Blogging Tips and Tricks for Beginners. A Blogger’s Helpful Hints

We covered every little aspect in our basic blogging lesson series which are:

1. The secrets of successful blogging.
2. Deeds to build reader trust.
3. Search engine optimization techniques.

Subsequently, let’s see some blogging tips that we missed and that does matter in blogging to ensure a pleasant blog user experience for your readers while on your blog.

Blogging Tips and Tricks

• Surfers around the world are not scholars in English. Hence, use a very simple language to hold up every single user.
• As always said, content is the king. Write articles for humans, not search engines.
• To get a good display of your title in search results (while searching in those search engines), the title of the posts should be less than or equal to 64 characters. Of course, you should use a plugin like HeadSpace2 or All in one SEO along with this tip. However, I would recommend WordPress SEO Plugin by Joost de Valk.
• Limit your plugins only to those that are very essential as too much of plugins could lead to late loading of your pages, and slow pages turn visitors away.
• If you decide to monetize your blog, experiment multiple revenue sources. Place ads wisely. Try Google Adsense, BidVertiser, Auction Ads, etc., but don’t make your blog’s advertising look like The Strip in Vegas. It annoys people off and keeps them from liking you as they feel you are putting your revenue ahead of your usefulness.
• Add a “Related Posts” feature. This increases internal linking as well as retaining the reader at least for a few more pages.
• Add Top Ten posts feature to display the most popular posts. This develops curiosity in the minds of a new visitor to see those posts that gained top ranking.
• Similarly, add “next” and “previous” post buttons to increase page views and to direct and retain a visitor to a few more pages.

• Place a human-readable sitemap and archives page at a well visible place on your blog. This would help a reader find the article for which he came for if at all he didn’t land on the post what he came for.
• Back up your blog/database at regular intervals to bail you out at times of crisis.
• Invite like-minded bloggers to perform guest posts on your blog.
• While deciding titles prefer words that people might key in to search for your post. Don’t forget synonyms and plural versions of those words. The same is the case with category names.
• Blogging success secret: Successful blogging is 10% blogging and 90% marketing. Hence writing quality content is only 10% of the work done while marketing/link building is 90% to draw the crowd and crawlers. Work in that manner.
• Do not claim yourself all of your posts on social bookmarking sites. Repetition, in this case, does worse than good.
• Traffic from social bookmarking sites has a short attention span and may leave your blog in a few seconds. Thus try the most you can to keep those readers to build the reader count.
• More importantly, place a good site-search tool in a very good visible area. A blog/site without a decent site-search tool annoys me. That is the case with every Internet user. Try avoiding unpleasant experiences for the readers while on your blog.

Let me hope you found these blogging tips helpful.