Build Your Blog's Credibility: For Beginners

No matter if you're a journalist, novelist, or blogger, there's one thing you must have in order to build a successful career as a writer: credibility. Credibility will help you make a name for yourself and acquire loyal readers. But credibility isn’t something that is obtained over night; it's something that's earned over time. There are some starting points that can help you earn that credibility however, especially if you're starting with the very basics: a blog.

Build your blog's credibility: for beginners is a guest post by Jane Smith

Build your blog's credibility: for beginners

State your source to build your blog's credibility

First and foremost, you must always state your sources. It's always encouraged to come up with a blogpost entirely original—something that has never been written about before. Originality alone can earn you credibility. But since there are so many bloggers out there, a lot of topics have already been covered. And chances are you'll end up writing an article that you were "inspired" to do after reading someone else's blog or news site. That's fine. Tons of creative people get inspiration from other people's work. However, you need to ensure that you don't come off as a plagiarizer and actually give credit where it's due, especially if the articles appear too similar.