How to be a Blogging Pro

November 23, 2011 - Last Modified: November 23, 2011 by Glen B

Blogging has come a very long way since it rose to popularity in the earlier part of the millennium. Blogs have evolved from being an online journal to a source of good information, product reviews, opinions, as well as entertainment. Blogging also became a helpful financial resource for a lot of bloggers as well as a medium to enhance writing and communicating.

Many of you want to become a pro at blogging but can not identify the keys on how to deliver a professional write up or a blog. Here are the ways how:

1- Write about topics that are:

Trending
Helpful and Attractive to Readers
Familiar to you

Write down your ideas considering the three qualities above and seek to develop your own niche. Always consider topics that you will be comfortable in writing about.

Ask yourself: “Will I be able to write about this particular genre for two years or so?” If you answered yes, then you can start focusing on writing about topics and ideas related to your niche of choice. Topics that are popular today are those related to Internet Marketing, SEO, Make Money from Home, Sports, and Celebrity Gossip.

2- Get yourself a blog

To blog is to be able to write in a blog. There are a lot of blogging platforms that are available for free such as LiveJournal, WordPress, Blogger, and a lot more. However, if you are striving to become a professional blogger and be known as one, it is advisable to create your own website or blog because having one helps you build your reputation.

3- Enhance your Writing Skills

One of the most helpful English Writing books around is from Strunk and White entitled “The Elements of Style”. It helps you improve your writing composition as well as your grammar. When you aspire to be a professional blogger, it is a requirement to be able to come up with articles and helpful materials which are both informative and entertaining.

Through constant practice in writing and reading other pro blogger’s articles, you will eventually come up with your own unique writing style and stand out.

4- Blog regularly

For a blog to gain visitors and regular audiences, a blogger must strive to write at least two or three articles per week. Once a blog is left at a hiatus, it will turn off a lot of readers as well as search engines spiders. Regular blogging would mean opening up more to a wider audience as well as getting better numbers of indexed pages.

5- Build your Social Media Presence

Building your own social media presence, such as signing up and being active in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media accounts will enhance your online presence. You will be able to drive more people towards your website, build a bigger sphere of influence, as well as introducing your professional blog to clients.

6- Write Honest Product Reviews

Once you have a niche, you probably will have to meet products and services providers that you might want to write a review about. For example, you are running a hotel and restaurant review blog, you can write about the services and the overall quality of different providers you encountered. Providers will appreciate your feedback, whether they’re good or bad.

Who knows, you may end up being their Social Media Specialist or their Official Blogger.

7- Respond to Comments

When you become a blogger, you not only welcome visitors, but also comments and spammers. Through time, you will be able to know the difference between a real comment and a software-generated spammy comment.

When it is a real comment, always be sure to approve the comment, respond to it, visit their blog and return the favor of commenting. If it is a spam comment, do others a favor by placing them in the blacklist.

8- Offer to Write Guest Posts

When you are comfortable with your writing style, you can actually ask other bloggers to publish your article on their blog, provided that it is written according to their standards.

Offering to write guest posts will enable you to reach out to the other side of the fence, broaden your audience, and build quality backlinks (as this is being offered by most bloggers that accept guest postings).

What else can you add to the list?

{ 17 Responses }

Noel Addison says:

Responding to comments in you blog post or in a guest is very important. Don't just live your readers hanging. They took effort to leave a comment to add value to your post. The comment section is the best part of the blog because from the comments of your readers you will know how you affect them or you'll know whether your post became useful for your readers.
Azmain says:

Hey Glen I agree with Anuj, your posts are very easy to read (especially in my current sleep deprived state)! I pretty much follow all of those rules, minus No. 8. I want to start guest blogging, I've been told it does wonders for you visibility but I just don't know where to start really. I used to write semi-regularly, but currently doing 30 days of writing daily and hopefully it'll help me get into the routine of things. Thank you again for a great, to the point post! Az
- Glen says:
  
  It's normal to feel anxious in the posts that you write for others, but for as long as you write what you know best, you'll be fine. Just start writing articles and submit each one of them to different blogs that accepts guest postings. ;)
Jon Anscher says:

It's the whole writing regularly that always gets me. It's hard to keep up a good pattern. I think I hold an unrealistic expectation of each blog entry which makes it harder for me to get started on them. A question though, for an individual writing their own blog (for me, it's a professional blog on my personal portfolio site) how necessary is writing 2-3 articles a week?
- Glen says:
  
  As for the question of necessity in writing 2-3 articles a week, that is just the ideal. Writing regularly means having to invite both search engine spiders and as well as traffic into your blog which gives you a better chance in ranking well in SERPs. However, you if find it hard to write regularly, try to at least offer an article a week not just leave your readers with one post a month.
Rachael Macgregor says:

Nice one Glen, great well rounded post. I absolutely love blogging. Like you said, you need to pick something you can write about for years - but when you find your 'thing' it becomes a pleasure doing "work".
Don Gerig says:

Thanks for the tips... i am just getting started with Blogging and can use some help. I will have to check out the book your suggested Elements of style.
Manuel Marino says:

Tips are all very reasonable! I think there's also a bit of "luck" that we should consider. As blogger I can say that there are factors difficult to measure that can bring more or less visitors toward a specific topic or blog post.
shenoyjoseph says:

thanks for providing English Writing books "The Elements of Style", i hope that this book will help me to improve my writing skills. :)
- Glen says:
  
  Hello Shenoyjoseph, Strunk and White's Elements of Style is one of the best books I bought. It's an interesting read. It's not expensive (you can even download your own free ebook). It's handy. Goodluck. :)
  - shenoyjoseph says:
    
    cool just downloaded those free books from the internet and i m very excited to read that two books. :D
    - Glen B says:
      
      So, did you find Strunk and White useful? Also, keep yourself updated with SESCon webinars as it will truly help you a lot in doing your job.
Anuj says:

Hey Glen B, I like how you get your posts across - straight to the point, nice headers to scan... makes reading a pleasure. And of course this is a great topic, I think the "Be social, engage" point is the key to it all... Trying to engage more, and it takes work and time! I'm joining the team of Blogging Partners tho. ;-)
- Glen says:
  
  Thanks, man..and yes, getting yourself out of the shell and interacting would help a lot to succeed in blogging. Blogging Partners? Tell me more about it.
Glen says:

Hello Dave and Dev, Thanks for liking the post. Haven't tried using Blokube / MMOSocialNetwork though. Will be checking it out.
Dev says:

Guest posting is one the best things one can do to build brand authority. Another thing would be using social blogging communities like Blokube, MMOSocialNetwork. Thanks for sharing this informative post with us.
Dave Lucas says:

Wow Glen - great job - seems like you've got it covered!

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