My Blog Doesn’t Work

My Blog Doesn’t Work

I get asked the question “Why doesn’t my blog work?” time and time again, and I would love to answer the question, but the problem is that there are a lot of reasons why this is happening, and unless I sit down and make a proper analysis of their blog, I will not be able to help them, so I have decided to write this article about starting and developing a blog for newbies, it will tell you how to create-maintain-and progress your blog from scratch. Before I start showing you how to do this, I want to give new bloggers some advice, if you are going into blogging to make a full time living out of it, most of you will be very disappointed, only a very small percentage of bloggers make a living from their blog, but even then it takes a lot of time, patience and skill, and being able to take a lot of knock-backs.

To be a good blogger you have to have confidence, self-belief, and most important of all passion for what you are writing about.

Choose Your Blogging Platform

There are a lot of blogging platforms out there, but you must choose the biggest and easiest to use, research the platforms using the comparison sites, check for resources, features, and pricing, remember, the cheapest isn’t always the best. You must choose one that you are most comfortable with, you will be using it a lot. Some of the bigger names are WordPress-Weebly-Wix-Blogger-Medium, and all of these offer a free plan, all be it with limited resources, but a great way to start crafting your blogging skills.

Give Your Blog A Name

Naming your blog is extremely important, so your choice of name must in some way reflect what your blog is about, you want it to be eye-catching but at the same time not to obscure where the reader hasn’t got a clue what it relates to. Keep your name short, easy to remember, but imaginative, this will help draw readers to your blog.

Top Level Domain

Using a top-level domain is vital to the success of your blog, it looks professional, and brands will take you more seriously, Using a subdomain which usually comes with a free plan is absolutely fine while you are building your blog, and you can change to a full domain when you feel you are ready to move to the next stage of your blog. When choosing a domain name, just like your blog name, remember to keep it short, easy to remember, and imaginative, and make sure your domain name is in keeping with your niche topic so readers can identify with this.

You Niche Topic

Your niche topic is what it’s all about, this is where your expertise comes in, and this is where your content is created from. What you write in your blog is entirely up to you, but a word of warning, if the topic of your blog is everything and anything, or the topic of your blog is something you don’t know much about, you will struggle to attract viewers to your site.

Your topic should be something you are confident with, it should be well presented and informative. And use back-links to other sites to show your source of information, but please don’t overload your article/post with them, I generally use no more than three back-links depending on the size and subject matter of the article. Remember to post consistently and if necessary, on set days, and keep your posts evergreen, this is important to keep loyal readers coming back, and to attract new readers.

How Your Blog Looks

The look of your blog is important, it has to look attractive, clean, easy navigation to your posts and pages, don’t overload it with images, this doesn’t go down well with search engines, and it can affect your search rankings. Make sure you install features for better user experience, this will also help your readers to keep coming back.

Give some thought to the theme of your site, and be imaginative.

Make sure your menus are clear easy to find, and most importantly easy to use, there is nothing worse than struggling to find a blog post you wanted to read, this will put your readers off. Take your time with this part, get it right, there is no rush.

Your Content

Your content is the heartbeat of any blog, and you need to post quality, well presented, evergreen posts. Make sure you add quality images to enhance your content, make sure you have the right to use those images, and you follow copyright laws, make sure you stick to your niche topic, and don’t stray, as this can cause confusion, and can cause you to lose readers, keep your site strong and true.

Social media is the best way to market your blog, use sites like FACEBOOK, TWITTER, PINTEREST, AND INSTAGRAM, to name just a few. Grow your social networks and share your blog all through them, you must grow your name and reputation to be a high-quality blog.

Overview

I have covered the basics of producing a high-quality blog, and if you follow these steps you will go a long way to getting there.

The only subject I have deliberately left out is your blogs s.e.o this is an essential part of making your blog a success, and will be covered in detail in a following article. I have always said, to have the love of writing, a good imagination, and self-belief you will be halfway there.

Good luck with your blogging journey!

Blogging should be fun, not just successful

I want to visit as many blogs as I can, because I love reading new posts and meeting new bloggers, I also get inspiration from other talented bloggers.

