Blogging Question and Answer. Getting your facts in line will have you followed quickly and produce much better results
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The start of a blogging journey
You will choose this journey to fulfill a need and hopefully lead to prosperity. We all blog for different reasons however when you have your plans laid out and have determined your direction it is time to start writing. Or is it?
Research and structure are basic ingredients that must be put into place before you write a word. I spend hours on Keyword research to make sure that I have a chance of being placed among the two million blogs written every day.
I have blogged for a couple of years and about 1000 blogs on a variety of topics and have made all the available mistakes.
Like any enterprise, you need a good grounding in the technical aspects before you start to change the status quo. I thought I knew it all but I was wrong and went back to the beginning and restarted the journey. This was not a great idea because I just needed to change a few things I was doing to be a success, but no one told me.
Find your reason and make a plan
A blog for business, for Affiliate income, not-for-profit charity, selling a product, a job, or to exercise the writer within.
Certainly, you will take a different approach for each one.
If you want complete control this is the best way however on paid plans like Blogger etc
you are just part of their site and pay for the privilege
This will be your Brand forever so choose carefully. You can buy from GoDaddy, Name Cheap, or Wealthy Affiliate.
You must own your domain and have the right to move it anywhere you want. You will put in a lot of work so it becomes valuable.
Brand as your business, your name, or charity, it is your choice
No. Many things vary and most of all the price. Remember you want to value, speed, security, ownership, and capacity.
You will end up with more than one Blog so go premium for safety
This is a great starting place and at Wealthy Affiliate, you get one free site
There is no doubt that WordPress leads the world with the largest market share. This is free software with a bundle of plug-ins that ramp up the performance. Recent upgrades to the block Builder put it with the higher-end paid-for products.
Moving on with questions
That details a lot of the initial questions that cover the basics. You may not like your initial blog as you change ideas and learn the skills requires. Like any new business, there is a learning curve that becomes clearer as you discover new skills.
You will need several support services because each section looks after its own.
Hosting is concerned with where your domain is housed and whether are you on the map.
WordPress looks after all design criteria
Affiliate sites look after their links
The many tools you will use have support services as well.
Bad support will leave you frustrated and wasting hours searching Google for an answer that may never come.
Yes forums are great and you will see many questions posted on Quora and the like that will achieve random answers
However many dumb questions are also floated so stick to intelligence.
EG; How can I make a million dollars quickly, I can only spare half an hour a day is hosting for me. What is the best niche to make money and so on?
Blogs are short stories designed to answer a question, solve an issue, or explain something fully. They can be used for product reviews or issues like unboxing.
Writing blogs for beginners
Every website has two types of entities. Pages and posts.
Your page or main page is accessed when the URL is requested. My home page
on that page, you will have other associated pages like terms and conditions, about me, contact details, affiliate disclosure, etc that are usually spread across the page. They don't have a separate URL but are accessed via the main page.
The second is posts or blogs and these have their own URL and are accessed with a search term. Another of my blogs https://www.onlinebusinessmarketing.info/what-is-web-blogging/ goes straight to a blog.
Is building a blog site hard
It is very easy once you get the hang of a few rules. There is all the training you could ever need at Wealthy affiliate taking you from a-z in easy-to-learn lessons and then an advanced course as well.
What do you write about in a blog?
You choose what is termed a Niche or a section of interest that you know something about and will enjoy writing about for the future>
It may be Crochet, Body Building, food, Vegetarian eating, Naked skydiving whatever you want.
However, there are a couple of million blogs written every day so you have to do a few things to get read.
Blogging Question and Answer and Keywords
Learning Keywords and structure
Keywords are search terms that readers use to find an answer or solution to a problem. For this, we use a simple tool that tells us about traffic and competition both important ingredients
How do you make money with a blog?
Many people write for the sake of writing or charitable purposes however others want a return for the time and effort expended.
- Selling hard products
- marketing virtual products like training
- Affiliate income
- Advertising income
- Freelance writing
Blogging is not a sales page it is informational
The purpose of blogging is to provide information and answers to questions readers want answers to. How do you do something, why do you do it, and 7 ways to do it better.
However, we usually have a call to action for those wanting to part with money. It may be a simple link taking them to another page or a small image explaining more.
Sales pages are web pages and Funnels usually with a check-out box to buy something.
They are hard-arsed selling where your blog is as subtle as a cool breeze.
Writing for a blog
You need the traffic to your blog
Without readers you have nothing and Google is very slow to act because you are new and he has not learned to trust you yet.
So Fire up your social media, your emails, webpage, contact list, family friends
More Blogging Question and Answer
The answer lies somewhere between 300 and 3000 depending on the question and the answer required. You are writing content for customer satisfaction so concentrate on the request and give it the best possible solution.
In your early blogs, words may not come easily however as you progress and learn a 1500-word blog will be the norm.
Absolutely, however, they must apply to the subject. Many people skim read so a nice image brings the eyes to a halt and the writing takes over
Just like pictures they work a treat and make your post look intelligent as they condense and summarise the issue. I produce very few posts without a list or table
Yes, it requires short sentences and short paragraphs with the heading starting large and going down. This is different from writing a book or white paper it is designed for the attention deficit to get solutions in an easy-to-read format
In WordPress, two free plug-ins do a lot of these for you. Yoast.com and AINSEO.com
I prefer Yoast however either is great at marking your work and guiding you through to achieve great results
Blogging is a slow haul to a large return. It will take many months to get any traction and google support. Furthermore, you need to climb to a front-page position before you will get any volume of readers
The only answer to this is the more the merrier. Volume dictates success however there are other contributing factors around need and commitment.
If a blog a week was good then one a day is better, it is all about numbers.
Yes, you can and I advise that you do. There are so many things to remember that having a running list is a great idea.
The average is 3 hours however many variables make a difference, one being typing speed. However, there are many things you can do to speed up the process and make life a lot easier.
Speed writing is possible
Action equals words.
Checking your results
This is an important part of the process and knowing your level of achievement is necessary. It is too late to make changes a year down the track as it is in the past. However, it is always good to clean up old work regularly.
Google Analytics and webmaster tools provide a good guide to results. Remember to look at Bing as well to see extra traffic.
Finding your traffic
Conclusion
Finally my summary of what you need to learn.
First of all, the most important element of blogging is understanding Keywords. Without this your chance of success is minimal.
Secondly is Volume, the more you write, the greater the traffic and results will follow.
Never give up. This is a long term venture, not a short term sugar hit
Blogging Question and Answer by Peter Hanley
