Web Design - HTML XML - Web Development - Web Site Design. 10 Tips for Good Web Writing. How to Blog: Blogging Tips for Beginners. Update: See our more recently published posts on the topic of starting a blog at How to Start a Blog in 5 Easy Steps and how to make money blogging. Welcome to my How to Blog – Blogging Tips for Beginners Guide. On the page below you’ll find links to a series of how to blog tips that I’ve written with blogging for beginners (and ‘Pre’ Bloggers) in mind. It unpacks the basics of blogging and a lot of the decisions and strategies that you’ll want to consider when setting up and starting a blog. How to Blog – My Ultimate Guide to Blogging for Beginners Since developing this series I’ve produced a book specifically for beginner bloggers. You can learn more about it on our ProBlogger the Book page. The book is filled with up to date blogging tips for beginners – you can get it on Amazon here.
Lastly- if you enjoy these posts and want to keep in touch with ProBlogger – subscribe via our RSS feed. Blogging Tips for Beginners Introductory Posts Blog Design Tips Tips for Writing Content for Blogs 1. 26 Steps to 15,000 visitors a day. C) Site Design: The simpler the better. Rule of thumb: text content should out weight the html content. The pages should validate and be usable in everything from Lynx to leading edge browsers. eg: keep it close to html 3.2 if you can. Spiders are not to the point they really like eating html 4.0 and the mess that it can bring. Stay away from heavy: flash, dom, java, java script. Learn the lesson of Google itself - simple is retro cool - simple is what surfers want. Speed isn't everything, it's almost the only thing. D) Page Size: The smaller the better. E) Content: Build one page of content and put online per day at 200-500 words. F) Density, position, yada, yada, yada...
Simple, old fashioned, seo from the ground up. G) Outbound Links: From every page, link to one or two high ranking sites under that particular keyword. H) Cross links: <1>(cross links are links WITHIN the same site) Link to on topic quality content across your site. I) Put it Online: Go for a listing in the ODP. J) Submit: Blogging - Blogging Tips - Blog Promotion - Make Money Blogging - Blogging Jobs.