Blog Hop: 25 Tips for Professional Bloggers
Have you been blogging a while? Perhaps you are just getting started on your blogging journey and need some help. This week’s Wordless Wednesday blog hop is dedicated to professional bloggers with a list of tips you can’t afford not to read. How do you know if you are a professional blogger?
- Blogging is more than a hobby to you: It is a business.
- You have an ethical foundation from which you operate, as blogger Janea Kelley explains.
- Your social media thumbprint is highly reflective of your business. Being credible means when you write on social, whatever you say is reflective of your brand.
- You continue your education: Do you keep your blog properly maintained on the “back end” (or have someone do it for you) AND do you learn about your topic and blogging in general on a regular basis? Educating bloggers is at the core of BlogPaws the company.
25 Tips for Professional Bloggers
Building an experienced, authoritative, voice in the blogosphere can be done, and with a plan in place, you can establish yourself as a credible voice as a professional blogger. Here are 25 tips to help keep you on track and take your blog to the next level:
- Re-examine your voice for blogging: Is your voice more conversational, teaching, or storytelling? Have you picked a style?
- Photo Tip: Update your old post images with more up-to-date shots using the latest easy-to-use photo editing apps.
- DYK: Patch is a smart portrait editing app for iOS users. It automatically edits images and gives a blurred background!
- Delete outdated/unused plugins. They pose security threats and possibly slow down the load times.
- Check and fix dead links. Google Webmaster Tools is one option, as is Broken Link Checker plugin for WP users.
- Test your blog on different screen sizes, browsers, and devices to ensure it displays properly.
- Your blog depends on this: Focus on developing cornerstone or evergreen content regularly.
- Do you know the optimal times to post content on social? Identify them with your social analytics.
- In most cases, using the active voice instead of the passive voice will make your sentences more powerful.
- Active or passive voice: When to use each and why. Great examples, too!
- Help your readers and they will reward you ten times over. Solve a problem. Be a resource.
- Video Tip: The first six seconds of your video not only have to grab your viewers attention, but those six seconds have to drive the point across.
- Learn How to Create a Call to Action That Gets Readers Clicking.
- Always have a call to action: Perhaps you tease the call to action in the video itself.
- Visit blogs of people in pet AND other niches. Leave comments, build on existing relationships, and forge new ones.
- SUPER important: Don’t one-and-done! 25 Ways to Promote a Blog Post After Publishing.
- Consider yourself a cause blogger but stuck in your growth? Read this post! –> https://blogpaws.com/executive-blog/what-cause-bloggers-need-to-know-about-influencer-marketing
- Pro Tip: Include an image top of your posts. Imagery entices readers to click and is much more welcoming than a text block.
- Affiliate marketing is an incredible resource for helping to make money through a blogging IF you have the traffic to support it.
- We are thrilled to announce that the BlogPaws blog is now accepting pitches for paid contributions! Read our editorial guidelines and pitch process here:
- Pinterest Tip: When working on Pins consider whether or not the content works for your most engaged board.
- Ninja Tip: Take your blog post and promote it with a one-minute video that you directly upload to Facebook.
- Create a top ten list on your blog, give one away on Facebook, and link back to the post with a catchy call to action.
- See what images people pin from blog posts. Do this by typing in www.pinterest.com/source/YOURWEBSITE
- Instagram Stories is an amazing way to promote a blog post.
Don’t Forget
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The Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop
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