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24 Tips and Strategies on How Everyone Can Blog Right and Get
Everybody to Read
By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key
part of online culture. "Blog readership shoots up 58% in 2004 6
million Americans get news and information fed to them through
RSS aggregators But 62% of online Americans do not know what a
blog is." - Pew Internet & American Life Project
Tip #1 - How and Where Should I Start?
You should begin your blog with a free blog hosting service such
as Blogger (http://www.blogger.com), or other similar free
services such as JournalHome.com, LiveJournal.com or
Blog-City.com. The learning curve for using such free services
allow you to spend more on developing your content rather than
worrying about the advanced areas of scripting, hosting, or
programming.
Tip #2 - The Things You Should Decide to Write About
Although not a required prerequisite for you in order to write a
blog, it is highly recommended to try to find a topic to write
about based on your level of interest and knowledge. The higher
your level of interest, the easier it is for you to get your
quality content posted on your blog. Always try to choose an area
which you can enthusiastically write about on a daily basis.Try
to pay attention to a niche which suites you well. A niche is
basically a targeted product, service, or topic.
Tip #3 - Always stay on topic.
Opinions are generally accepted but the content of the items in
the blog should all relate to a general theme. The majority of
your readers will be interested in the content that relates to a
specific defined theme or loosely defined area of interest.
Define a topic and try not to run too far away from it. This will
ensure that you create a loyal following of interested
readers.
Tip #4 - Information is king, be informative.
If you are attempting to create the impression that you are
knowledgeable about a specific industry or sector, be sure that
you stay current on news. Checking your facts before you're
giving out an opinion or a product review is always a good idea,
your reputation is at stake. If by any chance you're utilizing
other people's articles for you blog content, ensure that you
follow the terms of usage defined by the author.
Tip #5 - Old news is not news, but old information can be
recycled and made new.
While blogging everyday can be strenuous and time consuming, it
is important that the information presented is current and
accurate. Information, articles or any other archived resources
can be recycled / modified to add more substance to your content.
As long as they're relevant and informative, there's no reason
why it's not a good approach.
Tip #6 - Be disciplined and stick to a fixed posting
schedule.
Realizing that blogging requires time and effort, don't create
unrealistic expectations and be unable to deliver. If you have
worked hard to develop an audience and a community you don't want
to lose them due to lack of communication. If time is not on your
side, take advantage of tonnes of automatically updating contents
which are available for your blog. Looking at the constantly
updating nature of RSS feeds, other RSS feeds from similar topic
can be inserted within your blogging post.
Tip #7 - Posting Frequency.
If your blog content is updated frequently, search engines will
tend to spider the pages at regular intervals. Updating your blog
daily not only keeps your blog more interesting to readers, but
it also gives your blog fresh content on a day to day making it
more appealing to search engines. To keep your blog traffic and
retain your visitors interest it is a must to update your blog
daily with multiple entries. You should try to update your blog
everyday with at least 2 - 3 or more daily entries, depending on
your daily schedule.
Tip #8 - Quantity matters.
In order to attract the attention of search engines, you will
need to produce a relevant amount of content and information. A
headline or simple sentence is not going to generate the interest
of readers or help with search engine ranking. Be sure to archive
old blog posts to develop a large portal of similarly-themed
content.
Tip #9 - Clarity & simplicity / Short & Concise.
Keep your posts and blog entries clear and easy to understand.
Simplicity always produce better results at the end of the
day.
Aside from the lengthy article a week for syndication and
publication your blog entries should be short & concise (if
you can help it). Should you insist on partaking on the lengthy
road, try to maintain a clean paragraphing style, proper spacing,
use different size, color and bold for your titles as well as the
subtitles. Use bullet points, go straight to the point and never
run out of topic. Insert images to spice up things if you're an
avid fan of long posts.
Tip #10 - Utilize the "blockquote" and "code" tags.
