Please give me your blogging tips?
Written by blogsensei on February 4th, 2009
Margaret Meg H asked:
Here’s what I have so far, please add yours. Thanks!
1. Stay fresh by reading. Keep up-to-date on what is happening in your genre. I use google reader to rss subscribe to many blogs, so I always have something interesting and new to read about everyday.
2. Comment. Interact with others in your blog area. Sometimes my blogs are an expansion of an idea I started in a comment.
3. Check out your audience. Only a percentage of visitors leave comments. Get a good stats program so you can see which blog posts are the most visited. I use http://www.quantcast.com/
4. Credit your sources, and tell them about it. Drop a note to someone you have linked to or quoted in a blog entry and give them its URL. You’d be surprised at how many people then return the favor and include you on their website.
5. Gather the links you use on various topics over the course of time & repost them as a collection every now & then for people that missed them the first time.
Here’s what I have so far, please add yours. Thanks!
1. Stay fresh by reading. Keep up-to-date on what is happening in your genre. I use google reader to rss subscribe to many blogs, so I always have something interesting and new to read about everyday.
2. Comment. Interact with others in your blog area. Sometimes my blogs are an expansion of an idea I started in a comment.
3. Check out your audience. Only a percentage of visitors leave comments. Get a good stats program so you can see which blog posts are the most visited. I use http://www.quantcast.com/
4. Credit your sources, and tell them about it. Drop a note to someone you have linked to or quoted in a blog entry and give them its URL. You’d be surprised at how many people then return the favor and include you on their website.
5. Gather the links you use on various topics over the course of time & repost them as a collection every now & then for people that missed them the first time.
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4 Comments at "Please give me your blogging tips?"
(why blog? )
You might want to RSS news sources more than blogs so you can be one step ABOVE the competition when it comes to blogging about topics. Standing out seems to be what is most important in blogging, so gathering news and your own opinion to write about is what will make it work best.
10 Ways To Optimize Your Blog
1. Tag clouds and tag pages; check out Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for creating these. Spencer says he doubled traffic to one his blogs by adding it.
2. Add a “Related Posts” feature. Spencer recommends the Contextual Related Posts plugin for WordPress.
3. Top Ten posts feature to display most popular posts
4. Add “next” and “previous” post buttons
5. Build inbound links
6. Title tags – use SEO Title Tag plugin for WordPress to assign unique title tags to individual posts.
7. Claim your blog at Technorati and use Technorati tags
8. Use “sticky” posts that always appear at the top of the page as a way to add a keywords-rich introduction to category pages. Adhesive plugin works for this.
9. Use the Buzzlogic tool to find out which bloggers are most influential in conversations – refer to them and try to get them to link to you.
10. Get into other bloggers’ blog rolls (trackbacks and comments won’t help in link gain.
Good luck
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