Today so many people are writing blogs. Blogging has become one of the major source of passive income and if you are a blogger then you must know how much work is required to write a decent blog. After putting so much work it is understandable to expect something in return but sometimes you are not able to get anything because you are not able to monetize your blog.
Monetizing a blog is very crucial in order to earn something from it. There are number of ways to monetize a blog. You can get google adsense approval to run ads on your blog or you can do affiliate marketing or sell your own product on your blog. All these things can help you earn some money from your blog. Most of the times many new bloggers are not able to earn through their blog for a long time. It takes them lot of time to understand the do’s and don’ts of blogging. There are few things which are definitely need to be avoided in order to monetize your blog.
3 mistakes to avoid in order to monetize your blog
Do not copy someone else’s content unless you got permission to use it. Even if you got permission to use it, give credit to the original creator. Copying someone else’s content can make it difficult for you to get goggle adsense approval and it can also effect your affiliate marketing links.
Do not use copyright images/videos in your blog. There are images which are free to use for personal and commercial purposes. Make sure to always use such images/videos.
Do not right blogs about random topics. Make sure you have a niche topic to write about because it helps you in making your fanbase strong. Even if you don’t have particular niche make sure to write at least 5-6 blog posts about a certain topic before changing it.
These are the 3 major things which need to be avoided so that you can monetize your blog easily. Apart from that there are some things to keep in mind while writing a blog which you can learn from here Blogging: 8 important things to know before you start
Also while writing a blog make sure your blog has good SEO score. It is very important for your blog to have good SEO score. Blogging is one the best way to earn some extra money for yourself. If you don’t write blog then start one now and make sure to follow all the guidelines in order to earn from your blog. Have fun blogging.
Writing a blog post or an article which is engaging and gets people’s attention is a tiring task. Along with writing a good content you also have to make sure that your blog post is SEO friendly. SEO score plays an important role in making your blog popular.
SEO is search engine optimization and it helps your blog or website to be easily findable on the internet. Having a good SEO score means that your blog post may get recommended by google whenever someone will make a search on the topic related to your post. You definitely need good number of pageviews in order to have your blog or website shown on the first page of search engine but SEO friendly posts will definitely help you progress faster.
In order to write a SEO friendly post you have to make sure all the requirements are met which are set by the hosting platforms. I use the wordpress hosting, so I’ll tell you how you can write a SEO friendly post on wordpress. In wordpress above 80 is considered as good SEO score but I’d say you should strike for more than 90. If you are also using wordpress for writing your blog then you must have seen the page analysis which is given at the bottom of the page where you write your post. It has 3 main things to determine the SEO score, which are
Basic SEO
Title
Readability
On the basis of these 3 attributes your SEO score, which is shown on the right top corner of the page, is measured. There are various things which affect these 3 attributes. You can see what affects your SEO score by just clicking on them on the bottom of your page. Let us discuss them one by one.
Basic SEO
Your basic SEO mainly has four things which effect it. These four things are
Meta description length – Meta description is basically how your post will look on google’s search engine page. It will have the title of your post and under that some preview of the content of your post. Your meta description should not be more than 160 characters and not less than 120 characters. There is a meta description box above the page analysis where you can write your meta description and above that is snippet preview where you can see how your post will look on google’s page.
Content length – It is basically the length or words required for your post. Minimum words required for a post are 300. I’d suggest you to write at least 500 words for your blog post.
Internal links – If you have written other posts, you can add their link to your new post. It will help your SEO score and possible more views for your old posts.
External links – You can add link of the blog of someone else if you want your readers to read that because you find it useful or if you have used someone else’s image/video then add a link to the original. You can also add affiliate links if you want .
These are four main things which effect the basic SEO. Apart from the another thing which effects it is the focus key-phrase. I’ll talk about it in the end of this post.
As the name suggests, title is basically the title of your post and it should not be more than 60 characters. Focus key-phrase also play some role in your title and I’ll tell you about that in the end.
There is another things which may not effect your SEO score directly but it effects the likability of your post. It is your headline score or title score. There is a headline analyzer on the right top corner of the page next to the SEO score, it shows you your headline score. If you’ll click on that, you can see the things which can help you increase the headline score such as common words, uncommon words, power words and sentiment of title. Good headline score is between 60 to 100 but always try to get more than 70.
Readability as the name suggests helps you make your post easily readable for the viewers. The things which effects readability are as follows
Image or video – Its advisable to use image, gif or video to convey your idea effectively. It helps you score better in your SEO but only use images/videos which are free to use for personal and commercial purposes.
