For how long have you been blogging? Do you wish that your blogging journey should be awesome and want some tips for it? Here are 30 mindblowing blogging ideas for bloggers that will make you an awesome blogger and your blogging journey can be taken to the next level.
Bloggers have the responsibility to provide quality material for their readers (doesn’t matter if that is a food blog, an education portal or a fashion watch dog’s blog). Your posts should be the one stop destination for the reader and he should close the tab (of your webpage) satisfied. I have compiled a list of 30 awesome blogging ideas that if you follow, can make a great blog and will love your blogging journey after following these blogging ideas.
I have divided blogging ideas into categories so that you can easily catch the flow and then follow them.
Some Basic Ethics
PS. Basic but important 
1) Always Tell The Truth
What is the first thing that turns your reader off? Yes it is the quick lies that you decorate here and there on your blog wanting to attract readers. But, this thing is the first thing that will take the visitor way from your blog. Just like I recently read a blog on AdSense tips and tricks but that very blog had no AdSense ads and was filled with other cheap ads. Do you think I will ever return to that blog? NO. So be truthful.
2) Don’t Copycat
Cats look good in “cool cat memes”, not in blogosphere. So, don’t ever find ways to copy a blog post that someone has written and paste it on your blog. Chances are your readers might not know your activity. But search engines are way smarter than you are. They can detect copied or spun articles within the very second they crawl your site. This way you lose your SERP position and also the AdSense account that you have might get banned.
3) Admit If You Are Wrong
No one is right in this world and you are expected to make mistakes too. You might be wrong while writing a statistical data. Sometime errors on how-to-guides are also expected. If someone points out your mistakes admit them graciously. Tell them you liked their feedback and make changes soon. This will increase the credibility of your blog and even critics will love your posts.
Design and Layout
4) Choose A Right Theme
Themes are like the walls and furniture of your house. They play a crucial role on how long a visitor spends on your site. Firstly, choose a premium theme. Pirated themes have malicious codes in them that can easily get your site hacked. See why you should never search for free WordPress themes on Google or ask a friend.
5) Have More Transparent Design
Your blog should have more white spaces and should not be over cluttered with cheap ads. Ads are the sources of one’s revenue but if your ads are too much of a hindrance then the readers will abandon your blog.
6) Update Your Blog Favicon & Have a logo that resonates
Your blog favicon is an important visual reminder of your brand. It helps you to stand out in a stack of open tabs as well as in bookmarks. So choose a unique favicon. A logo is the one that speaks for your content and stand in the industry. Mailchimp for example has a cursive handwriting typography that resonates with the service they provide – writing newsletter. Choose your logo in a way that it speaks for you.
7) Too Much of Anything is Bad
Do not put too much stress on widgets. They may appear fancy but they pull your blog down. They decrease your blog speed and don’t give you an authority feel, especially when you have unwanted ones cluttering your homepage or post pages.
Writing Your Posts
When writing your blog posts keep these important points in mind:
Read How To Craft A Blog Post.
8) Write After Proper keyword Research
Doing your keyword research will enable you to find what is hitting your readers mind? And what topic has how many searches? This will help you to find the competitive and profitable keywords. Use Google keyword planner for this. While there are other tools this is the best and free too.
Read How To Find Long Tail Keywords.
9) Hunt for What People are Asking in Forums and Social Groups
You can find many leads and blog post ideas from forums and groups like LinkedIn groups and Facebook groups. This will help you interact with people over there making them your loyal readers if you emerge successful to solve their problems.
Check Top SEO Internet Marketing Forums
10) Write Clear Cut
Nothing is better than a blog that has clear cut direct answers. Making twirls of words will not help you to reach anywhere. Just go and write posts that your audience will be grateful for. These posts should have smaller paragraphs and direct small lines. Longer paragraphs tend to distract the readers.
11) Craft a Headline as if You were Garnishing a Cake Made of Love
Yes in a busy schedule when people will just grade your blog by scanning the headlines you should craft your headline in a way it catches your readers’ attention and holds him onto reading the post.
Read How to Write Killer Headlines in Two Minutes.
13) Do Internal linking
Internal linking is like building backlinks. You should link your blog posts too on the basis of relative content. This will give readers a better insight on the topic, help you throw some light to your old blog posts and also decrease the bounce rate.
14) Put Proper Header Tags
Header tags like H1, H2 H3 are very important. They help your bots to understand your writing clearly.
15) Images are an Important Factor
Yes consider using images to the maximum best. Images can help increase your blog views and shares. Use free images from sites like Flickr, or Wikimedia creative commons or design your masterpieces with tools like canva or picmonkey. Try including quotes too.
