The Professional Dev Blog - Tips to Improve Your Online Profile as a Developer
Many hiring managers consider candidates' online social profiles as part of the hiring decision. By creating a blog dedicated to your expertise and sharing it on your social network, you demonstrate both your passion and knowledge to land a great new job as well!
Here are some tips to make your new dev blog have enough visitors to increase your chances in the job market.
1. Find your positioning
It is very likely that there are already some established blogs that represent your field of knowledge. Therefore, it might prove challenging to compete with strong existing blogs on the exact same topics.
By choosing a more specific topic, you can stand out from the crowd and highlight the wealth of your knowledge. For example, if you're a front-end developer, you can create a blog that focuses only on Python. The possibilities are endless.
2. Entertainment
Not everyone was born to entertain, but the best tip we can give you to succeed is to write about something you are passionate about. Write as if you were writing for yourself! However, there are always three basic questions to consider: Who is my target audience? What can I do for them? Why should they care about this? It's also a good idea to share some of your secret tips. So don't be greedy and give good advice.
3. Topic finding
For some people, this is one of the hardest parts of blogging! The easiest solution is to know what your readers want. If you pay attention to people's comments or even ask them directly, you may get the creative input you need.
Another great way to find new topics is to look at popular posts where bloggers have gotten a good response or use tools like Google Trends to get new leads.
4. Make it shareable
Point of writing your blog is to become an influencer in your domain. However, in most cases, you rely on your readers to grow your community. When your followers share one of your posts they help you achieve that goal. Therefore, when writing each post, ask yourself if the content is interesting and unique enough to be shared. If it is, make it easier for users to share by placing your share buttons always visible on social networks, especially at the top and bottom of the article.
5. Be persistent
Once you've used all our blogging tips, the final piece to success is to keep motivation and consistency. A very common mistake ,made by new bloggers is to start a blog and then completely forget about it or think that it is not working. The key is to be persistent; keep your readers updated with new blog posts. A few posts a week is usually the right amount of content to keep interested readers engaged with your blog until they start sharing the articles on their social networks.