Being one of the few most underutilized blogging formatting tags,
these 2 items can help you on emphasizing certain points, in the
most efficient and striking way. Formatting is simple and
straightforward. Just get your message into a blockquote tag, and
your message will apear distinctively different from the rest of
your text, thus gets more attention which it deserves. Take note
that the formatting for these 2 tags differ from blog to blog
depending on how the owner defines the tag in the CSS (Cascading
Style Sheets).Click the below link if you want to read more about
CSS.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
Tip #11 - Keyword-rich.
If the goal of your blog is to increase your visibility, include
related keywords in the title of the blog. Use the title as a
headline to attract interest. Each item post should have a title
that will attract attention but still be relevant to the post.
The title should be no longer than 10-12 words. Experiment with
the titles if you must, possibly try to avoid general and
ordinary titles. Try to include extraordinary and innovative
titles to grab the readers' attention.
Tip #12 - Spell checking and proof-reading.
It only takes a few extra moments and can save you from having to
make embarrassing explanations. The hazards of Internet is that
if you're too late to correct your mistake, most likely it's
already been crawled by the search engines and read by many. It
is extremely essential to think / proof read carefully twice or
even thrice, about what you post before doing so. Take note of
your language and grammar.
Tip #13 - RSS Feeds
RSS to a blog is like fuel to cars. Mostly every single free
blogs or bloggin software out there will have an automatic RSS
feed generating feature. Although it's most unlikely that you'll
find one without a RSS feature, simply leave it and find a new
one, if you happen to come across one without it.
Tip #14 - The essence of the Internet - Traffic.
It's no secret. You must have traffic to realize the definition
of a blog.. There are numerous ways to build traffic. Paid and
free advertising, viral marketing, search engine marketing,
RSS/XML feeds, word-of-mouth, submitting to numerous blog and RSS
directories, etc. RSSBlogsubmit ( http://www.rssblogsubmit.com) provides a submission
service for your Blog & RSS feeds. You should always use your
blog URL address in the signature of your email, forum
discussions, message boards, or any other communication media.
Never forget to share your blog to your friends, colleagues, and
any other invidious that you know of.
Tip #15 - Track Your Blog
Tracking your blog does not have to be overly sophisticated
usually a simple free page counter like StatCounter.com,
ActiveMeter.com, Extremetracking.com or Sitemeter.com will do the
trick. Install (copy/paste) the code into the html of your blog
template and start tracking your visitors. Its better to use a
service which gives you advanced traffic analysis, such as
keyword tracking information, referral information, and search
engine information. Visitors, returning visitors, and unique
visitors should be standard for any page counter service you
choose.
Tip #16 - Make use of your Blog's statistical and tracking
information.
Believe it or not, your visitors' information from your tracking
scripts will provide you priceless information on how you can
attract more readers. Keep note on the keyword terms used from
search engines which bring you traffic. You can identify relevant
closely related topics which you can venture into and add more
variety into your blog, yet staying very much in topic. Simply
put, more topic coverage and more variety = more traffic. You may
analyze your tracking information further on how you can
strategize your blog's content. You can also apply some keyword
optimization strategies here.
Tip #17 - The essence of your Blog is your Audience, listen to
them.
Always interact with your readers who post comments on your blog.
Reply with a brief thank you note or just simply attend to their
questions if they have any. It's a proven fact when there's a
direct human interaction and knowing the fact that there's a
"real human" at the other end of the blog makes most of them
coming back. If your audience provide suggestions, comments or
feedbacks, take them constructively and inform them if you have
any desires of implementing such ideas on your next update. And
of course, don't forget to thank them for their ideas. If it's a
great idea, why not throw in a free gift? Mention their website
in your blog?
Tip #18 - Create and increase the "Why Must I Return" Value to
Your Blog.
