How to Generate Passive Income Through Blogging: Blogging Tips for Newbies

Blogging is one of the highly sought-after online earning methods. If you have writing skills, blogging is a fun way to make money online. Blogging is not just about writing and publishing articles, Blogging requires SEO skills, digital marketing skills, and also web designing skills. You can succeed only when you have all of these skills.

Want to Start a Blog? Here Are Some Great Blogging Ideas?

If you want to blog but do not know what topic you should blog on, here are some ideas.

You enjoy taking pictures and want your friends and family to appreciate your pictures, you can showcase your pictures on your blog. You can even share anecdotes about the pictures.

You just made a great dish and want to share it with your friends, you can publish your recipe on your blog.

You are a homemaker, you can share homemaking tips on your website.

You have craft skills and want to make money by selling your crafts, you can do this through your website.

If you have your own website, you can do anything you want, from publishing very personal posts such as what you ate for dinner to a short story and informative content, and also sell your services or digital or physical goods.

How to Write a Blog Post for Visitor Retention

A blog post should be able to retain visitors. Visitor retention means a lower bounce rate, more engagement on your posts, and better revenue. This will happen only when you write a good blog post.

The blog post should have four elements:

Title: Use simple and straightforward sentences. Always write in an active voice. Make sure the title uses search terms, keywords, and key phrases.

Introduction: The introduction should tell what the article is about. You should also share supporting evidence in the introduction, where applicable, all the while keeping it brief.

Body: Divide the body into small sections and each section should explain key concepts. Give subtitles to each section. Where applicable, add bullet points.

Conclusion: Provide the takeaway or the key concepts of the article. Share a link to additional content for further reading. 

How to Increase Clicks on Your Blog Post

Your article might appear on search engines or on social media. How do you ensure that the visitors will click on your title to check your article? Well, that depends on your title and the topic introduction.

The title of the content is the key to drawing traffic. The title that starts with “How to...” can be a great start. The following phrase should talk about the problem the blog post is going to solve or the information the post is going to give.

The introduction introduces the topics to the readers. If the readers do not like the introduction, they might skip the entire content. Therefore, just like the title, an introduction is also the key to bringing traffic and retaining visitors. The introduction should explain in brief what kind of information the article will give and what kind of problems the article will solve.

Top 5 Free Blogging Platforms and Website Builders

If you want to build a website or blog but have no intentions of spending money, you can try some of the following free blogging platforms and website builders.

About.me: If you want a one-page website, About.me is for you. You can create a portfolio website or publish your resume.

Wordpress: This is one of the most versatile free blogging platforms. They allow you to share Amazon ads but excessive advertising will ban you.

Blogspot: The best blogging platform for those who want to make money from their free blogs. You can run AdSense, amazon, and Infolinks ads.

Wix: One of the most popular website builders that can be used to create any kind of website. But the free version does not allow you to run ads.

Weebly: Monetization is not possible but Weebly is easy to use a website builder to create a blog or business website.

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