Tips for Beginning Bloggers

Now, in no means do I consider myself a blogging expert. However, running a blog for over a year has taught me lots of things, many of which I wish I would have known before I sat down and wrote my first post. Nowadays, blogs are popping up by the dozens and it's becoming more and more difficult to really stand out as a must read blog. While I am nowhere near a blogging expert, I do have a few tips to share with everyone, whether you're just starting out in the blogging world or if you've been blogging for quite sometime now.

||blogging is a huge time commitment||

While this may not apply to all bloggers, sometimes I find it challenging to find time to sit down and write, edit or plan posts. This was especially hard to balance during the fall (golf season), however, I managed to get through and now I have developed a pretty consistent routine. Starting out, it's a bit overwhelming but as you get more comfortable blogging, you'll find yourself wanting to making time to sit down and blog.

||blog about what you like & be original||

I'll say what I know many others have said, blog for yourself, not for followers. Yes, we all want our blog to go viral and have lots of fans but to be honest, that takes lots of time and dedication. If you're looking to expand your audience my best tip would be to blog for yourself. Write about what you like and others who share your interests will be likely to come back to your blog. And don't forget to be original! While it's fine to get post inspiration from other blogs, make sure you make your content unique, tailor it to you!

||social media is key||

I started my blog without having any social media sites for my blog. Gosh was that a mistake on my part! Once I created social media accounts for my website and began sharing my content, I saw a slow but steady increase in my blog traffic. My tip for growing your social media account? Utilize your accounts regularly. I post daily on Instagram and have found that doing so helps grow my blog as well.

||quality over quantity||

While is it great to post consistently, I would much rather read a well written (& edited) post over something I can tell was quickly written just to have something to post. Your blog shouldn't be defined by how many posts you share but rather by the content you share. Simply put, post count doesn't matter, just focus on writing quality posts that you are proud to have written.

||use good quality photos & give credit when necessary||

While I myself still struggle with providing high quality images for my posts, my advice would be to try your best to show photographs where the object being photographed can easily be identified. If you're showing a bracelet, make sure we can tell it's a bracelet and not a hair tie. And please, please, please if you ever use another bloggers image, give them the credit they deserve. I've had a few companies & accounts who have shared some of my photos without giving me credit and it just bothers me. Maybe it's just me, but it's better to be safe and just give them the credit.

 

I hope these tips were helpful to any and all newbies out there. Do you have any tips to share?

 

xoxo,