Everyone knows the fact that Blogs get a huge level of returning
visitors because of its constantly updated content. Why don't you
add more interesting items to that return value by having fixed
periodical posts / offers, e.g. Monday Top 10 Tips, Picture of
the Week, Free Bonus of the Month, Free Daily Wallpapers, etc. to
give them the absolute excuse to return to your blog. As long as
you can efficiently and appropriately increase that Return Value
constantly, it is mostly guaranteed that you'll be getting tonnes
of repeated visitors, period.
An advance notice, prelaunch announcement or anything similar
to that also can act as a short term return value strategy.
Encourage readers to comment on your such notices / posts.
Experiment and play around with this idea.
Tip #19 - Multiple blogs.
It never hurts to use multiple blogging accounts to attract more
people. You can even have multiple blogs within Blogger.com
itself, but you may also want to try different free blogging
services such as JournalHome.com, LiveJournal.com, Blog-City.com,
etc. Should you have the urge to have multiple similar duplicates
of your blog just to gain more traffic, it is wise to avoid it as
search engines / feed directories might translate that as
excessive redundant information which simply brings you trouble,
and you're tend to get penalized, banned or even accused of
spamming.
Tip #20 - Digital Art, Creative Graphics.
Another proven fact - Monotonous and continous display of text
will make your readers run away! Try to include non- advertising
graphics, pictures, photos, and art in your blog entries, but try
to keep them at a limit. Too many graphics also mean slower
loading time and messy text and graphical combination. You don't
want your blog to look messy. Most of the time, graphics can
bring your blog to life. Pictures can make boring texts
interesting no matter how long it is. Graphical elements are by
far the fastest message delivering element available on the net
today. It may deliver various messages by a split second of a
look.
Tip #21 - Maintain a Personal Blog.
A blog is most successful when it is kept personal. Try to
include personal experiences which relates to the topic of your
blog entry. Stay away from the business style of writing. Write
with a more personal style and use first- person narratives.
Share product reviews and personal endeavors, instead of trying
to make it sounds like you're selling.
Tip #22 - Credibility & Popularity.
As thing progresses, things need to change in order to cope with
the flow and nature of development. If your number of readers are
reasonably huge, and still using a free blogging service to get
your messages out, you may want to consider getting your own
domain name and hosting plan to have a more personalized
Blog.
Domain names and hosting plans are pretty much
straightforward. Research is all what it takes to get the best of
all the available options. For the most highly recommended
comprehensive listing of Free Blogging software out there, drop
by at http://www.opensourcecms.com. This is by far the
best place to drop by if you want to get your research done about
which blogging software to choose. Reviews, ratings, public
votes, demos, etc are provided. And the best thing is, all of
them are Open Source, which means they are totally free. Try
going through the server requirements for each software before
purchasing your web hosting.
Tip 23# - Customize the look of your Blog If you happen to be
using one of the Free blogging services out there, you might
notice that most of us are using the same template again and
again for our blogs. It is well understood that not everybody has
the technical knowledge to change the layout as how they want it
to be, but if you have the knowledge, by all means try to
customize it and make it look DIFFERENT. You can grab that extra
attention, if you're different in certain ways. Create that image
for yourself.
Tip #24 - Blog and Make Money
Once your blog has gained some real momentum and your blog
traffic is increasing then it is time to start thinking if you
want to turn your traffic into profit. Some of the recommended
income generating sources are as follow :-
Google Adsense, Amazon Associate program (www.amazon.com),
Blogads.com, Crispads.com, Tagword.com, Affiliate Programs and
any advertising related text links can be your place to start
off.
Final #Tip - Conclusion.
Following these blogging tips should make your blogging
experience much more rewarding. Blogging is generally done out of
interest and enthusiasm and sometimes for income generating
purposes. The flexibility of blogging will never cease to expand.
Through time, dedication, and persistence you will be rewarded
with all the royalties of blogging.
About the Author
John Teh is an internet blogger enthusiast, exposed to the fun
and the extreme possibilities of blogging on the net. Get to know
more about the author at his homepage.
http://www.rssblogsubmit.com
MORE RESOURCES updated Thu. January / 23 / 2025
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