The 9 Best Bloggers for New Bloggers to Follow

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Blogging can be a difficult journey. The good news is that some of the best bloggers out there have decided to share their experience and advice with the rest of us. You don’t have to wing it or try to do it on your own thanks to these bloggers. Today, I’m going to share my list of the 9 best bloggers for new bloggers to follow. Their advice, tutorials, and experience are invaluable to new bloggers.

For me, they have been invaluable. Their advice has helped me to hone the craft and learn how to be a better, more successful blogger. I hope you find their posts as valuable as I have.

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Jorden Roper

Cut Throat Copy and Creative Revolt

10 Best Bloggers for New Bloggers to Follow — Copyright Jorden Roper, creativerevolt.com

For writers and entrepreneurs, you need to look no further than Jorden Roper of Cut Throat Copy and Creative Revolt. Her quick-witted style and direct approach are fresh and unique.

If you want to read blog posts packed full of juicy nuggets of wisdom, you are in luck.

After many failed attempts at settling into a boring 9 to 5 career and wading through office politics, Jorden decided to throw everything she had into Cut Throat Copy.

After the success of that website, she created Creative Revolt, formerly Writing Revolt, which helps bloggers and freelance writers hone their craft and earn an income online.

As a freelance writer, her advice has been invaluable to me. Her brutal honesty may be hard to hear at times, but if you want to succeed, this lady knows her stuff.

Her advice is no-nonsense, blunt, and brutally honest. She helps others realize that a boring office job isn’t your only option for earning a full-time income

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Elna Cain

ElnaCain.com, Twins Mommy, and Smart Mom Ideas

Elna Cain was one of the first bloggers that I found as a new blogger. She has a warm, confident, and relatable writing style that speaks to you.

Before Elna had her twins, she knew that she wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. Her mompreneur spirit has spawned into three websites; Twins Mommy, Elna Cain, and most recently Smart Mom Ideas.

Yes, she is a mommy blogger and I don’t have kids (at least human ones). I still get tons of value out of every single blogging post she writes.

If you are a mommy who wants to stay at home with your kids or just earn a good living from home, she will definitely inspire you to shoot for the stars.

Recently, Elna has started posting videos on her Facebook page and YouTube. Be prepared to take notes as she answers your questions live.

Like her blog posts, her videos are chock full of information for bloggers and are incredibly useful.

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Neil Patel

NeilPatel.com

Neil Patel is a blogger and social marketing guru. After paying a marketing firm, at age 16, to market his website and seeing no results, Neil learned the trade.

He has since become one of the world’s most influential bloggers and content marketers. Whether you are just starting out as a blogger, or want to increase your pageviews, his blog posts will help you achieve your goals.

SEO can be confusing for a new blogger, but if you want to succeed, you have to follow its rules. Neil can help you navigate the tangled maze that is SEO and give you insights into how to get your website to rank higher on Google.

He will help you stay on top of social media trends and teach you how to best market your blog on the most popular platforms.

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Jackie Stoughton

Jade & Oak

Jackie Stoughton is an attorney by trade and a blogger and social media marketer in her spare time. She knows the legal ins and outs of managing your own business and blog.

She started her lifestyle blog in 2010 as a creative outlet but has turned it into a profitable side business. On Jade & Oak, she imparts valuable information on how bloggers and other entrepreneurs can protect their blogs.

Jackie proves that protecting your blog doesn’t have to be difficult. Her advice is probably some of the best advice for bloggers to receive, so take advantage of it.

Whether you want to learn the legal expectations of blogging and draft your first legal statement or improve your blogging game, Jade & Oak is a great place to start.

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Meera Kothand

MeeraKothand.com

Another mompreneur, Meera Kothand sought the freedom a blogging career could offer her and her daughter. She is a freelance writer known for her email marketing chops.

Her blog covers a myriad of blogging topics from marketing to organizing a blog’s content. She gives advice on how to avoid burnout, how to plan posts ahead of time, and how to market those posts so that you get more pageviews for your efforts.

Like Elna, Meera’s posts are not just for the mom blogger. Her advice applies to a wide variety of blogging niches and will help anyone find ways to make your blogging dreams a reality.

I also highly recommend her books available on Amazone. They are CREATE Blog and Editorial Planner: Create Exceptional Content, Get More Done and Smash Through Your Blogging Goals and The One Hour Content Plan: The Solopreneur’s Guide to a Year’s Worth of Blog Post Ideas in 60 Minutes and Creating Content That Hooks and Sells.

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Helene Sula

Helene in Between

Helene Sula is another professional blogger who wanted to live her life outside-the-box.

Her blog has been so successful, that she and her husband were able to move with their two dogs to Europe. She travels while she blogs full-time about their adventures.

Her blog offers a fun and informative approach to blogging. She doesn’t believe in niches and manages to runs a successful lifestyle and travel blog while she enjoys life.

The key to her success seems to be a boho spirit and organization. Thankfully, she organizes her website content in a way that makes it easy to find specific topics, such as blogging.

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Kristine Ofstad

Blog It Better

Best Bloggers for New Bloggers to Follow — Copyright Kristine Ofstad, blogitbetter.com

Kristine Ofstad is another blogger on this list that discovered blogging while looking to earn a non-traditional income. She was working full time in the corporate world when she fell ill.

She learned that she had celiac disease, a gluten intolerance that made it difficult for her to work in a traditional environment. She started writing gluten-free recipes and about the disease and found her calling.

Her dedication to the topic has allowed her to help people with the disease worldwide while earning a flexible living.

She now strives to help other people succeed at blogging so that they can focus on their family and health. She has gained a vast amount of knowledge as she has built her blogging business and is sharing that knowledge to help others.

She writes amazing posts that tackle a variety of blogging topics.

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Amanda Fuller

Kaleidoscope Design Studio

Kaleidoscope Design Studio is the brainchild of Amanda Fuller, an experienced graphic designer who makes her living helping entrepreneurs to design and brand their businesses.

The blog at Kaleidoscope covers a wide variety of blogging topics to help other bloggers create and market their content.

Amanda gives you insight into the behind-the-scenes part of running a blog and keeps you inspired and eager to market your blog and brand.

Her posts are prime examples of exactly how you should brand a blog and make it visually appealing and functional.

Her posts are a bit older than some of the others on this list, but they are no less valuable. Her content is evergreen and still holds just as much wisdom as when it was first published

Amanda also offers a few downloadables for free in her blog posts.

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Terra Dawn

Uncork Your Dork

Terra Dawn is the face and mind behind Uncork Your Dork. She has been a blogger and online entrepreneur for 15 years and has learned how to promote and manage a blogging or online business.

She started the blog, Uncork Your Dork, to help bloggers in their first years to develop their blogging business and refine it for success.

She tends to take a unique approach to blogging and focuses on helping you create awesome content, build an audience, and make money online.

Whether you are new to blogging, struggling to market your brand, or just need a fresh perspective, Uncork Your Dork is the perfect blog to check out.

She also offers a free ebook and online membership to help you get started blogging with the best.

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Do You Agree with List of the 9 Best Bloggers?

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