3 Tips On Becoming a Better Blogger

Being a better blogger is on every blogger’s mind. Here are three tips on improving as a blogger:

1. Be Unique

There are hundreds, if not thousands of bloggers who share your niche, and you all provide more or less the same content. The reader has to choose which blogs to read, from the many available. By being unique, you present the content in a different way; from a different point of view, one which has seldom been chosen. Now even though if you write upon the same idea as your fellow bloggers, your unique style of presenting it makes it all the more attractive for the reader, and it seems new; something fresh. If the reader is sick of reading blogs that all have the same content; when they arrive at your blog, they find it refreshing and something ‘out of the box’.

That ‘out of the box’ is what you should be aiming for. That is what will act as a magnet for readers. Even if you have mediocre content, an ‘out of the box’ presentation can propel it to the top.

2. Don’t be selfish

Remember that you blog for your readers, and minimally, if at all, for your self. Thus, it makes no sense to keep something all to your self.

Suppose you’ve crafted a fantastic post. Before hitting the publish button, have you ever thought of guest posting it anywhere? If you have a fairly young blog, you should guest post many of your best posts. It is these posts that take advantage of the readership of those blogs and send traffic your way. Suppose you post 10 guest posts on 10 different, fairly established blogs. There’s 10 sustainable sources of traffic coming your way! Would you ever have gotten so much traffic working on your own? Not likely. It is these posts that gain you credit and the respect of readers, which is all you must aim for.
My point is, give as much as you can to your readers. Don’t keep it for yourself. Your blog could always do with you holding contests and giving out prizes!
Also, if you have new ideas for your blog, share it with your readers; don’t think some one will steal it (it’ll be to their loss; they’ll probably be caught sooner or later). The best thing about sharing your ideas is that your readers can point out and correct mistakes in the idea and even improve upon it. What more do you want?

3. Be Yourself

This is perhaps the most important tip of all.

Just like in real life, we set role models and try to follow them and become like them. Although that’s acceptable in real life, you cannot afford not to be yourself in the blogging world. In reality, the world can always do with another Iqbal or Mother Teresa, but in the blogging world, you’ve got to be yourself. You won’t be much successful if you follow others.

Bloggers often try to walk in the footsteps of the greats in their niche. Don’t. I’ll tell you why.
Firstly, many bloggers will be walking the same path as you, in the foot steps of your and their role model. Where has your uniqueness gone now? You are now no different from those walking beside you! Bad, isn’t that?

Secondly, those greats have already trudged along the difficult path to where they stand now, and have developed a massive and fiercely loyal readership. Their readership is not probably going to dump them for you. I’m right, am not I? By being your self and by trudging your own path, you develop your own readership, which will be loyal to you. As they say, no pain, no gain!

This point may seem contradictory to the first tip, but believe me, being unique and being yourself are two different things. You can be unique while being yourself.

Now I’m NOT saying it’s not ok to have a role model in the blogging world. No doubt you CAN
have one. Learn from their mistakes, and improve on their ideas.

Important – Review Points:

-Present content from a new point of view.
-Generosity helps build up trust and respect and recognition.
-Don’t change who you are.

Those were just three tips. If you’ve got something to add to the above, feel free to comment!