Learn to Blog!
Someone looks at blogging as a lifestyle, some of us got their own blog for fun and others use most their time on the net reading other peoples blogs that they find interesting and good.
Maybe you would like to start your own blog but you dont know how ?
Well, in that case I will show you some easy steps in the right direction.
What is a blog ?
Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.
What should your blog be about ?
This is the hard part about doing your blog, specially if you are looking to get a popular and much visited blog.
Using your blog just to write random stuff about what you had for dinner and what you did toady dont work.
Find a speciall theme over the blog and your group of people will then be those with that interest,
like me.. Ive choosed to focus on web/business related stuff and news, so my goal is to reach out to the people who got this interest.
Having a theme will help getting members back, make comments and spread the word around about your blog to others.
Install the Blog
Basiclly what you need is hosting and a domain.
then follow the easy steps at wordpress (
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress )
PS! using wordpress as a example, since its a very common and big CMS system
How to get traffic and readers
We will now look at some easy steps and tips to easily gain traffic and readers.
- WOMA - The word of mouth advertising
Woma are probally the most effective way to advertise antything on, start with telling your friends and familly about your blog.
Keep the blog updated and interesting this will be very effective.
- Be active at other blogs
Beeing active and post meaningfull post on other blogs with the same theme that you got, gives a good impression of you - wich then again makes people visit your blog. A easy and effective way
- Find a path
If you want to get traffic and readers its important that you keep your blog updated
Find a path that you follows, its better to post something 1 time a week then posting 2-3 post on day and then dont post for a whole week.
Having a path also makes it easier for your readers to keep visiting your site - since they are used to your posting-path and knows when there is a new post.
How to keep the readers
You probally got a website(s) that you visit daily. Why do you do that ?
Maybe you visit a big news site to get the latest news from the world or that you visit a discussion board to see if there is some new post that interest you. On the same way you can keep readers on your blog.
- Be Up to Date
Its also important as a blogger to keep your blog up to date with whats going on on the scene.
Keep the post up to date so readers can easily join the discussion or post comments. Keep the content related and focused for the best result.
- Write for the reader
Bloggers can be divided in two groups, those who write for themselfes and those who writes for the reader.
Keeping your reader in your mind when blogging also helps getting the readers back.
This is not a step that`s done in a few days - give it some time and you will see the same readers come back.
- Good language
Having a good language is important for your blog, if you run a blog and write all the street-slangs and use of the z endings you will loose your status as a good and professional blogger.
This topic can really be discussed though, if you are running a humor blog of some kind it might wouldent be negative.
- Be yourself
Almost all the biggest blogs out there is written with a personal feeling of it, try get your own personal feeling over the blog,
but dont get to personal, try to be as much professional as you can.
Good Luck and Enjoy your Blog
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