One of the most amazing things about the blogging community is the support network. There is always someone to help you and support you, whenever you need it and to share their knowledge. There is a lovely ethos of sharing information, whether it is the posts of others or information about opportunities. I love sharing things that work for me and I think most of the time it’s just being aware that a piece of technology or a system exists. So it’s great when we can all share this information. I know I am always looking for ways to improve, be more organised and be inspired!
Bloggers Share Their Tips for Better Blogging
I recently put a shout out across my social media network asking other bloggers to share their top tips for better blogging and had a great response. Here is what works for them…
ORGANISATION
- “I write notes of blog titles/topics/lines that I want to use, so I don’t forget them when it comes to writing an article” – Hannah from Budding Smiles
- Life According to Mrs Shilts Emma says – “Keep a template of your social media channels to hand, so that you can copy & paste the info at the bottom of your blog post”
- Shay who blogs at Two Tiny Terrors – “Invest in a diary to help plan your blog post schedule, makes life much easier”
- Jocelyn from The Reading Residence says that the diary should contain more than simply posts – “keep a diary just for blog posts, so you can write down your scheduling, ideas, linky reminders, to-do lists etc. all in one place”.
- “Write posts on your phone first, then upload them (great if you can’t get to a PC due running round after small baby)” – Gillian, A Baby on Board
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“I love Evernote for sorting out ideas, planning and keeping a note of everything. It is like a virtual notebook and you can use hashtags to help keep everything easy to find” says Becky from The Mummy Adventure.
- “My tip for better blogging is to write on a chart all the daily linky’s that you join in with” – Super Busy Mum Debs.
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VOICE
- Cass from Frugal Family – “My top tip for better blogging would be to always remember the reason you started blogging – I’m willing to bet that most people didn’t start blogging to get to the top of any charts or rankings or to get free things. For most people, it’s a way of recording family life, but it’s all too easy to forget that and start to get drawn in to the competitive side of blogging or to feel obligated to do things. Enjoy blogging and blog your way.”
- “My tip would be to write about a subject which you are passionate about, this will make writing enjoyable and never a chore” – Kirsty, Hijacked by Twins
- Emmy’s Mummy Clare says “If it all feels overwhelming take a step back and remember why you started. Joining in with a few memes and linkys can help when writers block sets in. Have your own style and don’t get drawn into worrying about stats.”
- “Be consistent – think about what sort of blog you want and stick to it. Are you trying to entertain? To shock? To encourage debate? To inform? To emote? People come back to you because they like your style and what you say. So keep saying it! Don’t try and be something you’re not. E.g. if you haven’t got much interest in style, don’t bother with the ‘what I/my kid/our pet wore’, you’ll just look daft, permanently, on the internet” says Eleanor, The Bristol Parent.
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Laura who blogs at Petit Moi Big World – “Make the most of good light. When there’s good light, photograph as much as you can, posts can come later when the light’s not as good. Take a photo 10 times and whittle them down later, you’ll be grateful if the first few went wrong and you hadn’t realised.”
- Top 10 Blog Photography Tips – Snowing Indoors has so many tips for better blogging using photography.
- 6 fab android camera photography apps – Cardboard Cities.
- “Make sure you have permission to use an images on your blog. Create your own library of images, that will come in useful later on. You can get ten free images each week by signing up to Unsplash (which is free)”, You Baby Me Mummy.
PROMOTION
- Kate (Crafts on Sea) – “I use buffer, I’m terrible for forgetting to tweet posts, so it’s good to get it all set up when I remember!”
- Wild and Grizzly’s Lori – Organise your blogging week on a planner, think about schedule tweets, Pinterest pins and posts, so you can focus on enjoying the day and snap away to great images you can use later on. Think about the composition, what will make your images stand out? Use apps like snapseed, afterlight or vscom to edit your images and stylise them.”
- I use Social Oomph to schedule all my tweets, as there are no limits and it is free! (You Baby Me Mummy)
QUALITY CONTROL
- “When you’ve written your post, before you hit publish, read it, and then read it again. If you can preview the post on your blogging platform, then do that and see it how your readers will see it – make sure images are aligned correctly. Have you used headers and bullet points if necessary? Does it read as intended, ie., did you miss off a comma here, or an capital letter there? If you can ask someone else to read it (especially if its a long post) they may be able to pick up mistakes, which your eyes missed!” Michelle from The Purple Pumpkin Blog.
- Along similar lines, Witty Hoots’ Helen says, “Think before you hit publish. If you are happy with your photo/opinion/statement, then still do a checklist in your head before hitting publish. Is it something you are happy to be attached to your name, as once it is ‘out there’ it is harder to retract. Plus watermark your photos”.
COMMUNITY
- Charly from Podcast Dove – “My tips would be to join Linky’s to discover other bloggers and get yourself yourself noticed (especially if just starting out), comment on blogs and share the posts you like”.
- “Join in on Twitter, create a list of bloggers you interact with most. That way, if you have lots of followers, people won’t get lost in your timeline”, You Baby Me Mummy.
