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Blogging has never been easy, it
involves you spending time to find
great resources and ideas to write about. Not only does it end there, writing the article is just even a 40%
job done, promoting your blog
content is another ball game
altogether and requires more work if
you wish to gain a targeted audience
and exposure to your blog. All these are some simple facts I never realized
earlier on when I ventured into
blogging. As a blogger who has been in the
blogosphere for quite a while,
experience has thought me and I
learned the hard way, I therefore
thought it good to outline some
things I really wished I knew when I started my first blog so you could
learn from my mistakes and build that
perfect blog you’ve always dreamed
of. Must Read: 4 Things To Do After Publishing A Blog Post My Early Blogging Mistakes 1. I Valued Quantity Over Quality When I started blogging, I made sure
I wrote a post every single day, and
the most annoying part of this was
they were all poorly written articles.
Though I gathered a little traffic
around, but I could not convert the visitors into loyal readers with this
strategy. Blogging is not about how
many articles you have on your blog,
it is about how many of your articles
out there add value to peoples lives. My Opinion Now: If you can write quality articles even once a week, you’ll be amazed at how much traffic
and readership you can gain, I tried
this recently on one of my blogs and it
sure has proven to be worth trying. 2. I Was Not Social Everyone is on one social network or
the other these days, so you can
realize social networks are simply
where you can gain huge exposure
and readership for your blog, but
then I never realized this earlier. I had publish my post and forget it in my
archives thinking everyone was
gonna find them. Well, I realized the
power of Facebook and LinkedIn
groups lately, also another great
social media tool that helped me in driving traffic to my blog is Twitter hash tags, it is a great strategy and
works for both the big fishes and
newbies in the blogosphere who
have found it. My Opinion Now: If you can leverage the power of social media networks
such as Facebook, twitter and
LinkedIn for a start, it would be such
a shock to you on what amount of
traffic you’ve missed out from. 3. I Never Promoted My Blog Posts There are several ways to promote
your blog posts even beyond the
social media as a blogger and these
should never be overlooked. I never
promoted my articles then, I only
published them and forgot about them, but I recently realized some
cool ways that work in blog
promotion if you wish to build a
successful blog. Some of the ways
include Guest Blogging Commenting on Related Blogs Joining Blogging Communities My Opinion Now: Blog post promotion is the only key to new
traffic and more money in blogging,
apply the above mentioned tips and
you won’t regret you did. 4. Not Having An Email List I realized that the money was in the
list lately, forget what you read every
where saying that email list building
no longer works. I sure does and
mean every bit of it. If you wish to
gain targeted and return traffic to your blog, then build a list. Not only
would you gain traffic from them, you
can also promote your products your
subscribers and get faster ROI
because the people now trust
whatever you say. My Opinion Now: Email list is a great tools to get you repeated and
targeted traffic and has been working
wonders for me on my blog. 5. Writing About Everything Sometimes wonder how I was able to
merge different niches into one blog
and still cope with that in my early
blogging days. I wrote virtually about
everything ranging from Education
news, jokes, technology tips, blogging and lots more in one blog,
when I came to realize the loss this
had caused me, it was too late and
had cost me my traffic. My Opinion Now: Writing everything on one blog would confuse your
readers and make them have no
other option than to leave your blog
for niche specific blogs. Conclusion If you can avoid these mistakes I
made earlier, you would be sure of
building a successful blog in a few
months from now. There are lots of
things that can help to succeed as a blogger such as experimenting. I recently put up a 30-days self
blogging challenge on my blog which
was aimed at publishing 2 blog
articles everyday for 30 days and this
has worked greatly in improving my
traffic. Come up with new ideas and experiment on your blog, you’ll find
out what works and what does not,
then improve the ones that work and
you won’t regret you did. To your blogging success, Happy
Blogging.
