6 Blogging Tips for New Bloggers

6 Blogging Tips for New Bloggers was inspired by an excellent post by Sunil, Are you slow poisoning your blog. He writes some excellent points on how to take control of your poorly performing blog.

So what are the points that you as a blogger should keep in mind while blogging, I have added some of my own thoughts.

1. Keep the post short and sweet. Golden Rule.

2. Regular posting:

The newspapers publish everyday and the news comes at the same time on the telly every hour. This creates a regular schedule in the mind of the viewer. Supposing you want to hear the news today and you switch on the TV @ 1800 hrs for the news, instead you find that they are doing re-runs. That would be a dampner.

So post regularly and make a schedule and stick to it.

3. Suss out your readers:

Try to suss out which type of blog reader you are getting and tailor content accordingly. This is a medical and travel blog, therefore I write about medicine and travel.

4. Scannable Posts:

Sunil says that you should create content that is scanable, read his post here. Studies have shown that readers are "time poor" and they scan posts to go to the meaty bits quickly.

5. Excessive Pop Up adverts & Insisting on Subscription:

Some of the blogs I visit send a Pop up with the goal of getting you to subscribe to their blog, I find that highly annoying and hate it and spoils my user experience.

6. Reader Interaction:

Try to reply to your readers as that builds rapport and gets you regular readers. In case you are wondering, what's the fuss with regular readers? Regular readers build a community of friends and likelyhood that they are bloggers themselves and will write a post which will link back to yours.

Hopefully these tips will make your blog a dynamic one and may you gain many readers!

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