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Best tips to success when blogging
Posted by CarlLevy • 8/24/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogging, Marketing, SEO, traffic
Share your experiences on blogging and make recommendations about your best tip to success when blogging.
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Yes I agree, very important aspect.
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(1) Create a social media time management strategy including a timeline and stick to it.
If your skilled blog promotion efforts on any social network do not lead to an increase in targeted traffic to your blog within 60 days, then consider amending your strategy and timeline accordingly, and even dropping the said site.
All of my very best tips are found in posts on my wordpress.com blogging tips blog.
Blog Description
onecoolsite is a growing collection of Tips and Tutorials on How to Become a Better Blogger, How to Build a Better Blog and where to find free Blogging Tools and Resources.
Blogging Goal:
To provide free instructional material and resources to bloggers, who are intent on improving their writing and blogging skills, and making their blogs more reader and search engine friendly (basic SEO).
Directory listings: Blogging, Blog Resources
Tags: SEO, blogging tips, blogging resources, blogging tools, blogging guides, blogging tutorials-
nice, i like it
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1. Start a self-hosted WordPress blog
2. Update your blog with your own content on a regular basis.
3. Drive Traffic to your blog on a regular basis. -
Definitely, having clear the goal when blogging and developing your own content are some keys.
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Do what you do best and do it better. -
Don't worry about the critics, there will be many. -
Great tips guys, each day there is something to improve.
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-blogwalking on other friends blog
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(2) Form blog centered relationships with others in social media sites and create your own blog centered community
What’s key to networking effectively in any social media site is understanding that traffic generating social networking efforts are best aimed at creating blog centered relationships with other bloggers, who have blogs that are related to your own ie. in your niche.
The bottom line is that the social networking experience that you experience is exactly what you choose it to be. You will create an organic targeted traffic flow to your blogs by locating members with related blogs and leaving meaningful comments on their posts, and befriending them.
After forming relationships with other bloggers in your own niche a targeted traffic flow will develop, and compliment the flow of targeted readers that result from your optimization efforts. Your focus is then best directed towards creating a blog centered community centered around your own blog. An important step to take is to reader encourage comments on your posts.
References:
How to Build Community on Your Blog
www.problogger.net/archives/2008/04/26/how-to-build-community-on-your-blog/
How to Build a Blogging Community
www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html
Encouraging blog readers to comment
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(3) Learn search engine optimization and structure a reader and search engine freindly blog
In blogging content is king and marketing is queen. If you write high quality original content and promote it then the result may be an increase in targeted organic traffic, or not. If it’s not easy for potential readers to locate your content in search engines then there will be no increase in new traffic. Thus, what determines success is two things:
* whether or not your content is optimized, indexed by search engines and can be found by readers, and
* whether or not the readers who do find it become subscribers.
You can read books and find online SEO instruction and tools optimize your site by yourself, just as I have done. There is an SEO learning curve, but IMO, it’s not as steep as the social media learning curve. Without doubt high quality website content and good SEO can attract thousands of free search engine visitors to your site.
Reference:
Basic SEO elements for bloggers
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Authenticity
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I enjoy reading blogs that aren't so long I get bored. Also I like interaction for ex reply to my comments and asking me what I would like to read about. -
Know your audience, write for them and prepare your site to receive them
Identify your potential readers
Identifying your audience will do more than ensure that you write clearly. It will also help you focus on the reader’s needs.
---- How many kinds of readers do you expect to have? List them.
---- What do you know about the writing and reading skills and backgrounds of those people who you expect to become readers?
---- What is most important to them?
---- What are they least likely to care about?
---- What do you want your audience to think, learn, or assume about you?
---- What impression do you want your writing or your research to convey?
Write for your readers
"Know your audience so that you can tailor your vocabulary and style to their expectations. You may still dazzle them with your insight, and are more likely to do so if they can understand and care about what you’ve written." — legbamel at onestepforward
legbamel.blogspot.com/2008/03/use-variety-words-carefully.html
For native English speakers, this won’t be a problem. But for those, who speak English as a second language (ESL), writing posts without grammatical mistakes is a very difficult task. While ESL speakers can write in English quite well, there are hidden problems that are hard to avoid. “
See also: ESL and Blogging
onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/esl-and-blogging/
Brevity is an important goal in online writing.
The Better Blogger focuses on what his or her readers needs to know and avoids saying more about the subject than they have to. It’s important to provide background but where less important information can be left out that’s the better way to go.
"Longer posts can be intimidating. Many visitors will only scan long posts at best. The theory is that online readers have relatively short attention spans. Of course, there are exceptions, but in general I think it is good advice to think small. Keep it simple and clear. And when it comes to editing: when it doubt, cut it out." — Robert Stevenson in An Exercise in Brevity
robertstevenson.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/an-exercise-in-brevity/
When crafting blog posts the better blogger considers:
---- what is the main message or theme?
---- who are the readers?
---- what information is essential?
---- how can it be organized and most clearly expressed?
The organization of your blog post is an essential part of conveying your message clearly. Clear organized thinking produces clear, logical writing. Some communications problems may be solved by changing words or sentence structure, others involve the way words or thoughts are arranged.
What does your reader most want to know? What is your main message or theme? Decide what information must be included and what can be left out. Then, divide your information into main and secondary points.
Develop a structure for your blog post that will make it easy and enjoyable to use. For example, chronological order might be the most logical approach for describing procedures.
If people already know something about the subject and you are sharing new information, start with the old, then introduce the new.
If you are describing something completely new, start with general information about the objectives or reasons for the new, then deal with the specifics.
onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/how-to-become-a-better-blogger-4-essen...
How will your readers interact with your site?
Beyond understanding the motivations or goals of your audience, you must also understand the basic mechanics of how your users will interact with your site:
---- How will the site render on a reader’s browser?
---- How will the reader view the site? Visually? With graphics enabled? With a Braille reader? With a screen reader?
---- Will the user’s operating system and browser be able to support all of your site’s functionality? cross browser compatibility browsershots.org/
---- Use a validator to check your pages, find reeors, find broken links and repair them.
html validator online validator.w3.org/
css validator online jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
broken links checker www.dead-links.com/
---- It’s important for bloggers to keep in mind that at least half of all internet users are currently using dial up connections. Lengthy page loading times result in potential readers clicking out so take the steps required to reduce page loading time.
Blogging: Strategies for reducing page loading time
onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/blogging-strategies-for-reducing-page-...
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Thank God! No one reads my blog. It gives me a place to unload, I can openly say what ever is really on my mind and unload a ton of shit!-
Blogging can be a cathartic process. Journal blogs are great for keeping a record of daily events in your life and your responses to them. Journal blogging provides an opportunity to develop insight into your subconscious mind that wouldn't have been possible otherwise, and to use your creativity and writing skills as well.
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How do we define blogging success? I think success is defined as getting an audience for whatever we want to say. My success? If I have a particularly good post, I submit it to some news sites that handle the topic I blog about (paranormal), and sometimes my post gets spread around. But it is only as good as your latest post. That is rough. We are only as good as our latest post. -
Honesty.
And blog for your own pleasure, first and foremost.
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