Paragraph length – The length of your paragraph should not be more than 10 lines which comes around 170-200 words. Longer paragraphs will show you error in paragraph length section.
Sentence length – The length of the sentences should not be more than 20 words. About 25% sentences are allowed to be more than 20 words but not more than that.
Passive voice – Always try to write your sentences in active voice. Only 10% of the total sentences can be in passive voice.
Transition words – Do use transition words in your sentences such as and, but, therefore, hence and more. Whenever you are writing a sentence which is more than 20 words, try to add transition word in it.
Consecutive sentences – If you are using the word ‘The’ as the first word of your sentence consecutively then it can show you error. Try to mix up your sentences, use different words to start sentences.
Subheading distribution – The number of words in any heading of your post should not exceed 300 word limit. It is advisable to sub-headings if you are writing a long post.
Flesch reading ease – It only gives error when your post is difficult to read which can be due to the font of your writing or there are too complicated sentences or too much errors in your spellings.
These are the things which effect the SEO score. These things are not very hard to maintain.
What is focus key-phrase and it effects SEO
You will find the focus key-phrase box between the meta description box and page analysis. Focus key-phrase is basically the word or phrase which you can add in focus key-phrase box and whenever someone will search that word or phrase, there are high chances that your blog or post will get recommended to that person.
It is not mandatory to use focus key-phrase. If you use it then it effects your SEO score in different ways and it should be present in
the title of your post
the first paragraph of your post
the meta description
the URL of your post
headings and sub-headings
the image alt attribute if you are using an image
it should also be in the front or middle of your title not in the last
When you use focus key-phrase, do take care of these things. It is advisable to use focus key-phrase as it helps in increasing the visibility of your post.
These are the things which effects your overall SEO score. If you will do all these things right then surely you will get 100 SEO score but sometimes you can’t put focus key-phrase in every heading or you can’t control the number of words under one heading. Sometimes there are no external links to add and if its your first post then there are no internal links to add. There can always be one or two errors in your SEO analysis and that’s totally fine. If you can get 100 the its great but even if you don’t then just try to score more than 90, you will be fine.
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Writing a engaging blog post is one of the crucial task of any blogger. If your blog post is not able to attract viewers then it gets difficult to do blogging. For a beginner, there is always a pressure to write an engaging blog and bring viewers to his/her blog. No doubt, with time you will gain experience and get more views on your blog but still its important to write a good blog which can get the attention of viewers. In this post I will tell you the 6 most effective ways to write a better blog.
Blogging can turn out to be very beneficial if it is done right. You can make decent amount of money from it. Writing a good blog is nothing less than an art and it can also be very stressful. As a beginner, there are number of things you learn while writing a blog. All these things help you write better and attract more people to your post, but there are some things which you should know in the beginning to score better and write successful blog posts.
Make your post SEO friendly. SEO is Search engine optimization and its important for your post to become easily findable. You will see the SEO analysis at the bottom or side of your blog’s new post page and from there you can see your SEO score. Everything is mention at the bottom about various things that effects your score. Always try to get more than 90 in your SEO. Learn from here about How to write SEO friendly blog post?
Your headline should always be stronger. There is a headline analyzer on the side of the page on wordpress where you will write your blog. This headline analyzer helps you make better headlines for your post. Your headline analyzer score should be more than 70.
As a beginner, write your posts on the latest and trending topics such as new movies or shows, recent controversy or event, latest technology or you can choose to write on some evergreen topics such as health & fitness. Trending topics will always help you get noticed.
Keep the language of your post simple and universal. You don’t have to be Shakespeare to write an effective post. Just use simple words and sentences so that everyone can understand and relate to your content.
Use relevant images or videos to make your blog post more effective. Don’t forget to give credit if you are using someone else’s image/video. Also add the links of your earlier related posts if there are any.
Don’t overuse the affiliate links if you are using any. I have done that mistake. Affiliate links are that which you use to earn some money whenever someone clicks and buy something from that link. Try to add such links in appropriate proportion.
Although there is no one formula to make a successful blog but these tips can help you write some effective blog posts. Always write a blog about the topic you feel most comfortable with. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself over it. Hope this post was helpful to you, do share it with your friends.
Today, so many people want to do something extra along with their job. This extra could be anything whether its having a new hobby or starting some side business for some extra money. With the excessive use of internet people have found a new way to indulge themselves in such activities. Many individuals decide to learn something new through online tutorials and many choose to find some new hobby online. Writing a blog can turn out to be one of the best side hustle. In this post I will give you the 5 reasons to why you should start a blog too.
