12 Tips for Beginner Bloggers to Kickstart Your Blogging Journey

If you’re thinking of starting a blogging business now, there might be many things standing in your way. Before we dive into the list of tips for beginner bloggers, let’s talk about them. Table of Contents* Why You Haven’t Started a Blog Yet* Tips for Beginner Bloggers* 1. Create original content.* 2. Create people-first content.* 3. Don’t overdo SEO.* 4. Write for your ideal readers.* 5. Start an email list early on.* 6. Pick the right niche.* 7. Stick to it.* 8. Use the right tools.* 9. Make your blog professional.* 10. Get on Pinterest early on.* 11. Learn about the different ways to make money blogging.* 12. Create your blogging schedule.* Bonus blogging tip: Prioritize Security* Final words Why You Haven’t Started a Blog Yet That includes the number of other blogs out there. If you look at that and consider it competition, you might think that there’s a website covering every topic under the sun already so a new one won’t make any difference and won’t get any attention. If you look at how long it may take to rank high in Google, especially this year, you might not even start a blog. If you read about all the things currently happening in the blogging space, how many bloggers lost almost all of their traffic overnight due to recent changes in the algorithm as well as the switch to AI-driven search online, you might lose any hope of ever getting a spot in the search engine results page, and thus never getting traffic to your blog, which means no profit either. If you look at all the things you’ll need to do to actually set up a professional site, get it up and running, add functionality, build an email list, publish content constantly, optimize it, keep up to date with the latest trends, tools and algorithm changes, monetize in multiple ways and the possibility of waiting years till you turn this into a full-time business, you might never start a blog, let alone do the work consistently to grow and monetize it. Things are different for bloggers today than they were a few years ago. And even one year ago. But that also has an advantage for you. While others may have lost their traffic due to Google’s updates, while they may need to do massive content audits (like me) to update old content and give it another chance to rank higher so they can bring their traffic back, while they’ve tried a million things to grow their blog, while they are still fixing mistakes (such as errors on their site, bad content from years ago, overly optimized posts when different SEO practices were working, and so on), you don’t need to worry about any of this. You can start with a clean slate, and grow a blog more strategically, the right way, and not rely on a single source of traffic or income. So, if you’re serious about this and want to do it the right way, I now want to share with you my best tips for beginner bloggers.