Ever wondered what the blogging skills for success in blogging are and which one you need to see better results in your blogging journey? We’re going to dive into 10 of these skills and why it’s important to have them.
Some of us choose to make blogging a side hustle, many others are ready to quit their day jobs and go entirely into blogging.
However, something seems to be stopping them from going full-time with blogging.
They seem not to see enough success with their blogging journey to sustain themselves after quitting their jobs.
As absurd as this may seem, research shows that about 9 out of 10 blogs and websites you find out there have never earned a penny from it.
So, having success through blogging is not a piece of cake, though; it’s not that complicated either.
There is more to blogging than just paying for hosting and sharing content for the audience’s consumption.
Of course, these are the basics.
However, if you are looking forward to becoming a successful blogger, you need to figure out what it takes to create a successful blog.
Therefore, the level of success bloggers sees solely depends on the blogging skills they have.
Some skillful bloggers run successful blogs out there, and you could as well become one by learning as and mastering as many of these blogging skills for success as you can to see better results.
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Top 10 Blogging Skills For Success
1. Basic Web Design & Programming Skills
Leave the high technical programming parts to the actual programmers.
Even though you can run your blog without writing a single line of code, having your way by learning just the basic HTML and CSS saves you a lot of headaches.
Header tags, canonical web pages, adding alternative text, adding Ad networks codes, and others are basic knowledge of web programming that can help you with ease.
Also, irrespective of the platform you use, chances are that you have numerous theme choices for your blog design.
Nonetheless, you might want to stick with one, but you may need to tweak it to your taste.
Therefore, having this basic knowledge can help you achieve this without paying another person or switching to another theme.
2. Photo Editing Skills
I bet you’ve heard about the famous saying that a picture is worth more than a thousand words.
The value of pictures is the idea behind adding them to blogs.
Also, images can take your blog to a greater extent when they go viral.
Learning the basic photo editing skills that include image cropping, adding texts, resizing, and formatting can significantly benefit you.
Also, learning to generate infographics, logos, posters, and photoshops would help you achieve more.
3. Marketing Skills
One of the essential skills for blogging is a blogger’s marketing skill.
This is why you could find a month-old blog doing way better than a year old.
Your ability to reflect the marketing skills you possess on your content could go a long way in helping you build a network of a loyal audience for your blog.
4. Writing
As apparent as writing might seem, the fluid of the mechanics about blogging revolves around content writing.
I must congratulate you on providing valuable write-ups to showcase your professionalism and getting readers engaged.
That shows that you’ve got excellent blogging skills in you.
Besides your ability to write great blogs, having copywriting skills will go a long way in not only keeping your audience hooked up but also attracting a new one.
5. Networking
Even if all the above-listed skills came to your mind, owning a networking skill is
still crucial in blogging.
Networking talks about building relationships with other bloggers within your respective industries to connect and share ideas that would be beneficial to your blogs.
6. Search Engine Optimization
Although organic searches bring the best traffic to most bloggers, you can’t have them without placing your blog and content in position.
This is because writing good content will never be okay when ranking by search engines.
Therefore you need to have both on-page and off-page SEO skills to improve your traffic organically.
SEO is very dynamic, so you can start with the basic skills and proceed as you move along the tides.
7. Creativity
Every person who comes to your blog is looking for value.
There are other alternatives, but yours seems to be the most promising; that’s why they are there.
Therefore, your ability to be creative in your blogs will make them find a value that they can not find anywhere else.
Therefore, creativity skill gives you that competitive edge.
8. Research
Though research is the primary key in blogging, a couple of bloggers are not good with research.
However, having excellent research skills means that you can offer the best value to your audience from your unending need for knowledge.
Similarly, your research skills can bail you out when you are finding some trouble with your blog.
9. Analytical Skill
Never underestimate the power of analytics in blogging.
There is the measure for every success we’ve got to attain in our blogging journey.
If you can do well to learn how to track your progress with the help of some web analytical tools out there, then the chances are that you will be able to figure out what works best and what needs to be improved.
10. Patience
There is a point where patience is a gift.
For instance, when someone intentionally hits another person, many people feel the need to retaliate, but few prefer to let the dogs lay.
This is not the patience we are talking about; here, we mean resilience.
If you can endure the stress and hardships accompanied by reaching success through blogging, then you’ve got the best skill ever, and any other skill may fall behind.
Thanks. These tips are useful, as always. I have learned a lot about SEO since starting a blog.
You’re so right. Since I started blogging I’ve had to learn so much and there’s still more that I have to learn. SEO was just one of things that I didn’t think I needed to know about and wow was I wrong.
Thanks for sharing.
I definitely need to work on a few of these areas, especially phtography. When I started my blog I felt like it was holding me back a lot because I didn’t like any photos I took. I feel like it still does hold me back, and I would love to start featuring my own photos on my blog again.
A lot of useful information as always, thank you and best regards!
Great list of skills I think the marketing tasks are the ones I see many bloggers procrastinating with, consistency is so important
I’ll be bookmarking this for future reference
This is a really useful breakdown for bloggers and a nice reminder for me to keep improving on my skills and knowledge — thank you for sharing this!
This information was definitely needed when starting your blogging journey. I have been learning so much about blogging and I have barely started 2 months ago.
I have created a personal development and self-care blog. Do you have any tips and ideas on how to reach the right audience?