Still A Noob?
Yups, absolutely, I am a newbie blogger. However, I have tried making a couple of blogs three years ago using different websites such as Tumblr, but I was not able to visit and update them regularly until I have completely forgotten my passwords and emails.
Being a blogger during those times was quite a struggle for me since I am not that linguistically skilled. I just used to re-post stuffs that I see on the timeline then there it goes, my blog is filled with posts from others. Since now that I have another blog, I somehow think of taking it seriously like what other bloggers do. But,how can I do that? What should be the things that a newbie blogger, like me, have to consider?
First of all, I actually don't have some ideas about the issue we got here. Because of that, I decided to read some articles and blogs regarding my problem and here we come! There were like more than 5 tips to be remembered but I only chose 5 of these which, for me, would really play an important role to the blogging life of new bloggers. The following things that we, noob bloggers, have to consider according to what I have read are these:
Where does your heart belong? Yeah, denotatively, I know it belongs to your body but what I am talking right here is that one thing that you really love to do and would really love to talk about like Sports, Showbiz, Parenting, Government, Cooking, Music or even all about your life. You better have to choose a topic that you are really into since updating a blog every now and then would take a little bit of passion from the blogger itself. So, before making one, you should think of that one thing that you are really interested so you can keep going with it and would not find it tiring and boring updating it regularly. Again, think about where your passion lies.
Think creatively my dear. In other words, be different. There are probably a gazillion of blogs in this world that have the same topic as yours. If you would not put even just a little sprinkles of creativity on it, there would be a great chance that your readers would find your blog extremely common, boring and not remarkable from others who got the same topic as yours. Make your blog stand out.
According to Mariel Wangsgard from www.blogher.com, it is nice to read blogs in which the personality of the author shines through. I totally agree to that since it feels like I am just having a face-to-face conversation with the author, which is absolutely cool. However, too much of it is not good. If you are naturally not good with spelling and grammar rules, you better have to or check it or even consult some people who are way better than you before publishing or else you would be on a hot seat together with the grammar police. Either way, let your personality be shown in your post. In such a way, readers would establish a connection with you while reading and feel comfortable sharing their thoughts regarding the content.
Getting pictures from different online sources without even asking permission from the real owner of it might cause you into trouble. So, if you don't want to be in such situation, why not make and take pictures on your own? ........ Selfies? .. Haha................. No.............. Maybe you can upgrade from just how to take a picture with a perfect angle of yourself. Get your camera and try taking a photo of a certain random thing with a unique angle. After that, try beautifying it with some editing photo softwares such as Adobe Photoshop, PhotoScape etc. If you would wish how to take a photo like a pro, try clicking this link.The natural photo is good but adding some spice of it will make it is way better and more attractive considering that the main purpose of photo in a blog is to attract some readers. I don't know if I made sense from there but whatever. Usually, attractive pictures in a certain blog makes it more fun and interesting to read the whole thing and it may entice others to read especially when the readers share it to others. So if you want your blog to be more inviting, try putting pictures most preferably taken by yourself.
Publishing false information about something or someone in your blog would terribly make you a worthless author. If you would wish to post factual articles or opinionated ideas then consider to do some research first. It's better that way than saying stuffs that would make you and your content very illogical and gibberish. However, aside from the information to be included in the content, this tip also entails the things that you may or may not add into your blog through checking others' blogs. Like when you have seen that a certain idea of yours is already existing in some other blogs. It would be so redundant if you would still add such idea right? However, if you can add something to that idea to somehow make it look different from the others then do it.
These are all the 5 very basic tips that we, newbie bloggers, have to bare in mind. I believe that all of these tips can really give a big help to our blogging life! Hopefully, you enjoyed reading the tips right here at the same time learned something. If you have some suggestions, criticisms about the content, just let me know about it so I may be able to improve on my next posts in here. Thankeeeeeeeeeees a bunch!
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