Blogging 101 - The Fundamentals of a Great Blog
1. Be yourself, but if “yourself” is boring, then learn to embellish.
2. Write consistently. No one likes to visit a blog that isn’t updated frequently.
3. Try to be efficient in your writing, no one wants to read for 30 minutes in a single post, unless it is about sex, and then you will only have perverted male readers for an audience.
4. Reread your work and try to correct spelling errors and punctuation, the more intelligent readers will be annoyed by frequent mistakes and simple grammatical errors.
5. Know your target audience. You can’t appeal to everyone so be firm in your ideas and beliefs, people might not agree with them, but you stand by them, people will respect you for it.
6. Enjoy your blog. Don’t blog because you feel like you must, blogging is your own outlet, enjoy it, and allow it to stretch you mentally and creatively.
7. Allow people to see the real you, it’s okay to talk about personal information, bodily functions, relationship woes, etc. Just remember to always be tactful and know that what you say can affect other people, so if necessary, use fake names or be creatively vague.
8. By now most bloggers have heard of Heather from www.dooce.com she lost her job due to her blog and what she wrote on it, I avoid talking about my job if at all possible, and if I do write about it, then I try not to mention the name of where I actually work or the names of people I work with.
9. Self-Promote. Go to others blogs, leave comments, compliments, and questions – like you they want to be noticed and validated and so they will most likely return the favor.
10. Part B of number 9 – Drop a celebrity name every now and then, talk about a hot topic, be highly opinionated. Search engines search blogs too and you never know who will find your blog as a result of a Google search.
11. Design. People like coming back to a site that looks put-together and is creative and unique, if at all possible personalize your template, and keep it clean and simple, uncluttered. Keep advertisements to a minimum and don’t let them distract, yes, they can help generate funds, but they can also turn people off.
12. Pictures, Pictures, Pictures. If you can post them on occasion, or daily, post them. People enjoy looking at pictures, pictures of you, your family, your home. MTV’s hit show “The Real World” is a hit because we get to see how these people live their lives, we are voyeurs on the outside looking in, isn’t that basically what a blog is? Let us have a look-see!
To Be Continued…
2. Write consistently. No one likes to visit a blog that isn’t updated frequently.
3. Try to be efficient in your writing, no one wants to read for 30 minutes in a single post, unless it is about sex, and then you will only have perverted male readers for an audience.
4. Reread your work and try to correct spelling errors and punctuation, the more intelligent readers will be annoyed by frequent mistakes and simple grammatical errors.
5. Know your target audience. You can’t appeal to everyone so be firm in your ideas and beliefs, people might not agree with them, but you stand by them, people will respect you for it.
6. Enjoy your blog. Don’t blog because you feel like you must, blogging is your own outlet, enjoy it, and allow it to stretch you mentally and creatively.
7. Allow people to see the real you, it’s okay to talk about personal information, bodily functions, relationship woes, etc. Just remember to always be tactful and know that what you say can affect other people, so if necessary, use fake names or be creatively vague.
8. By now most bloggers have heard of Heather from www.dooce.com she lost her job due to her blog and what she wrote on it, I avoid talking about my job if at all possible, and if I do write about it, then I try not to mention the name of where I actually work or the names of people I work with.
9. Self-Promote. Go to others blogs, leave comments, compliments, and questions – like you they want to be noticed and validated and so they will most likely return the favor.
10. Part B of number 9 – Drop a celebrity name every now and then, talk about a hot topic, be highly opinionated. Search engines search blogs too and you never know who will find your blog as a result of a Google search.
11. Design. People like coming back to a site that looks put-together and is creative and unique, if at all possible personalize your template, and keep it clean and simple, uncluttered. Keep advertisements to a minimum and don’t let them distract, yes, they can help generate funds, but they can also turn people off.
12. Pictures, Pictures, Pictures. If you can post them on occasion, or daily, post them. People enjoy looking at pictures, pictures of you, your family, your home. MTV’s hit show “The Real World” is a hit because we get to see how these people live their lives, we are voyeurs on the outside looking in, isn’t that basically what a blog is? Let us have a look-see!
To Be Continued…
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