Whatever articles you read online about movies, science, health & fitness or any other topic are basically blogs. People write about their field of knowledge or about the things that interests them. If you think that blogging is for specialists or you don’t have anything to write about then you are wrong. Anyone can write a blog and share his or her ideas and thoughts with the world.
These are the 5 reasons to start a blog
You can earn money through a blog. Money is one of biggest driving force for so many of us and you can actually make money blogging. The number of viewers on your blog will decide how much money you are going to make blogging. Checkout the Top 3 ways to make money from blog to know better about earning through blog.
You can promote your business in the entire world through your blog. You can either write posts about your business or you can add images or links to promote it. It is your blog you can do whatever you want with it.
You can sell your art or product through your blog. If you have some product to sell but no source for it then a blog can be your saviour. You can also promote or sell your art like paintings, music, pottery or anything else. With the help of blog you can bring more eyes to your passion.
If you have a good knowledge about any topic then I think you should write about it to educate others. The number of topics you can choose to write about is infinite. You can share your knowledge of fitness, music, poetry, science or anything under the sky (or maybe beyond the sky).
Writing a blog can help you relieve your stress. You don’t have to be perfectionist while writing a blog, you can use it to vent out your emotions. Blogging can be your new hobby to relax your mind or it can be your way to express your feelings.
If writing is your passion then you must already have been blogging. If not then do it now and follow your passion. Even if writing is not your passion, start a blog and write even a little bit about any topic of your interest. It will definitely help you.
If you are a beginner and thinking of starting a blog then you must be reading about it on internet or watching videos on youtube to get better understanding of it. You will get number of articles or videos talking about how you can start blogging and earn money from it. But there are some things that no one talk about. There is more to blogging than just buying a domain and starting your blog.
To start a blog you have to get domain name and hosting name for your blog. These two are the most essential things to start your blog. If you want to know about domain name and hosting name or how and where you can buy them then read this post Why you should start a blog now? In this I have talked about all the basic details you need to know about creating a blog. This will help you to create your blog but there some important things to know before you start blogging.
Here are some important points to keep in mind while starting a blog
You will have to create different pages for your website or blog. Its not like you have bought domain and hosting name and you will start writing and publish a post. No matter what platform you choose for blogging you need to create different pages. Your blog must have separate pages like home page, contact page, about page and blog page where you will post. If you choose wordpress for blogging then you can use in-built themes which already has those pages and you just need to edit them so it can be little helpful.
You will also need various plug-ins for your blog to function. You will need plus-ins for almost everything you want to do on your blog. For better themes, analysing performance, social media sharing, adding affiliate disclosure. Honestly it can be little overwhelming with so many plug-ins and it can affect the speed of your site.
Your blog or website should be legally compliant. Legally compliant meaning it should have the page that discloses the information of how you will use users personal data. You must have privacy policy page on your blog to avoid any legal action. You can use privacy policy generator to generate a privacy policy for your blog. WordPress also have a privacy policy page, you can add disclosures in that according to your blog.
It can take months before you make your first income. Starting earning from blog can take a quite a bit of time because to monetize it you need viewers. Getting audience for anything is very difficult task and it can take you months to get first 1000 views.
Even after getting your first income from blog it can take much longer to make considerable amount. Once you get viewers you will need google adsense to run ads on your site. More views on ads means more money. Google adsense pay according to per 1000 views. So to earn a good amount you will need to have many thousand viewers. If you use affiliate marketing to earn from blog then you will need your audience to buy from your links and it can take a long time to build that relationship between you and your viewers.
You will need to be consistent with your writing. Write and publish posts atleast once or twice a week for months to gain viewers. You may feel demotivated at times but you have to patient and consistent with your effort.
You will spend more time thinking about promoting your blog than writing it. Getting first 1000 views are the hardest. You will have to promote your blog on social media, among your friends and family. Even after all that you may not see the boost in views. So you will think more about how you can promote your blog than thinking about what to write. Actually there is nothing wrong in that but just don’t totally neglect your writing. Remember to be consistent with it.
You may feel like quitting but don’t. There may come a time where you will think that you have nothing more to write or you are not getting expected viewership, just don’t get bothered too much, try to stay calm and focused. You can take a few days break but don’t leave it half-way through. Be patient and keep on writing, you will get what you are wishing for.
These things are must to know before starting a blog. Hope this was helpful for you and if it was then do share it with your friends. I greatly appreciate your support and wish you well for your venture.
