5 Things You Should and Shouldn’t Do When Writing a Blog

5 Things You Should and Shouldn’t Do When Writing a Blog

Winning readers’ heart is the main goal of every blogger. You surely want to create a successful blog, don’t you? To achieve this goal, there are some ways you should do and you shouldn’t do. All customizations and layouts are not enough to catch the attention of the readers. Get inspiration from these following points below and implement them in your own blog. Check them out.

5 Things You Should Do

1.    Finding Your Focus

Before you start everything, find your focus and ask yourself some of these questions: Who are your target readers? What is your expertise? Once you find your focus, pick an interesting category, start writing and be expert on it.

2.    Being Yourself

In writing a good blog post, follow your passion, do not write topic that you don’t like. If you are not expert in particular topics, you are going to get bored easily and so will your blog’s followers.

3.    Using Links

You can either put links to other blogs/websites or link to your previous posts on your own site. This way will help you to increase your blog’s rankings in the search engines.

4.    Responding to Comments

This is an opportunity to communicate directly with people who read your blog post. Be selective, because not all comments need to be responded, but to ones that do, write responsive and friendly response. If you don’t know what to say, it is worth to write “thanks for visiting my blog”.

5.    Posting to Other Social Media

It is good to include your social media in your post to tout it everywhere. Every way that increases possibilities for potential readers in finding your blog is a must to do.

5 Things You Shouldn’t Do

1.    Setting Unrealistic Goals

You know your abilities and schedule better than anyone else. So, be realistic, don’t force yourself if you can’t publish post every day. Start out with weekly post and get in a groove. As you get used with the schedule, increase your posting rate.

2.    Limiting Your Word Count

Say everything you want to say as long as it’s worth to be written. Readers and search engines prefer to have meatier piece with 500 words or more. It doesn’t mean that you can feature shorter pieces, but you need to break down the antiquated perceptions that blogs should be short. Whenever it is necessary, go long.

3.    Making Grammar Mistakes

Take time to read your writing again and again. Readers are more lenient about typos, so don’t stress about it. Therefore, when you find grammar mistakes, don’t wait to correct them immediately. If you want you readers take your writing seriously, avoid making grammar mistakes and typos.

4.    Being Negative

Generally, it is unwise to share personal grievances publicly (unless it is the theme of your blog). You should be positive, supportive, and inspirational to the followers and community you are writing to.

5.    Avoiding New Things

It is necessary to let your blog evolve through the time. It may happen when you learn new and updated things then write it in your post. You can try to add personal stories or info graphs. Never be afraid to write something new to make your blog more special.

After you read the following points above, be better in what you should and what you shouldn’t do in writing a blog post. Happy blogging.

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