8 Essential Blogging Tips for Success

There are some essential blogging tips that you need to know in order to take your blogging to the next level. In fact, you need to know these things not only to be successful, but even to make a few extra dollars or to create a blog that your readers will enjoy.
1. Make the posts enjoyable. It doesn’t take that much to create posts that are enjoyable for the reader. For the most part, they need to include fun and/or useful content that people will find valuable. The posts also should be well written and by that I mean, complete sentences and punctuation.
2. Write just like you speak. Another key blogging tip for creating great content is to write exactly the same way as you speak. Just be casual. As far as writing goes, blog posts are relatively informal. Now, I’m not talking text message informal - you still need those complete sentences (and complete words!)
3. Don’t clutter up the sidebar. One of my biggest pet peeves when visiting a blog is to see that the sidebar is messy and filled with lots of things. It’s overwhelming and messy. Just choose the essentials to put in your sidebar and that’s it!
4. Don’t overwhelm the reader with ads. Yes, you can put up to three ad units on a page for Google Adsense. But that doesn’t mean that you should. I had only one ad unit up on one of my blogs and the earnings were pretty nice!
5. Pay attention to your readers. When a reader comments on your blog, reply back. It makes them feel great that you listened to what they had to say and they’ll be likely to return.
6. Check your stats. If you haven’t done so already, check your stats! Use a tool like Statcounter to see where your readers came from, how much traffic you’re getting, and the keywords people used to find your blog.
7. Are you on track? Once you have access to your stats, figure out if you are on track. For instance, if hardly any people come to your blog from the search engines, you may want to rethink your SEO strategy.
8. Post a few times a week. One of the biggest mistakes you could make is not posting to your blog for months at a time. Wordpress has a queue feature that lets you upload posts in advance so they can publish on a later date. I love this feature!