Writing for me is a passion and not just how I earn my living so when I visit other blogs I get great pleasure from reading posts that are completely different from mine, I love the different styles, and the way the post is structured and presented. You can learn a lot from others, and your never to good to learn.

Blogging is a very powerful tool in business and on a personal level, so learning new ways of portraying your blog posts is worth it’s weight in gold.

People blog for many different reasons, but they all have one thing in common, they all love to write, and the great thing about writing is you don’t have to justify it to anyone, i have a message I tell myself often and that is “write what you feel and feel what you write”.

If you are starting a blog for the first time don’t be afraid of it, instead embrace it for what it is, and what it is for you is a blank canvas, there to do what you want with, and in the blogging world you are never alone, if you need help with your blog someone is just a click away.

All the above was about the passion you should have for blogging, but if you want people to read your posts and come back for more, there are some basic rules you have to follow, and they are a must for you to have a successful blog.

YOUR POST TITLE

Your post title is something you must really think about, your title has to match the subject matter so people can relate to what they are about to read, if you make your title to obscure they won’t know what you are on about and they won’t read the post.

The ideal length for your title should not exceed 5/6 words,even though I have said your title must compliment the subject of the post, you must try to make the title as interesting as possible so it catches the attention of the reader and makes them want to read the post.

YOUR NICHE TOPIC

When picking a topic to write about, make sure you are knowledgeable on that topic, there is nothing worse than reading a post that has no factual truth about it, the reader will not return to your site. There is an audience for what ever topic you choose so you must target the right audience, for example there is no point sharing a post about construction with a gardening group, they just won’t be interested and they won’t read your posts. Do your research on your social media followers, find out what they are interested in and write about that, or join groups and forums with the same interests as yourself and share your posts on them.

YOUR S.E.O

Your seo on your post is really important, not only will it make it easier for people to find your post when doing a search, it also ranks your blog site higher in google and other search engines, this increases the reputation of your site and will help direct more traffic to your blog. so the use of key words and the density of the key words, tags and meta tags, H1… etc….etc is essential and the time spent on it is worth it.

OVERVIEW

If you have read this far thank you and I hope it really does help in some way. Blogging can be very lonely , but it doesn’t have to be, there are tens of thousands of bloggers out there and it really is a community.

The important message here is that blogging can be fun, so above everything else please enjoy what you write, and if you need any help then just shout, there will always be someone who hears you.

 

Andy

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MY DREAM OF A GLOBAL COMMUNITY

As a blogger, my dream of a global community is the same dream as a thousand others, but the difference this time is I intend to make that dream come true.

Over the last few years as a blogger I have been working hard to build up a following of my blog, and to a certain extent that went quite well, but I just wasn’t happy, don’t get me wrong I am very grateful and appreciative for the readers that follow my blog, but I have always felt it just wasn’t enough for me.

Am always at my happiest when am on a forum, or on my social media platforms like Linkedin and this is because of the network and group situation. On Bloggers World UK am trying to create a group/community feeling through the addition of our member’s blog and forum and I have done this to try and create a help is always at hand atmosphere and a feeling of belonging.

Why is a community important?

• HELP AND ADVICE
• MORAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
• BUSINESS NETWORKING
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• READER/FOLLOWER BUILDING
• FRIENDSHIP
• IDEAS

As you can see there is a lot of good reasons to be part of a community, and blogging as a community is far stronger than working on its own, but the beauty is you still have the unique individuality of your own blog but with a support network when you need it.

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• CREATE LINKS BACK TO YOUR OWN BLOG SITE
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• CREATE DISCUSSIONS IN THE FORUM

Using our blog is so easy, and has all the features you need to write the perfect blog post. Bloggers World UK is a fantastic site to be part of and is adding features daily, but it’s still learning, and this is where you come in, we need ideas/suggestions to make the site even better. Ask yourself what would you want to see on the site to make you want to join? please let me know.

This is my dream, and I hope you agree its not a bad one, but I have to be honest it’s very hard work, and the hardest thing I have found is persuading people that its worth having a look, after all, you have nothing to lose because its free, so click on the following link WWW.BLOGGERSWORLDUK.COM have a look, and come back to this post and leave me your thoughts in the comments.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, I REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT.

Andy(BLOGGERS WORLD UK)