Writing one’s ideas and views through blogs is increasing as a hobby for many people all round the globe. Many of us write blogs just for fun. But did you know that you can make a lot of money through writing blogs pertaining to some specific subjects such as movie reviews, product information etc. But this requires skillful writing in order to ensure greater returns. I would like to give you some criteria’s that can make up a good blog.
URL Consistency
Your blog is recognized on the net through the URL (i.e. blog address) that you have. It is necessary to maintain a specific URL for your blog because people interested in reading your blogs find it very difficult to relocate your new blog address in case you change the previous one. Also it takes a lot of time to make your new blog recognized in search engines and attain the same reader count as the old one. Therefore I suggest that you choose your blog URL very carefully and then do not change it.
Blog Subject
The subject that you choose for your blog needs to be thoroughly understood and researched upon. You should be able to write continuously about the subject. This is because in the earlier stages of writing content there is a lot to write about. But then as you start writing, the content decreases and you have to think seriously about what to write. Hence researching earlier about the topic is very fruitful in the long run.
Content of the Blog
The content of the blog should be high in quality throughout. This is to ensure that the readers get back to your blog very often. Initially the quality of the content is high due to large amount of ideas. But then maintain the quality becomes tougher as days pass by. Thus in order to maintain the same quality throughout you require to be highly innovative.
Blog Marketing
Writing a blog is only the first phase of blogging. The second and the most important phase is marketing of the blog. By marketing I mean that you need to make the interested readers aware of your blog and its content. This can be done in a lot of ways. First and foremost would be the usage of social networking sites such as orkut, facebook and a lot many like these. You need to put in a lot of efforts to make people aware of your blog in the initial stages. This requires a lot of patience and perseverance. But once your blog reaches out to the masses then you will reap the benefits of your hard work in leaps and bounds.
Technical Knowledge
Since blogging deals with internet websites, u need to present your blog to readers in a very readable format or I would say a very user friendly format. The reader should not get bored after reading a few lines. This will only hamper the number of readers that read your posts. Making your blog presentable needs you to have basic knowledge about HTML, JavaScript, Search Engines etc. etc. Hence if you are not comfortable with these technical know-how’s then I would advise you to learn these web technologies as soon as possible.
Patience
You need to have a lot of patience in this world of blogging in order to succeed. This is because sometimes you may have researched a lot in writing the post. This may also have taken up a lot of time. But in the end after posting you do not get as many readers as you would have liked to have. But don’t lose heart in such conditions as sooner or later your hard work will pay off.
Be prepared to work hard
It’s not that all of us can write good articles. But then it is a quality that can be developed through hard work, continuous reading & research. So be prepared to work hard and surely your blogs will turn out to be more readable and enjoyable day by day.
Do post in your comments as to whether you have liked these few tips of mine for better blogging. It would boost me and help in posting better articles for you all readers in future.
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