Blogging Problems for newbies to quit journey
In every field there are some freshers, beginners or newbies, and they start business or work with lot of hopes. They pass through problems, up and down while they are trying hard to grow business. Some time they may get frustrated and quit the business because feel unable to overcome common business problems. Blogging problems is also one of them, where newbie are come to gamble their skills.
At certain situations either they become good or quit the blogging life. Why did they quit blogging journey at front hard times ? Are they not able to market their writing skills ?
If any blogger wants to become expert, than he never quit. He come back with confidence each time and give his best because he passed out through marketing strategies and common problems.
So, what are those common blogging problems that all newbie are facing or quit journey before the professional lifestyle ? Let me take you there to find some common problems and ability to out from frustration.
#1. Responsive and SEO Friendly Website Design
Many of bloggers start to write but they don’t think about good website. Either they are not able to pick good templates or they don’t make more efforts. So when user hits to URL and quit because he don’t want bad UI and un-formatted contents.
May blogger don’t know about SEO or don’t give time to do this. So whether he writes good contents, readers don’t show interest to visit that site. Some of them also don’t know about SEO based articles or don’t have time to learn basics of SEO and blogging.
Solution
It is most important part of beginning that you must have a good website, because visual appeal can grab the audience very well. Website should be responsive to all devices, support cross-browser platforms, simple and clean.
If you can’t effort SEO package than you can do it with learning some basic concepts. Blogger should learn basic principle of blogging, SEO optimized rich contents, on-page and off-page SEO techniques.
#2. How to select topic and deliver rich contents
When you start to write something, first thing come in mind that what to write ? Some bloggers fail to take such initial step and change idea to write something, where few can do this ease of pressure.
It is initial problem of bloggers that they can’t choose good topic and write some useful contents. Whether they have writing skills or not, fail to market analysis while only thinking about make some profit.
Few of them do research about topic and write useful contents. Bloggers don’t show interest in research, contents formatting, visual appeal, re-checking of contents and post useful contents. They are looking to grab audience and earn money from blogging but not able to write rich quality contents.
If you are not able to take foremost steps, than get frustrated and quit to write. So, now problem is how to blog about and post some fruitful, readable and rich contents.
Solution
If you have passion to learn and write, than you should reveals interests and always try to make scope of that. If you are a travel loving person, you should write about tours, experience, people and culture, places. You should pick a niche, about you are interested to write and learn.
Always write that readers want to read, because they are like market makers. After having a niche, keep searching for good contents with having eyes on competitor’s blog.
You can use social media, online forms, other bloggers site to search nice topic and some ideas to write an article. Contents should be simple and readable for all readers and Search Engines, so it can pull more traffic to site.
Visual contents are most useful to deliver high quality contents; it is used to attract readers or attention. Bloggers must develop some skills about writing, research, people interests and trending topic to write.
#3. Pull Web traffic and Social Promotion
If you are doing well since few weeks or month and you didn’t get good response from readers. It is most frustrating moments for all bloggers and many of them fail to grab audience for blog.
Many of bloggers don’t waste more time to pull traffic, high quality contents and images to attract visitors. They just blog install and launch their site with few posts and then start to hope for huge traffic and money.
Solution
Most things are, you should consider on blogging only rather than earning and traffic. If you write well and good contents, readers will follow you automatically. You can guest posting and commenting on other bloggers site, it can give a boost to introduce and market your writing skills.
Keep searching for good contents and re-updating all posts at time, because you will be leaving current updates for readers.
Social media can be more helpful to promote your blog site, because it has millions of users active on daily basis. You should use facebook, twitter to share your posts routinely and can use other platform like pinterest, instagram, linkedin, freelancing, tumblr and more.
#4. Website ranking and Search Engine
This is most typical and important topic, where 70% of bloggers are worried about. Bloggers start to worry after few months that still site is not indexed in Google/Bing or other search engines.
Solution
If you have submitted your site on Google, Bing or search engines, that it would be subject to website indexing and ranking on Google. You must create a sitemap and submit it to search engines or Google Search Console.
You should do social bookmarking, directory listing, and local listing, connect to blog networks, email listing to get faster traffic and ranking. You must be active and try to be a part of network, rather than using spammy methods.
#5. No Earning / profit after long investment
45% bloggers quit their journey after having a long investment of money and time to blog and expect profit in quick time or after time. They are required quick return from blogging and stop thinking about to post quality contents.
Many bloggers get bored from blogging life and quit, if they are not earning some money or profit.
Solution
First thing is, don’t keep thinking about earning money from blogging. You should keep posting good contents and try to create huge traffic for site with creative ideas and SEO techniques.
If you are thinking about to earning, than Blogging it time taking process like SEO and you must not expect good results in few time. You can try to submit for Google adsense program, which is a dream for all bloggers.
If you are failing to monetize with adsense, don’t fed up. You can try some alternatives like affiliate programs, sponsored posts and write articles for other companies, freelancing.
Blogging is an art of writing, publishing your interest and turning into fruitful contents to help readers. Blogging is about to share your experiences to people, so others can be either motivated or out from problems.
If you have started blogging, you must be active and part of blog network. Keep patience and wait for professional time.
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Originally published at blogdairy.com on August 25, 2016.