5 Tips on What Makes a Good Blog
Today,
there are millions of blogs and thousands are coming up each day. All of these
people starts
a blog hoping to make a good blog and be
successful in the blogging world. The competition is real. Standing out of the
crowd of pro-bloggers is hard. Of a truth, if you consider all that you have to
do to stand tall in this crowd, quitting blogging before starting seems to be
the easy way out. After all, blogging is not for everybody. It’s not a must you
start a blog. However, if you want to be successful, there are several things
you need to get involved in. You will find below the things you need to do to
make yourself a good blog people will find useful.
No matter the kind of business blog you start, what matters is that after some time, you are achieving the reasons why you started your blog. However, from experience, there are things you need to do with your blog if you want your blog to stand tall in the crowded blogosphere. These are things you need to pay attention to in order to make a good blog people use effectively.
If you already have a blog or if you are planning to start one soon, here are things that makes a good blog.
1. The Design
This is
the first thing visitors notice when they come to your blog. This is the first impression
they have about your blog. You will want to make the first impression a good
impression. A wacky design will give your visitors the impression that you
aren’t serious about what you are doing. You don’t want to drive away the
visitors you have worked hard to get. When customizing your blog’s design, have
it in mind, that you are doing so to impress your audience not yourself. If you
are not so good at designing, you can either get beautifully designed themes and templates
or hire
a designer.
2. The Focus/Niche
It is a
proven fact that blogs with clear and definitive focus or niche do well
than blogs that covers general topics. While choosing a specific topic to focus
on, do try and pick the one you know more about. This should be what you are
comfortable doing rather than what one everyone else is doing. A good blog
always show authority in their posts that’s because they know what they are
saying. Choosing to blog about a niche you know little or nothing about, is
more like a punishment and you might end up quitting.
3. The Content
This is
why you started blogging in the first place. You have to give it your best. A
good blog is mainly judged based on the design and the content. Your content is
what will make your visitors come back or not. If you publish useful and unique contents, your
visitors will subscribe for more and they’ll come back to read more contents on
your blog. If you publish what others publish, then they can afford to read the
same content somewhere else away from your blog. Also, make sure the content
keeps coming in regularly. A blog with regular publishing of quality content is
on its way to the top.
4. The Connection with the Audience
A good
blog has to be about helping and interacting with its audience (the blog
readers). Your blog should be very active with your audience. Create social media profiles/pages for
your blog where you get to communicate with your audience. Also, make sure you
respond to your readers emails, comments, questions etc. Doing these will not
only get you a lot of traffic from social media sites,
it will also help you win some loyal audience over to your blog.
5. The Difference
Most blogs
tagged as “successful
blog” have something that stands out and
makes them unique. It may be the design, the content or any other aspect. They
find a way to just stand out from the crowd. If you want to build a good blog
then you will need to do something that only you can do. Add that special touch
to your blog and make it stand out. Ask yourself, what makes my blog different?
What do I need to do differently?
Now that you have read the things that make a good blog, you need to know that good blogs aren’t made in a day! It could take months or even years to reach that place you are aiming. However, the important thing is for you to enjoy every part of your blogging venture, keep it real and original. Put the things you have read into practice and move your blog from “just that blog” to a blog people read and make good use of. You can stand out of the crowd. You can command the traffic you want. You need to make sure the 5 things above are in place on your blog.
Source: Biyi
Akangbe
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