What skills do you need for blogging?
- Content Writing Skill
- Photo Editing Skill
- HTML and CSS Skill
- Marketing Skill
- SEO & Analytics Skill
- Social Networking Skill
- Skill to understanding your audience
- Creativity Skill
- Consistency and patience Skill
- Planning Skill
- Negotiation Skill
- Motivation Skill
Many things in our daily life requires skills to get things done. The same goes for blogging. If you want to make your blog a successful one, you should need to have some skills.
It is quite often for new bloggers to overlook the important skills that are going to help them then in growing their blogs.
In the end, without a certain skills, they feel lost, giving up half-way, and abandoning their blog. That’s one of the reason why many bloggers failed in blogging.
So, what skills do you need for blogging?
12 Essential Skills of a Blogger
In this blog post, I’ll be discussing some of the important blogging skills that you may require to have in order to build a successful blog.
I know that everyone abilities is not the same and it’s ok if you don’t have some of the skills that I’ll mention later.
Skills can be developed and honing these skills are crucial because skills determine your ability to execute your plan for a successful blog.
Now, let’s get into the skills that you’ll need for blogging.
Content Writing Skill
Content is the most important thing of blogging.
You must know what the audience want to read. You’ll also need to understand the importance and relevance of the topic.
There’re so much of content online, therefore you have to create quality content that stand out of the rest and engaging for your audience.
One of the most crucial thing in content writing is doing a proper research before you write. Make sure you use a friendly language and write in your own tone.
Photo Editing Skill
Adding images to your post is important to create an effect. Blog posts with images will normally get more views than those without.
Most of the times, images that you can find from on the internet cannot be directly used for your blog. You’ll need to edit and format it before using.
As a blogger, it requires you to have great knowledge on photo editing tools and know how to optimize pictures. Optimized images can help in SEO and it can help for your blog to rank much better in search engine.
It’s also essential to know where the right place to source your images from, to avoid copyright infringement.
HTML and CSS Skill
Although you don’t have to be a developer or technical programmer, a fundamental knowledge of HTML, CSS, XML can be an additional advantage.
This skills can help you work with various templates and make your blog more presentable.
This fundamental knowledge of technology will also help you to add distinct widgets and plug-ins into your blog to increase marketability and the function of your blog.
Marketing Skill
Marketing is an important component of your blog when you intend to sell your products and services to make money.
It’s really important to know the appropriate place and time to market. Doing marketing can help you get more visitors and allows you to connect.
You need to determine the USP position and market your blog based on your audience demand.
SEO & Analytics Skill
It’s vital that you get a good ranking on search engine for your blog in order to be successful and make a good earnings.
This required you to have skills on SEO, analytical understanding of how your blog is performing and what are the essential improvements that is needed for your blog.
But it’s easier now because there are lots of internet tools as well as analytical resources which can help in this.
Platforms like WordPress have their very own SEO plugin which helps you to evaluate and rectify your blog.
Eventhough there are plugin that can help, but if you’ve the skills for SEO and Analytics, you’ll certainly has an advantage.
Social Networking Skill
Today, many bloggers are promoting their content on social media because most people are on social media.
Social media is no doubt one of the best channel to distribute information. You need to have great social media skill to reach the audience and stay connected with them.
Bilding a list of followers will help you to promote your blog better and through networking and popularity, it’ll be easier to monetize from your blog.
Abilities to Understanding Your Audience
Understanding what your audience and followers want to read is one of the greatest challenges in blogging. If you can master this skill, this can be a crucial strengths.
Analyzing your audience behaviour and interacting with them can help you to comprehend what they want and you can create content for your audience based on that.
Creativity Skill
It’s important for you to provide something that others aren’t providing and therefore you’ll have an added advantage. You should be creative in the way you’re presenting your content to your audience.
Engage your audience so that they’ll keep coming back to your blog and someday will become your loyal followers. Make them recommend as well as sharing your blog posts to increase your reach.
Consistency and Patience Skill
You won’t turn into an pro blogger, right from the beginning when you start. It requires a lot a patience and take one step at a time through every single phase.
Give yourself time to sharpen the your blogging skills. It’s not simply about the content of your blog, it’s also the way where you get your audience to read and share it.
Be consistent and have more patience in what you’re doing. Stick to your niche and try never to deviate from it.
Planning Skill
Every expert needs to have the right planning and therefore does a blogger. As an professional blogger, you’ll need to properly planned yours schedule.
Effective time management is going to be a big task. Determine the numbers of quality blogs that you’re able to commit and how much time are you going to put in into each blogs.
You’ll need to have a blogging calendar to help you manage and keep everything on schedule.
Negotiation Skill
If you’re an excellent blogger and also you know your worth, it’s essential to prove it. This can pave your path to be a pro blogger.
Effective negotiation skills are going to help you get more often, get better at affiliate marketing, get your guest post on high quality sites, link with influencers, and etc.
Negotiation starts with knowing your niche and industry of your blog, showing value based results and pitching in the proper way.
Motivation Skill
Lastly, you’ll need to be motivated to learn and write. You can visit influencer blogs and competitor blogs of your niche.
Read their blogs learn from them. Give your best to your blog and make yourself stands out of the rest. Be motivated and keep moving forward.
Conclusion
Blogging requires you to have those skills that I’ve mention above. But not all the skills is a must in order to make your blog successful.
Most important is you’ll need to love to write and express your own opinion.
Blogging doesn’t need you to be an award winning writer but you need to pay attention on spelling and grammar.
You don’t have to be a world leading expert, either. If you’ve a passionate and have a strong interest in your topic, it’ll always show in your writing.
So, what other skills that you think we should add it into the list? So far as a blogger, which skills benefited you the most?
I’d love to hear your comments below!