Things to remember about writing;
Writing a blog is by no means rocket science, but there are a few things that you should try to keep in mind to make sure your blog is easy and enjoyable for your followers to read.
1. Make sure your English (or whatever language your blog is in) is up to a certain standard. While society cares far less about perfect grammar, spelling and syntax than it did in the past it is still important to at least ensure that you make your blog legible. Obviously most websites and blog sites have a built in spell check too so there really is no excuse for bad spelling.
2. Try to express yourself clearly. Blogs are not really formal writing and are definitely not supposed to be an essay. Try to keep your sentences and paragraphs reasonably short and keep your language light and easy to read.
3. Think about adding videos and/or pictures to your blog. Research has shown quite clearly that people engage much more readily with pictures and especially with videos than with walls of solid text.
4. Even if you are promoting a product, company or service try to minimize the amount of advertising you have in each blog post. It's OK to give people an option to buy your product or through an affiliate link buy a product you are talking about and which may interest them, but having a huge amount of "spam" links and banners all over your page is a huge turn off. After all as we have already said people usually come to blogs looking for information or a little light leisure reading, not to be bombarded by your sales pitch.
5. Be engaging. Try to be a normal person. Even if you are selling a product or marketing a company people relate better to real people with real stories and ideas than they do to someone who sounds robotic and one-sided.
How to promote your blog;
All your hard working finding the perfect blog idea and name as well as a great place to post it will come to nothing if you can't get people to read it and finding readers is all about promoting your blog. Just writing good content and posting to a good blog hosting site is not really enough to get you a good audience. There are literally millions of blogs out there with people posting new blogs even as you read this so unless you have a good way of promoting your blog you will have trouble getting readers.
The key to keywords;
For people who know roughly what they are looking for but not where to find it search engines such as Google and Yahoo are extremely helpful. For the very same reason these search engines are great for the blogger too. Many search engines use algorithms which search for key words in a website or blog. Even if your content is good if you don't use the right keywords then people still might not be able to find you. Correct keywords are essential and should reflect what you want people to be thinking about when they find your blog. A good way of making sure you have the right kind of keywords is to do a search for the keywords you want to use and see what results you get. If the results are close to what you are offering you've hit the nail on the head if not try rethinking your choice of keywords.
Writing a blog is by no means rocket science, but there are a few things that you should try to keep in mind to make sure your blog is easy and enjoyable for your followers to read.
1. Make sure your English (or whatever language your blog is in) is up to a certain standard. While society cares far less about perfect grammar, spelling and syntax than it did in the past it is still important to at least ensure that you make your blog legible. Obviously most websites and blog sites have a built in spell check too so there really is no excuse for bad spelling.
2. Try to express yourself clearly. Blogs are not really formal writing and are definitely not supposed to be an essay. Try to keep your sentences and paragraphs reasonably short and keep your language light and easy to read.
3. Think about adding videos and/or pictures to your blog. Research has shown quite clearly that people engage much more readily with pictures and especially with videos than with walls of solid text.
4. Even if you are promoting a product, company or service try to minimize the amount of advertising you have in each blog post. It's OK to give people an option to buy your product or through an affiliate link buy a product you are talking about and which may interest them, but having a huge amount of "spam" links and banners all over your page is a huge turn off. After all as we have already said people usually come to blogs looking for information or a little light leisure reading, not to be bombarded by your sales pitch.
5. Be engaging. Try to be a normal person. Even if you are selling a product or marketing a company people relate better to real people with real stories and ideas than they do to someone who sounds robotic and one-sided.
How to promote your blog;
All your hard working finding the perfect blog idea and name as well as a great place to post it will come to nothing if you can't get people to read it and finding readers is all about promoting your blog. Just writing good content and posting to a good blog hosting site is not really enough to get you a good audience. There are literally millions of blogs out there with people posting new blogs even as you read this so unless you have a good way of promoting your blog you will have trouble getting readers.
The key to keywords;
For people who know roughly what they are looking for but not where to find it search engines such as Google and Yahoo are extremely helpful. For the very same reason these search engines are great for the blogger too. Many search engines use algorithms which search for key words in a website or blog. Even if your content is good if you don't use the right keywords then people still might not be able to find you. Correct keywords are essential and should reflect what you want people to be thinking about when they find your blog. A good way of making sure you have the right kind of keywords is to do a search for the keywords you want to use and see what results you get. If the results are close to what you are offering you've hit the nail on the head if not try rethinking your choice of keywords.