Advice for New Bloggers: Creating Your Blog. Jacob Bøtter via Compfight Three years ago, I was in the new blogger shoes.
(Exactly three, as it happens — Modern Alternative Mama is three years old today!) I wanted to start a blog, I was about to start a blog, but I had no idea what to do after that. I figured I needed a name and a place to ‘put’ my blog, and topics to write about. But…then what? Now…I know a lot more than I did then. Much of it was through trial and error. I also have to confess that this post isn’t entirely driven by my desire as an “I remember when” blogger. Lessons on the Parts of a Blog. Blogs are made up of many parts that provide a multitude of ways for you to enhance your blog's appearance and performance.
Here you will learn how categories, tags, images, blogrolls, RSS subscriptions, post scheduling and more allow you to customize your blog and give it some personal flair while helping your blog's marketing efforts at the same time. It's time to get creative and have fun! Blogging the Blogosphere. Introducing Guest Blogging. Tips for Better Blogging. If you’ve taken the plunge into self-publishing, you’ve probably already learned that setting up a blog is the easy part.
Tools like Blogger, TypePad and WordPress make it simple to set up your own site with just a few clicks. It’s the next step — the branding, promotion and the actual writing — that’s the toughest nut to crack. If you want your blog to hit the big time, you’ll need to dress up your site’s public presence. Here are Webmonkey’s tips for what you’ll need to play with the big boys and girls of the blogosphere. Soon, you’ll be swapping political commentary with DailyKos, and CoolHunting will be linking to you. Establish a Brand Get a domain. BYOD. Get a logo. Ditch the prefab stuff. Write Better Headlines. How to Start a Blog that Matters. How To Start A Successful Blog Today. Overview: Starting a Blog Follow the step-by-step instructions to learn how you can begin starting a blog in less than an hour.
We used this process to create our successful blog, which now has more than 4 million readers and has been featured in the New York Times, TIME magazine, and on the TODAY show. 6 Characteristics Of A Good Blog Post. Complete Guide before & after Publishing Blog Posts. As much as you can’t wait to hit the publish button so your readers can read your latest blog post, there are guides to what you must do before and after publishing the post to ensure it is appropriate for your readers.
Steps to Write the First Blog Post. The 8 Parts of Writing an Effective Blog Post. Writing an effective blog post for the human visitor and the Search Engines is far from rocket science, but at the same time, there is a pattern you should follow.
Here are the SEO-Alien’s 8 parts to writing better, more engaging blog posts that will help the human visitor as well as the Search Engines. 1) Give Your Article an Awesome, Keyword Rich Title! The Title: There is no doubt that the Search Engines are going to “look” at the Title of your article as the main source for indexing. In other words, make sure your Title is or contains the majority of the search phrase your want people to use when they search for an article like yours. 2) Add a Catchy Picture! What Blog Design is Appropriate for You? Guest Post by Alderic Fresco: When it comes to blog design, every blogger has a dream to create an effective blog by writing and posting the great content, as a result audience will come.
They dream that, doing this brings their website statistics at higher positions and their blog will be a great hit. But the truth is that it doesn’t happen. How to Effectively Attract and Manage Guest Bloggers in WordPress. 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. Lastly- if you enjoy these posts and want to keep in touch with ProBlogger – subscribe via our RSS feed. Make Blogging Better: Starting a Blog. 1. Buy a Custom Domain Name. Buy your custom domain to match your blog title. This applies to those blogging on Blogger & WordPress.com . This establishes you as the real deal (this is a .com url as opposed to a blogspot.com or wordpress.com url that is supplied with the free accounts.)
If you are on Blogger, you can do this through the Blogger dashboard. If you are on WordPress.com, they have a great article with more information on their custom domain services here: Register a New Domain.