groups and resources that are available through them you can achieve much quicker traffic from them than any other site. So it’s wise to have a social account on platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc., and connect with people on the same field as you to promote and learn from them.