Lesson One
Blogging Basics
6 Tips to Help You Start (and Keep) Blogging
Blogging Basics
6 Tips to Help You Start (and Keep) Blogging
If you’re a freelance writer, an author, or any other type of solopreneur, you’ll probably want to start a blog and learn how to blog.
But it can be difficult to continue blogging, week after week, year after year.
Yet to develop a readership for your blog you need to post at least one time a week.
People won’t want to come back to your blog regularly if they can’t expect to find new content there all the time.
Here are six tips to help you keep up with your blog and post on a regular basis:
1. Decide from the start who you want to attract to your blog.
That is, decide who you want your readers to be.
This will be your target market.
The reason this will help you post regularly to your blog is because you’ll always have it clear in your mind who you are writing for.
And that will make it easier to focus on the content you need for your blog.
2. Decide from the start how you will serve your intended readers.
Many beginning bloggers set up a blog with no real purpose or intended readership in mind.
It’s no wonder they find blogging difficult, or they just don’t keep up with it.
Their blog posts tend to be rambles, or daily accounts of their writing activities, which don’t serve readers in any way (unless these accounts are particularly humorous, or also offer something for the reader to consider regarding his or her own life).
Develop a purpose for your blog.
What will you post each time that will be of use to your intended readers?
3. Develop a regular weekly schedule for posting.
It’s much easier to keep up with your blog if you decide right away that you will post only 1 to 2 days a week, for example, and those 2 days will be Mondays and Fridays.
You won’t have to feel guilty the other 5 days of the week when you aren’t blogging.
4. Develop categories for your regular blog posts.
If you know you’re going to post every Monday and Friday, set up categories for each of those days.
For example, you might blog about new products or special offers on Mondays.
On Fridays you could post tips that would be of interest to the people who use your types of products and/or services.
Categories can also help you organize your blog.
5. Plan ahead whenever possible.
Once you have established a regular blogging schedule and developed categories for your posts, you’ll find it easier to plan ahead.
You can even enter your articles ahead of time and have them scheduled to post on the days you want.
When you do this, it makes it much easier to keep up with your blog as well as your other activities.
You can post your articles to your blog over the weekend, then not have to worry about blogging again until the next weekend.
6. You don’t have to write every single post for your blog yourself.
Your blog should be a resource to serve your readers.
However, that doesn’t mean you need to write every bit of the material posted at your blog yourself.
As long as you provide helpful information, your readers won’t care who wrote that information.
You might have guest bloggers periodically.
Invite other professionals who write about your topic of interest to supply a post for your blog. And you can be a guest on their blogs
If this person can post a link to his/her site within the post, he/she will probably be more than happy to provide you with content for a day.
Start with just one of these 6 tips to start blogging or keep blogging to build your blog.
Try it!
Until Next Time!
Irene S. Roth
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