The 10 Best Blogger Tips

Welcome to another blogging TIPS. This TIPS is all about the goals and different tasks that I would do during the first month of longing. So really, it's like my first month of blogging tips, but I think this will be really helpful. And even if you're not at that if you're past that first month of blogging, I think it's really helpful for really. It's like for the first year and I'm individual tips that will just help you grow your blog. A lot faster and be a lot more confident and know what's worth it to spend time on. Inverse what's not worth it spend time on the first tip is to set a schedule and stick with it to the absolute best of your abilities. I've found from knowing people in the industry and then also just like watching other people, it is so easy to have in your mind to start a blog and then you realize how much work is involved with it and something that you have to be is super, super consistent like you have to be a consistent person. I have a Blog especially because it's fully on you to do it. You know, like you're not going to have someone watching you being like you need a post today.

 You need a post tomorrow. It's just, that's not how it is. So you have to be super disciplined for me. Personally, I made a schedule for myself that I would post a blog post twice a week and I was easy on myself on the fact that I wasn't like, okay, every Wednesday and Thursday, I had to post a blog post. I was like all I need to do is post two blog posts a week. 

It doesn't matter what days I post them at doesn't matter what time and in the grand scheme of things that literally does not matter. So don't be, super intense about that. But for me from that Sunday to Saturday, I was like in between that time I have to have to blog posts published and that really, I have to have the blog post published and I have to have like the Pinterest done for it and that really, really helped me stay on track, wait, the follow-up to that. If you be realistic with your time, if you can't do two blog posts a week, then be consistent with one blog post per week if you have a lot more. You can do three blog posts a week and then do three blog posts a week but what I would not recommend doing is doing one blog post this week 5 blog posts the next week. None the week after like try to be as consistent as possible with like two two two two two. This is a big one that I harp on so much. In my TIPSs, spend the least amount of money possible because it is such a small percentage of people that actually stick with blogging. And so I always am like, you know, like get the cheapest house.

 Osteen, do not invest in a three hundred dollar theme don't spend $1000 on the course suspend the, by the course. That's 100, you know, like be super realistic with your money and then, even if you have money, I would say, be realistic with it. Because then, once you start doing it more and more and you're like, okay, like I'm actually I'm consistent with it. Like I'm actually going to do this then that's when you could spend the big bucks but the thing that I would recommend spending money on is hosting. So get You want a self-hosted WordPress website, so to do that, you need to get hosting. I highly recommend. And what I use when I first started out is Bluehost, I'll have the link for them down below. I'll have like on my website. I have like blogging, which basically, like goes over exactly how I started my blog. All the different websites that I use, but the reason that I like Bluehost specifically also do your research, so it's like so many out there. I just personally use Bluehost is because it's like, the Walmart version of Hosting. So I'm always like there's Walmart version and then you have the target version, then you have like the Nordstrom version. So now because my website is so successful, and we're getting so many viewers on every single day. 

Now we're at the Nordstrom level, but in the beginning, I didn't have money. I was a college student. That was paying for college on my own, like I was broke. So, I had to be really strategic and blue hose allow me to get what you need to get done. I switched over then to bake Scouts excuse. Big Scouts. I don't really know what it is. Which one it is. When I was about two hundred thousand readers per month but from the zero to two hundred thousand dollar or two hundred thousand reader Mark, I was just using Bluehost a really great so that's the cheapest one as far as WordPress theme. So like the design of your website I would recommend going to Ed C. @C has so many different ones at all different prices. I mean they literally have like ones from five dollars all the way up to $100. I personally spent I think it was it was like 65 and I'll put the exact theme that I used to, to, pretty sure I got it from like, a really. I had a great experience with it, but there's so many on their own Etsy, depending on, like, what you're looking for. And then I would invest in a course, there's a million and five courses out there. I would get one that is focused on SEO. Or like, yeah, I would get one that's focused on SEO. So, little plug, we have a course preventing Blobby. Which is basically my dream course when I started my website on, like what I wish I would have known, but like I said, there's a million different courses out there. So do your research read the reviews and see which one is best for what you need. But I like basically, so, perfecting blogging goes over and you any. This is like what I would recommend for you to get first. 

Whether it's my course or another course, but so like what you need to have on your main page, how you need to write your titles? You need to lay out your posts. The dip, like, SEO techniques that people that I use. That bloggers used to be successful. It's very strategic. Like, it is not blogging, is not something that you just go pick. Oh, today, I'm gonna write about blah, blah, blah. Because I love. Blah, blah, blah, like no, like every single blog post is super strategic and there's a lot of research behind it. So you need to know how to do that research. What to be writing about, because the fast. So you can figure that out the fast. You'll get views the fast, you can get ads on your website. In the faster, you'll be making money. Next tip is to find a niche that you actually like you are going to get so burned out. If you start a blog on something that you think we'll just you just started because you think you're going to make money from it, you have to be super knowledgeable about about what you are talking about. That and you have to enjoy talking about it because you will be writing so many different things. When I eat your brain is going to be constantly thinking about it.

 So you want to make sure that it is something that you enjoy thinking about 24/7 because you will be thinking about it. 24/7. And also think about like the future of it, if you are a wanting, if you're want to start a mom blog on toddlers, Okay, that's like great and they're such a market for that. But are you going to be wanting to write about toddlers for the next 15-20 years? And if you don't lend, you can have like, kind of a path. Like, for me, I knew that I wanted to have a design blog. So I started it talking about college dorm room decor but I was like I'm not going to want to write about college, dorm room decor forever. So then I was able, I was like, okay then I'll write about apartment decor and then I'll write about home decor and so it was like that natural path. So further taller example, you could start with babies and then go to town. Others and then so it's like a parenting blog that goes through it, but you wanted to do something that you care about next tip. Treat it like your full-time job from the very, very beginning when I started my website, I was so gung ho about it. Like, my friends, I was a college student. I was a sophomore. So, my friends and be like, I'm we're going out. And I'd be like, sorry, gotta work and they'd be like, what are you working on?

