10 Benefits of Having a Blog of your Own

1. Become a Better Writer
One of the fastest ways to become a better a writer is to write pages day after day and that’s exactly what an active blogger does. An active blogger spend his or her time writing fresh post on his or her blog and doing that he or she gets him or her writing skill improved.
2. Secure a Better Job
If you have created a successful blog, you won’t need to look for job before you get paid online. Every day, we hear people talk about unemployment, but having a great blog can serve as means of generating steady income online, though it takes time and hardwork to have a successful blog.
3. Serves as a Business
Many bloggers start blogging for fun or as a hobby only to know that it has become full-time business. Bloggers like Linda Ikeji and Jide Ogunsanya started blogging for fun just to realize that it’s a full time job. Now they rank six figures online.
4. Get More Clients to Your Existing Business
As we all know, static websites don’t attracts new clients or customers but blogs do. Regular updated blog can produce regular stream of good leads from the entire world. When you publish posts that solve clients/customers problems, they trust you and respect you as an expert in your field. Whenever they need more help, they contact you because they have seen you as an expert.
5. Build a Network
Blog is a great tool that can be used to build a network. Valuable and interesting blog posts attracts readers making them to leave feedback by sharing your post, commenting and sometimes contact you by sending a direct message using your contact page.
6. Learn More
No matter what your blog niche might be, in as mush you have created a blog you will know more about your blog niche. You can’t update information or idea you don’t have. And when trying to update your blog, you are learning and becoming more expert in your field.
7. Express Yourself
A blog is a great medium to express oneself. Bloggers express themselves using texts, audios, videos and pictures. Having a blog can be a powerful means to express oneself.
8. Build Trust
Trust is a rare and valuable commodity online. You build trust online by regular update and commitment to readers day after day. Bloggers publish valuable and honest articles on their blog and because of this; they got trusted by readers making it possible to get what they want from them.
9. Gain Online Publicity
Blogging is one of the best ways to gain online presence. Search engines love fresh content. When a fresh post is publish on a blog, Google indexes the post and when the post is searched, they get directed to your blog and because of this, you gain more publicity and increase your online presence.

10. Get Immediate Feedback
Writers wait for months and sometimes before getting their book reviews, but bloggers get comments the same day the post has been published. This makes blogging interesting.

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