How to Boost Life Into a New Blog (Or Just a Blog)

Every new blog will definitely scream “new” blog. You can’t avoid that, but you can’t get over it faster than everyone else. There is lots of ways you can tell if a blog is new and why it is screaming “new” blog.

Lack of Content

Lack of content is something that will occur on every new blog. If you are a blogger you should already know how to fix this.  You just need to keep adding more and more content. When you are just starting out you need to focus on the articles, they need to be very related so you build an audience which can relate to your articles.

This task is quite tedious and it might take a month to fulfill.

Blog Sections is Empty

Bare blog sections is a quite easy thing to fix. ‘Blog sections’ is fifferent parts of your blog, which makes it up, as a whole. It is your header, main post, sidebar and footer section. You need to add some stuff to those sections, some widgets etc. to the sidebar.

I would recommend to add recent posts, archives and maybe an advertise here link.

Incomplete Navigation Bar

This is a very basic thing for every blog. For an example you could currently have home, about and contact. You should add some key posts (eventually) or just try to fill out the space you have got there. Maybe write some pages about some important stuff in your niche.

Incomplete Sticky Pages

Sticky pages is pages like about me, contact etc. It normally needs lots of improvements. It may surprise you that an about me page is one of the most frequent visited pages. This is the best opportunity to showcase yourself.

Things you should add to an about me page should be:

• Blogger introduction
• Profile picture
• Expertise
• Blog description

Those are the most vital and important things to include on your about me page. I think you should look at other about pages, to see which way you want it to be written. How you enjoy them.

Contact Page

A contact page is very important. Future businesses can rely on that one. Have you noticed on blogs like “ProBlogger” etc. have a line which goes somewhat like this “The email you may send will be read, but due hard amount of emails I receive, I may not reply.”

You shouldn’t write a line like that. Whatever someone email you, reply no matter how pointless they may be. It is definitely a great way to be professional.

Incomplete Footer

You see my footer? I have a short bio. I have my profile picture. You can tell a short story, who you are etc. the story doesn’t have to be that long. Just 20-100 words, depends on the space you have in your footer.

Blog Promotion

Be Everywhere

This is vital for every new blog. You have to spread the word about your blog. There is lots of social media sites where you can interact and stuff like that. I recommend Twitter, because it is easy and fast.

Comment Your Way to The Top

You should try to strike up a routine and visit at least 10 blogs related to your niche everyday. It’ll be easier if you have a broad niche, which gets read. Find popular blogs at most, comment on those.

You have to write valuable comments, what you don’t want your brand to be like is “Good post” – you want it to be a kick a** comment that people want to read, and then due the comment’s quality they click the link through to your blog. They discover the good content, and subscribe.

Guest posts

This is hard work, but it definitely pays off. You get traffic, popularity and authority. When you submit guest posts you will meet some standards followed by a certain blog.

Your guest posts has to be great. It should be your best content. You should definitely give out your best content, to other blogs.

Conclusion

It takes time to build a successful blog, it doesn’t happen overnight. Yet you have to provide value, be everywhere. You should work on developing your blog, keep adding good content, improve your writing style (will happen overtime), do heavy promotion.