 I have to be like my blog and they like roll their eyes there. Rolling their eyes anymore, but like, in the beginning, they were because they were like, what? Like why are you, you know? And so you have to be super again. You have to be so disciplined and treat it like your job, you know? Like it is work. So whenever I would be working on my website, I would be like Oh I'm working like sorry I can't do this, I'm working because if you start using that like mentality one, you take it a lot more seriously. And so we'll like the people around. You start taking it more seriously eventually instead of just being like Oh Yeah. Yeah, I'm doing my blog. No, it's like, no, you're not what you are, what you like your you're working. And so that's what that's one of my top. Advices is like treat it like a full-time job from the very beginning. Take it really seriously? Because if you do, then you can make it your full time job Roi, okay. Roi is something that I still think about every single day and so, Roi is return on investment. This is another thing that I talk about all the time of my TIPSs because it is so important, but it's especially important those First Years, so like the first month, you know, get it into your head, you are only going to want to do things in that first month the first year that will make money for you and the future. At least that's how I looked at it is I and and that made me like really help on what was important to do and what was not important to do.

So I was like a broke college student, like I said and so if I was and I was also I was a college students are so so busy and so I had to be really strategic with what I was spending time and I only wanted to spend time on things that are actually pay off in the future. So for me, the most, the absolute most important thing was to write blog posts and to get them on Pinterest because if I could get them on Pinterest, then I can get people reading the blog and I needed views because then, as when you get a certain amount of views, you can then apply to an ad Network and you can start making money. So that was like my Roi we're like spending three days on your belt. Paige is not a good use of Roi because one you're going to make no income from that into, no one really cares about you. You know, like that's that's this is a separate thing that I should have added it to my list here. Just say, get into your head. No one cares about you, they only care. About themselves. No one really cares about your about page like let's be real, they don't, but they do care about what's in it for them. And so these blog posts you should be like thinking about every single time. You're writing it. Every single time we do anything at PSL, we always, think, are we being the most helpful as possible to our reader to our customers into our clients? And if you can be like, I will be the most helpful website out there for dorm room decor. That's what I always think about or how Can I be the most helpful website out there for dorm room decor? How can I make this blog post the most absolutely helpful thing out there, that will really help you? It'll give you like a, like up and also like, that's what the readers care about. 

So you'll be having more and more readers, you will not see momentum on your blog for months. And this is so hard. I think that a lot of people go into blogging thinking that it's a fast game and that you are going to see results really quickly. You will not Absolutely will not usually takes like an entire year, see results. And when you say a year out loud it's not that long but when you're actually grinding it out and spending so much time and treating it like your full-time job, a Year's a really really long time to not see results. So get it into your head that it's probably going to take that long to see them and that this initial leg work when you're again like grinding it out. Hardcore is the most important part and you will see results. Later on. I feel like I'm keep trying to give examples from like my experience, like, the work that I put in that first year, is still earning me in comments. So, learning the business income today, blogging is great because it's such passive income that it lasts for a really long time, but there's so much initial work that's involved in it. So, yeah, I think you just need to be realistic like it drives me crazy. I don't know why I let this drive me crazy, so much, but Like people will comment or whatever I see something. Where it's like, I've been blogging for two months and I've only, I've seen nothing like what am I doing wrong? It's like, knowing it's gonna take you a lot longer than that. To get started, because Google has to scan. You'll make sure they trust you Pinterest has to make sure you they trust you. So it's a process do not do too much at once. Like that. This is why Roi so important because it can be super overwhelming. And so many people will be telling you folks in this book. 

So now, That focus on this, you're going to figure it out pretty fast what to focus on, but definitely don't do too much where you get so overwhelmed that. Then you want to quit for photos. You have to get permission unless you take the photo, every single thing that you use on your website, that's not yours. You need to be written permission from because you can get in trouble for copyright. So even if you take a picture from Instagram and then credit the person on the bottom, that is not enough. You need to have written permission of them, telling you that you can use that photo. And lastly, set specific goals. I'm a huge goal person. And they really helped me stay motivated and also like know what I'm working towards. So I highly recommend you send those short-term goals and then also the long-term goals for me and my goal, in the beginning, was to get into an ad agency within the first year. So that was kind of like my more shirt shorts.

 Well I mean There's like that's like a say that's a medium length. Go like my short-term goal was to get to blog post posted a week. The more medium goal was to get into an ad agency that first year and then my long-term goal back then when I was a college student was to make it my full-time job after I graduated and so those goals really gave me something to work with and I think goals are just a great motivator. So I would highly recommend that that wraps up this TIPS on my first month's blogging tips. Hope you enjoyed it. I hope it was helpful. I have so many tips. We do a TIPS every single week on my top blogging tips. Blogging hacks, different programs that I'm using How I Do Stuff, Etc. So I highly recommend checking those out. Check out the courses. We have perfecting blogging, which I talked about perfecting Pinterest, which is my exact Pinterest strategy Pinterest can be a. And so I really go over exactly how we get like over, like four hundred thousand Pages a month from Pinterest. And we have a very specific system. So I highly recommend checking out that course. And then we also have our perfecting email course, which goes over our email strategy. So I hope you enjoy this TIPS and I will see you at next week's blogging TIPS.