Social Integration
16) Use Social Sharing Plugins
Social sharing plugins like digg digg and addthis.com or share this (they are available for blogger platforms too). Using them as a floating bar is completely your choice but they help to increase your share rates.
17) Try Including a Pin It Button
Pinterest is a great platform to drive dedicated sales and even great readers to your blog. Use the Pin it button on images to enable people to share them across the platform.
18) Use Social Counters Only if You are Awesomely Popular
Yes many sharing plugins come up with share counters. While this has to do with motivating your readers to share more (because the number they show tells that that many people have already shared it), for newer blogs with too little shares, this may prove negative.
19) Start Encouraging Email Subscribers
Yes money is in the list. Okay forget about selling to your email subscribers, they still will help you get great returning readers. People nowadays don’t prefer coming to blogs manually so an email of yours with the latest post will help them come wanting for more.
20) Ask Your Readers to Follow You on Their Favorite Social Networks
Asking readers to follow through the platforms like Facebook and twitter will help you to stay in their mind for long. They might forget about your blog but a tweet can remind them and this can be done only when they subscribe you.
Security Essentials
Yes securing your blog can save you from unwanted losses. Here are some measures:
For BlogSpot bloggers: BlogSpot blogs are not that prone to hacking or hijacking but a safety measure is good.
21) Back Up Your Blog
Yes backing up your blog is really necessary. You don’t know when your blog will be hacked or when Google will shut their service like they did with ones like orkut. You need to be vigilant and start backing up your blog. You can do it in the dashboard itself. Yes backing every day is not necessary but it is advisable to back up after every post. Depending on your frequency of posting and the changes your blog undergoes you can back it up in a week or every day.
22) Enable Two-Step Verification For Your Email
Yes at a time when we hear of email password hacks it is advisable to safeguard your own treasures. By treasures I mean the services associated with your gmail account which includes your BlogSpot blog too. So enable two-step verification. This way you deter any further hacks.
For WordPress users:
WordPress users are more prone to hacking and thus if you have a blog on WordPress CMS you should take proper care:
23) Taking Proper Backups
WordPress users need back up more. You can do the backup manually or automate the process. Certain webhosts (If your site is self-hosted) backup their subscribers’ blogs by themselves. However it is not advisable to stay assured because they cannot be trusted. So better backup your blogs yourself. You can back up your blog to your web space or your computer or your hard drive (external).
Try keeping an external system because sometimes the whole computer gets infected and you are left with nothing to proceed.
24) Use Automation Through Plugins
Yes premium plugins like backupbuddy can provide great value for money. If you are on a tight budget you can use the BackWpUp plugin that provides great features for free. Try scanning and saving your blog weekly, daily or as you might deem fit.
25) Use Plugins like Akismet or G.A.S.P to Prevent Spam Comments
Spam comments can be the greatest source for hazards on a WordPress blog. You can use protection plugins to solve this issue.
Read Top Ten Best WordPress Plugins.
The don’ts
This post on blogging advices to make your blogging journey awesome won’t go good if we don’t make you aware of certain DON’TS of blogging:. Here are five things that you should never ever do if you want to be a player of the final league.
26) Don’t Indulge In Black Hat Tricks
Black hat tricks might seem cool in the beginning but it will always make you pay for what you do. In the era of such internet awareness neither your readers are easy to be fooled nor is the Google.
Don’t buy fake followers or fake visitors. Google is well aware of who a human is and who bots are. The foot prints and IP addresses can be traced off and your site can be penalized.
Don’t just build links rather earn them? This requires a complete post to explain which is fabulously done here.
Don’t try spamming other people’s sites for getting comment backlinks this will get you banned from the community site.
Read Black Hat SEO Introduction
27) Don’t Write Thin Content or Useless Stuff
Writing posts with 100-300 words is not only considered fowl but also shows how much you know on a topic. One or two posts that require just a brief mention is okay but having posts that are always that short will penalize you from search engines.
28) Don’t Ever Post Images From Other Site
Yes images are a great source of blog visuals but using an image without having thr rights to can also land you in legal and financial troubles. Check the website disclaimer or usage rights before picking an image.
29) Don’t Just Speak Negatively
Having a blog and that too with a decent number of readers does not mean you can go and speak anything about anyone. Yes, you have the right to give reviews on products but you must be able to produce the proofs to such claims when you make them against anyone.
30) Don’t Stay in a Closet
Blogging is all about making connections and sharing your stuff. So just don’t make yourself isolated. Go and join forums, spent time in social media and lastly make sound relations from offline friends too. Your family and friends are the ones that support you and inspire you to go ahead. Spending time with them will fill you with energy to start a next blogging session.
Over to you,
So, these were thirty advices that I would like to give you on blogging. I follow them myself too. Have an advice for me? You’re more than welcome. Just type your advice in the comment box.
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