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Hitting the blogging ground running as a beginner energizes you for the freeing blogging journey.
Noting a few basic blogging ideas at the beginning of your trip fosters peace of mind.
I had no clue in Hades what to do as a newbie blogger. Learning from pros calmed down my mind. Feeling calm motivated me to follow professional bloggers to succeed versus “wildly winging it” to fail.
Ideas for New Bloggers
Information overload is a real thing for new bloggers.
Narrowing down your learning sources by pondering a few ideas lessens the urge to overdose on blogging advice from a dizzying array of blogs.
Keep these ideas for new bloggers in mind to confidently step forward.
1: Follow a Professional Blogging Tips Blogger
Follow advice from professional bloggers who share blogging tips.
Following guidance from pros puts you on the straight and narrow path to a successful blogging career.
Pros teach:
- what works
- what does not work
Do what works by following their lead. Avoid what does not work to skirt blogging struggles.
Read their latest blog posts. Study their mindset. Patiently put their blogging guidance into action.
Beginner bloggers need mentors for there is much to learn.
Follow a pro who specializes in blogging tips to get the guidance you need.
2: Invest in a Blogging Course
Invest money in a blogging course from professional bloggers to access their premium advice.
Blogging courses offer you step-by-step tutorials for becoming a successful blogger.
Pros lay out their guidance in effective formatting through blogging courses.
Beginner bloggers acquire only so much information through a blog post. Solid blogging courses add critical details missing from long form blog posts because a 2000 word post cannot offer what an in-depth blogging course rich with multi-media can yield.
My blogging course:
How to Get Featured on World Famous Blogs
is a multi-media tutorial consisting of videos, audio files and text articles.
Each class lists steps to follow for gaining exposure on high level blogs. Being seen on popular blogs quickly accelerates traffic and income potential.
New bloggers who invest money in blogging courses get all they need to know about specific blogging topics in one spot. This is a convenient strategy for beginner bloggers often crippled by the overwhelm of blogging information flying at them from every direction.
3: Publish Detailed Blog Posts
Publish detailed blog posts to establish credibility.
Focus on writing thorough, in-depth posts as frequently as seems possible when new to blogging. For most beginners, publishing a new post every 1-2 weeks sounds reasonable because it takes some time and work to write 1000 to 1200 words per post.
Adding practical tips to posts, formatting content effectively and promoting blog posts requires substantial time, study and work.
Pump the brakes on publishing daily. Give yourself time to make each post thorough. One in-depth blog post gains more traffic then 10 or more thin, 500 word posts lacking value, details and practical tips.
4: Engage in Genuine Blogger Outreach
Help fellow bloggers from your niche.
Ask for nothing in return.
Expect nothing in return.
Establish friendships with successful bloggers.
Learn from these pros. Become successful in part through osmosis; soak up their energy like a sponge and use it to fuel your blogging success.
Practical Tips
- comment genuinely on blogs
- promote bloggers on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
- mention bloggers on your blog
Bloggers who befriend you gradually promote your blog posts through their channels to increase your exposure.
Being seen by blogging communities slowly but surely boosts your blog traffic.
5: Train Your Mind to Give Away Your Best Work
Admittedly, this is a tough one for newbies to overcome.
I struggled like hell to give away my best work as a beginner for the fear of not being able to monetize my blog down the road.
I also tried to micro-manage every creation to squeeze as much traffic, comments and social shares as possible from blog posts.
Lose this poverty consciousness because it damages your credibility, reduces exposure and eats into your traffic. Giving away your best work is the most important way to gain trust, visibility and traffic.
Don’t worry; when you do monetize your blogging community will buy your offerings and hire you because they trust you. Blogging communities trust bloggers who give away their best work consistently.
James Patterson gave away his novels for free before selling 400 million books. Lebron James practiced his heart out diligently for years before catching the eyes of NBA scouts and eventually becoming a billionaire. Oprah poured her soul into her work as a local news anchor in small media markets before becoming the iconic talk show host and world renowned brand.
Do your best job at all times to gain trust and to set a precedent that lays the foundation for your blogging success.
6: Do Not Surround Yourself Only with Beginner Bloggers
Surround yourself with at least a handful of professional bloggers to be influenced by their example.
Never surround yourself only with fellow new bloggers because a newbie-only blogger friend circle repeats common, damaging errors to one another. Struggles follow.
For example, beginner bloggers often depend solely on blog share and/or comment threads – see below – for blog traffic. If every new blogger around you advises to follow such threads closely and if no pros point out this error you will make this common mistake for years.
Professional bloggers ground you in reality. Pros tell you the truth to help you succeed and to lessen your failure.
7: Do Not Rely on Share and Comment Threads for Traffic
Blog share and comment threads do not yield high quality, targeted blog traffic.
But newbie bloggers desperate for any traffic often participate in these inorganic, forced threads to get anyone to visit their blog. Making matters worse, most threads consist of a hodgepodge of blogging niches, meaning that targeted traffic is slim pickings.
Bloggers on these threads only share your post or drop a comment to get you to share a post or drop a comment for them. None are highly targeted, heavily interested readers who want your courses, eBooks or services.
Minus a temporary ego boost none of these groups help beginner bloggers to succeed.
Skip the sharing threads. Use that time to publish detailed content and to engage in genuine blogger outreach.
8: Stop Chasing Metrics
Beginners usually chase metrics like:
- blog traffic stats
- number of blog followers
- number of social media followers
How can you move forward and grow if you frequently look backwards to obsessively check how you did?
Can you look forward and backwards simultaneously?
Nope.
Success will be a while. You have many skills to learn and develop before blogging numbers increase.
Slow down. Calm down. Lose yourself in the blogging process to get started the right way.
9: Stop Following Only “Thing” Strategies
New bloggers often think robotically about thing-focused strategies and forget completely about helping human beings who cause their success.
For example, beginners sometimes explain their strategies like:
“I SEO-optimized all posts and shared to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest boards but I get no traffic.”
SEO-optimizing, sharing to social networks and traffic are non-sentient things or activities focused on things.
What about humans? How many people did you listen closely to before writing a blog post to solve their needs? How many professional bloggers did you follow closely to observe their blog post topics before writing a blog post?
Help human beings. Listen to people. Beware trying to build things-focused strategies ignoring the source of blogging success: listening to, interacting with and helping humans.
10: Make the Process Fun
The only way to get through beginner blogger days is to have fun with the process instead of stressing over blogging.
Enjoy blogging.
The main point is to have fun helping people.
Enjoying the blogging process gets you through tenuous early blogging days where nothing seems to be happen.
Successful bloggers blog mainly for fun.
Most everyone else struggles, fails and quits.
Conclusion
Keep these blogging ideas in mind guys.
The journey gets bumpy sometimes but following these fundamentals makes things smoother as your success accelerates.
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