Monday, September 1, 2014

Great Blogging Advice From Real Blogging Professionals

By January Millie


Where do you begin when you want to start blogging and how can you create a blog that accomplishes your goal? The possibilities are limitless, as is the potential. The tips in this article can help you to make the important choices and create the blog that gets your message across to the audience that it is intended to reach.

Interact with those who comment on your blog. A blog is a two-way medium, and interacting with commenters can advance the discussion and give you new ideas for posts. If you use your blog for marketing, it can help you to resolve customer complaints, sometimes more quickly than through traditional customer service channels.

Make a posting routine. This requires lots of self-discipline, but it's essential to your blog. If it's not updated constantly, then there's no blog. Try experimenting until you find one that fits your pace. There are some bloggers that post around 2-3 articles each day, while others post about one each week.

An important part of any blog is to feature the latest posts at the top of your homepage. With so many blogs abandoned or out-of-date, it's important to let readers know that yours is current. This way, your readers will have fresh, new posts to read and you will get the best exposure for your newest content.

Make sure that you are blogging for the right reasons. If you are looking for some quick money, this is not the way to go. Blogging should be more of a hobby. If it becomes something that you start to dread, your writing will not be very good, and you will have less readers.

The content of your blog should consist of high quality work. Before you post it, proofread your blog entry, to ensure that it is free from grammatical and typographical errors. You may also wish to have someone else read it, as a secondary proofreader and to ensure that the content is interesting to read.

Give your readers the opportunity to subscribe to your blog and your RSS feed. When people can have good content delivered hot and fresh, you increase your value to them ten fold. Keep the subscribe button in an easy to find place and deliver good content regularly to dissuade readers from discontinuing. Consider making posts that contain fun lists, like a "top ten," or whatever number you desire. You can do this on a regular basis, enticing your readers to see what interesting list you conceive next. You can use bullets or numbers, with links to greater content included in each one.

There are many good blogging platforms available with Blogger and WordPress being the most commonly used services. Both are great free platforms that allow one to quickly set up a blog for free. Blogger has the advantage of allowing commercial content whereas with WordPress you must upgrade to a premium service to post commercial content. Let your purpose for blogging be your guide when choosing a blogging platform.

You have spent some time reading all about the world of blogging. Like anything else in life, the more knowledge you have about a subject, the better off you will be. Keep this article handy for referring to anytime you may need it, and have fun on your journey.




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