Blogging Practices That Work
Blogging is a fun-filled activity to do and can be a great business model. You need to learn proper blogging practices, however, before you create one. You may be excited and impatient to get your blog up and running. But skipping this important area of blogging will be a mistake. You don’t want to retrace your steps, fixing mistakes that you made, just because you didn’t know how to blog. So it’s best to get some solid knowledge about proven blogging practices and then proceed.
Posting Frequency
Deciding when to post, and what to post, are things that you will have to figure out before you start to blog on a regular basis. You have to have an idea of what your blog is going to be about. There’s no rule, fortunately, that dictates you should post a certain number of times per week. One rule that some follow is posting 4 to 5 times a week, for 90 days, at the beginning. That’s a lot and most people will not want to do that, but that’s for you to decide. There are several other important general guidelines, and the most important is to find what works for you and then be consistent. Blog readers tend to react negatively when they’re used to reading new posts on some schedule and then it stops.
Content Relevance
The longer that you have had your blog up, the more likely it is that you have not done extra research to find additional information. There are many reasons that this can happen. But it’s really a very good idea to stay current with what’s happening with your audience. If your niche is fluid, and there is a lot of information coming out regularly, this is a good market to be in. The more information you have to work with, the better off you will be, and the better your blog will be as well. Offering new information to your readers as possible as long as you are constantly finding more topics to discuss. As long as you are trying your best to keep everything up to date, your readers will see your blog as a source of relevant content. But it has to offer value all the time, so be sure you are passing on this value to your audience.
Almost everyone is going to run out of ideas for their blog. It is something that happens from time to time. Almost everyone has run out of things to say, specifically in regard to topics or content to discuss. If you have enough of an audience, or if you have fellow bloggers that post similar information, you can ask them for help. That’s why it’s good to have a presence on Twitter because you can ask them. When you have excellent relationships with your audience, especially on Twitter and Facebook, this can help you immensely. It’s always good to have resources like this since you never know what can happen. Blogging usability practices, by the way, are open to interpretation depending upon what niche you are in. What you need to do is test, and see what works best on your blog for you and your audience. Or, perform testing and split testing is the typical approach with this.
