Why You Should Blog Without A Plan

Yep, you should start a blog without a plan because here is how a plan can mess things up. When you read common blogging infographics on Pinterest, they show you the first 30-100 things you should do before starting a blog, and one of them is to write thirty posts before you publish your writing.

Blogging without a plan will help you find direction, and it helps most people who are not sure which niche they are getting into for their blog. Furthermore blogging without a plan will help you analyse your audience and what they are more interested in. When writing about only one specific topic, you may discover that after a whole year, the topic you wrote about was not getting any traction. Alternatively, if you blog about at least three different things in your niche, then you can easily assess what your audience wants from you. In this way, you will be able to narrow your niche a little and write blogs that make it to page #1 on search results.

If you make a website on WordPress, you will be motivated to write every day. If you have to write 30 articles before starting a website, you feel overwhelmed, lost, and you never really get to it. It would be best if you did a content dump on Google so that the algorithm has time to test your content with users. Because when you write as you go, you will have a nagging thought every day that will prompt you to check up on your site. You will have to care for your site’s needs like a mother takes care of her child.

How a blog plan can make you stuck in the mud

Ask yourself, why are you planning a blog before you have analysed the results? First, write your blogs on the niche you have chosen, and branch out a little. Do not be one of those websites where there are the answers to only one specific topic.

If you are wondering why I say this, it is because you are new, and you do not yet know what your readers want to read about.

When your blog is new, you will not know what the best topics to write about are. The only thing you will know at this point is that you want to write about ‘WordPress’ (for example), but what type of niche site will you make about this huge service? So let’s say you wrote a hundred articles for one year about how to make menus on your website on WordPress. This is a micro niche site.

However, you could make a website about all things WordPress, like troubleshooting, how to organise your website home page, and how to make awesome websites without code and Elementor. This is a niche website, but your website has three different aspects to it, yet it is not a micro-niche site. When you have more topics to write about, you will be able to judge your audience better.

Bloggers would all be millionaires if each and every post they wrote became super popular every single time. The fact is that some of your articles will be hits while others will be huge misses.

So you have to write your helpful content and keep writing it with a quality standard of usefulness and information. After a year, go and look at the pages that did the best on search engines. Now you will easily be able to judge what your audience is interested in, and you can make more content relevant to what your readers want.

How a job of writing 30 blog posts before starting a blog is a bad idea

The first reason is that you need to start publishing your content so that Google can do user testing on your website. User testing is when Google will put up your content is searches to see how visitors respond to it.

Writing your content dump before even making your site is hazardous. Many people will never write the planned blogposts in the first place. Some of us will think that we are already too tired and make excuses not to write that 1000 word post at the end of a long day. It is true because life is hard.

Sometimes we need a push to find something better for ourselves. So stop thinking that you will collect your content and then you will make that website. NO! Life is never going to be easy, so start something today!

How a content dump is good to kick-start your website in search engines

Many of us have heard that starting a blog can become a passive income. The problem with most people is two major issues.

The first problem is growth; this is a problem because so many people will build their site or have it built only to write a post every week. Some people will write even less! Growing at this rate is like starting the marathon one day later. All the successful websites online are doing content marketing, and they post multiple blogs each day. That is what you have to compete with.

Now don’t lose hope search engines like Google want new content, and they will crawl your website and do user testing. The big problem is that a post per week is too slow for your website growth and you will start to see traction for your website after too long.

Writing a single post every week is fine for SEO, but with a brand new website, you have to create a little treasure trove of content for search engines to view your site as an authority. If you can write 50,000 words about a specific topic, then you must know the subject enough to make you relevant to your topic.

The second issue is consistency, and in the busy world of today who has the time and schedule for consistency? You do need to be consistent with your blog to get noticed. So after you have collected 30-60 blogs on your site, you can find a blog schedule and still to it. One blog published a week will put you in the category 36% of bloggers online.

1 post a week	2 posts a week	3 posts a week	30 post in eight weeks	30 posts in four weeks
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Is more content better

No, it is not! Content is excellent as long as it is not repetitive. If you have written 30 articles on one topic, you do not need to rewrite those posts. Google Webmasters have busted this myth, and below you can watch their video on the subject. So if you have a niche site that has 30-60 posts and you feel like you have completely covered your topic, you do not need to write more content.

You should keep your content up to date by making minor adjustments every year according to your niche. Because what worked last year may not work this year.

Final thoughts

I hope this post inspires some of my readers to buckle down and write thirty posts within the next two months. It is not as hard as you think, and after being consistent for two or three months, you will easily up your blogging game. Keep writing and keep your chin up, guys!