INSPIRATION
- “I get inspiration from books, blogs, people watching; sitting in a cafe for an hour and just watch everyone interact. Pinterest also can spark ideas”. Jenny, Let’s Talk Mommy.
- 50 Blog writing prompts – Snowing Indoors
TECHY TIPS
- Top 5 Apps for mobile blogging – TOTS100
- My favourite WordPress Plugins – WP Calendar, Related Posts, Copy to Draft, Akismet, JetPack.
- “Pic Monkey is fabulous for editing pictures and is free (although you can upgrade for more options for a small fee). Pictures can be lightened with ‘curves’, backgrounds can be changed or blurred and there are many photo effects that can be used”. You Baby Me Mummy
- “Back up your blog, you never know when you might need it. I use Updraft plugin, that backs it up daily to drop box, google drives etc” – You Baby Me Mummy
Are you a blogger? Do you have any top tips for better blogging?
Comments 115
great tips!! thanks for sharing everyone 🙂
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Glad you liked them x
thankyou for sharing , great tips there , i think consistancy and your honest opinion works well x
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Hope you find them useful x
Great tips! Yes to pretty much all of them. A word of warning though, Jet pack has had major vulnerability issues and my web developer advices all her clients against using it.
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Thanks, it has been a great group effort x
Fab tips here and as a relatively new blogger myself I’m impressed at what you have achieved in 9mths x
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Glad you found it useful. Thank you that is very kind x
Fab post! Thanks soooo much. Just started this year and there’s a few in there that I will get onto doing right now 🙂
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Thank you. Glad it will hep you x
WOW, there’s some fantastic tips here, thanks for sharing everyone! xxx
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Great team effort from all involved 🙂 xxx
Great collection of tips 🙂 Thank you for sharing and I’m keeping good note of a number of these. Jesse Lili
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Thanks, glad they helped x
What a brilliant post full of amazing tips! Bookmarking for future reference! Thank you 😀
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Thank you. I am so glad you found it useful x
Loved this!
I need to get involved with Linkys more… and should possibly find out what they are…?
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Thanks. Oh I love linkys and do so many each week, I do 6 just on a monday (with 2 different posts). x
Great post – no wonder I have so few followers – I just write and publish whenever. Really ought to get more organised. Thank you for sharing.
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Thanks. I am glad it helped x
So many great tips and so many organised bloggers…puts me to shame. I like the idea of writing articles to be scheduled to be published during the week.
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Glad you enjoyed it and I hope it helps x
As everyone has said. Some great tips! Thank you for sharing!!! 😀
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My pleasure, glad you found it useful x
Some fantastic tips. The support I’ve found from other bloggers has been absolutely amazing.
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Glad you found them useful. x
I’m pretty lazy when it comes to promoting my posts, I think I’ll take a look at buffer!
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I would use Twuffer as you get more and it is free x
Great tips , thanks for sharing x
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Glad you enjoyed it x
i like all the support you can have from fellow bloggers, but unfortunately came across some “nasty” comments about my post which made me think for a second should i drop blogging or not thats how down i felt
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Oh that is awful, it is sad that people could be nasty about other people’s blogs. At the end of the day we can’t please everyone, but I don’t know why people don’t just move along, rather than make negative comments x
This is brilliant…really useful tips and clearly broken down! I’ve bookmarked this to come back to when I’m needing some inspiration! x
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Thanks, I am glad you will find it useful x
wow this is amazing I am so going to act on these tips
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Please it has helped x
Lots of great tips – has got me thinking of a few things I can do differently 🙂
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Thanks, glad it has helped x
Further proof that the blogging community is the sharingest, caringest place on the interwebs! Fantastic ideas and inspiration, cheers all!
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I am glad you enjoyed the post x
This post is brilliant, Aby! I am such a dullard, I don’t do any of this stuff. Except the bit about writing what I want to write 😉 This post will help give a focus to my fight against ineptitude. Thanks so much for sharing all your tips and collating all the others too, you’re very generous and kind! x
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Thanks hun, glad it may help. I am grateful for everyone generous sharing x
Some great tips here! Thanks for taking the time to write the post!
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My pleasure, glad you like them x
Great post, but my top tip would be do it because you enjoy it
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Definitely! Thanks x
What a fantastic post thank you so, so much for sharing and to all those who contributed 🙂 x
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Thank you and I am glad you liked it x
Great round up, thanks to everyone for contributing their top tips! x
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I am glad you liked it x
Great tips! Thank you so much for sharing the knowledge!
Posts like this make the world of difference for rookie bloggers (like me :)) x
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I am grateful to everyone who contributed. Glad it has helped you x
Thank you for all the great tips and thanks for using mine 🙂 I’ve got my very own linky list now up on my desk to remind me what days to play along. xx
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Thanks for contributing hun. I couldn’t cope without my linky spreadsheet! #WhatALoser 🙂 x
Really useful tips. Good idea re the diary and the linkys. Just got to remember to do them now!
