Intuitive Blogging: 8 Steps To Launch A Spiritual Blog
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Updated 2023.01.01
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Start your psychic blog. Intuitive blogs have benefits. You can reach a wider audience, sell products or connect with others in your field, in this post, we discuss eight steps to begin -
Have you ever thought about starting an intuitive blog?
One of the best things you can do to kick start your spiritual growth and your spiritual business is to begin to share your thoughts, your stories, and your insights with others through a blog.
Blogs are a great way to show the world who you are and what you believe, to share with potential clients your personality.
Also, you'll finally clear out those throat chakra muscles and express yourself.
You can start a spiritual blog, and it can enhance your life, best of all, when you do it in steps, it's easy.
I've been blogging on spiritual topics for the past seven years and helped others start their blogs. There's only one reason I continue to do it - it's fun.
Your unique voice, your stories, and your sharing with the world what has helped you on your journey can heal the world and serve others while serving you.
You can become a go-to source for information with a spiritual blog.
Blog platforms can boost careers, as a blog can also be an asset. It can attract clients, friends, and even opportunities in life and work.
Sound interesting?
To begin launching an intuitive blog, I've gone over the initial steps below -
8 Steps To Launch A Spiritual Blog
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1 - Choose a website host
For ease, simplicity, and support, after all these years, I like Squarespace. They have 24-hour technical support, easily designable templates. Every time I wish for an update, it seems to appear within a short period.
So it is a software for website hosting that has grown with me over the years, and it can grow with you.
If you select Squarespace, choose a template with a Sidebar. These are the ones built for blogs.
2 - Select a custom domain name
Usually, the most significant difference between free and paid blogs is a custom name.
When you register for a website hosting platform, they'll often give you a temporary domain name with a host tag attached. Eventually, you'll want a permanent one without the subdomain (the brand's insignia), and this is the paid version.
Custom domain names will cost a bit of money and usually have other perks, like e-commerce or mailing list capabilities. They are available for purchase on a variety of sellers, including eNom or through a host, like Squarespace.
You usually renew them once a year, so there's always the opportunity to change it later.
When you choose a domain name, if given the option, get the added protection attached, which protects your identity. Otherwise, due to internet laws, your name and address will be searchable to all who look.
Once you buy your domain, you follow the steps provided by your website hosting platform to connect your domain name to the site.
3 - Design your website
Many website hosting platforms have design templates you can install and customize.
To begin your site, simply choose a template that speaks to you, preferably with a sidebar on blog pages, and start setting up your pages.
Usually, you need three basic pages to start a blog -
A Blog page where you can post new articles
An About Me page where people can learn about you and find your contact information
A Privacy Policy page which describes if and how users information is collected and tracked
Over time, as your blog grows, you'll want to include pages describing how people can work with you, a page for anything that you may want to sell, frequently asked questions based on feedback from earlier blogs.
But when beginning, starting as bare-bones as possible gives most people the best experience.
4 - Come up with topic ideas for your blogs
Think about what you want to write about. The repeating ideas are usually those that you'll have the most meat to speak on and will be most comfortable for you.
Most of the writing is thinking. I'd say about 90% of writing is thinking time, so as a writer, you'll need to give yourself plenty of time to think.
Write down a variety of potential topic ideas until you have at ten to twenty ideas to choose from, and the bloggable ones are the ones that keep coming back.
You want to write about the ideas that keep circling in your mind. These are usually claircognizant intuitions holding space in your mind, and once released, can help other people.
5 - Start writing
When you have at least thirty minutes to focus, start writing.
You want to frame your blog posts with:
An introduction, which often includes the why read on part
A middle section which is usually the information you are teaching in three parts
A concluding section, which often includes a call to action
Think of how you would arrange a PowerPoint Presentation or a paper you are writing for class, but written in more fun, casual tones, this is a blog.
People who read blogs learn for fun. Set up your blog post in a learning style fashion readers are familiar with, but with a more casual twist geared towards relaxation, is how most people write their blogs.
How long should your blog post be?
There are no formal rules, but as far as word length is concerned, most web pages need at least 500 words to not show up as a 404 error, indicating the page is empty, to robots.
When this happens, a blog is not cataloged correctly and can be difficult for people to find on search engines.
Thankfully, I find that most blogs naturally fall in between 600-2000 words. This also happens to be around the average length of many short stories, which is basically what a blog is.
Try to keep it creative, because it helps you stay inspired and know for the reader, it helps to have a diversity of blog lengths, and most people simply write as much as needs to be said and no more.
6 - Get an editorial pal
Now that you have some drafts read your words aloud before you post, set it down, and edit in the morning with a clear set of eyes.
I think another set of eyes also helps.
Ask another human to look over your things will help to catch elements of your story that need expansion or alignment.
7 - Begin posting
Before you publish, think of the title that you would search when looking for the information within.
Then, search those keywords on any web search platform.
See what comes up, if there are articles you can link back to, including those in your article.
Then you're ready to post!
After you've written and edited several articles, start posting those articles live on your website and remember to include a photo with every post.
A single photo can help provide context for the article, draw a reader to click on the link, and give a hint of the overall energy or theme of the writing.
If you are not a photographer, and a writer yet, find royalty-free through sites like Pixabay.com, Pexels.com or Unsplash.
8 - Spread the word, but let others help
After your first past, it can take up to 6 months for the search engines to begin crawling, indexing your website, so it comes up in internet searches.
Hasten this process by submitting your site to Google Search Console for indexing to get traffic to your website quicker.
Put your blogs on Pinterest by adding a Pinterest Image to the end of every post.
Adding your site to Google will enable people to search for your ideas. To Pinterest, it allows people to find and to save them, generating new readers and loyal fans.
Once your site is live and searchable, make sure to activate the social share icons on your website. With Squarespace, share buttons are built-in, and when they are enabled, it makes it easy for people to share your content.
I suggest sharing your blogs to start in at least three places, so choose the areas that interest you, and this usually is where your tribe can be found.
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To recap, to start a spiritual blog
#1
Choose website host
#2
Decide your domain name
#3
Design your site with three basic pages
#4
Brainstorm your most readily available ideas
#5
Start writing
#6
Edit the material
#7
Begin posting
#8
Spread the word
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As you get comfortable with the initial launch, you'll want to continue to post to your blog consistently, as a minimum, around four times a year, and for the most readability, around 2-3 times per month.
After your initial brainstorm, you can tune in during meditation for what to write about next, or use your site's analytics, to find out what people like most, and use that as a guide.
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