Writing A Blog For The FIRST TIME? Here Are 8 Things You Must Avoid

Writing a blog post for the first time? Wondering what you can do to make your blog go well? Even before you jump into writing jungles about your favorite topic, make sure that you stay away from these pitfalls.

After quite a bit of collective research and pondering through a lot of articles online (while I was writing my blogs, of course!) one thing that I have understood is the common mistake that anyone does. Take a look at them and make sure you keep away from them.

1. Unreasonable Topic

If content is your king, then,  Topic should be your kingdom!

Always remember - your topic must interest people before your content takes over. A boring or dull topic is not going to help you even if your content is good. The key is to research. Find out what's on the web, what's not on the web, what can be spoken about, what appeals to you, what can appeal to the public, what's worth sharing even before you start the blog(in short-chose a profitable topic!). A prosaic topic makes approach to your blog indifferent sans visitors.

If your stuck and don't know where to begin with ; Hubspot's Blog Topic Generator is an economic tool to start with.

2. Copied Content

 The whole idea of scripting your blog is to be original. Your thoughts speak in the form of your content so it's high time you don't stick to the usual "copy-paste" routine of content writing when you start working on your blog.

Moreover, you don't want to get penalized by Google for plagiarizing content, do you?

Of course, you may find a lot of similar topics to the one that you want to focus but your aim should at least be to approach in a different way. Swearing by the advice from CopyBloggers - an important rule of content writing is to make a content that doesn't suck. So, craft a content that's...read more