Blogging has become a mainstream activity, with everyone from teenagers to grandparents now blogging regularly. With that in mind, here are 5 tips to help you become a better bloggger.
Blog Regularly
Many bloggers do not blog often enough. If you want to keep an audience, as well as keeping search engines happy, you need to make sure to have new content on your blog. The best way is to keep a schedule – blogging at least three times a week on different topics can make or break your blog.
Interact with Your Audience
Blogging is very much a social activity. Make sure to reply to comments, trackbacks, and other ideas that are circulating around your blog and your interests.
Interact with other Bloggers
Interacting with other bloggers in your niche is an excellent way to get more links and more readers. Find other blogs in your area – respond via comments, trackbacks. Ask to guest post on those blogs and create content that those bloggers want to link to and tell their audiences about.
Schedule Your Content
If you are using WordPress (as many bloggers do) probably the best way to create more content is to pick one time during the week and write all of your major content then. Once you’ve finished writing your content, you can schedule it to post at a later point. You’ve created a lot of content, and at the same time created regular postings and content for your blogs.
Get an Editor
Either a friend or a fellow blogger should be able to look over your content, give you tips and ideas for your content. If you’re a full time blogger, you might want to even consider hiring a full time editor who can help you improve your writing style. The better your blogging and writing, the more contributors, readers and traffic you will get.
Maya Richard currently writes about high speed internet for Cable Modem Help. She can be reached at mayarichard @ gmail.com