Don't Blog Another Word Without Reading This First!

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By Eshleman Andrew


What the heck is blogging and why is it so great? If you are one of the many who are thinking about starting a blog and would like to know the benefits, use the tips and ideas in the following article to help you with your path to blogging success.

Make it easy for readers to share your blog posts using their favorite social media outlets. These days, this can be done through standardized buttons that lets readers automatically syndicate all or part of your post's content to their favorite social media services and comment on them in real time.

An important part of having a blog is to voice your own opinions. Find a subject that you are truly interested in and are knowledgeable about and then put yourself out there. People like to hear the opinions of others. Opinions usually get a reaction and reactions garner readers and comments.

Create a themed blog according to what you are writing about. For example, if you have an agriculture blog, build your colors and theme around country roads and corn fields. Colors that seem out of place will be more likely to turn people off from reading and enjoying your blog.

Allow occasional guest posts on your blog. This creates a relationship between your blogs and will allow you to help each other in the future. The importance of this cannot be overemphasized. You may need a favor at some point in time, and the blogger that you allowed to post on your blog will likely be ready to help you.

Make your writing and the subjects that you write about tempt your reader. You always want to leave them wanting more, and looking forward to your next post. If you are able to do this 90% of the time, you will have many people coming back to check your blog often.

Make sure your posts don't elicit the "It's too long so I didn't read it" response from your readers. Studies show that people stop paying attention more quickly when reading on the web than they do when reading print. For this reason, try to keep posts under 300 words or so. Some types of posts, such as scholarly articles, don't suffer from this loss of attention of much as others, so know your audience.

Choose unique keywords to that other blogs aren't using. If you have keywords that are used in many blogs, your site can have limited visibility on the vast internet. Keep your keywords unique to get the search engines' attention.

You should be able to build a blog lots of people will want to read now that you've read this article. Think about everything you've read. It's a lot of information; instead of overwhelming yourself by trying to process it all on the first try, reread your article as necessary.




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