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Yes that is the challenge isn’t it x
Awesome tips! I too think it’s good to stop and take stock every now and again and remember why you started blogging, and if you’re still true to that vision. Photography ideas so well received thank you – it’s the area I’m looking to improve in right now 🙂
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Glad it has been useful for you x
Some really fantastic qnd helpful tips here. Thank you so much for sharing!
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Glad they will be useful x
This is one of my favourite posts I have read this week. Full of useful information. Thank you for sharing x
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Oh thank you so much hun. I am very grateful for everyone’s generous assistance 🙂 x
thanks so much for featuring me! wow such an amazing post with brilliant tips, you’ve done a brilliant job collating them! I’m also super impressed with his much you have done with your blog in a relatively short space of time, I don’t think anyone read my blog for the first two years! wish I’d seen this post then! xx
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Thank you for giving us your tips hun. Thanks for your kind words about my blog, it means to much to me, as you know I love your blog xx
Thank you very much for sharing all these tips! Very helpful 🙂
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Glad you found it useful x
Some great tips!
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Glad you can make use of it x
Some great tips here.
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Glad it was useful x
This is really great! Thanks for bringing it all together 🙂 x
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Glad you enjoyed it, my pleasure x
Fantastic compilation of tips! Pinned!! xx
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Glad you liked it and it will be useful x
That’s great to hear all the tips from the Blogger Community! It’s immensely valuable when you are new to this world and didn’t manage to go to Britmums live.
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I am really glad you have gound it useful x
I’ve been blogging for almost 2 years or so and reading this has still taught me a few things. Thank you. I do believe you never stop learning, and this has just reminded me! I need to go back and update some of my ‘to do’ lists 🙂
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That’s great! I am glad you enjoyed it x
Great tips especially for a beginner like me. Thanks x
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My pleasure, it was fun putting it all together x
Great advice! Being new to it all, this is really helpful. X
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Glad it is useful for you x
Fab tips, when I write a post I copy and paste it into google translate as it allows you to play the translation as well as hear it. Just leave it on English to English and off you go, it’s easier to pick up mistakes by sound than sight.
These are fabulous tips – will definitely be taking some of these on board. Thank you so much for sharing 🙂
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Thank you. Glad they were useful x
thanks for sharing these are such great tips. When I started blogging I had no idea about links, charts or any of that, and to be honest find it hard to find the time sometimes but I do love writing and taking photographs and sharing things I love, if someone says they like my blog it gives me a real boost to carry on!
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Glad you found it useful x
This is so handy – thank you!
Great tips here – Thank you for sharing. Being organised and using the above tips may well help me get my head in order some days, at least I would know which post to write next ha!
I haven’t attempted to write a post on my mobile, but I think I may start doing this from now on because the amount of blogging ideas I lose is unreal just because I don’t have a pen handy.
Rachel X
Great tips here, thanks for sharing!
arh I remember this list from a while back- without doubt one of the best blogging tips lists I have ever read!!! #thelist
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Oh thank you, that is very kind x
Fab tips! love the collaboration on this piece too
All great tips thank you so much x
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Great tips! Love how you have displayed the post as well. I have bookmarked this as there is lots of great knowledge in here 🙂 #TheList
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Glad it was useful x
Great tips! I am bad at remembering to share post on twitter! Thanks for sharing!
SUCH a brilliant and useful post. Thanks so much for sharing all these gems of information. I have a feeling I’ll be popping by to read this often 😉 x
#thelist
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It was a great collaboration. x
As someone who has been blogging for about two months, this has been really useful and informative for me. Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom and that of all the other bloggers featured. x
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Thanks for your lovely comment, here is another post you may find useful Hope it helps 🙂 x
Amazing tips, I’m so glad I came across this post. I’ve taken down many of the advice and will putting them into practice soon!
Can’t believe you’ve only been blogging a year!
Thanks for sharing your top tips
Heledd xx
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Thanks for your lovely comment, here is another post you may find useful Hope it helps 🙂 x
Being new to Mama blogging this list was fab and I will be sure to keep it to hand for future reference!
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Glad it was useful x
Fantastic post! I am starting out and all this information is invaluable.
Thanks for sharing
Joanna
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Wow another fabulous post that is super helpful. Thank you so much!
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Bless you x
Thanks so much for sharing all of these wonderful tips! I actually just emailed myself a link back to this page to use for future reference! I also enjoyed your post about favorite apps and programs; I am going to start using some of them right away! I look forward to reading more on your blog–thanks again!
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Thank so much, I am glad it is useful. You should check out my blog club page as I have linked my blogging posts and some other bloggers posts too x
Thanks for all the invaluble information you have given. You have given me the inspiration to start a blog with confidence. I have just started working from home and I use your tips and advice on a daily basis.
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Ah thank you for your lovely comment. Good luck with your blog. Have a look at my Blog Club page, there might be another post on there that is helpful to you x
This was a really useful post. Thank you!
Great tips. I already do the one where write the post on your phone first- so useful!