Blogging: 8 Rules for Professional Bloggers!
Everyone’s writing skills and style are different, but there are blogging principles that can be applied as below so you can grow your readership quickly. In addition, these principles will also help your blog be more successful.
#first. Problems, problems & problems!
What is the reader’s problem? How do you help them solve problems through blogging?
Basically if you want to blog professionally, blog to be able to make money, you need to help readers solve a specific problem.
They are experiencing:
- Weight gain problem? What do you write, do to help them lose weight?
- The problem of increasing income on the internet? What do you do for them to improve their income?
- Problems learning foreign languages, specifically English? What does your blog write to help them?
- The problem of how to best take care of their children? What do you share to help them?
- ….
Helping solve problems is the key to a successful blogger! So list all the problems your readers are facing.
Build articles and content that help them solve that problem! You will be successful.
#2. Writing for a 5th grader
When blogging, you should write in a simple, understandable manner with common style and language. Limit the use of specialized words as much as possible.
One trick is to treat all your readers as 5th graders, so you can use vocabulary and language that any child can read and understand what you’re trying to say. .
#3. Write to one person and always use the word “you”
If you pay attention, you will find that in all of my articles, the word “you” is used instead of “we”… When writing an article, you should get in the habit of imagining that you are writing for only one person, even if your blog is written for only one person. you have thousands of readers.
This way you’re making your readers feel like they’re in a dialogue, where it’s just you and them. One way you can apply this habit is to imagine that you are writing an article, a letter… just for the purpose of sending it to one person.
#4. Write detailed instructions, read is a must
If you’re sloppy or sloppy, or you’re writing just because it doesn’t seem like there’s anything to write this week, you’re losing your audience. I has a lot of experience on this issue, detailed articles, with pictures are always the ones that bring the best readers and interactions.
If you guide a certain problem, the goal at the end of the article readers will have to do, but if they do not successfully follow your instructions, then you have failed!
Especially with the tutorial type, I finds that this is the best way to attract loyal readers.
Do you know why?
For any problem or operation, there are many bloggers who also build tutorial articles. But if any blogger guides wholeheartedly, sets the guiding goal of being able to do it, that person will be the winner.
So with a how-to article:
- Write in detail, set goals the reader will have to do
- If your opponent only has text, you need to add an image. If your opponent has both text and images, you need to add video. If your competitor has text, images, and video, you should be able to do podcasts.
By doing this, you are creating value for your readers and you may be “beating” your competition! 😎
#5. Diversify the content and type of blog posts
Content is more than just writing!
Content is also videos , podcasts , images…
Diversify the content because there are people who love to read. But there are also people who are lazy to read, they prefer to watch, listen to, and look at pictures more.
In addition to diversifying the content, you also need to diversify the type of article.
Usually I finds most of us focus on the tutorial type. This is very good.
But try with post styles like:
- Case study articles (case studies)
- Interview, share
- Articles predicting trends
- Review article (review)
- ….
I has shared a previous post about 10 article templates for bloggers , you can see, save and use in the blogging process.
#6. Evidence-based blogging
Blogging and building your community of readers is a journey.
On that journey you need to give evidence. Proof is the best way to prove that what you write is true, proof is the best way to help readers believe in you.
For example, if you write a post to share a cake recipe and then you say you succeeded, the beautiful cake does not burn…
So is there a way for your readers to believe you’ve succeeded? An image, a video… is the best way to prove it.
Then readers follow suit, they are just as successful as you. They return to the blog and leave a comment like “thanks for your recipe, I did too…”
You instruct your readers to make money with Affiliate Marketing , you also need to get proof every day that you are generating income from Affiliate Marketing.
You’re teaching your friend’s readers how to blog professionally, living a full-time writing career . You need to get proof you are living blogging.
Please provide proof when blogging!
#7. Write for readers but don’t forget to Google
Blogging is when you are doing online marketing. You need to make the search engines “love” your article.
You need to continue reading on Google. So if you don’t understand how to appear on Google for a specific keyword, your blog is likely to be read by very few people.
Therefore, in addition to creating valuable content, solving problems for readers, you also have to know how to optimize that content for SEO standards . Also known as optimizing articles for search engines, here is Google.
So as a blogger you don’t just learn how to write. But you also need to learn how to:
- Keyword research
- How to write catchy headlines
- …
#8. Don’t forget to build an email list
If you blog and you do not collect the number of emails of readers, it is quite flawed.
Please by all means collect email addresses of readers and send your articles and useful information to them via email according to a specific-schedule.
So pay attention to email marketing!
Conclude
Blogging is also very competitive because there is a blogger out there, or right next to your house, so to succeed in blogging the only way is to have a large enough audience!
Above are the ways I is applying to blog. You can also try to increase your readership for yourself.
Surely you also have your own experiences and ways of blogging. Please share your experience right below the comment of this article!
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