Successful Blogging Tips: 25 Blog Tips for Beginners
When it comes to blogging, beginners need plenty of help. Successful blogging tips can go a very long way to helping you put together a plan for your own blog.
From writing tips to marketing tips to design tips, there’s so much to learn and it seems like you don’t have much time. Remember, blogging is a marathon, not a sprint.
It takes consistent effort to get your blog noticed and get it out there. While I can provide you with all the successful blogging tips I can find, you have to do the work and build your blog.
If you haven’t started your blog yet, check out my Start Here page and get my free How to Become a Blogger course by clicking here. I will walk you through many of the basics needed to start your own blog.
Now, let’s get into the 25 successful blogging tips in my series of blog posts called Blogging for Beginners.
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Successful Blogging Tips #1 — Consistency is Key
My first successful blogging tip comes from my own experience. Some of the tips I am about to share with you come from other bloggers that have found success, but this one is from me.
Consistency is the most vital element of any successful blog. Even if you start off as a terrible writer and the posts you create don’t add a ton of value, you’ll get better with consistent posting.
The same goes for marketing your blog. You’re not going to share a blog post on your social media accounts and get a ton of followers and visitors just because you shared it. You have to consistently work your marketing strategy and over time, you will build a following and build up blog traffic.
Blogging isn’t a one and done type of game or something you can put on auto-pilot. You need to put in the effort and work your plan.
Currently, I am doing a 100-day blogging challenge, which requires me to write and publish a new blog post every day for 100 days. This type of challenge is a great way to get your blog moving in the right direction.
The point here is simple, consistency with posting, marketing, and everything else you do for your blog matters. Make sure you are consistent with creating new content, sharing it with the world, and all other aspects of your blog and you will be well on your way to creating a successful blog.
#2 — Get Started — A Successful Blogging Tip from DreamHost.com
Dreamhost.com published a post titled “19 expert blogging tips for 2019” and one of the tips they provided was to just get started. This is a great tip as you cannot reach success without first getting started.
There is no possible way to publish 100 posts on your blog if you don’t first publish post #1. Getting started is one of the hardest parts for new bloggers.
The tip from dreamhost.com states, “Begin with exercises to simply get you writing every day. This will help you form the habit that will make blogging easier.” It also quotes Erin Loechner from Design for Mankind and she says, “Write as often as you possibly can, this does not mean publish as often as you possibly can. Get in the habit, work on your craft. Discover your voice. It takes great practice and great patience. Do it anyway. Sit down in your chair and type it out. Edit later. Publish later. For now, just write.”
#3 — Blog Your Passion
This is another one of my tips and it goes against what many experts say, which is fine because the experts really are not always experts, anyway.
In fact, a tip from BeautifulDawnDesigns.net says to do the opposite as it states, “Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is that not every niche will make you good money. I’m not talking 5 figures a month. I’m saying that some niches will barely make you a couple hundred a month.”
While this is partially true, about 95% of the things someone could be passionate about can make money from a blog. Everything from crafts to car repair to travel to cooking will make you money if you monetize your blog properly.
In fact, it’s very difficult for me to think of a niche that won’t make you money if you blog about it with passion and you monetize correctly. The author of the post I mentioned doesn’t give any examples of niches that don’t make money, which is common when the so-called experts tell you to chase money instead of passion.
I don’t believe in chasing money. Blog about what you’re passionate about and the money will be there if you monetize your blog properly. Even very obscure niches have the ability to make money if you learn how to monetize and you blog with passion. You can even look at the list I created of the Top 17 Blog Niches that Make Money and you’ll likely find your passion fits into one of them
Whatever it is you’re passionate about, become an expert by learning everything you can about it, and share your knowledge through a blog. If you do this, and you monetize your blog properly, you will make money online with your blog.
#4 — Become Familiar With WordPress
One of the best weapons in your blogging arsenal is WordPress. I am not talking about the free version, but the self-hosted version of WordPress.
Since I believe your blog needs a real domain name and needs to be owned by you, not some company letting you use their platform for free, I believe a self-hosted WordPress blog is best. Personally, I recommend using SiteGround Hosting for the hosting part of things and you can read my SiteGround Hosting Review here or watch the video on my YouTube Channel here.
Once you have a self-hosted blog set up, you need to learn how to use WordPress inside and out. It’s a very powerful blogging platform that allows you to do so much. Knowing it inside and out will give you plenty of power when it comes to blogging.
There are several websites out there offering all kinds of information on how to use WordPress. Use them as resources and anytime you want to do something, but you’re not sure how simply Google it. There’s probably a plugin already out there for what you want to do.
Successful Blogging Tips #5 — Write Long, Comprehensive Blog Posts
Another tip I found from someone else, which I am going to disagree with comes from templatemonster.com in their article, “Top 18 Tips on How to Become a Successful Blogger in 2018.”
They provide a tip saying you should write short blog posts, which is such a horrible tip for beginners. If you want to be successful as a blogger, this is not the type of tip you want to follow.
Of course, this tip, along with just about every single one on their list was designed to promote something. While I agree, you should be concise when sharing your ideas, longer, more comprehensive blog posts rank better on Google and they draw in readers that will spend more time on your blog.
The key is to make your longer blog posts skimmable. Use proper formatting to ensure readers can find what they want and skip the rest.