So you have com­mit­ted to mak­ing 2015 your year. Good for you! Now it’s time to dive right in and start making things hap­pen. You can start with a few tips from your favorite blog­gers at Blog­gin’ Mamas.

Here are a few of our favorite blog­ging tips for the week:

This is probably the most important thing to learn as a blogger, new or old! Learning to ask for help and advice will take you far in life. Not any single person knows everything there is to know about any industry. The most successful people learn to utilize their strengths, and ask for help or advice as it relates to their weaknesses. The sooner you learn to work as a team with other bloggers, the better off you will be. After all, the better we are individually, the more seriously we are as industry professionals! Work together to be the best you can be! It’s not a competition, it’s a team effort!

Lists are so easy to write, and to read! You want your information to be as clear-cut and to the point as possible. Lists give you the most bang for your buck in a single post.

Most of the time, people are commenting on your posts because they want to read more about what you are saying. They took the time to leave you a comment or ask you a question, make sure you take the time to return the favor!

Descriptive text is important. You want your writing to create visual images in your reader’s head. However, actual images are just as important. Use them to illustrate your point, catch a readers eye, or if nothing else make sure you have a pin-able image to use on Pinterest! 

This goes along with the first tip, it’s just so important to realize that it is OK to ask for help, and it is OK not to know everything. The most intelligent and successful people in the world got that way because they knew when to ask others for help.

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So you have com­mit­ted to mak­ing 2015 your year. Good for you! Now it’s time to dive right in and start making things hap­pen. You can start with a few tips from your favorite blog­gers at Blog­gin’ Mamas.

Here are a few of our favorite blog­ging tips for the week:

The most important thing to remember is that your readers can tell if you are being authentic. If you don’t really mean what you are saying, people will catch on immediately, and they won’t want to hear what you are writing. The best way to make sure that you are always being authentic is to write about what your passionate about. If your passion shows in your writing, people will sense that, and that kind of passion is contagious!

Thanks for the great tip @Scrappiedoodle!

This is a great tip from @Notnowmomsbusy! Building relationships with readers, brands, and other bloggers is how you get ahead in the blogging world. People want to know the real you. It is just as important as great content that people keep coming back for!

Take the time to learn about and invest in proper SEO strategies! One of these strategies is having a searchable title that is on topic. Make sure that people can find your site when they are searching for what you are writing about. If you are writing about cute puppies, you don’t want you title to be “cute things I like” – no one who is looking for cute puppies will be able to find you! Thanks for this reminder @Trimestertalk!

At the end of the day, writing is just about expressing your feelings and emotions. Even in technical writing, you are trying to get people interested in what you have to say. Describe those feelings and emotions to your readers. Make them feel what you feel! That is how you bring people in!

Do you have a blog tip that you would like to share?

Sub­mit your tip here for a chance to be fea­tured on the blog and on social media! We can’t wait to read and share your tips. After all, learn­ing from each other makes each of us bet­ter blog­gers in the long-run!

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So you have committed to making 2015 your year. Good for you! Now it’s time to dive right in and start making things happen. You can start with a few tips from your favorite bloggers at Bloggin’ Mamas.

Here are a few of our favorite blogging tips for the week:

People want to know you take your blog seriously. Never skimp on content. You should always take the time and effort to write about something that people want to read about. Your readers will be able to tell the difference between something that you but your heart into, and something you just threw together in the last minute. Take the time and produce something worthwhile. Your readers will thank you!

Take the time to focus on SEO. Make your website and your individual blog posts SEO friendly. SEO is how you make your website and content come up in searches naturally or “organically” without paying for an advertisement. Basically, it’s how you connect your content with the readers who are looking for it. This is probably the most important step to getting your content seen on the web.

Let’s face it, as Bloggin’ Mamas we are ALL busy. There is always going to be something else we could be doing. To-do lists are always going to be miles and miles long. If you are going to commit to producing valuable, SEO friendly, useful content for your readers this year you can to commit the time to doing it. Maybe it’s 3o minutes a week, maybe it’s an hour a day. Commit to the time and stick to it! Set a timer and force yourself to work for that period of time. You might not get everything all done, but it is a great way to keep yourself from getting distracted by… well LIFE!

Do you have a blog tip that you would like to share?

Submit your tip here for a chance to be featured on the blog and on social media! We can’t wait to read and share your tips. After all, learning from each other makes each of us better bloggers in the long-run!

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It’s a new year, and new you, and time for a new start on your blog! Whether you are a new blogger, or a veteran blogger looking for a new start, the new year is the perfect time to kick it into high gear and make a commitment to your blog.

Create an Editorial Calendar

This is your plan for the year. It can be as specific as you want it to be. Make broad topics for each month, or schedule specific posts you plan to write. Make sure to set and meet your scheduled deadlines. You are running your own business; you need to hold yourself accountable. Here is an example of an editorial calendar for the year. Pick your topic for each month, and the deadline for submitting or posting each article. Remember! You CAN write your posts ahead of time and schedule them to post in the future. This will save you a ton of time in the long-run and it will keep your readers coming back for more original content.

Create a goal-setting sheet

You should set at least 3 major goals for your blog over the next year. If you don’t have a goal in mind, you don’t have anywhere to go! You need a vision in order to achieve success. Your goals should be realistic, measureable, and achievable. Having clearly defined goals is what is going to help you focus on what you need to spend your time on over the next year. Otherwise, you might as well be wandering around in the dark! If you have been blogging for a while already, start by looking back over the previous year. What worked, what didn’t? Expand from there. Each of your goals should have specific objectives to be measure the goals success. For example, if your goal is to gain more followers on Facebook, specifically how many would you like to gain, and by when. Maybe you would like to gain 10 new followers each month for the next 3 months. Then, each objective should have an action. How specifically do you plan to achieve this? You can start your goal planning using the following goals sheet:

Create a Pinterest Vision Board

Gather a ton of images, visuals, motivational quotes, and pick-me-ups for when you are feeling like you don’t know where to go next.

Pin things like:

• What would you like to blog about?
• What would you like to learn about?
• What kind of images and quotes inspire you?
• Where do you see yourself traveling?
• What do you imagine your home office looking like?
• What are you blogging goals?
• What foods do you enjoy?
• What do you like to do with your family?
• Anything that inspires you to be a better blogger!

Create a collage of your vision board pins using Pin-Collage.com

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