Category: Blog Writing

How to Get People to Like Blogs

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We share with you tips for travel bloggers from MakeTraffic Happen. If you want to learn how to get people to like your blogs then this is a guide for you.

Gemma shares her experience from the three years of maintaining a travel blog and shares a guide on how to get followers to read your blog, increase blog traffic, social media promotion.

Before we begin, we have the following assumptions:

You have an existing blog with a name
Your blog site is set up with a self-hosting company
You have accounts on social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube, Google+ and Tumblr.

Let’s proceed with our guide, when you start a new job, the first thing you do is look for like-minded contemporaries that you can learn from. You can apply the same principle to blogging.

Networking with others is key to your blog’s success. Gemma relates a mistake she made at the start, she wrote friendly posts for her family members.

When she spoke with other bloggers, she discovered that she should stop this routine.

You need to treat your blog as a business and not a hobby if you want to make the most out of it.

Network with bloggers from different stages in the journey, from beginners like you, the more experienced and the top dogs in the industry.

Start building relationships on your social media platforms focus on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Join Twitter Chats, these weekly travel chats are run by people who pose questions with a relevant hashtag for interested Tweeters to comment on.

Tweetdeck can help with managing chats. You can comment on other people’s tweets and follow them if you prefer. Many will follow back. This is a good strategy to engage with other bloggers while building your Twitter following.

The strategy for Facebook is to join Facebook groups. Look for pages that feature a community of bloggers where members can ask tips or join social media shares.

Facebook groups are beneficial for bloggers. Take note that each group has its own rules and guidelines that you should comply with.

You can learn tips when you encounter technical website issues from these Facebook groups. It can also be a place where you discover companies that other members have shared and make a pitch to them. If you are a good contributor, you can be asked to join as an admin of the group.

Duplicate what you have done on Twitter and Facebook on Instagram. You can gain more social media followers and create chances to engage with fellow bloggers.

Watch your behavior when you engage with others on social media platforms. Be professional with your dealings. Offer information and tips to other bloggers if you feel that you can give value to them and help them.

Stick to giving advice and not your agenda. You can get tossed out of a group if you start promoting without permission.

Some groups give you the chance to share your blog posts which is a boost to your blog followers within your niche.

Avoid leaving links to your site or sharing your posts unless you are asked, or guidelines permit you to do so.

For networking to be more effective, you should do it in tandem with social media sharing.

When you are starting out, you may feel like no one is paying attention to your shares. The solution is to share other blogger’s posts.

There is a chance that your content is shared if you start sharing other people’s content. Make sure that your group allows posts and be wary of the limit of how many posts you can share.

Going over the limit may cause admins to throw you out of the group for freeloading.

You can use social media tools to manage your social shares. Hootsuite can help you manage your Twitter shares.

Sharing and engaging is the way to go in social media. You just don’t dump your information and expect people to follow you.

Twitter can even “filter” you if you are not engaging enough.

Post photos that are high quality on your social media accounts. Instagram is where you focus on photos so expect more engagement when your photos are well planned and are your best images.

The secret to IG is to comment, like and hashtag strategically. It takes hard work, but when you do it right, you will be rewarded for it with a ton of followers.

How To Write Blogs With Creative Writing

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First, we can take a closer look at the features of creative writing. There are mainly two categories of creative writing—the non-fiction type and the fiction stories. In the Non-fiction, the genre may be found the feature stories or blogs. In the fiction type of stories,

A writer’s creativity may also be found in feature writing where the writer’s insights and analysis about an event are incorporated into the written material, not just a writer’s opinion but an intelligent discussion of issues based on data and research. In feature writing, a writer’s opinion is placed under the microscopic lens of critical thinking, analysis, even imagination.

Blog writing is a modern way of feature writing, except that in a blog, a writer’s observations may dominate the article written. A blog is an event, a scene (a landscape), a thing (such as a product) as seen through the eyes of the blogger. The blog could be posted directly on a website or sent to a web service provider for posting. There are many blog sites where one can post a blog for free. A sponsor may hire a service provider where it can distribute a blog to different locations.

Copyblogger has presented “ten terrific creative writing blogs” in its site that includes some topics written by various blog writers and featured in the Copyblogger site. One blog is about becoming a professional writer, as written by Jeff Goins, including, according to him, how to get a writer’s work published and how to succeed at the creative life without “losing your marbles.”

Another creative blog is that written by Jane Friedman who is also a media professor and speaker, where she emphasizes how technology affects writers, marketers, and people.

Joanna Penn’s “The Creative Penn” makes it to the top ten list with her favorite blogs on writing, publishing and book promotion. Through her Author 2.0 Blueprint eBook, she guides budding writers on how to write, publish and market a book. If you look at the table of content of her eBook, you’ll find out how the topics are presented in a simple, easy to understand manner, without any confusing technical language, yet it shows a highly creative work.

If you’re inclined to write about romantic topics, you might want to check out the “Romance University” according to copyblogger a fascinating site to help romance writers in both the genre fiction and non-fiction, especially for male writers. It’s a site where writers can meet and publish their work and interact with each other to improve creative writing.

 

“The Artist’s Road” is about Patrick Ross’s career that took him from journalism to communications consulting and back to creative writing. He describes his blogs as an ongoing conversation between the author and its readers concerning the challenges and rewards of pursuing a life committed to art.

WordPlay is fiction writer K.M. Weiland’s tagline in “helping writers become authors,” which shows that she has put a lot of creative writing into her work and also understands how to create an idea in the headline. She has offered advice to fiction writers for the improvement of their craft and including reading guides and other material for readers.

Different Types of Blog Writing

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Blogs are pieces of writing based mainly on the author’s experience and knowledge about specific subjects. Blogs look into the qualities of a particular person, event, product, process, incident, or thing that the blogger writes for publication.

Blogs are usually published on blog sites or a website that specializes in specific topics that the blogger has written. Blog writers have some experience in writing, while some have undergone training in writing or have developed their innate talent in writing.

If you are not a writer and still want to create a blog, look for a writer who writes blogs, and convey to him or her your story, and the way you want the story to be written. In the long run, you will be able to write a blog for publication.

Blogs are more of feature articles rather than news articles. Since people read blogs that interest them most, blogs are written to satisfy the curiosity of readers regarding a particular topic. There are as many blogs as there are issues on this planet. We can classify blogs according to trends in blog sites.

News-oriented blogs. These type of blogs deal with current local and global issues that affect particular groups of stakeholders. The most common among the news-oriented blogs are political blogs and commentaries. Some blog writers also deal with disaster events while some write about fashion, actors and actresses and social events. However, such blogs, if not well written by a seasoned news writer could be subject to misinterpretation.

Travel blogs. These blogs are getting famous and more and more people who can write are into travel blog writing. Travel experiences of people are the ones that get more attention from readers. Readers are usually interested in a particular place, a beach or restaurant, a unique shop or just about any form of travel. Travel blogs are not only informative but entertaining as well.

Tech blogs. Technology blogs are written by people who have a good knowledge about technology in general and a specific product in particular. Examples of tech blogs are the different laptops in 2018 and how these laptops differ from one another regarding performance and price. Another is the features found in a new cell phone compared to other mobile phones in the market. Tech blogs can also appear in tech magazines aside from standard blog sites.

Garden and plant blogs. These blogs attract thousands of readers because of the popularity of backyard gardening, especially in the United States. Still, others go into more interesting areas like marijuana gardening, aside from planting herbal teas, culinary herbs, and other medicinal herbs. Selling these herbs online can bring unlimited income every year. Garden and plant blogs are one of the most popular blogs with a wide readership.

Financial blogs. This type of blog is getting the attention of more and more people because it could teach people how to save and invest money and how to spend one’s fortune. Financial blogs could be written by people who have extensive experience in financial planning and investment. Blogs about Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency trend have attracted more attention from readers.
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